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Giorgio Arcara

Giorgio Arcara obtained his Master’s Degree in Psychology in 2005, and in 2010 he was awarded his PhD in Psychobiology from the University of Padova. He then worked at the IRCCS San Camillo Hospital in Venice, and he currently serves an Associate Professor of Psychometrics at the Department of General Psychology.

 

His scientific activities in the last years were dedicated, among the others, to the use of magnetoencephalography (MEG) and high-density electroencephalography (High-Density EEG), especially in the in the context of clinical research.

 

His research interests mainly include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience with a focus on neuroscience of language and communication;
  • Neurophsysiology with a focus on neurophysiological correlates of predictive processing and on biomarkers of stroke recovery;
  • Psychometrics with a focus on the development of new neuropsychological tests and on methodological improvements in clinical neuropsychology;
  • Statistical analysis with the application of advanced analytical methods (Mixed models, Generalized Additive Models, Machine Learning, etc.);
  • Open Science with a focus on sharing knowledge, sharing data, and reproducibility of analysis code.