“Stopping for knowledge”: The sense of beauty in the perception-action cycle

P Sarasso, M Neppi-Modona, K Sacco… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
According to a millennial-old philosophical debate, aesthetic emotions have been
connected to knowledge acquisition. Recent scientific evidence, collected across different …

[HTML][HTML] Prompting in-depth learning in immersive virtual reality: Impact of an elaboration prompt on developing a mental model

A Vogt, F Babel, P Hock, M Baumann, T Seufert - Computers & Education, 2021 - Elsevier
Immersive virtual reality learning environments (VRLEs) have great potential but they do not
guarantee effective or in-depth learning. Activating learners by including prompts, has been …

Nice and easy: Mismatch negativity responses reveal a significant correlation between aesthetic appreciation and perceptual learning.

P Sarasso, M Neppi-Modona, N Rosaia… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Neurocomputational models of cognition have framed aesthetic appreciation within the
domain of knowledge acquisition and learning, suggesting that aesthetic appreciation might …

The aesthetic experience of critical art: The effects of the context of an art gallery and the way of providing curatorial information

M Szubielska, K Imbir - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The aim of our research was to investigate the influence of the situational context of
presenting contemporary critical artworks (in an art gallery vs in a laboratory setting) and the …

Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

P Sarasso, P Perna, P Barbieri… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2021 - Springer
Is it true that we learn better what we like? Current neuroaesthetic and neurocomputational
models of aesthetic appreciation postulate the existence of a correlation between aesthetic …

Sing it or speak it?: the effects of sung and rhythmically spoken songs on preschool children's word learning

J Lawson-Adams, DK Dickinson, JK Donner - Early Childhood Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vocabulary knowledge in the primary grades predicts later reading comprehension and
academic success. For young children, low initial knowledge about academically-valued …

Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention

P Sarasso, P Barbieri, E Del Fante, L Bechis… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2022 - Springer
Can preferred music listening improve following attentional and learning performances?
Here we suggest that this may be the case. In Experiment 1, following preferred and non …

“Song-advantage” or “cost of singing”? A research synthesis of classroom-based intervention studies applying lyrics-based language teaching (1972–2019)

V Werner - Journal of Second Language Teaching & Research, 2020 - pops.uclan.ac.uk
While lyrics-based activities are increasingly popular in foreign language education, and a
number of theoretical arguments have been suggested by applied linguists and SLA …

Aesthetic appreciation of musical intervals enhances behavioural and neurophysiological indexes of attentional engagement and motor inhibition

P Sarasso, I Ronga, A Pistis, E Forte, F Garbarini… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
From Kant to current perspectives in neuroaesthetics, the experience of beauty has been
described as disinterested, ie focusing on the stimulus perceptual features while neglecting …

Recognition memory in movie scenes: the soundtrack induces mood-coherent bias, but not through mood induction

A Ansani, M Marini, I Poggi, L Mallia - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Several studies have employed music to affect various tasks through mood induction
procedures. In this perspective, music's emotional content coherently affects the listeners' …