PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Department

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova 

Main research activities/topics/projects

We offer several opportunities to join one of our laboratories under the supervision of expert staff members. We cover virtually all areas of psychological research offering many diverse research and training opportunities. Working language is in any case English, knowledge of Italian is welcome but not necessary for working reasons. Brazilian PhD students while in Padova will be offered the possibility to benefit from the same training opportunities offered to the PhD students enrolled in our program.

Brazilian PhD students are particularly welcome to join the following Laboratories and respective project areas:

• Prof. Giovanna Mioni, email: giovanna.mioni@unipd.it

Ti.Me. Group

Project Area: the Lab hosts a variety of research projects which mainly focus on exploring time perception and memory-attentional processes. Ongoing project areas include the effect of emotion on time processing using physiological measures. Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in the study of time processing, in particular electric stimulation. The contribution of temporal abilities in time-based prospective memory.

• Prof. Erika Borella, email: erika.borella@unipd.it

Memory and learning lab:  https://www.memoryandlearninglab.it/aging/ 

Project area:  cognitive aging (pathological –neurocognitive disorders, i.e. dementia- or typical) in its different and complex facets; cognitive training/ simulation programs; individual and personality differences; metacognition; loneliness; quality of life

• Prof. Irene Mammarella, email:irene.mammarella@unipd.it 

email:irene.mammarella@unipd.it 

DDlab: https://ddlab.dpss.psy.unipd.it/

Project area: Neurodevelopmental disorders

The focus of our research is the investigation of developmental disorders, including specific learning disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD, adopting a comprehensive approach that integrates cognitive and emotional processes.

• Prof. Mario Dalmaso

CoLab: https: //colab.psy.unipd.it/mario-dalmaso/

Project Area: Visual attention, perception, and experimental social cognition are investigated using behavioural measures, eye movements, and physiological indices.

• Prof. Francesca Peressotti & Prof. Francesco Vespignani

CoLab: https: //colab.psy.unipd.it

Project Area: Psycholinguistics. Word production and comprehension, sentence comprehension, prediction, multilingualism. Cross-linguistic research, including dialects, minority and sign languages. Current projects include accented speech, predictive processing of phonology and prosody, parsing, coreference, repetition and parallelism.

Contacts: francesco.vespignani@unipd.it, francesca.peressotti@unipd.it

•  Prof. Lucia Regolin & Prof. Rosa Rugani. Comparative Cognition lab: https://dpg.unipd.it/en/compcog 

Project area: Animal psychology, animal behaviour and cognition. Contact details for Lucia Regolin see below, for Rosa Rugani: rosa.rugani@unipd.it 

NB: This particular area suits very well also students from Biology, Natural Sciences and Veterinary Sciences.

Special entry requirements

Students are required to have research interests and some background theoretical knowledge relevant to the specific area of the project they wished to join.

Duration in months (min-max)

PhD sandwich: 2 - 12