Curriculum studiorum
1996: Degree in Psychology cum laude at the Faculty of
Psychology, University of Bologna. Thesis Title : “The statistical
reasoning in expert and not expert people”.
1999: Research assistant. Project research title: “Monitoring,
diagnosis, prognosis, elaboration of protocols of rehabilitation of
the cognitive deficits you in elderly people”. Empirical research
that directly contribute to analyse the difficulty experienced by
elders in everyday life; at Faculty of Psychology, University of
Naples , Naples , Italy.
2000-2003: Ph-D students. Thesis Title: “The sense of direction:
a test to assess it”. Empirical research that directly contribute
to create a objective measure of the sense of direction at the
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna , Bologna ,
Italy.
2004: Research assistant. Project research title: “The
assessment in the juridical field”. Bibliographical research about
the different tests used to make a valuation at the Faculty of
Psychology, University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy.
2005: Post-doctoral research. Project research title: “Alignment
effect: cognitive style and environment learning”. Empirical
research that directly contribute to debates on spatial
memory at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna
, Bologna , Italy
2006 to now: resercher at the Faculty of Psychology, University
of Bologna.
Research
A particular field of cognitive psychology is the spatial
memory, that is, the way people acquire and represent the relation
between the person and the environment. One of the topic of this
area concerns the study of environmental characteristics and their
influence in the spatial representation of the environment.
Our line of research is examining the use of immersive virtual
environments for studying sense of direction and spatial memory.
Our research area concern with:
1. investigating similarities and differences between spatial
memories acquired in desktop, immersive VE and real world;
2. explaining the alignment effect (i.e. when people have
to perform an imaginative judging direction task, after having
acquired a map, they are more accurate and faster when their
imagined perspective is the same as their learned one) taking into
account individual differences, that is the special ways through
which people represent spatial information (i.e. spatial cognitive
style: landmark, route and survey);
3. determining whether there are some personality
characteristics associate to spatial cognitive style and how these
influence navigation;
4. exploring which spatial frames of reference are used when we
have to locate objects either in relation to us (i.e.
subject-to-object localization) or to other objects (i.e.
object-to-object localization). In particular, we wanted to know if
people use the same or different frames of reference in these two
different kinds of localization ;
5. determining the relative contributions of the
characteristics of the person (i.e. spatial cognitive style,
gender, familiarity with the environment, trait of personality) and
of the physical environment (i.e. the degree of landmark
differentiation, the degree of visual access to the environment,
the complexity of spatial layout) in wayfinding (or spatial
knowledge);
6. investigating whether Web navigation strategies are
correlated with real world navigation strategies.
Publications
1. Giusberti F. e Nori R. (1999). Il senso
dell'orientamento e l'abilità immaginativa. Ricerche di
Psicologia, 23 (3), 71-96.
2. Giusberti F. e Nori R. (2000). Il pensiero
quasi-magico. Psicologia Contemporanea, 160,
50-55.
3. Nori R. e Giusberti F. (2002). Differenze
individuali nell'effetto allineamento. Giornale Italiano di
Psicologia, 29 (1), 129-149.
4. Nori R. (2002). Ambiente e memoria. In: A.M.
Borghi e T. Iachini, Scienze della mente, Bologna, Il
Mulino, pp. 185-202.
5. Nori R., Giusberti F. e Nigro G. (2002). Il senso
dell'orientamento secondo una prospettiva life-span. Ciclo
Evolutivo e Disabilità: Aspetti psicologici, sociali, educativi,
riabilitativi/abilitativi, 5 (1), 115-140.
6. Bensi L., Nori R. e Giusberti F. (2002).
Illusione di controllo: effetto delle istruzioni. Ricerche di
Psicologia, 25 (2), 155-176.
7. Nori R. e Giusberti F. (2003). Cognitive styles:
errors in the directional judgments. Perception, 32
(3), 307-320.
8. Bensi L., Nori R., Strazzari E. e Giusberti F.
(2003). Vividness in judgments of guilt. Perceptual and Motor
Skills, 97, 1133-1136.
9.
Nori R., Iachini T. e Giusberti F. (2004).
Object localisation and frames of reference.
Cognitive
Processing, 5, 45-53.
10. Giusberti F., Strazzari E., Bensi L.,
Nori R., Pesaresi D. e Varani S. (2004). L'esame
del testimone: intervista cognitiva a confronto con diverse forme
di interrogatorio. Bollettino di Psicologia Applicata, 242,
37-46.
11. Strazzari E., Nori R., Bensi L. e Giusberti
F. (2005). Adapting to the Euro: Strategies of Conversion
between-currency. Current Psychology Letters. Behaviour, Brain
& Cognition, 15 (1),
http://cpl.revues.org/document438.html
12. Nori R. e Giusberti F. (2006).
Predicting cognitive styles from spatial abilities. American
Journal of Psychology, 119 (1), 67-86.
13. Nori R., Grandicelli S. e
Giusberti F. (2006). Alignment effect: Primary-Secondary Learning
and Cognitive Styles. Perception, 35 (9),
1233 – 1249.
