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Francesca Pazzaglia

Francesca Pazzaglia

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Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
6186
World Ranking
7969
National Ranking
165

Overview

Francesca Pazzaglia is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Psychology, and Environmental Science, with a publication record reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. The subfields they focus on include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, Geography, Planning and Development, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of Francesca Pazzaglia's work cover areas such as Urban Green Space and Health, Spatial Cognition and Navigation, Geography Education and Pedagogy, Place Attachment and Urban Studies, Geographic Information Systems Studies, Educational Environments and Student Outcomes, and Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management.

Frequent publication venues for Francesca Pazzaglia include:

  • Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Brain Sciences
  • Educational Psychology Review

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesca Pazzaglia are:

  • "Short-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students' Cognitive Performance: a Review" (2021) published in Educational Psychology Review
  • "Multiple Dimensions of Self-Esteem and Their Relationship with Health in Adolescence" (2020) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Effectiveness of Therapeutic Gardens for People with Dementia: A Systematic Review" (2021) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Social Distance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Reflects Perceived Rather Than Actual Risk" (2021) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Ageing- and dementia-friendly design: theory and evidence from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and environmental psychology can contribute to design guidelines that minimise spatial disorientation" (2021) published in Cognitive Processing

Frequent co-authors in Francesca Pazzaglia's research collaborations include:

  • Laura Miola
  • Chiara Meneghetti
  • Veronica Muffato
  • Enrico Sella
  • Enrico Toffalini

Best Publications

  • Spatial discourse and navigation: an analysis of route directions in the city of Venice

    Michel Denis;Francesca Pazzaglia;Cesare Cornoldi;Laura Bertolo

  • Increases in Intrusion Errors and Working Memory Deficit of Poor Comprehenders

    R. De Beni;P. Palladino;F. Pazzaglia;C. Cornoldi

  • Working memory and updating processes in reading comprehension

    Paola Palladino;Cesare Cornoldi;Rossana De Beni;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • When being able is not enough. The combined value of positive affect and self-efficacy for job satisfaction in teaching

    Angelica Moè;Francesca Pazzaglia;Lucia Ronconi

  • Strategies of processing spatial information in survey and landmark-centred individuals.

    Francesca Pazzaglia;Rossana De Beni

  • The role of distinct components of visuo-spatial working memory in the processing of texts.

    Pazzaglia F;Cornoldi C

  • Following the instructions!: Effects of gender beliefs in mental rotation

    Angelica Moè;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • Individual differences in memory updating in relation to arithmetic problem solving

    Maria Chiara Passolunghi;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • A comparison of updating processes in children good or poor in arithmetic word problem-solving

    Maria Chiara Passolunghi;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • Profiles of Reading Comprehension Difficulties: An Analysis of Single Cases

    Cesare Cornoldi;Rossana De Beni;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • Visuospatial working memory and mental representation of spatial descriptions

    Rossana De Beni;Francesca Pazzaglia;Valerie Gyselinck;Chiara Meneghetti

  • Evidence for a double dissociation between spatial-simultaneous and spatial-sequential working memory in visuospatial (nonverbal) learning disabled children.

    Irene C. Mammarella;Cesare Cornoldi;Francesca Pazzaglia;Cristina Toso

  • Evidence for Different Components in Children's Visuospatial Working Memory.

    Irene C. Mammarella;Francesca Pazzaglia;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Short-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students’ Cognitive Performance: a Review

    Lucia Mason;Angelica Ronconi;Sara Scrimin;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • Working memory components and imagery instructions in the elaboration of a spatial mental model.

    Valérie Gyselinck;Rossana De Beni;Francesca Pazzaglia;Chiara Meneghetti

  • Relationship between spatial ability, visuospatial working memory and self-assessed spatial orientation ability: a study in older adults.

    Micaela Mitolo;Simona Gardini;Paolo Caffarra;Paolo Caffarra;Lucia Ronconi

  • The role of mental rotation and age in spatial perspective-taking tasks: when age does not impair perspective-taking performance

    Rossana De Beni;Francesca Pazzaglia;Simona Gardini

  • What working memory subcomponents are needed in the acquisition of survey knowledge? Evidence from direction estimation and shortcut tasks

    Enia Labate;Francesca Pazzaglia;Mary Hegarty

  • Cognitive styles and mental rotation ability in map learning.

    Francesca Pazzaglia;Angelica Moè

  • La comprensione del testo: modelli teorici e programmi di intervento

    Rossana De Beni;Francesca Pazzaglia

  • Are people with high and low mental rotation abilities differently susceptible to the alignment effect

    Francesca Pazzaglia;Rossana De Beni

  • Learning to Read: Evidence on the Distinction between Decoding and Comprehension Skills.

    Francesca Pazzaglia;Cesare Cornoldi;Patrizio Emanuele Tressoldi

Frequent Co-Authors

Rossana De Beni
Rossana De Beni University of Padua
Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
Erika Borella
Erika Borella University of Padua
Annalena Venneri
Annalena Venneri Brunel University London
Tina Iachini
Tina Iachini University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Holly A. Taylor
Holly A. Taylor Tufts University
Caroline R. Mahoney
Caroline R. Mahoney Tufts University
Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca
Gennaro Ruggiero
Gennaro Ruggiero University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Mary Hegarty
Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara

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