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Pier Luigi Sacco
@pierluigisacco.bsky.social
Prof Biobehavioral Econ Unich Italy. Culture & behavior, Arts & health. PNEI foundations of behavior. Culture for human flourishing & socio-economic development. Computational social science. Unintentional globetrotter. Boston sports. Techno, avant pop.
To what extent game design and gaming experiences help us understand, and get prepared to, major events like a pandemic, a war, or a sudden deep reshuffling of the global world order? If you are interested in this fascinating and, I would say, very relevant topic, have a look!
May 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What is happening is too complex and unpredictable to be addressed via traditional approaches. One of the unexpected consequences of the chaos is paving the way to a new science of international relations. Here's to it!
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
There are also a few remarks by yours truly that comments on what the model succeeds in getting and what else is missing. I think this is a moment where computationally-based models of international relations may carry an especially high value, where traditional qualitative analyses fail
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It presents a paper of ours where we somewhat presciently analyzed some scenarios that have something to say about the current chaos, and a simple but insightful dynamical model that captures some basic facts.
April 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Ha fatto di male che non permette ai super privilegiati di abusare abbastanza della loro posizione. Un po' sì ma è troppo poco. E quindi ora si stanno attrezzando
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
You can find the study on the neurocognitive foundations of cultural experiences here: www.frontiersin.org/.../fnhum.20....
The other one will be available as soon as it's published. Stay tuned! 12/12 🧪
www.frontiersin.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Culture is therefore not just leisure or entertainment, but a true "cognitive training" that enhances fundamental capabilities for innovation and growth. It's time to recognize this strategic role in skills development policies. 11/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is no coincidence: these work environments constantly stimulate our predictive system, training it to be more flexible and adaptable. 10/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This mechanism perfectly explains why, as shown by the PIAAC data I presented yesterday, those who work in cultural and creative sectors show significantly higher levels in all key competencies: numeracy, literacy, and problem solving. 9/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
These 'experiences' are so important to us that not only do we identify with characters as if they were real people, but when a story grips us, we are capable to stop doing everything else until we know how it ends. 8/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Think of stories, which are a laboratory of social cognition where, as Umberto Eco said in a famous op-ed, we can live thousands of lives parallel to our own, learning fundamental things from these 'experiences' about our ability to exist in the world and especially to understand others. 7/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Cultural and creative experiences allow us to train this predictive capacity in a "protected" environment, where prediction errors have no negative practical consequences. 6/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
... the brain as a predictive machine that continuously seeks to anticipate future situations across many different time scales to enable optimal regulation of our biological functions and our ability to respond effectively to environmental conditions and challenges. 5/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In a new study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, we propose a neuroscientific explanation of how the human brain processes cultural experiences. The key lies in "predictive coding": 4/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Today, in addition to sharing the complete text from yesterday's piece, I would like to better explain why these results are so important and how they connect to an even more fundamental discovery about the very nature of cultural experience. 3/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Yesterday I shared in the Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper some surprising results about skill levels in cultural and creative sectors that emerge from a forthcoming paper written with Piotr Bialowolski and Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska. 2/12 🧪
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
L'altra ricerca, collegata a questa, ha implicazioni più fondazionali, ma ne parlerò in un post a parte.
Domani posterò iil testo completo dell'articolo.
#Competenze #Innovazione #Cultura #piaac2023

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January 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Per l'Italia, con il suo ricco patrimonio culturale, questo rappresenta un'opportunità concreta: utilizzare i CCS come "palestre di competenze" per l'intero sistema economico, attraverso maggiori connessioni intersettoriali, formazione STEAM e partecipazione culturale attiva diffusa.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM