Massimiliano Palmiero

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Post Doctoral Fellow

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Education and training

(from 01/11/2003 to 31/10/2006) PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Psychophysiology and Personality at University of Rome “Sapienza”: assistance in oral examinations, teaching activities, seminars, supervision of research and final dissertations; acquisition of fMRI technique and data analysis.

Final dissertation on olfactory and gustatory imageries: 02/04/2007. 

October 2005: final examination in Psychology.

(from 1998/99 to 2002/03): Master Degree in General and Experimental Psychology, University of Rome “Sapienza”. Final dissertation on visual and auditory imagery: 12/03/2003; Mark: 110/110 cum Laude.

(October 2001 - June 2002): Erasmus/Socrates exchange at University of Tuebingen, Laboratories of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology: training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and fMRI data analysis under the supervision of Prof. Niels Birbaumer and his collaborators.

Scientific diploma (1997).

Topics of interest

* Creativity and aesthetics
* Mental imagery in different sensory modalities
* Meditation
* Mental Health
* Brain mapping of cognitive processes
* Representation of acoustic space and navigation strategies

Relevant Working experiences

* (From September 2008 – September 2009): research activity at Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan.
* (From September 2007 – June 2008): Cultural Educator Assistant in primary and secondary schools, with children with learning disabilities, and sensory-motor impairments.
* (From February 2006 – February 2007): specialization courses for teachers of primary and secondary schools on risk factors and programs of prevention of eating disorders.
* (From November 2004 to November 2005): teaching and assistant of General Psychology Chair at University of Chieti “G. d’Annunzio”: assistance in written and oral examinations, teaching activities, seminars, supervision of research and final dissertations.

Grants Awarded

* 2008-2009 - Annual visiting fellowship, University of Rome “Sapienza”.
* 2005-2006 - Annual Grant ADISU, Italian grant for university study.
* 2001-2002 – Erasmus grant, University of Rome “Sapienza”.
* 1998-2002 - Annual Grant ADISU, Italian grant for university study.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles 

Delogu, F, Palmiero, M., Federici, S., Plaisant, C., Zhao, H., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. Interactive sonification of geographical maps: Non-visual exploration of geographic maps: does sonification help? Disability & Rehabilitation – Assistive Technology (In press: DOI: 10.1080/17483100903100277).

Palmiero, M. Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Nardo, D., Sestieri, C. Di Matteo, R., D’Ausilio A.,  & Romani, G.L. (2009). Mental imagery generation in different modalities activates sensory-motor areas. Cognitive Processing, 10 (2), 268-271.

Olivetti Belardinelli M., Palmiero M., Sestieri C., Nardo D., Di Matteo R., Londei A., D’Ausilio A., Ferretti A., Del Gratta C., Romani G.L. (2009). An fMRI investigation on image generation in different sensory modalities: the influence of vividness. Acta Psychologica, 132, 190-200.

Olivetti Belardinelli M. & Palmiero M. (2008). La vividezza delle immagini mentali nelle diverse modalita’ sensoriali: uno studio fMRI. In Griffero T., Di Monte M. (Eds). Il potere delle Immagini/The power of Images (pp. 123-136). Milano: Mimesis. (Book in Italian).

Delogu F., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Palmiero M., Pasqualotto E., Zhao H., Plaisant C. and Federici S. (2006). Interactive sonification for blind people exploration of geo-referenced data: comparison between a keyboard-exploration and a haptic-exploration interfaces. Cognitive Processing, 7 (1), 178-179.


Full length Conference Proceedings Peer-Reviewed

Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Federici, S., Delogu, F., & Palmiero M.  (2009). Sonification of Spatial Information: Audio-Tactile Exploration Strategies by Normal and Blind Subjects. In: C. Stephanidis (Ed.): Universal Access in Human computer interaction, Volume 2, pp. 557–563, of the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2009), San Diego, CA, USA, 19-24 July. Berlin Heidelberg: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series of Springer (LNCS 5615).

Zhao, H., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., Delogu, F., Pasqualotto, E., Palmiero, M., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2005). iSonic: Interactive Sonification for Geo-referenced Data Exploration for the Vision Impaired. In: P. Buono, M. F. Costabile, F. Paternò, C. Santoro (Eds.), INTERACT '05 - Communicating Naturally through Computers (pp. 25-28). Bari: Edizioni Giuseppe Laterza.


Abstracts and Poster presentations

Palmiero M., Nakatani C., Olivetti Belardinelli M., & van Leeuwen C. (2009). Visual and verbal creativity, and their relationship with visuo-spatial and verbal proficiency. 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2009), Rome, Italy, September 14-18.

Delogu F., Palmiero M., & Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2009). The influence of the exploration interface on blind subjects’ mental representation of sonified geographic maps. 10th Congress of the Advanced of Assistive Technology in Europe (AATE 2009), Florence, Italy, August 31st – September 2nd.

Cardi V., Palmiero M. & Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2008). La creativita’ e le immagini mentali visive: il ruolo della vividezza. 14th Congresso Nazionale (Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale) – AIP, Padova, 18-20 Settembre.

Palmiero M., Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Carlo Sestieri, Alessandro Londei, AlessandroD’Ausilio, Rosalia Di Matteo, Andrea Ferretti, Cosimo Del Gratta, GianLuca Romani (2007). Embodied Cognition: Multi-modal imagery generation activates pre-motor areas. 15th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France, Aug 29 - Sept 1.

Olivetti Belardinelli M., Delogu F., Palmiero M., Federici S., Pasqualotto E. Zaho H. Plaisant C. (2007). Interactive sonification of geographical maps: a behavioural study with blind subjects. 15th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France, Aug 29 - Sept 1.

Palmiero M. & Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2007). Do gustatory and olfactory mental images really exist? 11th  European Workshop on Imagery and Cogntion, Utrecht, the Netherlands June 27-29.

Olivetti Belardinelli M, Palmiero M., Sestieri C, Londei A., D’Ausilio A., Di Matteo R., Ferretti A., Del Gratta C. & Romani G.L. Is there an influence of vividness on multimodal images generation? An fMRI study (2007). 11th European Workshop on Imagery and Cogntion, Utrecht, the Netherlands June 27-29.

Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Sestieri, C., Palmiero, M., Ferretti, A., Del Gratta, C., Di Matteo, R., Caulo, M., Tartaro, A., Romani, G.L. (2006). Multimodal mental image generation triggered by auditory verbal stimuli: an fMRI study. 12th International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 11-15, 2006.

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References

Cees van Leeuwen
Laboratory Head
Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics
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Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Full Professor of Cognitive Psychology
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Via dei Marsi, 78
00185 Rome, Italy
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Antonino Raffone
Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience, 
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Via dei Marsi, 78
00185 Rome, Italy
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