Browsing by Author "Sors, Fabrizio"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
University Students’ Hangover May Affect Cognitive Research
Murgia, Mauro; Mingolo, Serena; Prpic, Valter; Sors, Fabrizio; Santoro, Ilaria; Bilotta, Eleonora; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)University students are the most employed category of participants in cognitive research. However, researchers cannot fully control what their participants do the night before the experiments (e.g., consumption of alcohol) ... -
Using perceptual home-training to improve anticipation skills of soccer goalkeepers
Murgia, Mauro; Sors, Fabrizio; Muroni, Alessandro Franco; Santoro, Ilaria; Prpic, Valter; Galmonte, Alessandra; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)Objective: This study aims to test the effectiveness of a perceptual training concerning the anticipatory skills of soccer goalkeepers, by assessing their performances while engaged in predicting the direction of penalty ... -
Walking during the encoding of described environments enhances a heading-independent spatial representation
Santoro, Ilaria; Murgia, Mauro; Sors, Fabrizio; Prpic, Valter; Agostini, Tiziano (Article)Previous studies demonstrated that physical movement enhanced spatial updating in described environments. However, those movements were executed only after the encoding of the environment, minimally affecting the development ...