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Prof.
Baingio Pinna
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Italy
Education and academic position
- 2002–present: Full Professor of Psychology, SSD M-PSI/01 — Psicologia Generale, Psicolinguistica, Psicologia della Percezione, Psicologia dell’Arte — University of Sassari
- 2001–2002: Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Sassari
- 1995–2001: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Sassari
- 1994–1996: Postdoctoral fellow in Experimental psychology, University of Padua
- 1989–1993: Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Visual Perception and Psychophysics, University of Padua
- 1988–1992: Qualifying Course in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Milan
- 1989: Summer School on Visual Perception, European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Huddinge (Sweden)
- Master Degree in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude). Graduation thesis: “Consistency, completeness and decidability (Entscheidungsproblem) in theoretical computer science and visual neuroscience: Experimental studies on computational complexity in vision”
- Degree in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude). Graduation thesis: “Bayesian inference reconsidered in the light of new visual illusions”
- Degree in Psychology (summa cum laude), University of Padua. Graduation thesis (BA) in Experimental Psychology: A new illusion of Angularity
Research interests
- Visual illusions
- Psychophysical investigation and experimental phenomenology of visual processes (spatial vision, motion perception, colour vision, shape perception, perceptual meaning)
- Perceptual organization
- Vision Science of Art
- Visual Design
