Giacomo Bignardi
Doctoral Candidate (deputy cohort representative)
Academic education
since 2020 Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
Doctoral research performed at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Supervisor: Simon E. Fisher
Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Simon B. Eickhoff, Simon E. Fisher, and David Poeppel
2019–2020 Research assistant under Prof. Zeki and Dr Ishizu, Division Biosciences, University College London, UK
2018–2019 Master of Science in Psychology of the Arts, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2014–2017 Bachelor of Arts in Drama, Art, and Music Studies, University of Bologna, Italy
Scientific awards and scholarships
2019 Best poster award, Visual Science of Art Conference 2019, Leuven, Belgium
2016–2017 Erasmus Plus Scholarship
Publications
Bignardi, G., Chamberlain, R., Kevenaar, S. T., Tamimy, Z., & Boomsma, D. I. (2022). On the etiology of aesthetic chills: A behavioral genetic study. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 3247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07161-z
Vessel, E. A., Ishizu, T., & Bignardi, G. (2022). Neural correlates of visual aesthetic appeal. In M. Skov, & M. Nadal (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of neuroaesthetics (pp. 103-133). London & New York: Routledge.
Trupp, M. D., Bignardi, G., Chana, K., Specker, E., & Pelowski, M. (2022). Can a brief interaction with online, digital art improve wellbeing? A comparative study of the impact of online art and culture presentations on mood, state-anxiety, subjective wellbeing, and loneliness. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 782033. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.782033
Bignardi, G., Chamberlain, R., Kevenaar, S. T., Tamimy, Z., & Boomsma, D. I. (2022). On the etiology of aesthetic chills: A behavioral genetic study. Scientific Reports, 12, 3247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07161-z
Bignardi, G., Ishizu, T., & Zeki, S. (2021). The differential power of extraneous influences to modify aesthetic judgments of biological and artifactual stimuli. PsyCh Journal, 10(2), 190–199. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.415
Poster presentations
Bignardi G., Schaare H. L., Verhulst B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff S. B., & Valk, S. L., (2022). Brain-wide alterations of the principal gradient of human brain functional connectivity relate to aesthetic sensitivity. Poster presented at 2022 Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA 2022), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, September 1.
Bignardi, G., Fisher, S.E., (2022). On the etiology of aesthetics. Conference Symposium at 2022 Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA 2022), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, August 31.
Bignardi G., Schaare H. L., Verhulst B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff S. B., & Valk, S. L., (2022). Brain-wide functional alterations of the principal gradients of human brain connectivity relate to aesthetic sensitivity [Conference Presentation]. The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC 2022), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 27.
Bignardi G., Schaare H. L., Verhulst B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). A functional gradient association study of aesthetic sensitivity. Poster presented at OHBM 2022, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 19–23.
Bignardi G., Schaare H. L., Verhulst B., St Pourcain, B., Fisher, S. E., Eickhoff S. B., & Valk, S. L. (2022). A functional gradient association study of aesthetic sensitivity. Workshop Poster presented at Gradients of Brain Organization, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, June 18.
Bignardi, G., Smit, D. J. A., Vessel, E. A., Trupp, M. D., Ticini, L. F., & Polderman, T. J. (2021). On the etiology of visual aesthetic evaluation of places, faces, and abstract objects: A twin informative study. Online Conference Presentation at 2020 Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA 2021), University of London, England , United Kingdom, September 3.
Bignardi, G., Smit, D.J.A, Ticini, L.F., Trupp, M.K.D., & Polderman T.J.C. (2020). On the etiology of the intensity of visual aesthetic appraisal and preferences [Conference Poster presentation on June 25–26, pre-recorded presentation format]. In A. G. Allegrini, T. van Beijsterveldt, D. Boomsma, K. Rimfeld, J. B. Pingault et al. (Eds.), Behavior Genetics Association 50th Annual Meeting Abstracts Studies, 57(5), 585–595 doi:10.1007/s10519-020-10018-8
Bignardi, G., Chamberlain, R., Kevenaar, S. T., Tamimy, Z., & Boomsma, D. I. (2019, August). Putting genetic in aesthetics: Etiological sources of variation of aesthetic chills [Poster]. In Abstracts from the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC 2019) Leuven, Belgium, Art & Perception, 7(4), 251–334.
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