Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Modulation of Physical Exercise for Weight Loss through Brain Neuromarker Monitoring: The Role of Personality and Stress in Appetite Control
AJFNAE
Examines how personality and stress alter appetite while exercise is tuned through brain-based neuromarker feedback.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Neuropsychological Impact of Anabolic Steroid Abuse: The Role of Bio-Neurofeedback as a Therapeutic Tool
OPAST Publishers
Connects anabolic-steroid misuse with neuropsychological effects and considers bio-neurofeedback within a therapeutic response.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
The Three Archimedean Muscle-Tension Centers (AMTC) as Levers of Emotional Regulation: An Integrated Approach through ACT Therapy and Biofeedback
Biology & Health Science
Describes three muscle-tension centres as practical levers for emotional regulation through ACT and biofeedback.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
A New Model for Managing Overweight: The Synergy between Nutraceuticals and Biofeedback to Regulate Aberrant Autonomic States and Counteract Emotional Hunger
Biology & Health Science
Explains how nutraceutical support and biofeedback may address autonomic dysregulation and emotionally driven hunger.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Neurophysiology of Female Brain Rhythms: Implications for Mental Health and Strategies Based on Bio-Neurofeedback and Nutrition
Biology & Health Science
Maps female brain rhythms to mental-health questions and combines neurofeedback with nutritional support for wellbeing.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
An Innovative and Hypothetical Model for Personalizing Physical Training through Neurofeedback and Biofeedback
Biology & Health Science
Proposes a hypothetical training model that personalizes exercise intensity using neurofeedback and biofeedback signals.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Effects of Anabolic Steroids on Brain Waves and Neurofeedback- Based Treatment Perspectives
Surgery Medical Case Reports
Reviews the effects of anabolic steroids on brain waves and the treatment possibilities suggested by neurofeedback.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Integrated Approach to Women's Well-Being: Physical Exercise, Biofeedback, Alkalinizing Nutrition and Supplementation for Psychological and Physical Improvement in Women
Surgery Medical Case Reports
Brings exercise, biofeedback, alkalinizing nutrition and supplements together in an integrated account of women’s wellbeing.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Modulation of Physical Exercise for Weight Loss through Brain Neuromarker Monitoring: The Role of Personality and Stress in Appetite Control
AJFNAE
Revisits neuromarker-guided exercise and the roles of personality and stress in regulating appetite during weight loss.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Bioneuro feedback and Bioimpedance: A New Paradigm for Nutritional Science in Long-Term Weight Management
OPAST Publishers
Pairs bioneurofeedback with bioimpedance to outline a measurement-led approach to long-term weight management.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Weight Loss: Managing Stress Is the Key
Natura Docet · 2020-03
Argues that managing stress is a central lever in weight loss, linking emotional load with practical change.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
When Body Perception Begins in the Relationship with the Mother
Neuroscienze · 2018-07
Examines how a person’s body perception can be shaped by early relational experience with the mother.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Psychophysical Identity and Roid Rage
Neuroscienze · 2017-08
Connects psychophysical identity with the aggression and body changes associated with anabolic-steroid rage.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Dysregulation of Food Pleasure between “Liking” and “Wanting”
Neuroscienze · 2019-10
Distinguishes pleasure, sympathy and desire to explain how food reward can become dysregulated.
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Biofeedback and neurofeedback
Stress Management and Overweight
Olympian's News · 2012-02
Connects stress-management skills with overweight prevention and the daily regulation needed for sustainable change.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Thoracic Compliance and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA): A “Secure Base” for Psychophysical Well-Being and Social Evolution
Historical archive
Uses thoracic compliance and respiratory sinus arrhythmia to frame safety, regulation and social development.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
After Violence: Rape and the Reconstruction of the Self (2021) by Susan J. Brison — Review
State of Mind · 2022-03
Reviews Susan J. Brison’s account of rape and recovery, focusing on trauma, identity and reconstruction of the self.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Teaching Students with Specific Learning Disorders (2020), edited by Fabbri, Rossi and Tironi — Review
State of Mind · 2022-01
Assesses a book on teaching students with learning disorders and the educational choices that support their participation.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
The Autistic Mind: Scientific Research Responds to the Enigma of Autism (2021) by Giacomo Vivanti — Review
State of Mind · 2022-01
Summarizes research on autism and considers how scientific evidence responds to the enigma of the autistic mind.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Keynote Lecture with D. Freeman: Virtual Reality in the Assessment, Understanding and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders — ECDP 2021 Report
State of Mind · 2021-03-24
