Laura Piccardi

Biographic Data

ID6604446
NAMELaura Piccardi
GIVEN NAMESLaura
FAMILY NAMEPiccardi
SIGNATUREPICCARDI L
AFFILIATIONSFondazione Santa Lucia
ORCID0000-0002-1322-5538
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The I-Kapcam-Ai-Q: A novel instrument for evaluating health care providers’ AI awareness in Italy

    Open AccessVincenza Cofini, Laura Piccardi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background Understanding healthcare providers’ readiness and attitudes is crucial for integrating AI in healthcare, yet no validated tool exists to evaluate these aspects among Italian physicians. This study developed and validated the Italian Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, and Clinical Agreement between Medical Doctors and the Artificial Intelligence Questionnaire (I-KAPCAM-AI-Q). Methods This was a cross-sectional validation study. The validat…

  • Exploring EMDR: An innovative approach with Posner Paradigm to reprocessing negative memories in a non-clinical sample

    Open AccessLaura Piccardi, Samuele Russo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2025

    These data suggest that endogenous visuospatial tasks, such as those employed in the Posner paradigm, may serve as viable alternatives to traditional eye movements in EMDR therapy. Furthermore, our findings indicate that the simultaneous presentation of stimuli may not be a crucial aspect of EMDR's effectiveness. This study contributes to the understanding of EMDR by highlighting the importance of attentional processes in memory processing and op…

  • How Much Do We Care About Cultural Heritage? A Rasch Scale Validation Study Among Young Adults

    Open AccessManuele Veggi, Alessandro von Gal et al.ARTICLEHeritage2025References: 3

    Research in museum studies, heritage science, and cultural tourism highlights the “care theory” as a key framework for understanding the relationship between citizens and cultural heritage. Assessing the “sense of care” toward cultural objects and sites can provide valuable insights for museums, education, and public policy. However, visitor studies lack suitable assessment tools. This study fills the gap by introducing the Scale for the Assessme…

  • Travel planning in men and women. Who is better

    Open AccessAlessia Bocchi, Massimiliano Palmiero et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

    Gender differences are often reported in spatial abilities, most of the times favouring men. Even during wayfinding, which requires planning and decision-making, such as choosing roads to take or shortcuts, men are in general better and faster than women. Although different interpretations have been proposed to explain men’s advantage in navigation, no study has explored the possibility that it could be due to men’s better travel planning ability…

  • The contribution of field independence in virtual spatial updating

    Open AccessRaffaella Nori, Maddalena Boccia et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

    Field independence (FI) is the extent to which a person perceives part of a field as discrete from the surrounding field rather than embedded in the field. Several studies proposed that it represents a cognitive style that is a relatively stable individuals’ predisposition towards information processing. This study investigated the effects of Field Independence/Field Dependence (FI/FD) cognitive style on topographic memory in a virtual environmen…

  • Preschoolers’ Perceptual Analogical Reasoning and Map Reading: A Preliminary Study on the Mediating Effect of Spatial Language

    Open AccessMarco Giancola, Maria Chiara Pino et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    Reading and interpreting a map represents an essential part of daily life, enabling appropriate orientation and navigation through space. Based on the idea that perceptual analogical reasoning is critical in aligning the spatial structure of the map with the spatial structure of the space and given the critical role of language, especially spatial language, in encoding and establishing spatial relations among elements in the environment, the pres…

  • Congenital lack and extraordinary ability in object and spatial imagery: An investigation on sub-types of aphantasia and hyperphantasia

    Open AccessLiana Palermo, Maddalena Boccia et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2022

  • Working Memory in Navigational and Reaching Spaces in Typically Developing Children at Increasing School Stages

    Open AccessÅsa Bartonek, Cecilia Guariglia et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    When navigation is gradually controlled, a child may be able to pay increasingly more attention to wayfinding and behavior in traffic. Since the US group even presented as good in the WalCT as young adults living in metropolitan environments, assuming that children may gain spatial orientation from having opportunities to move in their surroundings, this is also relevant for children with motor disabilities

  • Link Between Topographic Memory and the Combined Presentation of ADHD (ADHD-C): A Pilot Study

    Open AccessNoemi Faedda, Cecilia Guariglia et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: Topographic memory is the ability to reach various places by recognizing spatial layouts and getting oriented in familiar environments. It involves several different cognitive abilities, in particular executive functions (EF), such as attention, working memory, and planning. Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show impairments in inhibitory control, regulation of attention, planning, and working memory. Aim: …

  • Locomotion and Topographical Working Memory in Children With Myelomeningocele and Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita

    Open AccessÅsa Bartonek, Cecilia Guariglia et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: In children with myelomeningocele (MMC) and arthrogryposis multiplex congenital (AMC), adequate rehabilitation measures are accessible with the goal of attaining the utmost motor development. However, there is a lack of knowledge as to how children develop navigation utilizing their locomotion abilities. The aim of the present study was to explore topographic working memory in children with MMC and AMC. Methods: For this purpose, we a…

  • Is the Risk Behaviour Related to the Ordinary Driving Violations

    Open AccessLaura Piccardi, Massimiliano Palmiero et al.ARTICLEPsychological Studies2021

  • Divergent Thinking: The Role of Decision-Making Styles

    Massimiliano Palmiero, Raffaella Nori et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2020

    Divergent thinking involves the ability to find many different and new responses or solutions to open-ended problems. The ability to think divergently has been associated with different cognitive processes, including intuitive and rational thinking styles. However, research has not specifically addressed the extent to which divergent thinking is associated to decision-making styles, which involve habits to react in a certain way in specific decis…

  • The relationships between musical expertise and divergent thinking

    Open AccessMassimiliano Palmiero, Paola Guariglia et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2020

  • Gender Differences in Solving Moral Dilemmas: Emotional Engagement, Care and Utilitarian Orientation

    Open AccessPierluigi Cordellieri, Maddalena Boccia et al.ARTICLEPsychological Studies2020

  • New Evidence for Gender Differences in Performing the Corsi Test but Not the Digit Span: Data from 208 Individuals

    Open AccessLaura Piccardi, Giovanni D’Antuono et al.ARTICLEPsychological Studies2019

  • Les arts de la mémoire et les images mentales

    Open AccessCecilia Guariglia, Donatien Aubert et al.BOOKLes arts de la mémoire et les…2018

    Dans ses Questions romaines, Plutarque convie son lecteur à une promenade à travers Rome, chaque station étant à la fois l’occasion d’observer des éléments d’architecture et d’aborder un thème en lien avec la vie, la culture, la politique ou la religion. C’est du moins à partir de cette lecture « topographique » élaborée par John Scheid que s’est noué un dialogue entre l’historien et son collègue, le biologiste Alain Berthoz, dialogue étendu à un…

  • Familiarity and Environmental Representations of a City: A Self-Report Study

    Open AccessLaura Piccardi, M Risetti et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2011

    Sense of direction" is usually assessed by self-report. Several internal factors contribute to proficiency in navigation: spatial cognitive style, respondent's sex, and familiarity with the environment; however, questionnaires assessing sense of direction do not include all these factors. In a recent study, Nori and Piccardi reported that environmental familiarity was crucial for topographical orientation. Regardless of a person's spatial cogniti…