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SUMMARY:Workshop on Navigation Experience - by Chiara Meneghetti
DESCRIPTION:Chiara Meneghetti gives a workshop on navigation experience\, with the collaboration of Laura Miola and Veronica Muffato. \n13.00 – 13.45 Outdoor Navigation Experience\n13.45 – 14.15 Christmas Buffet (let’s bring something to share)\n14.15 – 15.00 Navigation and Individual Differences\n(interactive seminar)
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/workshop-on-navigation-experience-by-chiara-meneghetti/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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SUMMARY:Allocating resources across time - Seminar by Laurence T. Maloney
DESCRIPTION:While there is an extensive literature concerning human decision under risk\, most experiments focus on a single decision at a single point in time employing isolated trials presented in randomized order. The outcome of any one decision does not limit or increase the range of actions available on later trials. Any sequential effects found are simply errors.\nIn a cumulative allocation game – in contrast – the key decision on every trial is to choose how much of your accumulated wealth to gamble and how much to reserve. On half the trials you lose whatever you gamble; on the remaining trials you receive back between two and four times your bet. With an appropriate strategy you can expect to “grow” your wealth exponentially with very little chance of ruin. Such games play an important role in ethology (optimal foraging) and in economics (repeated investment and possible ruin) as well as in psychology.\nIn two experiments we compared human performance to normative. We also examined how players’ beliefs about the stopping rule (how the game terminates) affected play. We derived four properties of normative play and tested whether human performance conformed to each. Human performance deviated from optimal maximizing expected rate of growth. Players initially adopted investment rates that were near-optimal but over the course of the game they reduced their investment rate by almost a factor of 2\, well below optimal. The pattern of failure suggests that players suboptimality is a response to trial to trial variability. Joint work with Esther Wi\, Keiji Ota\, Lilly Li\, and Tessa Decker \nSeminar hosted by Marco Bertamini. \nBiosketch Laurence T. Maloney\nDepartment of Psychology and Center for Neural Science – New York University\nProf. Maloney earned a BA in Mathematics from Yale University\, an MS in Mathematical Statistics\, and a PhD in Psychology (1985) from Stanford University. His research bridges psychology\, neuroscience\, and decision theory\, focusing on how humans perceive\, plan\, and act under uncertainty. Maloney is known for applying mathematical and statistical models to perceptual and decision-making processes\, encompassing vision\, color perception\, and sensorimotor coordination. His work has significantly contributed to the development of visual perception modeling\, color constancy\, and neuroeconomics. Maloney’s distinctions include the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences\, the Humboldt Research Prize\, and fellowships from Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations. He has held visiting positions at several European universities\, including Freiburg\, Giessen\, Paris\, and Padova.
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/allocating-resources-across-time-seminar-by-laurence-t-maloney/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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SUMMARY:Interview to Francesca Simion
DESCRIPTION:Francesca Simion is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Cognitive Psychology and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She founded the Neonatal and Infant Research Laboratory at the University of Padova\, pioneering research on perceptual and cognitive capacities in newborns through behavioral\, eye-tracking\, and neurophysiological methods. Her work profoundly shaped understanding of early visual and social cognition and inspired generations of researchers. As Pro-Rector for Graduate and Postgraduate Research Programs\, she played a leading role in advancing and innovating doctoral education at her University\, strengthening its international dimension and scientific excellence. Widely recognized as one of Italy’s foremost developmental scientists\, Professor Simion has consistently contributed to the growth of cognitive neuroscience\, combining scientific rigor with visionary leadership. \nFrancesca Simion is interviewed by Lucia Regolin
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/interview-to-francesca-simion/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251127T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251127T140000
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SUMMARY:Does selection matter in psychological science? - Seminar by Alberto Arletti
DESCRIPTION:Researchers are ideally interested in making claims about all human beings: research would be much less interesting if it only applied to the participants who joined a study. Generalisation in research is based on a set of (delicate) statistical assumptions. This session will introduce to the most important notions of selection or missingness mechanism in a scientific study and to the different types of selection. Then\, the implications of a poor selection mechanism are shown numerically. The aim is to prepare the researcher to distinguish between the different types of selection and to be aware of the hidden statistical obstacles to effective generalisation. \nAlberto Arletti’s Biosketch\nDepartment of Economics\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\nAlberto Arletti is post-doctoral research fellow in Social Statistics at the Department of Economics\, at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In April 2025 he completed the PhD programme in Statistical Sciences at the University of Padova\, where he also completed Master and Bachelor degrees in Rehabilitation Neuroscience and Personality Psychology respectively. Member of Psicostat since 2016. His research interest is in Social Statistics and research methodology.
