Andrea Facoetti
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua
email: andreafacoetti@unipd.it

SSD:
M-PSI/02 (Psychobiology)

Aim:
To introduce the cognitive and neurobiological basis of attentional processing and its relationship with language-based learning disabilities

Course content:

Giuseppe Sartori
Department of General Psychology
email: giuseppe.sartori@unipd.it

SSD:
M-PSI/02 - Neuroscience

Aim:
To offer an overview of machine earning applications to basic cognitive research.

Course contents:
Machine learning has recently been used to augment predictions of mental states on the basis of brain activation measured by fmri.
The course will be an introduction to these applications to basic cognitive research as well as clinical investigations of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Giuseppe Sartori
Department of General Psychology
email: giuseppe.sartori@unipd.it

SSD:
M-PSI/02 - Neuroscience

Aim:
To offer an overview of various lie detection techniques.

Course contents:
Lie detection is an important field of research recently revived by security reasons. In this course an overview of various lie detection techniques will be presented. Furthermore, more recent lie detection techniques will be presented including mouse movement lie detection and keyboard lie detection.

Giovanni Zanzotto
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova
Email: giovanni.zanzotto[at]unipd.it

SSD:
MAT/07

Aim:
We hear numbers everywhere, are they good, are they bad? The deficit of a country is 1 trillion Euro. We consume 175 liters of water every day. Do these figures make sense? How should we respond? This class gives introductory lessons to order-of magnitude estimation, with opportunity to practice in reference to one’s environment at the widest separations of scales, from molecules to astronomical objects.

Anna Spagnolli
Department of General Psychology and HIT centre, University of Padua
email: anna.spagnolli[at]unipd.it

Luciano Gamberini
Department of General Psychology and HIT centre, University of Padua
email: luciano.gamberini[at]unipd.it

SSD:
M-PSI/01, M-PSI/05, M-PSI/06

Aim:

Fabio Aiolli
Department of Mathematics, University of Padova
email: aiolli[at]math.unipd.it

SSD:
INF/01

Aim:

Massimo Grassi
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua
email: massimo.grassi[at]unipd.it

SSD:
PSI-03

Aim: