Marco Costa
University of Bologna
53 Papers
245 Citations
Marco Costa is an academic researcher from University of Bologna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diesel engine & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 49 publications.
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Papers
Emotions and Stress Increase Respiratory Resistance in Asthma
TL;DR: Asthmatic patients showed stronger reactions to the medical slides than healthy control subjects, with significant increases in oscillatory resistance, blood pressure, skin conductance level, and minute volume, as well as higher levels of self-reported depression, arousal, and shortness of breath.
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Psychological Connotations of Harmonic Musical Intervals
TL;DR: In this article, the twelve harmonic intervals possible within an octave and a reproduced octave in both a high register and low register (geometric mean respectively: 1,510 and 185 Hz) over a three-octave range were judged by 43 university students using a semantic differential.
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Looking behavior for vertical road signs
TL;DR: In this article, visual fixations at vertical road signs and their recall were tested in 22 participants who drove a route of 8.34 km, and the results showed that only 25.06% of vertical signs were looked, and only 6.66% were recalled by the driver at the end of the route.
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Fixation distance and fixation duration to vertical road signs.
TL;DR: The distance of first-fixation to vertical road signs was assessed in 22 participants while driving a route of 8.34 km and the threshold was 35 ms, showing that short fixations to a road signs could lead to a correct identification.
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Interior Color and Psychological Functioning in a University Residence Hall.
TL;DR: The research exploited a unique architectural setting of a university residence hall composed by six separate buildings that matched for every architectural detail and differed only for the interior color to show a preference for blue interiors.
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