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/does-selection-matter-in-psychological-science-seminar-by-alberto-arletti/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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SUMMARY:Interview to Marieke Dewitte
DESCRIPTION:Marieke Dewitte is a clinical psychologist-sexologist and she completed her PhD at Ghent University\, Belgium. She currently works as associate professor at the Department of Clinical Psychological Science of the University of Maastricht\, The Netherlands. Her research involves psychophysiological studies on basic mechanisms of sexual functioning\, dyadic interactions between partners\, and attachment in relation to sexual responding. \nMarieke Dewitte is interviewed by Celeste Bittoni\, Jeff Kiesner\, and Rosaria Capasso
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/interview-to-marieke-dewitte/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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SUMMARY:Processing long-distance dependency in sentence comprehension - Seminar by Artur Stepanov
DESCRIPTION:How do people decide whether a sentence “sounds right” in their native language by judging its syntactic well-formedness independently of meaning? Sentence acceptability judgments reflect not only the speaker’s grammatical knowledge but also performance factors including information packaging and processing ease. In this talk\, I review what we know about the interaction of these factors\, including striking cases of “grammatical illusions” and situations where speakers hesitate or cannot reach a clear judgment when these factors conflict. I then present recent experimental evidence showing that speakers use rating scales strategically whereby scale extremes serve as categorical anchors while the midpoint marks maximal uncertainty. These findings highlight sentence evaluation as a dynamic calibration process and shed new light on how people make linguistic decisions under uncertainty. \nSeminar hosted by Francesco Vespignani
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/processing-long-distance-dependency-in-sentence-comprehension-seminar-by-artur-stepanov/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251106T130000
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SUMMARY:Comparing Apples and Oranges: Methodological Challenges in Comparative Ethology through the example of Dogs and Pigs? - Seminar by Paula Pérez Fraga
DESCRIPTION:Various animal species can engage in socio-communicative interactions with humans\, yet the factors that promote such behaviours remain under debate. Domestication\, socialization\, and species-specific predispositions may all play a role. To better understand how human–animal communication is shaped\, it is essential to compare different species kept in similar conditions However\, adopting a comparative approach when studying non-human animals\, presents several challenges. Researchers must account not only for species-specific sensory and motor differences\, but also for animals’ domestication history\, motivational tendencies\, and ecological background. Designing tasks that are truly comparable across species is particularly complex\, raising questions such as whether experimental procedures should be standardized or not. In this seminar\, I will address these issues and open a space for debate around the topic\, by presenting a series of studies directly comparing the humanoriented communicative abilities of two domestic species—companion dogs and companion pigs— where our aim was to explore the factors that may shape emergence of such abilities \nSeminar hosted by Kimberly Brosche
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/comparing-apples-and-oranges-methodological-challenges-in-comparative-ethology-through-the-example-of-dogs-and-pigs-seminar-by-paula-perez-fraga/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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SUMMARY:Interview to Giovanni Parmigiani
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Parmigiani is an Italian statistician with degrees from Bocconi University (B.S.) and Carnegie Mellon University (M.S.\, Ph.D.). He is Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and in the Department of Data Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His work focuses on statistical methods in cancer genomics\, contributing to a deeper understanding of inherited cancer risks and supporting informed decisionmaking \nGiovanni Parmigiani interviewed by Filippo Gambarota
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/interview-to-giovanni-parmigiani/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251016T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251016T140000
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SUMMARY:Life history theory in evolutionary human sciences: latest developments and controversies - Seminar by Janko Medjedovic
DESCRIPTION:Life history theory represents one of the most important conceptual frameworks in evolutionary biology\, and its role is potentially even more prominent in the evolutionary social sciences. This theory attempts to explain the differences between and within species in fertility\, longevity and parental investment via the characteristics of the individuals (somatic\, physiological\, and behavioral) and characteristics of the environment in which they live. In this talk\, we will discuss about the basic phenomena and processes that lead to the emergence of life histories: fitness optimization\, evolutionary tradeoffs and environmental factors that affect adaptiveness of behavior. We will discuss evolution of life history trajectories via various developmental events like growth rates\, puberty timing (e.g. age at first menarche)\, mating patterns (short-term and long-term romantic bonding)\, age of first and last reproduction\, number of offspring\, parental investment and ultimately longevity. We will describe the so-called “fast-slow” continuum that should explain covariations between life history indicators in the context of local ecological variation. The most prominent conceptual extension of life history\, the pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) which explains coevolution of behavior\, physiology\, and life history traits will be presented as well. We will discuss the empirical findings including those that are consistent but also in opposition to the theory\, describing the most important criticisms of life history theory in general: measuring life history in evolutionary psychology\, problematic validity of continuum\, and transferring hypotheses from inter-populational to inter-individual level. The aim of the talk is to show how life history theory\, but also human behavioral ecology in general\, can help us in gaining more comprehensive and in-depth insight into human\, behavior\, formulate new hypotheses about adaptive outcomes of behavior and reflect about potential future behavioral evolution. Furthermore\, this exciting and intriguing area of research is based on a multidisciplinary approach and thus helps psychologists to connect with colleagues who conduct research in evolutionary biology\, anthropology\, demography and sociology: in this way we can obtain more complete\, and therefore more valid explanations of intra – and inter-population variations in behavior.
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/school-meeting-medjedovic/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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SUMMARY:Is My “Red“ Your “Red“? - Seminar by Naotsugu Tsuchiya
DESCRIPTION:SEE SLIDES \nSeminar by Naotsugu Tsuchiya – Monash University (Australia) & Lab. of Qualia Structure (ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs.\, Japan). \nChair: Paola Sessa \nRecently\, theories of consciousness have proliferated\, partly because traditional empirical approaches focusing on neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) offer limited constraints. Unlike most traditional studies\, which use binary paradigms (e.g.\, “seen” vs. “unseen”)\, a structural approach aims to characterize qualia and their physical substrates through relationships among qualia and between qualia and neural mechanisms. We present initial structural experiments and analyses that map properties of qualia (e.g.\, color\, motion\, sound\, face) onto neural connectivity and activity. This framework may eventually yield a systematic catalogue of qualia–substrate relationships\, akin to a “periodic table of qualia\, ” providing a path toward addressing the hard problem of consciousness.
URL:https://phd.psy.unipd.it/guest-meetings/school-meeting-tsuchiya/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall – Building #5
CATEGORIES:SCHOOL MEETING
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