[HTML][HTML] “Regulating my anxiety worsens the safety of my driving”: The synergistic influence of spatial anxiety and Self-regulation on driving behavior

S Traficante, L Tinella, A Lopez, S Koppel… - Accident Analysis & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Spatial Anxiety (SA) can be defined as the fear and apprehension experienced during tasks
that require spatial thinking and may negatively impact the execution of daily actions …

Cognitive efficiency and fitness-to-drive along the lifespan: The mediation effect of visuospatial transformations

L Tinella, A Lopez, AO Caffò, F Nardulli, I Grattagliano… - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The way people represent and transform visuospatial information affects everyday activities
including driving behavior. Mental rotation and perspective taking have recently been found …

Perceived social support mediates the relationship between use of greenspace and geriatric depression: a cross-sectional study in a sample of south-Italian older …

E Ricciardi, G Spano, L Tinella, A Lopez… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
A growing body of evidence is suggestive for the beneficial role of contact with greenspace
(eg, use of greenspace, visual access to greenspace, etc.) on mental health (eg, depression …

[HTML][HTML] Susceptibility to distracted driving: The role of personality and individual factors

L Tinella, A Lopez, AO Caffò, S Koppel… - … Research Part F: Traffic …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study aimed to investigate the association between the Big Five personality
dimensions with the susceptibility of distracted driving (ie, engagement in voluntary …

A meta-analysis on air traffic controllers selection: cognitive and non-cognitive predictors

D Mouratille, F Amadieu, N Matton - Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
This psychometric meta-analysis investigated the relation of cognitive and non-cognitive
factors to the training success of Air Traffic Controllers by synthesizing 51 studies (N …

The road more travelled: The differential effects of spatial experience in young and elderly participants

A Lopez, A Germani, L Tinella, AO Caffò… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Our spatial mental representations allow us to give refined descriptions of the environment
in terms of the relative locations and distances between objects and landmarks. In this study …

The contribution of field independence in virtual spatial updating

R Nori, M Boccia, M Palmiero, L Piccardi - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Field independence (FI) is the extent to which a person perceives part of a field as discrete
from the surrounding field rather than embedded in the field. Several studies proposed that it …

Sex differences in spatial tasks: Considering environmental factors, navigation strategies, and age

L Dahmani, M Idriss, K Konishi, GL West… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sex differences in navigation have been a topic of investigation for decades and has been
subjected to various contradictory findings and debates. The aim of this work was to …

Distortions in spatial mental representation affect sketch maps in Young Adults

A Lopez, A Bosco - Neurology International, 2022 - mdpi.com
Humans tend to misrepresent spatial information which leads to systematic errors due to
distorted organizational processes regarding metric and positional judgments. This study is …

The Spatial Learning Task of Lhermitte and Signoret (1972): Normative Data in Adults Aged 18–45

A Collins, MM Saling, SJ Wilson, GD Jackson… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective The Spatial Learning Task of Lhermitte and Signoret is an object-location arbitrary
associative learning task. The task was originally developed to evaluate adults with severe …