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Overview

Giuliana Mazzoni is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a substantial focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and related subfields.

Their work covers various areas within psychology, especially the study of memory and cognitive processes. Mazzoni has contributed extensively to the understanding of memory mechanisms as well as social and developmental psychology topics.

Key topics of research include:

  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborations with researchers active in overlapping areas of study, including:

  • Mara Stockner
  • Michela Marchetti
  • Daniele Gatti
  • Gianmarco Convertino
  • Jessica Talbot

A selection of recent papers illustrates the range and focus of their research contributions:

  • "Smartphone addiction across the lifetime during Italian lockdown for COVID-19", 2021, Journal of Addictive Diseases
  • "Cerebellum and semantic memory: A TMS study using the DRM paradigm", 2020, Cortex
  • "Decomposing the semantic processes underpinning veridical and false memories.", 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Learning pain from others: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia induced by observational learning", 2023, Pain
  • "Do intuitive ideas of the qualities that should characterize involuntary and voluntary memories affect their classification?", 2021, Psychological Research

Publications by Mazzoni have appeared frequently in specific venues known for psychological and neuroscientific research:

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Psychological Research
  • Journal of Pain

Their contribution to different areas of cognitive neuroscience is evidenced by work that intersects memory studies with neural and social psychological perspectives. This multidisciplinary approach extends to experimental methods examining both voluntary and involuntary memory processes and the neural mechanisms underlying these phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Changing beliefs about implausible autobiographical events: A little plausibility goes a long way.

    Giuliana A. L. Mazzoni;Elizabeth F. Loftus;Irving Kirsch

  • Imagination Can Create False Autobiographical Memories

    Giuliana Mazzoni;Amina Memon

  • Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activity

    William J. McGeown;Giuliana Mazzoni;Annalena Venneri;Annalena Venneri;Irving Kirsch

  • Plausibility and belief in autobiographical memory

    Alan Scoboria;Giuliana Mazzoni;Irving Kirsch;Mark Relyea

  • Strategies in study time allocation: Why is study time sometimes not effective?

    Giuliana Mazzoni;Cesare Cornoldi

  • JUDGMENTS OF LEARNING ARE AFFECTED BY THE KIND OF ENCODING IN WAYS THAT CANNOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE LEVEL OF RECALL

    Giuliana Mazzoni;Thomas O. Nelson

  • Do memorability ratings affect study-time allocation?

    Giuliana Mazzoni;Cesare Cornoldi;Giampiera Marchitelli

  • Changing beliefs and memories through dream interpretation

    Giuliana A. L. Mazzoni;Elizabeth F. Loftus;Aaron Seitz;Steven J. Lynn

  • Applied Metacognition: Autobiographical memories and beliefs: a preliminary metacognitive model

    Giuliana Mazzoni;Irving Kirsh

  • New directions in hypnosis research: strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience of hypnosis

    Mark P Jensen;Graham A Jamieson;Antoine Lutz;Giuliana Mazzoni

  • The Role of Belief in Occurrence Within Autobiographical Memory

    Alan Scoboria;Dennis L. Jackson;Jennifer Talarico;Maciej Hanczakowski

  • Metacognition and Cognitive Neuropsychology : Monitoring and Control Processes

    Giuliana Mazzoni;Thomas O. Nelson

  • False claims about false memory research.

    Kimberley A. Wade;Stefanie J. Sharman;Maryanne Garry;Amina Memon

  • Word recall correlates with sleep cycles in elderly subjects.

    G. Mazzoni;S. Gori;G. Formicola;C. Gneri

  • Creating non-believed memories for recent autobiographical events.

    Andrew Clark;Robert A. Nash;Gabrielle Fincham;Giuliana Mazzoni

  • Illness by Suggestion: Expectancy, Modeling, and Gender in the Production of Psychosomatic Symptoms.

    William Lorber;Giuliana Mazzoni;Irving Kirsch

  • Immediate and persisting effects of misleading questions and hypnosis on memory reports.

    Alan Scoboria;Giuliana Mazzoni;Irving Kirsch;Leonard S. Milling

  • Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain.

    William J. McGeown;Annalena Venneri;Irving Kirsch;Luca Nocetti

  • Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation.

    Zoltán Dienes;Elizabeth Brown;Sam Hutton;Irving Kirsch

  • Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory: Object Imagers are better at remembering their personal past

    Manila Vannucci;Claudia Pelagatti;Carlo Chiorri;Giuliana Mazzoni

  • On the Existence and Implications of Nonbelieved Memories

    Henry Otgaar;Alan Scoboria;Giuliana Mazzoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Thomas O. Nelson
Thomas O. Nelson University of Maryland, College Park
Annalena Venneri
Annalena Venneri Brunel University London
Timothy J. Perfect
Timothy J. Perfect Plymouth University
Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
Isabel Leal
Isabel Leal ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento

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