Warning: our research lines are a confusing web of recurrent themes feeding back on each other. The following categorization is meant to affect a sense of direction and perspective. To discuss our work and that of colleagues in the Cognitive Neuroscience
sector, a visit to SISSA may be easy to arrange.
Want to try your memory? face tests! in Italian
or in English.
Want to read an overview of our evolutionary perspective? Try
this chapter
from the Les Houches 2003 summer school.
Want to be confused by our research strategies? This PowerPoint
presentation (from December, 2004) should leave you perplexed.
Italian government is currently bent on destrying public education,
behind the thin disguise of a desirable reform of the university
system, and of necessary budget cuts. It has first targeted primary
schools, the pride of the Italian system, and it is rapidly attacking
public high schools, universities and research in general. Obedient
media are mounting a campaign of generic delegitimation, by focusing on
cases of corruption and mismanagement, unfortunately frequent in the
university system. As an international research group in an
international graduate school, with limited dependence on Italian
public funds, we express our support for the vast majority of gifted
and hard-working educators and researchers affected by the government
action, and our concern for the disaster impending on Italy's future.