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Present Position\n\nAssociate Professor – Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova\n\nEducation\n\nPh.D. in Psychobiology, University of Padova, 2007\n\nM.S. Psychology, University of Padova, March 2003\n\nAcademic Employment history (day/month/year)\n\n30/05/2014-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova.\n\n01/02/2013-29/05/2014: Senior post-doc (Assegno di ricerca senior) research fellow, awarded with the project “Pushing to the limits the visuo-spatial capacities of humans: an fNIRS investigation”.\n\n01/01/2011-31/01/2013: Post-doc research fellow in the ERC: “Generative models of human cognition”. Team Leader prof. M. Zorzi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.\n\n01/09/2008-31/12/2010: Post-doc research fellow in the CARIPARO project: “Neuroscienze ed educazione: potenziare l’intelligenza numerica nelle difficoltà di apprendimento matematico”. Team Leader prof. M. Zorzi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.\n\n1/03/2008-31/08/2008: Collaboration contract for the European Research: “Psychologically Augmented Social Interaction Over Networks” (PASION). Team Leader prof. L. Gamberini, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.\n\n16/04/2007-15/02/2008: Collaboration contract for the European Research: “Development of high therapeutic value IST-based games for monitoring and improving the quality of life of Elderly People” (ELDERGAMES). Team Leader prof. L. Gamberini, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.\n\nResearch Interests\n\nBehavioral and neuroimaging investigation of cognitive control, visual short-term memory, numerical cognition.\n\nPeer-Review Activity\n\nAd-hoc Reviewer for:\n\nNeuroimage, Cortex, Psychophysiology, Neuropsychologia, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Biological Psychology, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Neuroscience Letters, BMC Neuroscience, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Virtual Reality, Cognitive Processing, Behavioral and Brain Functions, PLOS one, Cerebral Cortex.

Pubblicazioni selezionate

Cutini, S., Scarpa, F., Scatturin, P., Dell’Acqua, R., Zorzi, M., 2014. Number-space interactions in the human parietal cortex: Enlightening the SNARC effect with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 444–51.

Cutini, S., Scatturin, P., Basso Moro, S., Zorzi, M., 2014. Are the neural correlates of subitizing and estimation dissociable? An fNIRS investigation. Neuroimage, 85, 391–9.

Cutini, S., Basso Moro, S., Bisconti, S., 2012. Functional near infrared optical imaging in cognitive neuroscience: an introductory review. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 20, 75–92.

Cutini, S., Scatturin, P., Zorzi, M., 2011. A new method based on ICBM152 head surface for probe placement in multichannel fNIRS. Neuroimage, 54, 919–27.

Cutini, S., Scatturin, P., Menon, E., Bisiacchi, P.S., Gamberini, L., Zorzi, M., Dell’Acqua, R., 2008. Selective activation of the superior frontal gyrus in task-switching: an event-related fNIRS study. Neuroimage, 42, 945–55.

Investigazione comportamentale e tramite neuroimmagini del controllo cognitivo, memoria visiva a breve termine e cognizione numerica.\n\nInvestigazione comportamentale di:\nStudi comportamentali sull'effetto placebo.\nStudi sugli effetti cognitivi di rilassamento e respirazione.\nStudi sugli effetti cognitivi dell'ansia.\nmemoria visiva a breve termine e attenzione

Investigazione comportamentale di:
effetto placebo e suggestione (solo tesi sperimentali)
effetto placebo e miglioramento delle prestazioni cognitive
Analisi critica dell'esperimento della prigione di Stanford e successivi esperimenti
Analisi critica degli studi di Asch
Analisi critica degli esperimenti di Milgram.
Compiti interocettivi sulla respirazione: compiti, parametri, obiettivi e risultati.


Studi fNIRS su sviluppo e analisi di disegni sperimentali fast event related

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