Environmental Psychology and Psychoacoustics

Environmental psychology, Ergonomics, Psychoacoustics and psychology of music. Head: Marco Costa

Research lines of the group documented by publications in the period 2020-2024 

  • Environmental Psychology 
  • Psychoacoustics and Psychology of music 
  • Ergonomics 

 

Head

Marco Costa, Associate Professor 

Members

Marco Costa

Full Professor

ERC Sectors  

SH4_4 Cognitive and experimental psychology: perception, action, and higher cognitive processes 

LS5_7 Cognition (e.g. learning, memory, emotions, speech) 

 

Scientific Disciplinary Sector: M-PSI/01 

 

Selected publications 2020-2024

  1. Trabucco, D., Perrucci, G., Giacomello, E. Costa, M. (2024) Needs of deaf people using elevators: Identification of accessibility and safety requirements. Buildings, 14(3300), DOI:10.3390/buildings14103300
  2. Fabbri, M., Occhionero, M., Tonetti, L., Costa, M., Giudetti, F., Rasch, B., Natale, V. (2024) Music cue during slow wave sleep improves visuospatial memory consolidation. Journal of Sleep Research, DOI:10.1111/jsr.14372
  3. Costa, M., Visentin, C., Occhionero, M., Tonetti, L., Prodi, N., Natale, V. (2024). Pentatonic sequences and monaural beats to facilitate relaxation: An EEG study. Frontiers in Psychology, DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1369485
  4. Costa, M., Maestripieri, D. (2023). Physical and psychosocial correlates of facial attractiveness. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. DOI:10.1037/ebs0000331
  5. Costa, M., Re, M. (2023) Chronotype and quality of sleep in alpine skiers. Chronobiology International, 40, 673-683. https://doi.org/10.1080/07420528.2023.2203236
  6. Scherer, K. R., Costa, M., Ricci-Bitti, P., & Ryser, V.-A. (2022). Appraisal Bias and Emotion Dispositions Are Risk Factors for Depression and Generalized Anxiety: Empirical Evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.857419

Active National and International Collaborations for the period 2020-2024 

 International collaborations 

  •  Dario Maestripieri Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, USA 

 National collaborations 

  • Dario Trabucco, IUAV Venice 
  • Leonardo Bonetti, Centerfor Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark