NEXUS Human Behavior and Psychophysics Lab

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The laboratory is located at the Section of Physiology and Psychology and allows the administration of computerized paradigms for the study of perceptual and cognitive mechanisms with a psychophysical and behavioural approach.

Research activity:
1. Investigating the behavioral correlates of attentional learning processes, notably reward-mediated attentional learning and statistical learning in the attentional domain
2. Investigating the attentional mechanisms for distractor filtering

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The lab comprises two laboratories for behavioral and psychophysics experiments in humans aimed at investigating the cognitive mechanisms for visual selective attention, equipped with: “VSG” card (Cambridge Research System); dedicated software for experimental control and behavioral response recording and storage, including Open Sesame, E-Prime (Psyhcology Software Tools, PST), Matlab Psychotoolbox (Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3, PTB-3); response box (Psyhcology Software Tools, PST) for manual and vocal response recording and storage; chin rests to control head position.

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