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9th Psychodebate of the School of Psychology

The Psychodebates are back: join us on Wednesday, May 20, at 4:30 p.m., in Room 3T at the CLA, Via Venezia 16.A new edition of the Psychodebates, organized by the School of Psychology of the University of Padua: an event open to everyone, offering the academic community the opportunity to

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Unipd inaugurates Italy’s first OPM-MEG facility

The new Michiel Contarini Complex hosts the Padova Neuroscience Center, the Department of Neuroscience, and SCUP, the University Center for Psychological Clinical Services.On Wednesday, 29 April, at the Michiel Contarini Complex in Via San Massimo 33, Padua, the inauguration ceremony was held for

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Network Neuroscience Approaches to Brain - Behavior Associations and Personalized Brain Stimulation

Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars – A forum to discuss the major challenges in cognitive neuroscience together with early-career researchers.The next meeting will take place on Thursday, April 23, at 2:00 PM in Meeting Room 1, DPG, 5th floor, Via Venezia 16.Speaker: Dr. Arianna Menardi - Department of

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Seminar “Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences”

Wednesday, 22 April 2026, at 11:00 AM, in Room A of Psychology (Psychology 3 building), with Balazs Aczel (ELTE, Budapest)The study “Investigating the Analytical Robustness of the Social and Behavioural Sciences,” published in Nature in April 2026, is the outcome of a large-scale multilaboratory

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The dark side of symmetry

Do we really always like symmetry? One might think so: it is orderly, regular, reassuring. And indeed, in many cases, that is true. But when we move from abstract shapes to images of the real world, things become more complicated.In a recent study, we investigated how symmetry influences aesthetic

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