The Departments and Universities

The SNANeB project is based on the collaboration between the Department of General Psychology, DPG, at University of Padua, Italy, and the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, which are at the vertex of the excellence in research.

The Department of General Psychology at University of Padua, has a long-standing tradition in experimental psychology and has developed through interdisciplinary contacts with specialists in cognitive sciences, neuroscience, information engineering, physiology and biology. The DPG’s key research areas are clinical and health psychology, cognitive, behavioral and affective neurosciences (including neuropsychology and psychophysiology), experimental and cognitive psychology, comparative and evolutionary psychology, ergonomics, human factors, psychophysics, and quantitative and mathematical psychology.

The Department of Psychology at The University of Pennsylvania focuses on perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, decision making, social interaction, morality, motor control, executive function, and the evolution and development of mental processes. To advance this agenda, the Department of Psychology and its activities bring together faculty from multiple schools in the university, including Arts & Sciences, Medical School, Engineering, and the Wharton School; representing the departments of Psychology, Neurobiology, Psychiatry, Biomedical Engineering, Philosophy, Anthropology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Neurology, Radiology, Finance, and Marketing.