Reports on Freeman’s conference lecture about using virtual reality to assess, understand and treat mental-health disorders.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Robotics and AI — European Conference on Digital Psychology, ECDP 2021 Report
State of Mind · 2021-03-22
Reports on the European conference discussion of robotics and artificial intelligence in digital psychology.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Aggressive Drives and War in Psychoanalysis (2021) — Book Review
State of Mind · 2021-10
Reviews psychoanalytic accounts of aggression and war, asking how destructive impulses are represented and interpreted.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
From the Tomatis Method to Robotics: Why Are Useful Tools for Students with Special Educational Needs Still Underused? (May 2021)
State of Mind · 2021-05
Compares the Tomatis method and educational robotics, asking why useful tools for special-needs learners remain underused.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Narratives and Stories in Psychiatry (2020) by Piero Benassi — Book Review
State of Mind · 2021-04-29
Reviews narratives in psychiatry and the role of personal stories in making clinical experience intelligible.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
In Search of Lost Motivation
Natura Docet · 2019-03
Investigates why motivation fades and identifies the psychological obstacles that can make healthy change difficult.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Toward a Systems View of Weight Loss
Natura Docet · 2019-02
Presents weight loss as a system in which body, emotions, habits and context continually influence one another.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Motivation’s “Safe”
Natura Docet · 2019-10
Treats motivation as a protected inner resource and considers how it can be recovered when change stalls.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Criteria for a Personalised Diet
Pianeta Medicina e Salute · 2018-10
Sets out the criteria for tailoring a diet to individual physiology, behaviour, goals and real-life constraints.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Beyond the Extension of the Body
Pianeta Medicina e Salute · 2018-01
Questions the idea that the body ends at its physical outline by considering extension, perception and embodiment.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Use and Abuse of Anabolic Steroids
Pianeta Medicina e Salute · 2017-10
Separates legitimate uses from harmful misuse of anabolic steroids and outlines the bodily and psychological stakes.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Contribution to Pianeta Medicina e Salute (December 2018)
Pianeta Medicina e Salute · 2018-12
Collects the author’s contribution on integrative health themes published by Pianeta Medicina e Salute in late 2018.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
In the Whale’s Throat
Pianeta Medicina e Salute · 2017-11
Uses the image of a whale’s throat to open a reflective discussion of depth, containment and the body.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Perspectives on Art
Pittura e dintorni · 2017-07
Compares different ways of looking at art and shows how perspective changes the meaning assigned to an artwork.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Toward Personalised Robotics: Socially Assistive Robots (SAR)
State of Mind · 2019-09
Explores how socially interactive robots could become more personalized through adaptive human-robot interaction.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Is It Possible to Observe the Mind? Human–Robot Interaction and the Observation of Mental States
State of Mind · 2019-01
Asks whether the mind can be observed and applies human-robot interaction research to mental-state inference.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Why Are We Afraid of Robots? Anthropomorphism, the Uncanny Valley and a Freudian Reading of Human–Robot Interaction
State of Mind · 2018-03
Investigates fear of robots through anthropomorphism, the uncanny valley and a Freudian reading of HRI.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Eating without Distraction: A Key to Weight Loss
Scienza e Conoscenza · 2018-05
Makes attentive eating the practical focus, showing how reducing distraction can support consistent weight-loss choices.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Human–Robot Interaction and Theory of Mind
Scienza e Conoscenza · 2018-12
Brings human-robot interaction together with Theory of Mind to explain how agents attribute intentions to one another.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Contribution to Scienza e Conoscenza (January 2020)
Scienza e Conoscenza · 2020-01
Collects the author’s integrative contribution published by Scienza e Conoscenza in January 2020.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Nutrition for Fighters
Project Invictus · 2016-10
Examines the nutritional demands of fighters and the training choices that determine performance and recovery.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
A Disease Called Dieting
La Palestra · 2016-04
Treats dieting itself as a possible illness when restriction becomes the organising force of everyday life.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
From Motivation to Cyber-Training
La Palestra · 2016-05
Follows motivation into cyber-training, connecting digital feedback with the effort required to sustain behaviour change.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Anti-Aging between Immutability and Narcissism
La Palestra · 2016-07
Questions anti-aging promises by comparing the desire for permanence with narcissistic investment in an unchanging self.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Hypertrophic Misinformation
La Palestra · 2017-03
Examines how impressive-sounding claims about muscle growth can spread misinformation and distort health decisions.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Craving Sugar?
