Publications by authors named "S Vettori"
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- Understanding social events involves automatically assigning roles (agent vs. patient) to participants based on visual cues, which seems to happen effortlessly.
- A study tested this by having participants view images of male and female actors in different postures (dynamic vs. static) and responded to the position of a target actor.
- Results showed that when the role assignment switched between trials, participants were slower to respond, indicating that they automatically processed the actors' roles based on visual relational information, regardless of changing postures or positions.
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- In systemic sclerosis (SSc), severe aortic stenosis (AS) occurs in about 4.3% of patients, often linked to poor health outcomes and requiring careful monitoring.
- In a study of 234 SSc patients from 2007 to 2022, ten had severe AS, with a notable progression rate over a mean period of 3.2 years, impacting heart function significantly.
- Treatment options included transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), with most patients surviving long-term, highlighting the importance of screening for AS in SSc patients.
Infants' thoughts are classically characterized as iconic, perceptual-like representations. Less clear is whether preverbal infants also possess a propositional language of thought, where mental symbols are combined according to syntactic rules, very much like words in sentences. Because it is rich, productive, and abstract, a language of thought would provide a key to explaining impressive achievements in early infancy, from logical inference to representation of false beliefs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStone cultural heritage buildings are frequently affected by different alteration phenomena and in particular, on heritage marbles the presence of chromatic discolouration, as the red stains, is one of the most widespread. In this paper, small fragments of red stains originated on marble exposed to different environmental contexts were analysed to reveal the presence and distribution of lead compounds at the micro-scale level. The samples come from slabs of historical religious buildings in Florence (Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral and the San Giovanni Baptistery) and from the monumental fountains conserved in the Medicean Villa La Petraia (Florence).
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