This study published in «Scientific Reports» demonstrates the ability of 4-month-old infants to anticipate an event according to the sound heard. In particular, the authors showed that a voice is able to pre-activate the neural circuits involved in the visual perception of faces about a second
EXPERIENCE is a project funded by the European community and guided by prof Gaetano Valenza (University of Pisa). Prof Claudio Gentili and his team are partners in this project. The project makes real the complex interplay between multisensory perception, emotional responses, past experiences, and
A study published by The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has identified the sound qualities that make the Stradivari violin preferable over others violins.The experiment evaluated the sound qualities of violins in the attempt to find the distinct qualities that make a violin timbre
This study explores how an everyday life event like the free vertical fall of an object is represented by our cognitive system. We test two opposing hypotheses, namely that either our representations of physical events are consistent with the corresponding physical laws or that they are based on
Georg Northoff is Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Canada. He is one of the globally leading neuroscientists who made seminal contributions to our understanding of higher order cognitive phenomena
