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Marco Bertamini

Marco Bertamini

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Psychology

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5567
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7665
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Overview

Marco Bertamini is a researcher affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their work spans primarily across the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Bertamini's research contributions extend into subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, as well as statistics and probability.

Their research topics encompass a range of areas related to perception and brain function. Major topics addressed in Bertamini's work include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Color perception and design
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Aesthetic perception and analysis
  • Face recognition and perception

Some significant recent papers authored by or involving Bertamini include:

  • Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, published in BMC Psychiatry
  • Factors impacting resilience as a result of exposure to COVID-19: The ecological resilience model, 2021, published in PLoS ONE
  • The Italian COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (IT C19PRC): General Overview and Replication of the UK Study, 2020, published in Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Visual preference for abstract curvature and for interior spaces: Beyond undergraduate student samples., 2020, published in Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Individual differences in the Müller-Lyer and Ponzo illusions are stable across different contexts, 2020, published in Journal of Vision

Bertamini collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Alexis D. J. Makin
  • Giulia Rampone
  • John Tyson-Carr
  • Giulio Contemori
  • Luca Battaglini

Their publications often appear in specific venues known for cognitive and psychological sciences. Frequent publication venues for Bertamini are:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Vision
  • Symmetry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cortex

Best Publications

  • Do observers like curvature or do they dislike angularity

    Marco Bertamini;Letizia Palumbo;Tamara Nicoleta Gheorghes;Tamara Nicoleta Gheorghes;Mai Galatsidas

  • Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Understanding projectile acceleration.

    Heiko Hecht;Marco Bertamini

  • Implicit Affective Evaluation of Visual Symmetry

    Alexis David James Makin;Anna Pecchinenda;Marco Bertamini

  • Comparing Angular and Curved Shapes in Terms of Implicit Associations and Approach/Avoidance Responses.

    Letizia Palumbo;Nicole Ruta;Marco Bertamini

  • Brain Activity in Response to Visual Symmetry

    Marco Bertamini;Alexis D.J. Makin

  • Amodal Completion of Partly Occluded Surfaces: Is There a Mosaic Stage?

    Nicola Bruno;Marco Bertamini;Fulvio Domini

  • Symmetry perception and affective responses: A combined EEG/EMG study

    Alexis D.J. Makin;Moon M Wilton;Anna Pecchinenda;Marco Bertamini

  • Naive optics: Predicting and perceiving reflections in mirrors

    Marco Bertamini;Alice Spooner;Heiko Hecht

  • Examining visual complexity and its influence on perceived duration.

    Letizia Palumbo;Ruth Ogden;Alexis James Makin;Marco Bertamini

  • Relative size perception at a distance is best at eye level

    Marco Bertamini;Tyrone L. Yang;Dennis R. Proffitt

  • Curve Appeal: Exploring Individual Differences in Preference for Curved Versus Angular Objects.

    Katherine N Cotter;Paul J Silvia;Marco Bertamini;Letizia Palumbo

  • Implicit Association of Symmetry with Positive Valence, High Arousal and Simplicity

    Marco Bertamini;Alexis Makin;Giulia Rampone

  • Factors impacting resilience as a result of exposure to COVID-19: The ecological resilience model.

    Anna Panzeri;Marco Bertamini;Marco Bertamini;Sarah Butter;Liat Levita

  • The neural basis of visual symmetry and its role in mid- and high-level visual processing

    Marco Bertamini;Juha Silvanto;Anthony M. Norcia;Alexis D.J. Makin

  • The shape of holes

    Marco Bertamini;Camilla J Croucher

  • Hierarchical motion organization in random dot configurations.

    Marco Bertamini;Dennis R. Proffitt

  • Naive optics: understanding the geometry of mirror reflections.

    Camilla J. Croucher;Marco Bertamini;Heiko Hecht

  • Detection of symmetry and perceptual organization: The way a lock-and-key process works

    Marco Bertamini;Jay D. Friedenberg;Michael Kubovy

  • Haptic perception after a change in hand size.

    Nicola Bruno;Marco Bertamini

  • The Venus effect: people's understanding of mirror reflections in paintings.

    Marco Bertamini;Richard Latto;Alice Spooner

  • Memory for position and dynamic representations

    Marco Bertamini

Frequent Co-Authors

Kate M. Bennett
Kate M. Bennett University of Liverpool
Dennis R. Proffitt
Dennis R. Proffitt University of Virginia
Michael H. Herzog
Michael H. Herzog École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Liat Levita
Liat Levita University of Sussex
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg

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