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Franco Delogu

Franco Delogu

 

 

 

Position

  • Post-doctoral researcher at the Dept. of Psychology - University of Rome "La Sapienza".
  • Visiting Professor at University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti.
  • Visiting Professor at University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Scuola IaD School.
  • Visiting Professor at IES, Institute for the International Education of Students.

Topics

  • Cognitive Psychology of Music.
  • Semantic Crossmodality.
  • Perception and Recognition of Environmental Sound.

Current Researches

  • Music performance in naive subjects.
  • Relation between rhythm and melody in music perception and performance.
  • Music to language trasfer effect.
  • Audio-visual crossmodal semantic priming.
  • Crossmodality and working memory.

Publications

  • Peer Reviewed Publications:
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (submitted) ( Multi)modality effect in memory span for non verbal materials.  
    • Delogu, F., Brunetti, R., Olivetti Belardinelli, M, (submitted) Tonal-Melodic complexity does not affect rhythmic reproduction .
    • Delogu, F., Auricchio, L., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2006) Integrazione crossmodale nel riconoscimento del suono ambientale, Ricerche di Psicologia, 31 (2).
    • Pellis, E., Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2006) Motor Decoding of Musical Meaning: A Pilot Study, Cognitive Processing (in press).
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Palmiero, M., Pasqualotto, E., Zhao, H., Plaisant, C., 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, vol. 7 (Suppl. 1), 178-179.
    • Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2006) Music-to-language transfer effect: may melodic ability improve learning of tonal languages by native nontonal speakers? Cognitive Processing, vol. 7, 203-207.
    • Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Sestieri, C., Di Matteo, R., Delogu, F., Del Gratta, C., Ferretti, A., Romani, G.L.,   (2004) Audio-visual Crossmodal interactions in environmental perception:an fMRI study. Cognitive Processing, vol. 5, 167-174.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2003) Children's Recognition of their Musical Performances , Musicae Scientiae (Special Issue).
    • Delogu, F., Pitti, G., Di Matteo, R., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2002) Contributo alla individuazione delle relazioni tra capacità cognitivo-musicali e   abilità nella soluzione dei problemi .   Psicologia dell'Educazione e della Formazione, vol. 4.
  • Presentations:
    • Delogu, F., Lampis, G., Olivetti Belardinelli M., (2006) Does Musical Melodic Intelligence enhance the perception of mandarin lexical tones? Paper presented at the IX th Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, 22 - 26 August Bologna, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli M., (2005) Crossmodality and Working Memory. Paper presented at the XIV th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 31 August   - 3 September, Leiden, The Netherlands.
    • Delogu, F., Zhao, H., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., Pasqualotto, E., Palmiero, M., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2005) iSonic: Interactive Sonification for Geo-referenced Data Exploration for the Vision Impaired in Buono, P., Costabile, MF., Paternò, F., Santoro, C. INTERACT '05 Communicating naturally through Computers, Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (interact2005), 12-16 September, Rome, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Di Lorenzo, P., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2005) What is similar in music? a comparison between behavioural and mathematic classifications of musical distances . Paper presented at the 36th European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 5-7 September, Padua, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli M., (2005) Integrazione crossmodale semantica e memoria di lavoro . Paper presented at the Congresso Nazionale di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. 18-20 Settembre, Cagliari, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Brunetti R., Olivetti Belardinell M, (2004) Does melodic information influence rhythmic performance? A computer-based experimental approach . Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition. August, 3-7, Evanston, IL, USA.
    • Delogu, F., Brunetti,R. e Olivetti Belardinelli,M., (2004) Ritmo e melodia sono dimensioni indipendenti o collegate? Paper presented at the International Symposium PME04: Psychology and Music Education, 29-30 Novembre, Padova, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., (2004) Crossmodal interactions in environmental sound recognition . Poster at SPP & ESPP 2004, First joint conference of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology, 03-06 July, Barcelona, Spain.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli M., (2004) La semantica nella percezione: tre studi sull'interazione crossmodale nel riconoscimento di eventi ambientali . Paper presented at the Congresso Nazionale di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. 18-20 Settembre, Sciacca, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Sestieri C., Di Matteo, R., Del Gratta, C., Romani, G.L., (2003) Semantic Audio-Visual interaction in Environmental Object Recognition . Paper presented at the XIII Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology - ESCOP 2003 - 17-20 September, Granada, Spain.
    • Delogu, F., Sestieri C., Di Matteo, R., Caulo, M., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Del Gratta, C., Romani, G.L., (2003) Crossmodal interaction in object recognition: an fMRI study . Paper presented at the ISNF - 4 th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging within the human brain and heart, 15-18 Settembre, Chieti, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2003)   L'integrazione crossmodale semantica nel riconoscimento di eventi ambientali . Paper presented at the Congresso Nazionale di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, 22-25 Settembre, Bari, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Rodriguez- C. X., Hernandez, N., Olivetti Belardinelli M., (2002 ) Influences of metric and melodic accent structures on expressive rhythmic performance , in Buzzanca, G., Di Maio, G., Nottoli, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. Paper presented at the international conference Understanding and Creating Music, 21-25 November, Caserta, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2002) Children's Recognition of their Musical Performances . Paper presented at the conference ESCOM-Creativité Musicale, 5-8 April, Liége, France.
    • Delogu, F., Auricchio, L., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2002) Aspetti semantici dell'identificazione del suono ambientale . Paper presented at the conference La Psicologia ambientale in Italia - II incontro nazionale,   6-7 December, Rome, Italy.
    • Delogu, F., Brunetti, R., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., (2002)   How do melody and rhythm go together? A new performance-task based experimental approach. In Buzzanca, G., Di Maio, G., Nottoli, G., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. Paper presented at the second international conference Understanding and Creating Music, 21-25 Novembre, Caserta, Italy.