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  1. Article ; Online: Shared attention in virtual immersive reality enhances electrophysiological correlates of implicit sensory learning.

    Sarasso, Pietro / Ronga, Irene / Piovesan, Francesca / Barbieri, Paolo / Del Fante, Elena / De Luca, Daniela / Bechis, Ludovico / Osello, Anna / Sacco, Katiuscia

    Scientific reports

    2024  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 3767

    Abstract: Shared attention effects on learning and memory demonstrate that experiences are amplified when we are not alone. Virtual reality poses new challenges to the study of co-presence. Above all, is coattending together with someone else's avatar in an ... ...

    Abstract Shared attention effects on learning and memory demonstrate that experiences are amplified when we are not alone. Virtual reality poses new challenges to the study of co-presence. Above all, is coattending together with someone else's avatar in an immersive VR setting comparable with shared experiences at a neural processing level? In the present study we investigate shared attention effects in VR for the first time. We recorded mismatch negativities (MMN) during an auditory roving paradigm, a well-known index of implicit perceptual learning. EEG responses to deviant and standard sounds were registered while subjects were alone (Solo condition) or together (Other condition) with a virtual avatar (Virtual scenario) or physically present confederate (Physical scenario). We found an overall main effect of co-presence on MMN revealed by a point-by-point 2 × 2 ANOVA, thereby replicating previous studies on physical co-presence. Additionally, we found no significant interaction between the scenario (Physical vs. Virtual) and co-presence (Solo vs. Other). Our results indicate that virtual immersive co-presence mimics physical co-presence.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Learning ; Attention/physiology ; Virtual Reality
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-53937-w
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  2. Article ; Online: Physical but not virtual presence of others potentiates implicit and explicit learning.

    Sarasso, Pietro / Ronga, Irene / Del Fante, Elena / Barbieri, Paolo / Lozzi, Irene / Rosaia, Nicola / Cicerale, Alessandro / Neppi-Modona, Marco / Sacco, Katiuscia

    Scientific reports

    2022  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 21205

    Abstract: E-learning activities are becoming more and more common. Whilst it is well known that the physical presence of others motivates individuals to engage in perceptual and learning tasks, systematic investigations comparing the effects of physical and ... ...

    Abstract E-learning activities are becoming more and more common. Whilst it is well known that the physical presence of others motivates individuals to engage in perceptual and learning tasks, systematic investigations comparing the effects of physical and virtual co-presence of others on knowledge acquisition are still scarce. Here we investigate the effects of physical and virtual co-presence of others on explicit and implicit learning. In Experiment 1 (discovery sample), retrieval accuracy in a spatial memory task and EEG indexes (mismatch negativity-MMN) of implicit perceptual learning were recorded when participants were alone or in presence of another individual. In Experiment 2 (replicating sample), we added a "virtual" condition, where the same tasks were performed during a video-conference call. In both experiments, MMN was demonstrated to encode for perceptual learning as revealed by the significant correlation with Bayesian Surprise (a consolidated information-theoretic index of Bayesian learning). Furthermore, In Experiments 1 and 2 physical co-presence systematically ameliorated memorization performances and increased MMN indexes related to implicit learning. These positive effects were absent in the virtual condition, thus suggesting that only physical, but not virtual co-presence is effective in potentiating learning dynamics.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Bayes Theorem
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-25273-4
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  3. Article: A Virtual Navigation Training Promotes the Remapping of Space in Allocentric Coordinates: Evidence From Behavioral and Neuroimaging Data.

    Sacco, Katiuscia / Ronga, Irene / Perna, Pasqualina / Cicerale, Alessandro / Del Fante, Elena / Sarasso, Pietro / Geminiani, Giuliano Carlo

    Frontiers in human neuroscience

    2022  Volume 16, Page(s) 693968

    Abstract: Allocentric space representations demonstrated to be crucial to improve visuo-spatial skills, pivotal in every-day life activities and for the development and maintenance of other cognitive abilities, such as memory and reasoning. Here, we present a ... ...

    Abstract Allocentric space representations demonstrated to be crucial to improve visuo-spatial skills, pivotal in every-day life activities and for the development and maintenance of other cognitive abilities, such as memory and reasoning. Here, we present a series of three different experiments: Experiment 1, Discovery sample (23 young male participants); Experiment 2, Neuroimaging and replicating sample (23 young male participants); and Experiment 3 (14 young male participants). In the experiments, we investigated whether virtual navigation stimulates the ability to form spatial allocentric representations. With this aim, we used a novel 3D videogame (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-05
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2425477-0
    ISSN 1662-5161
    ISSN 1662-5161
    DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2022.693968
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  4. Article ; Online: Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention.

