Browsing by Author "Prpic, Valter"

Automatic spatial association for luminance

Fumarola, Antonia; Prpic, Valter; Da Pos, Osvaldo; Murgia, Mauro; Umilta, Carlo; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

In the present study, we investigated whether luminance and the side of response execution are associated, showing a SNARC-like effect (faster responses with the left hand for dark stimuli, and vice versa for light stimuli). ...

The contribution of early auditory and visual information to the discrimination of shot power in ball sports

Sors, Fabrizio; Murgia, Mauro; Santoro, Ilaria; Prpic, Valter; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

Objective: It is well-established that early visual information has an important role in human ability to play ball sports, as its correct interpretation promotes accurate predictions concerning the ball motion. Other ...

Do You Hear More Piano or Drum Sounds? An Auditory Version of the Solitaire Illusion

Prpic, Valter; Luccio, Riccardo (Article)

The solitaire illusion is an illusion of numerosity proposed by Frith and Frith. In the original version, an apparent number of elements was determined by the spatial arrangement of two kinds of elements (black and white ...

Ecological sounds affect breath duration more than artificial sounds

Murgia, Mauro; Santoro, Ilaria; Tamburini, Giorgia; Prpic, Valter; Sors, Fabrizio; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

Previous research has demonstrated that auditory rhythms affect both movement and physiological functions. We hypothesized that the ecological sounds of human breathing can affect breathing more than artificial sounds ...

Emotional Semantic Congruency based on stimulus driven comparative judgements

Fantoni, Carlo; Baldassi, Giulio; Rigutti, Sara; Prpic, Valter; Murgia, Mauro; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

A common cognitive process in everyday life consists in the comparative judgements of emotions given a pair of facial expressions and the choice of the most positive/negative among them. Results from three experiments on ...

The Influence of Encoding and Testing Directions on Retrieval of Spatial Information in Explored and Described Environments

Santoro, Ilaria; Sors, Fabrizio; Mingolo, Serena; Prpic, Valter; Grassi, Michele; Agostini, Tiziano; Murgia, Mauro (Article)

The verbal descriptions of an environment elicit a spatial mental model, in which the linear disposition of the described objects might be related to the properties of the description. In particular the direction from which ...

Large as being on top of the world and small as hitting the roof: A shared magnitude representation for the comparison of emotions and numbers

Baldassi, Giulio; Murgia, Mauro; Prpic, Valter; Rigutti, Sara; Domijan, Drazen; Agostini, Tiziano; Fantoni, Carlo (Article)

Previous work on the direct Speed–Intensity Association (SIA) on comparative judgment tasks involved spatially distributed responses over spatially distributed stimuli with high motivational significance like facial ...

Linear representation of pitch height in the SMARC effect

Prpic, Valter; Domijan, Drazen (Article)

The Spatial-Musical Association of Response Codes (SMARC) effect consists in faster and more accurate responses to low (vs. high) pitched tones when they are executed in the bottom/left (vs. top/right) space. This phenomenon ...

Loudness, but not shot power, influences simple reaction times to soccer penalty sounds

Sors, Fabrizio; Prpic, Valter; Santoro, Ilaria; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano; Murgia, Mauro (Article)

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate how ecological sport sounds (i.e., foot-ball impacts of soccer penalty kicks) affect simple reaction times. Design: Three within-subjects, simple reaction time ...

Modality and Perceptual-Motor Experience Influence the Detection of Temporal Deviations in Tap Dance Sequences

Murgia, Mauro; Prpic, Valter; O, Jenny; McCullagh, Penny; Santoro, Ilaria; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

Accurate temporal information processing is critically important in many motor activities within disciplines such as dance, music, and sport. However, it is still unclear how temporal information related to biological ...

Octave Bias in Pitch Perception: The Influence of Pitch Height on Pitch Class Identification

Prpic, Valter; Murgia, Mauro; De Tommaso, Matteo; Boschetti, Giulia; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

Pitch height and pitch class are different, but strictly related, percepts of music tones. To investigate the influence of pitch height in a pitch class identification task, we systematically analyzed the errors—in terms ...

Panic disorder patients and healthy people differently identify their own heart frequency through sound

Santoro, Ilaria; Murgia, Mauro; Tamburini, Giorgia; Prpic, Valter; Sors, Fabrizio; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

The ability to detect the perceptual cues related to cardiac activity is an important aspect related to the onset and maintenance of some psychopathological disorders, such as panic disorder. We tested two groups – panic ...

Perceiving Musical Note Values Causes Spatial Shift of Attention in Musicians

Prpic, Valter (Article)

The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) suggests the existence of an association between number magnitude and response position, with faster left-key responses to small numbers and faster right-key ...

Perceptual belongingness determines the direction of lightness induction depending on grouping stability and intentionality

Murgia, Mauro; Prpic, Valter; Santoro, Ilaria; Sors, Fabrizio; Agostini, Tiziano; Galmonte, Alessandra (Article)

Contrast and assimilation are two opposite perceptual phenomena deriving from the relationships among perceptual elements in a visual field. In contrast, perceptual differences are enhanced; while, in assimilation, they ...

Separate Mechanisms for Magnitude and Order Processing in the Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) Effect: The Strange Case of Musical Note Values

Prpic, Valter; Fumarola, Antonia; De Tommaso, Matteo; Luccio, Riccardo; Murgia, Mauro; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)

The SNARC effect is considered an evidence of the association between numbers and space, with faster left key-press responses to small numbers and faster right key-press responses to large numbers. We examined whether ...