The laboratory offers Psychology students the opportunity to carry out academic or post-graduate practical-theoretical internships and teaching assistance with calls for annual collaboration grants.
Within the Laboratory of Sport Psychology (LPdS), various research perspectives are applied, including those linked to the motivational, socio-cognitive or integrated aspects of sport, both in terms of prevention of risky behavior (e.g. Performance Aesthetic Enhancing Substances ), of evaluation and scientific research on active lifestyles in sections of the population at risk (elderly and weaker sections of the population), and of elements linked to the performance of high-level and non-high-level athletes, through specific technologies (ocular behavior, electroencephalography , virtual reality). The laboratory also offers the possibility of carrying out experiments in a silent room. Inside the laboratory it is possible to conduct experiments for recording fixations and eye movements in real or simulation tasks thanks to the use of specialized hardware and software (SMI Eye Tracking Glasses 2, BeGaze SMI; Tobii Pro Glasses 2, Tobii Pro Lab). The latest generation Virtual Reality viewers (HMD-VR) are also available (HTC Vive Pro Eye, Oculus Quest 2) for the creation and implementation of various experimental settings in VR. Finally, the laboratory's equipment includes qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis systems for data (SPSS, R, Jamovi, AMOS, Warp-PLS).
STRUCTURED PEOPLE
Responsible: Prof. Fabio Lucidi
Other members: Prof. Fabio Alivernini, Prof. Andrea Chirico
Research fellows / PhD students
Dr. Francesco Giancamilli
Dr. Tommaso Palombi
PROJECTS AND RESEARCH AREAS
The research conducted at the laboratory is divided into four distinct themes:
Physical activity and well-being in target populations (e.g., elderly);
Prevention of doping at all levels of competition (amateur, professional, elite);
Ocular behavior and sports performance;
Spatial orientation and psychophysiological correlates.