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MASSIMO GRASSI

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - DPG

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498277494

E-mail

massimo.grassi@unipd.it

Massimo Grassi is an associate professor of General Psychology at the University of Padua. He graduated in psychology and earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Padua. He was a Marie Curie fellow at the Hearing Laboratory of the University of Sussex. He has won two research awards and a prize for third mission activities. He was the coordinator of the experimental section of the Italian Association of Psychology and is the vice president of the same association. He is a member and founder of the executive committee of the Italian Reproducibility Network. He chaired the plenary congress of the Italian Association of Psychology (Padua, September 27-30, 2022), which gathered more than 1800 participants (the largest psychology congress ever organized in Italy). He curated the art exhibition "L'occhio in gioco" displayed at the Monte di Pietà in Padua (from September 24, 2022, to February 26, 2023). He is the author of about sixty national and international scientific articles. He is the coordinator of the multicentric research project "The Music Ensemble," which brings together more than thirty laboratories from fifteen countries around the world (the first multicentric project in psychology coordinated by an Italian researcher) and aims to investigate the cognitive characteristics of expert musicians.

Notices

Office hours

  • Monday from 15:00 to 17:00
    at Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, via Venezia 8, edificio "Psico1", sesto piano, stanza 021
    Il ricevimento si svolge in presenza e -su richiesta- via zoom (Meeting ID: 183-228-270). Chi vuole partecipare al ricevimento via zoom è invitato farmi sapere con qualche giorno anticipo la sua necessità di un colloquio da remoto.

Teachings

Publications

Latest publications:
- Grassi M., Felline A., Orlandi N., Toffanin M., Goli G. P., Senyuva H. A., Migliardi M., Contemori G. (in press). PSYCHOACOUSTICS-WEB: a free online tool for the estimation of auditory thresholds" in its current form for publication in Behavior Research Methods.
- Guiotto Nai Fovino, L., Zanella, A., Grassi, M. (2024). Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Sonification for Time-series Data Exploration, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 167, Number 4. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2943
- Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., Zrubka, M., Kovacs, M., Bakos, B. E., Cousineau, D., Tressoldi, P., Schmidt, K., Grassi, M., Evans, T. R., Yamada, Y., Miller, J., Liu, H., Yonemitsu, F., Dubrov, D., Röer, J. P., Becker, M., Schnepper, R., Ariga, A., Arriaga, P., Oliveira, R., Põldver, N., Kreegipuu, K., Hall, B., Weichert, S., Verschuere, B., Girán, K., Aczel, B. (2023). Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: The Transparent Psi Project, Royal Society Open Science. 10: 1913752. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191375 [registered report]
- Misdariis, N., Ozcan, E., Grassi, M., Pauletto, S., Barrass, S., Bresin, R., Susini, P. (2022). Sound people speak to Star people – A sound experts’ perspective on astronomy sonification projects. Nature Astronomy, 6, 1249–1255 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01821-w
- Talamini, F., Vigl, J., Doerr, E., Grassi, M., Carretti, B. (2023). Auditory and Visual Mental Imagery in Musicians and Nonmusicians. Music Scientiae, 27, 428–441. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649211062724
- Rozzi, C. A., Voltini, A., Antonacci, A., Nucci, M., Grassi, M. (2022). A listening experiment comparing the timbre of two Stradivari with other violins. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151, 443-450 .
- Silvestri, V., Grassi, M., Nava, E. (2021). Face in collision: emotional looming stimuli modulate interpersonal space across development and gender. Psychological Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01590-7
- Moret, B., Camilleri Gorrieri, R., Grassi, M., & Campana, G. (2021). Cognitive exergame training and transcranial random noise stimulation effects on executive control in healthy young adults. Neuropsychology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000745
- Talamini, F., Blain, S., Ginzburg, J., Houix, O., Bouchet, P., Grassi, M., Tillmann, B., Caclin, A. (2021). Auditory and visual short-term memory: influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise. Psychological Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01519-0
- Bayramova, R., Toffalini, E., Bonato, M., Grassi, M. (2021). Auditory selective attention under working memory load. Psychological Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01437-7 [preregistrato]
- Grassi, M., Crotti, C., Giofrè, D., Boedker, I., Toffalini, E. (2020). Two replications of Raymond, Shapiro, and Arnell (1992), The Attentional Blink. Behavior Research Methods. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01457-6 [preregistrato]

Research Area

Auditory perception and psychophysics. Psychology of music. The relationship between auditory performance and cognitive performance. The cognitive abilities of musicians.

Thesis proposals

TOPICS
- Auditory perception, audiovisual perception, psychology of music, psychoacoustics and psychophysics.
- The relationship between audition and cognition, music and cognition.
- History of psychology of the University of Padova.
- Replication crisis in psychological research: identical replication of classic experiments with pre-pregistration and/or registered reports.

I recommend student projects that replicate existing literature studies, in particular for bachelor students. The student will be asked to select a study from the literature that s/he can reproduce autonomously, then s/he will be asked to replicate the study.