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Patrizio Paoletti Foundation for World Logic Day 2025
Patrizio Paoletti
Patrizio Paoletti is the founder of the Patrizio Paoletti Foundation (FPP) and the founder of the Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education, and Didactics of the FPP. Paoletti is a man of peace, mentor and influencer, specialized in Personal Development. For over thirty years, through the Human Inner Design Program and the School of Self-Awareness, he has offered original, insightful immersive training methods which are studied in the neuroscientific field in collaborations with scientists, research institutes, and universities throughout the world, such as the Bar-Ilan University of Israel and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is the author of over 15 books in the subject of psycho-neuro education and life-long learning.
Rothem Leshem
Dr. Rotem Leshem is a senior lecturer in Criminology Department at Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. Leshem’s interdisciplinary academic credentials include M.A. and Ph.D studies in clinical criminology at Bar-Ilan University and Certificate studies in psychotherapy at Ben-Gurion University. She completed her Postdoctoral training in the cognitive neuroscience lab at UCLA, USA through funds from the International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) – FPF-PEOPLE- Marie Curie Actions.
Dr. Leshem’s work encompasses an interdisciplinary approach that builds on converging bodies of knowledge stemming from criminology, psychology and neuroscience. Her research extends across field of neuro-criminology focusing on neuropsychological analyses of cognitive and emotional processes in the human brain as well as language and emotion regulation in the context of behaviors at risk.
Her interest lies in exploring emotion and self-regulation regulation and modification and reformulating it in terms of its neurobiology and physiological basis, to relate it to behavioral outcomes.
Moshe Abeles
Moshe Abeles is an Israeli brain researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Bar-Ilan University . Abeles’s research is mainly focused on the functional circuits in the cerebral cortex. His physiological findings and models about the functional significance of temporal relations in the cortex led to the famous “synfire chain theory” which demonstrates how information processing can be carried out through the coordinated dynamic activity of cell assemblies. In 2005, Moshe Abeles has founded the Gonda Multidisciplinary brain research centre at Bar-Ilan University and directed it until 2011. Moshe Abeles is the author of several highly cited books in neuroscience, including “Corticonics: Neural circuits of the cerebral cortex” (1991) and “Local Cortical Circuits: An Electrophysiological Study” (2012).
Moshe Bar
Moshe Bar is a neuroscientist, director of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, and the head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in the same research centre.
Moshe Bar spent 17 years in the US, where he had served as an associate professor at Harvard University andMassachusetts General Hospital, and had led the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
Moshe Bar has made significant contributions to the field of cognition. His ideas and findings have challenged dominant paradigms in areas of exceptional diversity: from the flow of information in the cortex during visual recognition to the importance of mental simulations for planning and foresight in the brain and from the effect of form on aesthetic preferences to a clinical theory on mood and depression.
Moshe Bar uses methods from cognitive psychology, psychophysics, human brain imaging, computational neuroscience, and psychiatry to explore predictions and contextual processing in the brain, and their role in facilitating visual recognition.
Sabrina Venditti
Sabrina Venditti is a researcher of the Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” of the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and a professor of “Molecular Genetics” and of “Elements of Epigenetics and Epigenomics” in the same University. Sabrina Venditti started her research in the field of DNA structure and topology, focusing on DNA alternative conformations of gene promoter regulatory elements. Subsequently, she approached the field of gene expression and of in vivo analysis of chromatin configurations in yeast nuclei. In particular, she focused on epigenetic molecular mechanisms that regulate the biology of important chromosome structures such as the telomeres, investigating telomeric position effects, and subtelomeric elements dynamics. Since 2011, Sabrina Venditti expanded also to the field of human neuroscience, with a specific focus on epigenetics, with the aim of elucidating the molecular mechanisms that mediate the effects of Quadrato Motor Training on creativity and well-being, in collaboration with the Patrizio Paoletti Foundation.
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan is the director of Neuroscientific Unit of theResearch Institute for Neuroscience, Education, and Didactics ,
Patrizio Paoletti Foundation.
