Arianna Felisatti

I am Arianna Felisatti, a PhD student in the Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group (PECoG).

I received the Bachelor degree in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology (2014) and the Master degree in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2017) from the University of Padua, Italy.

My main topic is numerical cognition and in particular the investigation of the Spatial Numerical Associations (SNAs) from a “grounded”, “embodied” and “situated” point of view.

My previous projects explored:

-        the rule of spatial attention in mental arithmetic through eye-tracking studies;

-        the influence of posture and ambient noise on SNARC effect detection, by comparing neuroimaging studies;

-        the semantic interaction between finger counting and numerical processing by using the LEAP motion device.

My current project aims to deepen knowledge about the rule of heuristics and biases in mental arithmetic. This person has no teaching duties and is paid from a research grant.

Contact e-mail: ariannafelisattiuuni-potsdampde

Office room: 14.6.23

Publications

Fischer, M. H., Winter, B., Felisatti, A., Myachykov, A., Mende, M.A., & Shaki, S. (2021). More instructions make fewer subtractions. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 720616. doi.org.10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720616.

Felisatti, A., Laubrock, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2020). Commentary: A mental number line in human newborns. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 99. doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00099 

Felisatti, A., Laubrock, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2020). A biological foundation for spatial–numerical associations: the brain's asymmetric frequency tuning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14418 

Felisatti, A., Aagten-Murphy, D., Laubrock, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2020). The Brain’s Asymmetric Frequency Tuning: Asymmetric Behavior Originates from Asymmetric Perception. Symmetry, 12(12), 2083. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym12122083

Fischer, M.H., Felisatti, A., Kulkova, E., Mende, M. A., & Miklashevsky, A. (2020). Measuring the mathematical mind – embodied evidence from motor resonance, negative numbers, calculation biases, and emotional priming. In M. D. Robinson and L. E. Thomas (eds.) Embodied Psychology: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting. Springer: New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3

Felisatti, A., Fischer, M. H., Kulkova, E., Kühne, K., & Michirev, A. (2021). Separation/connection procedures: From cleansing behavior to numerical cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44. DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x20000461 

Felisatti, A.

, Ranzini, M., Blini, E., Lisi, M., & Zorzi, M. (2021, April 21). Effects of attentional shifts along the vertical axis on number processing: an eye-tracking study with optokinetic stimulation. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xnzye

Schmidt, H., Felisatti, A., Moers von, A., Aster von, M., Wilbert, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2021). Neuromuscolar diseases affect number representation and processing. Frontiers in Psychology(Under revision).

Belli, F., Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (2021). “BreaThink”: breathing affects production and perception of quantities. Experimental Brain Research, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06147-z

Conference presentations

Felisatti, A., Ranzini, M., & Fischer, M. H. 

Title of the poster: Distance Classification: A novel comparison of overt and covert numerical distances. 

Poster presentation, European Workshop in Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN), Bressanone (Italy), January 2022

Felisatti, A., Vural, U. C., & Fischer, M. H. 

Title of the talk: Fingers tracking numbers: The use of Leap Motion to explore the functional link between fingers and numbers.

Talk, Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen; Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm (Germany), March 2021

https://vimeo.com/515400480/eaefe4905f

Felisatti, A., Jochen, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. 

Title of the talk: Brain specialization explains number spatialization. 

Talk, European Workshop in Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN), Bressanone (Italy), January 2020

Felisatti, A., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. 

Title of the talk: Comparing different tasks for magnitude estimation in mental arithmetic. 

Talk, European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), September 2019

Felisatti, A., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. 

Title of the poster: Perception prevents Precision. 

Poster presentation, European Workshop in Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN), Bressanone (Italy), January 2019

Felisatti, A., Jochen, J., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. 

Title of the poster: From Brain's Specialization to Numbers' Spatialization. 

Poster presentation, The Mind's Spatialization in Humans and Non-humans, Nice (France), July 2019