14. Gambetti E., Nori R., Bensi L.,
Strazzari E e Giusberti F. (2007). Ragionamento e giustizia:
Analisi di un procedimento penale. Psychofenia, vol X, n.16,
15-33.
15. Nori R.,
Grandicelli S. e Giusberti F. (2009). Individual differences in
visuo-spatial working memory and real-world wayfinding. Swiss
Journal of Psychology, 68 (1), 7-16.
16. Giusberti F., Nori R., & Mercuri N.
(2009). Vivere e orientarsi nella città di Cesena: la mappa mentale
della città, fra differenze cross-culturali e generazionali. In A.
Martelli, F. Giusberti & E. Cicognani, Cesena oggi. Vivere,
condividere e orientarsi tra genere, genti e generazioni.
Cesena, Il Ponte Vecchio, pp. 49-76.
17. Nori R., Mercuri N., Giusberti F.,
Bensi L., & Gambetti E. (2009). Influences of gender role
socialization and anxiety on spatial cognitive style. American
Journal of Psychology, 122 (4), 497-505.
18. Nori R. e Piccardi L. (2009). Familiarity and spatial
cognitive style: How important are they for spatial representation?
In Spatial Memory: Visuospatial Processes, Cognitive Performance
and Developmental Effects. New York: Nova Publisher. pp.
123-144.
19. Palermo L., Nori R., Piccardi L., Giusberti
F., e Guariglia C. (2010). Environment and object mental images in
patients with representational neglect: Two case reports.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,
16, 1-12.
20. Giusberti F., Nori R., Gambetti E., e Bensi,
L. (2010). Emettere una sentenza. Aspetti del processo decisionale.
In: G. Gulotta e A. Curci, Mente, società e diritto. Milano:
Giuffrè Editore (pp.355-374)
21. Bensi L., Giusberti F., Nori R., e Gambetti E.
(2010). Individual differences and reasoning: a study on
personality traits. British Journal of Psychology, 101,
545-562.
22. Palermo L., Piccardi L., Nori R., Giusberti
F., e Guariglia C. (2010). Does hemineglect affect visual mental
imagery? Imagery deficits in representational and perceptual
neglect. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27(2), 115-133.
23.
Piccardi, L., Risetti, M.,
Nori R., Tanzilli, A.,
Bernardi, L., e Guariglia, C. (2011).
Perspective changing in primary and secondary learning: A gender
difference study.
Learning
and Individual Differences,
21, 114-118.
24. Bensi L., Nori R., Gambetti E., e
Giusberti F. (2011).
The Enhanced C
ognitive Interview: A study on the efficacy of shortened variants
and single techniques. Journal of Cognitive
Psychology, 23 (3), 311-321.
25.Piccardi L. e
Nori R. (2011).
Effects of Visuo-Spatial Working Memory on Wayfinding Ability. In:
Erden S. Levin (Ed.) Working Memory: Capability, Developments and
Improvement Techniques. New York: Nova
Publisher. (pp. 81-108).
26.
Piccardi L., Risetti M., e Nori R. (2011).
Familiarity and environmental representations of a city: a
self-report study. Psychological Reports, 109
(1), 309-326.
27. Gambetti E., Bensi L., Nori R., e Giusberti F.
(2011).
The trauma symptom inventory: Italian validation of an instrument
for the assessment of post-traumatic symptoms. Epidemiology and
Psychiatric Sciences, 20,
345–355.
28.
Piccardi L., Palermo L., Nori R., Giusberti F., e Guariglia
C. (2012).
Landmark Recognition and Mental Route Navigation Disorders in
Patients with Imagery Neglect and Perceptual Neglect. In Ylenia
Spiteri & Elizabeth M. Galea (Eds.) Psychology of
Neglect. New York: Nova
Publisher (pp. 81-104).
29.
Nori
R.
, Bensi L., Gambetti E., e Giusberti F. (2012).
Integration information in the judicial field: adding versus
averaging models. Psychology
Crime & Law, 18(10), 877-895.
30. Nori
R.
e Piccardi L. (2012). Il senso dell'orientamento: Quanto conta la
familiarità con l'ambiente? Giornale Italiano di
Psicologia, 39 (2), 343-368.
31. Palermo L., Piccardi L., Nori R., Giusberti F., e
Guariglia C. (2012). The roles of
categorical and coordinate spatial relations in recognizing
buildings. Attention,
perception & psychophysics, 74, 1732-1741. DOI
10.3758/s13414-012-0353-5
32.
Nori
R.
, Piccardi L., Palermo
L., Guariglia C. e Giusberti F. (2012).
Working memory load elicits gender differences in mental imagery.
In Sarah P. McGeown (Ed.) Psychology of Gender
Differences. New York:
Nova Publisher. (pp. 161-173).
33.
Giusberti F., Bensi L., e Nori R. (2013). Oltre ogni
ragionevole dubbio. Decidere in tribunale. Roma, Laterza
Editore.
34. Palermo L.,
Nori R., Piccardi L., Zeri F., Babino A., Giusberti F., e
Guariglia C. (2013).
Refractive errors affect the vividness of visual mental
images.
PLOS ONE, 8(6): e65161.