Ben-Soussan leads studies examining the effects of sensorimotor and contemplative training paradigms on neuroplasticity, cognition, and well-being. Her multidisciplinary approach utilises electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and molecular tools to examine the underlying mechanisms mediating cognitive and emotional change. Ben-Soussan’s pioneering work on the Quadrato Motor Training has demonstrated that specifically-structured sensorimotor activity can improve neuronal functions, as well as enhance creativity, reflectivity, and spatial cognition. Together with close collaborations withSapeinza University of Rome and Bar-Ilan University, she is also applying her neuroscientific model to examine the interconnectedness of motion, emotion, and cognition in the workplace, schools, as well as in learning disorders and neurodegenerative states, such as dyslexia and Alzheimer’s disease.
AVRAHAM BALABAN
Prof. Avraham Balaban is a writer, poet and professor emeritus of New Hebrew Literature at the University of Florida. Balaban completed his doctorate at Tel Aviv University in 1979. His work was on the subject of Alterman’s poetry. He spent the early eighties at Harvard University as a visiting researcher. Taught at the University of Michigan between 1983 and 1989. In 1989 he moved to the University of Florida and in 1991 was appointed a full professor. In the eighties he further wrote several articles and books about the work of Amos Oz. In 1979, he won the Talfir prize for research and in 1982, the Levi Eshkol creativity prize. Balaban published his autobiographical book “Mourning a Father Lost: A Kibbutz Childhood Remembered” in 2000. In 2019, the book “Lists of Tel Aviv” was published, which compiles his weekly columns in Haaretz newspaper.
Stefano Lasaponara
Stefano Lasaponara, born in Bari, Italy, in 1984. Graduated with honors in Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Disorders and PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. Currently RTD-B at Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza and in possession of the national scientific qualification as a professor of II fascia. Research experience in neuropsychology, especially in the area of acquired right hemisphere brain injury and the resulting visual-spatial orientation disorders. In general, main interests range from neurophysiological processes underlying attentional and decision-making processes to predictive coding underlying higher cognitive functions. Other research interests concern the relationships that exist between different mental representations of the concepts of space, time, and numerosity.
The most significant scientific contribution is research on the interaction between spatial attention and predictive coding. This work includes a comprehensive set of studies involving both healthy volunteers and brain-damaged populations. In several studies of fMRI (Dragone et al., 2015; Silvetti et al., 2016), EEG (Lasaponara et al., 2011; 2017; 2018; Doricchi et al., 2021; 2022) and Pupil Dilation (Dragone et al, 2018; Lasaponara et al, 2019), I developed a comprehensive understanding of the anatomical, functional, and electrophysiological changes that occur when individuals are asked to orient spatial attention under conditions of uncertainty, that is, when there are no statistical regularities between cue and target. In these studies, I have shown that switching from statistically predictive cueing to non-predictive cueing leads to profound changes in the neural dynamics underlying endogenous orientation of attention, including deactivation of the right temporo-parietal junction, modulation of cue- and target-related ERP components, such as LDAP, ADAN, and the P1/N1 complex, as well as alterations in the pupillary response to directional cues and invalid targets. These changes have significant adaptive value, leading to faster reorientation of attention and selective reduction of attentional costs. In particular, this comprehensive understanding of the neurophysiological and electrophysiological correlates that characterize spatial attention.
RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCES, EDUCATION AND DIDACTICS
Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education, and Didactics (RINED) is part of the Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti (FPP), which is an Italian foundation registered in the National Register of Research at the Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR).
The main goal of RINED, e FPP in general, is to individualize new theoretical and practical models of knowledge which promote cognitive, physical, psychological, and emotional health and wellbeing from childhood to old age.
PATRIZIO PAOLETTI FOUNDATION
Patrizio Paoletti Foundation is a non-profit organization and a research body in the neuroscientific, psychological, pedagogical and educational fields. Its aim is to promote well-being and peace by innovating education, the most powerful means of change, through research. Active since 2000, it applies its neuroscientific pedagogy all over the world in the context of its popular, educational, school and social emergency projects aimed at children, teachers, families, educators, relationship professionals. It has trained thousands of operators in the education, school and social sector and has carried out research in collaboration with numerous universities and organizations around the world, publishing numerous studies in scientific journals of national and international importance.
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