PhD Open Day 2017

Doctoral Course in Cognitive Science
7 giugno 2017
7 June 2017

Location: Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Sala Convegni, Palazzo Fedrigotti - Corso Bettini 31, Rovereto

If you are thinking to apply for a PhD, the Open Day is an excellent opportunity to know more about the course program and the research opportunities within the PhD in Cognitive Sciences (former Psychological sciences and education) at the University of Trento, to meet current students and faculty members and to informally discuss your research interests with them.
The Doctoral Course in Cognitive Science is part of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science and is promoted in collaboration with Foundation Bruno Kessler (FBK).

The PhD Open Day includes:

  •  Short talks and poster presentations by current PhD students
  •  Meetings with our current students and PIs of the research groups
  •  Opportunities to learn more about the lines of research within the PhD program
  •  Information about funding, entry requirements and career perspectives of the PhD
  •  A special event on “HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL COURSE”, prospective applicants can get directly in contact with potential supervisors, evaluate the fit between their research interests and the course opportunities, receive tips and advice on how to get through the application and selection process in order to make one’s own application successful.

Registration

For organizational reasons, it is necessary to register for this event at this link before the 1st of June

Cost: Free

Program of the Event

10h00 

Welcome and today’s program
10h15–11h15
Oral presentations (II and III year doctoral students)

Gisella Decarli The inter-individual differences in number and face processing during infancy
Teresa Del Bianco The social gaze: visual orienting mechanisms in typical and atypical development
Greta Mazzaggio  “I spy with my little eye”. Pragmatic inferences in typically developing children and children with high functioning autism

11h15-11h30
Coffee break
11h30-12h30
Oral presentations (II and III year doctoral students)

Marco Bressan The impact of faking on the correlation between two ordinal variables
Martina Salomonsson Choice-supportive memory: A robust phenomenon?
Barbara Caprara The Clearing the path for successful Montessori transition in public schools

12h30-13h30

Lunch

13h30-14h30

Posters session (I year doctoral students)

Andrea Beretta Decision making with Big Data: how to take effective decisions using machine learning predictions.
Giulia Calignano Which dimensions of language affect early orienting of attention toward objects? A study proposal.
laria Cataldo Genes, social behavior and social media/networks: an integrated study on psychological components of bonding.
Fabio Filosofi Investigating teachers’ attitudes towards the visibility of special needs: the role of the backdrop in the school context.
Michele Giannotti A Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment: Information processing and self-protective strategies in school-age children.
Jodi Guazzini In favour of a conception, both phenomenological and physicalist, of the mind-body relation.
Isotta Landi Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques to identify Autism Spectrum Disorder subgroups on integrated clinical and genotypic data.
Edoardo Pappaianni Fractionating the emotional brain: psychological and morphometric differences in good versus bad regulators.

14h30-15h30

Oral presentations (II and III year doctoral students)

Valeria Ciampa Identity and Stress: An application of the Expanded Model of Organizational Identification
Diego Leite The Mechanistic Explanation of Human Cognition in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Appraisal
Mauro Sabadini The process between theory and practice in intercultural context
Alessandra Zappoli Pitch accents processing in L1 and L2

15h30-15h45

Coffee break

15h45-16h00

The doctoral course in Cognitive Science in numbers
16h00-18h00
“HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL COURSE”

In this event prospective applicants can get directly in contact with potential supervisors, evaluate the fit between their research interests and the course opportunities, receive tips and advice on how to get through the application and selection process in order to make one’s own application successful. For organizational reasons, it is necessary to register for this event at this link before the 1st of June.

 

For further information 

On the Open Phd Dayphd.dipsco [at] unitn.it
On the PhD Application: http://www.unitn.it/ateneo/57173/concorso-di-ammissione
On the PhD areas outline: http://web.unitn.it/drspf/38824/aree-di-interesse-dei-membri-del-collegio-dei-docenti
On the PhD course: http://web.unitn.it/drspf

 

 

 

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application/pdfPoster PhD Cognitive Science Open Day - June 7, 2017(PDF | 336 KB)
application/pdfBook of Abstracts Phd Cognitive Science Open Day 2017(PDF | 1013 KB)