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nicola.distefano@istc.cnr.it

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nicola_di_stefano_cv_eng_2025.pdf

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Semantic Technology Laboratory

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Profile

Position:

Research Director

After receiving my master's degree in philosophy from the University of Milan, I graduated from the "G. Verdi" Conservatory in the same city. I earned a Ph.D. from the University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome with a thesis on musical perception. I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome and Ca' Foscari University in Venice, before becoming a researcher at CNR in 2021. My main research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy, psychology and cognitive science, with a focus on philosophy and psychology of perception, aesthetics and psychology of music, ethics and technology.

Research

Research areas: music, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, ethics and technology.Recent publications:

Di Stefano, N., Spence, C. (2023). Perceptual similarity: Insights from crossmodal correspondences. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-023-00692-y
Pinardi M., Di Stefano N., Di Pino G., Spence C. (2023). Exploring crossmodal correspondences for future research in human movement augmentation. Frontiers in Psychology, 14,1190103. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1190103
Di Stefano N., Vuust P., Brattico E. (2022). Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses, Physics of Life Reviews, 43, 272-304, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.10.004
Di Stefano, N., Jarassé, N., Valera, L. (2022). The ethics of supernumerary robotic limbs. An enactivist approach, Science and engineering ethics, 28, 57, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00405-1
Di Stefano, N., Spence, C. (2022). Roughness perception: A multisensory/crossmodal perspective. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 2087-2114. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02550-y
Di Stefano, N. (2022). The spatiality of sounds. From sound-source localization to musical spaces. Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi e Saperi dell’estetico, 15(1), 173-185.
Corti, L., Di Stefano, N. & Bertolaso, M. (2022). Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics. International Journal of Social Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00890-1
Spence, C., Di Stefano, N. (2022). Coloured Hearing, Colour Music, Colour Organs, and the Search for Perceptually Meaningful Correspondences Between Colour and Sound. i-Perception, 13(3), 1-42.
Spence, C., Di Stefano, N. (2022), Crossmodal harmony: Looking for the meaning of harmony beyond hearing, i-Perception, 13(1), 1-40.
Provenzale, C., Di Stefano, N., Noccaro, A., Taffoni, F. (2021). Assessing the Bowing Technique in Violin Beginners Using MIMU and Optical Proximity Sensors: A Feasibility Study. Sensors, 21(17), 5817, 1-15.

Nicola Di Stefano

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