Manila Vannucci
Researcher
Department of Neuroscience, Area of ​​Pharmacy and Child
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Graduated in Psychology, PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, since 2004 is a researcher at General Psychology at the University of Florence, where he taught General Psychology, Memory Psychology and Attention Psychology. He joins the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Area of ​​Pharmacy and Child Health (NEUROFARBA). He has been conducting research on cognitive processes (also studying brain bases) at the Department of Epileptology at the University of Bonn (Germany) and at the Swiss Epilepsy Center in Zurich (Switzerland). He has published many scientific articles on cognitive processes in international journals.
Research Interest
Visual object processing and Visual aesthetics -Visual Object and Spatial Imagery -Mind-wandering -Episodic and Autobiographical memory - Memory distortions and false memories
Publications
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Manila Vannucci; Claudia Pelagatti; Carlo Chiorri; Giuliana Mazzoni (2016). Visual Object Imagery and Autobiographical Memories: Object Imagers are better at remembering their personal past. MEMORY, vol. 24, pp. 455-470, ISSN: 0965-8211
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Vannucci, Manila; Pelagatti, Claudia; Marchetti, Igor (2017). Manipulating cues in mind wandering: Verbal cues affect the frequency and temporal focus of mind wandering. CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION, vol. 53, pp. 61-69, ISSN: 1053-8100
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Vannucci, Manila (In press). Replicability of the psychometric properties of trait-levels measures of spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, vol. ..., pp. 1-10, ISSN: 2151-2426