    Sarasso, Pietro / Barbieri, Paolo / Del Fante, Elena / Bechis, Ludovico / Neppi-Modona, Marco / Sacco, Katiuscia / Ronga, Irene

    Psychonomic bulletin & review

    2022  Volume 29, Issue 6, Page(s) 2108–2121

    Abstract: Can preferred music listening improve following attentional and learning performances? Here we suggest that this may be the case. In Experiment 1, following preferred and non-preferred musical-piece listening, we recorded electrophysiological responses ... ...

    Abstract Can preferred music listening improve following attentional and learning performances? Here we suggest that this may be the case. In Experiment 1, following preferred and non-preferred musical-piece listening, we recorded electrophysiological responses to an auditory roving-paradigm. We computed the mismatch negativity (MMN - the difference between responses to novel and repeated stimulation), as an index of perceptual learning, and we measured the correlation between trial-by-trial EEG responses and the fluctuations in Bayesian Surprise, as a quantification of the neural attunement with stimulus informational value. Furthermore, during music listening, we recorded oscillatory cortical activity. MMN and trial-by-trial correlation with Bayesian surprise were significantly larger after subjectively preferred versus non-preferred music, indicating the enhancement of perceptual learning. The analysis on oscillatory activity during music listening showed a selective alpha power increased in response to preferred music, an effect often related to cognitive enhancements. In Experiment 2, we explored whether this learning improvement was realized at the expense of self-focused attention. Therefore, after preferred versus non-preferred music listening, we collected Heart-Beat Detection (HBD) accuracy, as a measure of the attentional focus toward the self. HBD was significantly lowered following preferred music listening. Overall, our results suggest the presence of a specific neural mechanism that, in response to aesthetically pleasing stimuli, and through the modulation of alpha oscillatory activity, redirects neural resources away from the self and toward the environment. This attentional up-weighting of external stimuli might be fruitfully exploited in a wide area of human learning activities, including education, neurorehabilitation and therapy.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2031311-1
    ISSN 1531-5320 ; 1069-9384
    ISSN (online) 1531-5320
    ISSN 1069-9384
    DOI 10.3758/s13423-022-02127-8
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  5. Article ; Online: Nice and easy: Mismatch negativity responses reveal a significant correlation between aesthetic appreciation and perceptual learning.

    Sarasso, Pietro / Neppi-Modona, Marco / Rosaia, Nicola / Perna, Pasqualina / Barbieri, Paolo / Del Fante, Elena / Ricci, Raffaella / Sacco, Katiuscia / Ronga, Irene

    Journal of experimental psychology. General

    2021  Volume 151, Issue 6, Page(s) 1433–1445

    Abstract: Neurocomputational models of cognition have framed aesthetic appreciation within the domain of knowledge acquisition and learning, suggesting that aesthetic appreciation might be considered as a hedonic feedback on successful perceptual learning dynamics. ...

    Abstract Neurocomputational models of cognition have framed aesthetic appreciation within the domain of knowledge acquisition and learning, suggesting that aesthetic appreciation might be considered as a hedonic feedback on successful perceptual learning dynamics. Such hypothesis, however, has never been empirically demonstrated yet. In order to investigate the relationship between aesthetic appreciation and learning, we measured the EEG mismatch negativity (MMN) response to more or less appreciated musical intervals, which is considered as a reliable index of perceptual learning. To this end, we measured the MMN to frequency (Hz) standard and frequency deviant musical intervals (Experiment 1) while participants were asked to judge their beauty. For each single stimulus, we also computed an information-theoretic index of perceptual learning (Bayesian surprise). We found that more appreciated musical intervals were associated with a larger MMN responses, which, in turn, correlated with trial-by-trial fluctuations in Bayesian surprise (Experiment 1). Coherently with previous results, Bayesian surprise was also found to correlate with slower RTs in a detection task of the same stimuli, evidencing that motor behavior is inhibited in presence of surprising sensory states triggering perceptual learning (Experiment 2). Our results provide empirical evidence of the existence of a positive correlation between aesthetic appreciation and EEG indexes of perceptual learning. We argue that the sense of beauty might have evolved to signal the nervous system new sensory knowledge acquisition and motivate the individual to search for informationally profitable stimuli. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
    MeSH term(s) Acoustic Stimulation ; Bayes Theorem ; Beauty ; Electroencephalography ; Esthetics ; Humans ; Learning/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 189732-9
    ISSN 1939-2222 ; 0096-3445
    ISSN (online) 1939-2222
    ISSN 0096-3445
    DOI 10.1037/xge0001149
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  6. Article: Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale.