Giornale di Psicologia · 2018-10
Investigates recurring sugar cravings and the physiological, emotional and habit-driven cues that maintain them.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Weight Loss and Personal Success
L'Accademia del Fitness · 2011-04
Links weight loss with personal success by examining how self-efficacy and identity affect long-term change.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Programming Yourself for Longevity
L'Accademia del Fitness · 2011-10
Considers how daily choices can be programmed toward longevity without reducing a long life to a single intervention.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Modelling in Anti-Aging
L'Accademia del Fitness · 2012-01
Uses modelling to examine anti-aging as a process of observing, testing and adapting healthier behaviour.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
The Logical Levels of NLP Applied to Anti-Aging
L'Accademia del Fitness · 2012-07
Applies the logical levels of NLP to anti-aging and shows how beliefs and identity can shape health behaviour.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Muscular Character Armour
Agemony · 2018-01
Explores muscular character armour as a bodily expression of chronic tension, defence and emotional history.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
The Complexity of Weight Loss — Part One
Agemony · 2018-04
Introduces the first part of a systems account of weight loss, where body and context resist simple solutions.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
The Complexity of Weight Loss — Part Two
Agemony · 2018-06
Continues the complexity model of weight loss by examining feedback loops that can sustain or interrupt progress.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Changing Your Behaviour to Lose Weight
Agemony · 2018-07
Focuses on changing behaviour through concrete adjustments rather than relying on intention alone to produce weight loss.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
A Body as a Work of Art
Agemony · 2019-01
Uses artistic practice to rethink the body as a form shaped by perception, movement and personal expression.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Anabolic-Steroid Dependence
Agemony · 2019-03
Describes anabolic-steroid dependence as a cycle involving reward, identity, bodily change and loss of control.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
The Human Being as a System
Agemony · 2019-04
Presents the human being as an integrated system in which body, mind, relationships and environment co-evolve.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Can Physical Activity Improve Psychological Disorders?
Agemony · 2019-06
Reviews how regular physical activity can support psychological health and reduce the burden of common disorders.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Why Can’t I Follow a Diet?
Agemony · 2019-08
Identifies motivational, emotional and practical barriers that can prevent someone from following a diet.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
The Logic of the Obese Body: From the Parent’s Inner World to the Child’s Body
Agemony · 2019-11
Returns to the relational roots of obesity by tracing how a parent’s inner world can be expressed in a child’s body.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
An Introspective Journey to Understand the Reasons
Agemony · 2020-02
Proposes an introspective route for recognising the personal reasons behind recurring habits and stalled change.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
A Victim Defined by Coronavirus
Agemony · 2020-03
Reflects on coronavirus as a defined victim experience and the psychological meanings assigned to collective crisis.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
What Is Psychotechnology?
Scambiaffari · 2015-11
Introduces psychotechnology as a meeting point between psychological knowledge, tools and deliberate human change.
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Psychology, stress and behaviour
Covid-19: A Virus for the Economy?
Salto · 2020-03
Examines how Covid-19 disrupted economic systems and why a health emergency quickly became an economic one.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
From Dietary Plan to Motivation: The Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Nutritional Counseling
Biology & Health Science
Follows the move from a prescribed diet to sustained motivation by applying ACT principles in nutritional counselling.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
“Thirsty for Food” — The Psychology of Food Cravings
State of Mind · 2020-12-21
Interprets food cravings through psychology, distinguishing the emotional meanings behind feeling thirsty for food.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Overweight and Morbid Bonds: When a Child’s Body Becomes the Victim of Maternal Emotion
Nutrizione del benessere · 2021-04-20
Examines how maternal emotional bonds can place a child’s body at the centre of overweight and relational distress.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Clarifying Intra-, Multi-, Inter-, Cross- and Transdisciplinary Approaches
Nutrizione del benessere · 2021-05-02
Clarifies the differences among intra-, multi-, inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary approaches to collaborative knowledge.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Why Do We Eat Too Much and Too Often? A Hypothesis Based on Freud and Segal
Nutrizione del benessere · 2021-05-01
Uses Freud and Segal to explore why eating can become both too frequent and excessive rather than simply necessary.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Food Excess: An Ancient Phenomenon
Nutrizione del benessere · 2021-05-09
Places excessive eating in a long historical frame and asks what an ancient behaviour reveals about present habits.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Nutritional Styles: How Parents’ Attitudes Can Shape Their Children’s Eating
Natura Docet · 2019-07
Shows how parental attitudes and household routines can shape children’s nutritional styles and later food choices.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
From Weight Control to Chronic-Disease Prevention
Natura Docet · 2019-05
Connects weight management with prevention by treating everyday habits as part of chronic-disease risk reduction.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Food and Sexuality: Oral-Stage Fixation as a Predisposing Factor for Overweight and Obesity
Pianeta Medicina e Salute · 2018-03
Examines oral fixation, food and sexuality as possible predispositions in the development of overweight and obesity.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Fewer Calories to Lose Weight? A Myth to Challenge
Scienza e Conoscenza · 2018-07
Challenges calorie reduction as a complete solution and points to the behavioural and metabolic limits of the myth.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Why Are You Overweight?
