Operant conditioning (OC) evokes behavioral changes and may be useful in pain management. However, it is unknown how alteration of a tonic painful stimulus may affect cognitive performance in an OC learning task and the associated neural activity. To address this, specific event-related potentials (ERPs) and cognitive performance were assessed after an OC task, using altered pain intensity as the operant stimulus. Two OC parad...

To determine the drivers of phytoplankton biomass, we collected standardized morphometric, physical, and biological data in 230 lakes across the Mediterranean, Continental, and Boreal climatic zones of the European continent. Multilinear regression models tested on this snapshot of mostly eutrophic lakes (median total phosphorus [TP] = 0.06 and total nitrogen [TN] = 0.7 mg L −1 ), and its subsets (2 depth types and 3 climatic...

Born from a desire to promote the landscape by integrating its origins and physical aesthetics with its naturalistic, cultural, and artistic heritage, we develop narratives about three locations in central Italy, telling them in the language of popular science, supported by the language of art. The different disciplines of science, poetry, and ancient music are applied to the same sites, producing emotional experiences where t...