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GIOVANNI GALFANO
Position
Professore Ordinario
Address
VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA
Telephone
3351812602
Education\n1992 – 1997\nLaurea (Master equivalent) in Experimental Psychology, Università degli Studi di Padova\n\n1997 – 1998\nPost-lauream internship, Neuropsychology service of the Faculty of Psychology at the Ca' Foncello hospital (Treviso) and Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università degli Studi di Padova. \n\n1999 – 2002\nPhD in Cognitive Sciences (Thesis: Stimulus-driven processing in arithmetic facts retrieval and attentional orienting; Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Umiltà), Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova.\n\n2000 – 2001\nOne-year visiting Ph.D student, Centre for Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK.\n\n2003 – 2004\nTwo-year postdoc fellowship, Dipartimento di Scienze della Cognizione e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Trento.\n\nCurrent academic position\nFull Professor (M-PSI/01: General Psychology), Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova.\n\nRecent institutional roles\n-Coordinator of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Padova (2017-2023).\n\nScientific affiliations\n-Full member of the Italian Association of Psychology, Experimental Psychology section (since 2006), Clinical Psychology section (since 2016).\n-Full member of the Society for Neuroscience (since 2014).\n-Full member of the Association for Psychological Science (since 2016).\n\nMain research topics\nOrienting of attention\nInhibitory processes in attention and memory\n\nScientific activity and bibliometric info\nH-index: 28 (Source: WoS)\nAuthor of:\n-67 Scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals.\n-10 Scientific articles in peer-reviewed national journals.\n-4 chapters in international volumes.\n-3 chapters in national volumes.\n\nInvited lectures and seminars (selection)\nDepartment of Psychology, Guangzhou University, People's Republic of China, December 2016.\nDepartamento de Psicología Básica y Metodología, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, March 2012.\nDepartment of Experimental Psychology and Centre for Neuroscience and Education, University of Cambridge, U.K., May 2011.\n\nTeaching activity\n-Undergraduate level: \nPast: Psicologia Generale, Tecniche di Ricerca in Psicologia Cognitiva, Etica e deontologia professionale, Laboratory in Experimental Psychology, Psychology of thinking.\nPresent: Psychology of thinking and reasoning (9CFU), Laboratory in Human Cognition (in English; 6CFU), Attentional processing and social cognition (6CFU).\n\n-Postgraduate level:\nOrienting of attention in healthy individuals and clinical patients (in English, PhD students).\nAttention and eye movements (in English, PhD students).
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Orari di ricevimento
Gio13:0015:00Via Venezia 8, secondo piano, stanza 015Il ricevimento studenti verrà svolto in presenza o in modalità telematica tramite la piattaforma ZOOM, previo appuntamento concordato via email. \n
Publications
2020-2025 (selection)
Valsecchi, M., Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., Baldini, E., & Galfano, G. (2025). Is mind wandering reflected in microsaccade dynamics? Biological Psychology, 200, 109109.
Dalmaso, M., Galfano, G., Baratella, A., & Castelli, L. (2025). A direct comparison of gaze-mediated orienting elicited by schematic and real human faces. Acta Psychologica, 255, 104934.
Dalmaso, M., Galfano, G., & Castelli, L. (2024). Stretching the limits of automated symbolic orienting. Consciousness and Cognition, 125, 103773.
Dalmaso, M., Galfano, G., & Castelli, L. (2024). Testing the effects of uninformative gaze stimuli with invariant spatial direction on attention cueing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 1544-1554.
Zhang, X., Dalmaso, M., Galfano, G., & Castelli, L. (2023). Tuning social modulations of gaze cuing via contextual factors. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 1004-1010.
Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., Bernardini, C., & Galfano, G. (2023). Can masked gaze and arrow stimuli elicit overt orienting of attention? A registered report. Consciousness and Cognition, 109, 103476.
Del Missier, F., Stragà, M., Galfano, G., Venerus, E., Ferrara, D., & Penolazzi, B. (2022). Creativity in schizophrenia: Evidence beyond anecdotes. Creativity Research Journal, 34, 445-459.
Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., & Galfano, G. (2021). Increased gaze-cueing of attention during COVID-19 lockdown. iScience, 24, 103283.
Zhang, X., Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., Fu, S., & Galfano, G. (2021). Cross-cultural asymmetries in oculomotor interference elicited by gaze distractors belonging to Asian and White faces. Scientific Reports, 11, 20410.
Zhang, X., Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., Fiorese, A., Lan, Y., Sun, B., Fu, S., & Galfano, G. (2021). Social attention across borders: A cross-cultural investigation of gaze cueing elicited by same- and other-ethnicity faces. British Journal of Psychology, 112, 741-762.
Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., & Galfano, G. (2020). Early saccade planning cannot override oculomotor interference elicited by gaze and arrow distractors. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 990-997.
Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., & Galfano, G. (2020). Social modulators of gaze-mediated orienting of attention: A review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 833-855.
Penolazzi, B., Del Missier, F., Stramaccia, D. F., Monego, A. L., Manzan, A., Bertoli, M., Castelli, L., & Galfano, G. (2020). Testing the transdiagnostic hypothesis of inhibitory control deficits in addictions: An experimental study on gambling disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9, 339-346.
Dalmaso, M., Alessi, G., Castelli, L., & Galfano, G. (2020). Eye contact boosts the reflexive component of overt gaze following. Scientific Reports, 10, 4777.
Dalmaso, M., Castelli, L., & Galfano, G. (2020). Microsaccadic rate and pupil size dynamics in pro-/anti-saccade preparation: The impact of intermixed vs. blocked trial administration. Psychological Research, 84, 1320-1332.
Del Missier, F., Galfano, G., Venerus, E., Ferrara, D., Bruine de Bruin, W., & Penolazzi, B. (2020). Decision-making competence in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 215, 457-459.
Research Area
Symbolic and biological control of spatial attention\nSocial attention and social processes\nInhibitory effects and control processes in memory retrieval and forgetting\nMind wandering
Thesis proposals
I supervise Master students working in the following areas:
-Inhibitory effects and control processes in memory retrieval and forgetting
-Symbolic and biological control of spatial attention
-Social attention and social processes
-Attention mechanisms applied to psychology of art
-Mind wandering
I supervise PhD students working in the following areas:
-Control processes in memory retrieval and forgetting
-Inhibitory effects in cognition
-Attention mechanisms applied to psychology of art
-Mind wandering
I investigate these topics in both healthy participants and in different classes of clinical populations by using both the classic methods of experimental psychology (behavioral measures and eye movements) and neuroscientific techniques.
