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Alessandro is a reader in the department of psychology after training at the University of Trieste (Italy) where he obtained a PhD in experimental psychology. His main area of interest is in the psychology of perception and his work on the uncatchable smile of La Bella Principessa has been written about extensively in the national and international press.
Expertise:
- Color and illumination perception
- Visual illusions
- Perception and art
- Virtual reality
- Robotics
Notable coverage:
- The Conversation [May 2019] - Four ways in which Leonardo da Vinci was ahead of his time
- Smithsonian [March 2017] - So is Mona Lisa smiling? A new study says yes
- Daily Telegraph [August 2015] - Have researchers unlocked the mystery of Mona Lisa's famously enigmatic smile?
- Mail Online [August 2015] - Mystery of the Mona Lisa’s smile solved: Second painting shows how
- National Post [August 2015] - Researchers think they’ve unlocked the secret of Mona Lisa’s ‘uncatchable’ vanishing smile
- Discover Magazine [August 2015] - Scientists discover a second 'Mona Lisa smile'
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