    Soraci, Paolo / Ferrari, Ambra / Abbiati, Francesco A / Del Fante, Elena / De Pace, Rosanna / Urso, Antonino / Griffiths, Mark D

    International journal of mental health and addiction

    2020  Volume 20, Issue 4, Page(s) 1913–1922

    Abstract: Background: The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear ...

    Abstract Background: The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear concerning COVID-19 in Italy., the present study analyzed the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S).
    Methods: The sample comprised 250 Italian participants who were administered Italian versions of the FCV-19S, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Severity Measure for Specific Phobia-Adult (SMSP-A). Several psychometric tests were performed to investigate the validity and reliability of the test including confirmatory factor analysis.
    Results: Analysis of the data showed satisfactory psychometric characteristics and confirmed the scale's unidimensional properties. The seven FCV-19S items had acceptable correlations with the test total (from .443 to .784). Furthermore, the loadings on the factor were significant and strong (from .684 to .897). The internal consistency was very good (α = .871). Construct validity for the FCV-19S was supported by significant and positive correlations with the HADS (r=.649) and SMSP-A (r=.703).
    Conclusions: The Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale is valid and reliable in assessing fear of COVID-19 among the general Italian population.
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2235886-9
    ISSN 1557-1882 ; 1557-1874
    ISSN (online) 1557-1882
    ISSN 1557-1874
    DOI 10.1007/s11469-020-00277-1
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  7. Article: Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Bergen-Yale Sex Addiction Scale.

    Soraci, Paolo / Melchiori, Francesco M / Del Fante, Elena / Melchiori, Roberto / Guaitoli, Eleonora / Lagattolla, Fulvia / Parente, Grazia / Bonanno, Enrico / Norbiato, Laura / Cimaglia, Roberta / Campedelli, Lorenzo / Abbiati, Francesco Antonio / Ferrari, Ambra / Griffiths, Mark D

    International journal of mental health and addiction

    2021  , Page(s) 1–27

    Abstract: Excessive problematic sexual behavior in the form of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), hypersexuality (HS), and sex addiction has gained increasing credibility in recent years and has led to the development of various psychometric instruments ... ...

    Abstract Excessive problematic sexual behavior in the form of compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), hypersexuality (HS), and sex addiction has gained increasing credibility in recent years and has led to the development of various psychometric instruments to assess such behavior. However, there is still considerable controversy over the operational definition of such concepts and whether they can be used interchangeably to describe the behavior. One recently developed tool is the Bergen-Yale Sex Addiction Scale (BYSAS) based on the "components model of addiction." The present study validated the Italian version of the BYSAS. The BYSAS was administered to a large Italian-speaking sample of Italian adults [
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2235886-9
    ISSN 1557-1882 ; 1557-1874
    ISSN (online) 1557-1882
    ISSN 1557-1874
    DOI 10.1007/s11469-021-00597-w
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  8. Article: Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale

    Soraci, Paolo / Ferrari, Ambra / Abbiati, Francesco A / Del Fante, Elena / De Pace, Rosanna / Urso, Antonino / Griffiths, Mark D

    Int J Ment Health Addict

    Abstract: Background: The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear ... ...

    Abstract Background: The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear concerning COVID-19 in Italy., the present study analyzed the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S). Methods: The sample comprised 250 Italian participants who were administered Italian versions of the FCV-19S, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Severity Measure for Specific Phobia-Adult (SMSP-A). Several psychometric tests were performed to investigate the validity and reliability of the test including confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Analysis of the data showed satisfactory psychometric characteristics and confirmed the scale's unidimensional properties. The seven FCV-19S items had acceptable correlations with the test total (from .443 to .784). Furthermore, the loadings on the factor were significant and strong (from .684 to .897). The internal consistency was very good (α = .871). Construct validity for the FCV-19S was supported by significant and positive correlations with the HADS (r=.649) and SMSP-A (r=.703). Conclusions: The Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale is valid and reliable in assessing fear of COVID-19 among the general Italian population.
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher WHO
    Document type Article
    Note WHO #Covidence: #165299
    Database COVID19

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  9. Article ; Online: Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale

    Soraci, Paolo / Ferrari, Ambra / Abbiati, Francesco A. / Del Fante, Elena / De Pace, Rosanna / Urso, Antonino / Griffiths, Mark D.

    International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction ; ISSN 1557-1874 1557-1882

    2020  

    Keywords Psychiatry and Mental health ; covid19
    Language English
    Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publishing country us
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1007/s11469-020-00277-1
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