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MICHELE VICOVARO
Position
Professore Associato
Address
VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498276602
Notices
Office hours
at Sesto piano Psico 1 (studio n. 12)
Si prega di inviare una mail per fissare un appuntamento.
Teachings
- STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY, AA 2025 (PSQ4106501)
- BASIC RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY, AA 2025 (PSP5070137)
- MODELS AND METHODS FOR NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT, AA 2025 (PSQ5109780)
- STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY, AA 2024 (PSQ4106501)
- BASIC RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY, AA 2024 (PSP5070137)
- BASIC RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY, AA 2023 (PSP5070137)
- MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS, AA 2023 (PSN1032475)
Publications
PUBLICATIONS (LAST 2 YEARS)
- SPOTO, A., NUCCI, M., PRUNETTI, E., & VICOVARO, M. (2023). Improving content validity evaluation of assessment instruments through formal content validity analysis. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000545
- BATTAGLINI, L., CASCO, C., FERTONANI, A., MINIUSSI, C., DI PONZIO, M., & VICOVARO, M. (2023). Noise in the brain: transcranial random noise stimulation and perceptual noise act on a stochastic resonance-like mechanism. European Journal of Neuroscience, 57(12), 2097-2111. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15965
- DALMASO, M., FEDRIGO, G., & VICOVARO, M. (2023). Gazing left, gazing right: exploring a spatial bias in social attention. PeerJ, 11, e15694. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15694
- VICOVARO, M., BRUNELLO, L., & PAROVEL, G. (2023). The psychophysics of bouncing: Perceptual constraints, physical constraints, animacy, and phenomenal causality. Plos One, 18(8), e0285448. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285448
- VICOVARO, M. (2023). Grounding intuitive physics in perceptual experience. Journal of Intelligence, 11(10), Article 187. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11100187
- DALMASO, M., PILEGGI, S., & VICOVARO, M. (2023). Face age is mapped into three-dimensional space. Cognitive Science, 47(11), e13374. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13374
- DALLA BONA, S., & VICOVARO, M. (2023). Does perceptual disfluency affect the illusion of causality?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(8), 1727-1744. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231220928
- GILUIANI, F., BRUNELLO, L., DALMASO, M., D’ANSELMO, A., TOMMASI, L., VICOVARO, M. (2024). The right side of price: evidence of a SNARC-like effect for economic value. Current Psychology, 43, 18330–18343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05612-6
- ROCCATO, M., CAMPANA, G., VICOVARO, M., DONATO, R., PAVAN, A. (2024). Perception of complex Glass patterns through spatial summation across unique frames. Vision Research, 216, Article 108364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2024.108364
- VAGNETTI, R., VICOVARO, M., …., & MAZZA, M. (2024). Atypical time-to-contact estimation in young adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Online first publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06352-z
- VICOVARO, M., SQUADRELLI SARACENO, F., & DALMASO, M. (2024). Exploring the influence of self-identification on perceptual judgments of physical and social causality. PeerJ, 12, e17449. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17449
- DALMASO, M., VICOVARO, M., SARODO, A., WATANABE, K. (2024).The self can be associated with novel faces of in-group and out-group members: A cross-cultural study. Consciousness and Cognition, 125, Article 103764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2024.103764
- VICOVARO, M., MIGNEMI, G., NUCCI, M., BOLOGNANI, L., IANNANTTONE, S., BRUNO, G., & SPOTO, A. (2025). A new Bayesian method for the estimation of emergency nurses' thresholds and agreement in the context of telephone triage. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1477844. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.147784
- VICOVARO, M., BOSCARIOL, R. & DALMASO, M. (2025) A SNARC-like effect for visual speed. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03012-x
Research Area
Intuitive physics, psychophysical methods and models, visual perception of physical events, perception and cognition of causality, causal inference, multisensory processes (e.g., weight illusions), spatial representation of numerical and non-numerical quantities, research methods in psychology, statistics, psychometrics.
Thesis proposals
PERCEPTION AND COGNITION
- Naïve physics
- Causal perception
- Causal inference and cognitive biases
- Spatial representation of numerical and non-numerical quantities
METHODOLOGY
- Methods for measuring the test–retest reliability of psychological measures
- Methods for measuring inter-rater agreement
- Psychophysical methods
The thesis can be integrated with an internal internship.
