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Completed his Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University with a thesis on the transmission and configurational transformation of technical solutions. Using ten five-person transmission chains, his study distinguished faithful inheritance from the selective introduction of functional design features in cumulative technological culture. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Completed her Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University. Her eye-tracking thesis investigated facial-emotion processing in parents of autistic individuals, finding preliminary differences in attention to the eye region and highlighting a possible oculomotor marker of the broader autism phenotype. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude, with distinction.

Completed his Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University. His preliminary eye-tracking study compared visual exploration and facial-emotion recognition in parents of autistic and neurotypical individuals, with particular attention to gaze toward the eyes and response times for negative emotions. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude, with distinction.

Completed her Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University with the thesis “The Role of Personality in Cumulative Technological Culture: An Exploratory Behavioural Study”. In a novel open-ended microsociety task with 70 participants, her research examined generational improvement and how Big Five traits may modulate cumulative technical performance. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Graduated with a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Suor Orsola Benincasa University, with a thesis titled “Technical Reasoning as a Driver of Cumulative Technological Culture: Evidence from a Novel Open-Ended Microsociety Construction Task”, examining how technical reasoning supports cumulative technological improvement across generations using a novel microsociety paradigm. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude, with distinction.

Graduated with a Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University with the thesis “Do narcissistic traits shape how we look at ourselves?”. Her project established an eye-tracking workflow for studying self-relevant face attention, including an exploratory own-face comparison and a Posner-task pilot, while identifying the need for matched personality measures in future trait-level analyses. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude, with distinction.

Graduated with a Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University with the thesis “Semantically-driven effects of visual-perceptual context on tool encoding”. Her eye-tracking study showed that semantic congruence shapes how people explore functional regions of tools over time, with incongruent contexts increasing function-focused attention. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Graduated with a Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University, presenting the thesis “The effects of technical reasoning on tool-related action understanding: An eye-tracking study”. This project applied high-precision eye-tracking to investigate how reasoning about mechanical principles shapes the visual processing of tool-use actions. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Obtained his Master’s degree in Psychology with the thesis “On the functional brain networks involved in physical understanding”. His task-based fMRI study dissociated neural connectivity for violations of physical laws and unexpected object trajectories, highlighting a left frontoparietal technical-reasoning network and a distinct ventromedial network. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Completed her Master’s degree in Psychology with the thesis “The visual encoding of familiar and unfamiliar tools”. In an eye-tracking study with 30 participants, she showed that unfamiliar tools draw greater attention to functional regions, whereas familiar tools promote attention to manipulation regions, revealing a top-down influence of semantic knowledge on visual exploration. She is now a PhD student at the University of Pavia. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude, with distinction.

Earned a Master’s degree in Psychology with the thesis “On the neurocognitive origins of Cumulative Technological Culture”. This theoretical work examined the cognitive foundations enabling the emergence and transmission of complex technological systems. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Earned a Master’s degree in Psychology at Suor Orsola Benincasa University, with a thesis titled “Visual hallucinations: an integrated neuropsychological perspective”. This theoretical work combined clinical neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and perceptual theories to deepen understanding of the mechanisms behind visual hallucinations. Final grade: 110/110, cum laude.

Obtained his Master's Degree in Neurobiology (LM-6) from the University of Pavia (IT), with a thesis titled "Physical thought: neural bases of technical-mechanical reasoning". He carried out the work under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Federico at the neuroimaging laboratory of IRCCS SYNLAB SDN (Naples, IT), where he contributed to data collection for a task-based fMRI study conceived and framed within Prof. Federico's research programme on technological cognition. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Suor Orsola Benincasa University, under the supervision of Prof. Maria Antonella Brandimonte. Final grade: 109/110.