Fitness Italia · 2019-07
Breaks down the interacting physical, emotional and behavioural reasons a person may remain overweight.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Dietitian, Nutritionist or Diet Coach?
La Palestra · 2016-10
Distinguishes dietitians, nutritionists and diet coaches so readers can match professional roles to practical needs.
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Nutrition, movement and lifestyles
Banning Foods Can Encourage Dietary Transgressions
Agemony · 2018-11
Explains how rigid food prohibitions can intensify temptation and contribute to later dietary transgressions.
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Research, method and publications
Beyond Traditional Hypogonadism: Distinctive Mechanisms and Clinical Implications in Subclinical Functional Hypogonadism (SFH) with Integrative Strategies for Hormonal Homeostasis
OPAST Publishers
Distinguishes subclinical functional hypogonadism from traditional forms and outlines integrative routes to hormonal balance.
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Research, method and publications
The Paradigm-Shift toward the Next Generation of Drugs
Preprints · 2020-01
Questions the next generation of medicines through a paradigm shift in how therapeutic innovation is understood.
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Research, method and publications
Communicative Intuition in HRI: Intuitive Understanding, Cognitive Evolution, and Mental Models in Socially Assistive Robots (SAR)…
Scholink
Explores intuitive communication with socially assistive robots through cognitive evolution and the formation of mental models.
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The Meaning of Art: D’Annunzio and Boccioni between Darwin and Freud
Pittura e dintorni · 2018-05
Reads D’Annunzio and Boccioni through Darwin and Freud, using art to connect evolution, desire and cultural meaning.
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Art between Complexity and Complex Thought
Pittura e dintorni · 2017-12
Uses art to introduce complexity and examines how complex thinking changes the way creative works are interpreted.
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The Next Painter: Science and Technology Explained through the Language of Art
Pittura e dintorni · 2017-10
Links science and technology with artistic language to imagine the painter as an interpreter of emerging knowledge.
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Between von Neumann and Turing: Toward Computational Complexity and a Materialist Account of Thought
State of Mind · 2018-01
Follows the path from von Neumann and Turing toward computational complexity and material accounts of thought.
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Research, method and publications
From Biology to Psychology: Have We Forgotten the Founders?
State of Mind · 2019-10
Traces the passage from biology to psychology and asks what is lost when the field forgets its intellectual founders.
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Research, method and publications
Perspectives on Evolution and Biomimicry in Relation to Complexity Philosophy
Neuroscienze · 2018-05
Relates evolution and biomimicry to complexity philosophy, highlighting how biological patterns inform scientific thought.
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Rethinking the Nature of Cognition: The Importance of the Body in Robotics
State of Mind · 2018-01
Argues that cognition in robotics must account for the body rather than treating intelligence as detached computation.
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Robotics: What Is a Robot and What Can It Do?
State of Mind · 2017-12
Introduces robots in plain terms, describing what they are, what they can do and why their capabilities matter.
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Research, method and publications
HRI — Communication between Humans and Machines
State of Mind · 2019-03
Outlines the channels and problems involved when humans communicate with machines in HRI settings.
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Research, method and publications
Communicating Data in the Age of Robotics
Neuroscienze · 2018-04
Considers how data are communicated in the robotics era and what changes when information moves between human and machine.
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Reading Another Mind Is an Evolutionary Need. But What If the Other Were a Robot?
Neuroscienze · 2018-04
Frames mind-reading as an evolutionary need and tests its meaning when the perceived other is a robot.
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Scientific Dilemmas in Relation to Complexity Theory
Neuroscienze · 2018-01
Presents scientific dilemmas that appear when linear explanations meet the uncertainty and feedback of complex systems.
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The Computational Theory of Mind: Natural and Artificial Cognition
Neuroscienze · 2017-12
Compares computational theories of natural and artificial minds and identifies the assumptions separating their models.
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Research, method and publications
From Human–Human Interaction (HHI) to Human–Robot Interaction (HRI)
Neuroscienze · 2017-12
Moves from human-human interaction to HRI to show how social expectations are carried into machine encounters.
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Why Do We Need Religious Beliefs? Theory of Mind Offers an Explanation
Scienza e Conoscenza · 2018-04
Uses Theory of Mind to examine why religious beliefs can provide shared explanations and social cohesion.
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Obesity in Italy: Differences between North and South
Scienza e Conoscenza · 2019-03
Compares obesity patterns in northern and southern Italy and considers the social context behind the geographic difference.
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Research, method and publications
Human–Robot Interaction Explained through Complexity Theory
Complexity Institute · 2018-10
Explains human-robot interaction with concepts from complexity theory rather than a simple stimulus-response model.
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