Nicola Di Stefano
Biography
He graduated in Philosophy at the State University of Milan. In the same years he graduated from the “G. Greens". PhD atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, today he is a researcher at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Cognition (ISTC) of the National Research Council (CNR). He deals with musical aesthetics, the relationship between aesthetics and neuroscience, and the philosophy of technology. He has more than 50 publications to his credit, including volumes, book chapters and articles in scientific journals. Since 2016, he has been an adjunct professor at the Rome Center of the University of Arkansas (UARK Rome Center).
Curriculum
EDUCATION
2014 Ph.D. degree in Bioethics, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Italy)
2010 Degree in double bass. Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi”, Milan (Italy)
2009 Master's degree in Philosophical Sciences, 110/110 cum laude. University of Milan, Milan (Italy)
2005 Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, 110/110 cum laude. University of Milan, Milan (Italy)
CURRENT POSITION
2021- to date Researcher (permanent position) at Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Rome, Italy
2023 - to date Research collaborator, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019-2021 Post-doc position, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
2016-2019 Post-doc position, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Selected publications:
1. Di Stefano N., Vuust P., Brattico E. (2022). Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses, Physics of Life Reviews, 43, 272-304, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.10.004
2. Di Stefano, N., Jarassé, N., Valera, L. (2022). The ethics of supernumerary robotic limbs. An enactivist approach, Science and engineering ethics, 28, 57, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00405-1
3. Di Stefano, N., Spence, C. (2022). Roughness perception: A multisensory/crossmodal perspective. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 2087-2114. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02550-y
4. Di Stefano, N. (2022). The spatiality of sounds. From sound-source localization to musical spaces. Aisthesis. Practices, Languages and Knowledge of the Aesthetic, 15(1), 173-185.
5. Corti, L., Di Stefano, N. & Bertolaso, M. (2022). Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics. International Journal of Social Robotics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00890-1
6. Spence, C., Di Stefano, N. (2022). Colored Hearing, Color Music, Color Organs, and the Search for Perceptually Meaningful Correspondences Between Color and Sound. i-Perception, 13(3), 1-42.
7. Spence, C., Di Stefano, N. (2022), Crossmodal harmony: Looking for the meaning of harmony beyond hearing, i-Perception, 13(1), 1-40.
8. Provenzale, C., Di Stefano, N., Noccaro, A., Taffoni, F. (2021). Assessing the Bowing Technique in Violin Beginners Using MIMU and Optical Proximity Sensors: A Feasibility Study. Sensors, 21(17), 5817, 1-15.
9. Di Stefano, N., Oliva, S. (2020), Insights into the aesthetic experience through an embodied approach to Wittgenstein's hearing-as. Networks, Knowledge, Languages. Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences, 2, 277-292.
10. Costantino, A.*, Di Stefano, N.*, Taffoni, F., Di Pino G., Casale, M., Keller F. (2020). Embodying melody through a conducting baton: a pilot comparison between musicians and non-musicians. Experimental Brain Research, 238, 10, 2279-2291 (*authors with equal contribution)
11. Di Stefano, N. (2020). Biological constraints and phenomenological rules. Remarks on sound perception [Biological constraints and phenomenological rules. Remarks on sound perception], Rivista di Estetica, 73, 1, 152-165.
12. Di Stefano, N. (2019). Emotions, moods and atmospheres in the perception of music [Emotions, moods and atmospheres in the perception of music], Studi di Estetica, 2, 89-104.
13. Di Stefano, N., Ghilardi, G., Morini, S. (2019). The cerebral ventricles in Leonardo's anatomical drawings, The Lancet, 393, 1412.
14. Di Stefano N. (2018). Gesture, sound and body. On the role of the hand in the expression of music [Gesture, sound and body. On the role of the hand in the expression of music], Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience, 13, 57-66.
15. Trulla LL, Di Stefano N., Giuliani A. (2018). Computational approaches to musical consonance and dissonance, Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 381, 1-11.
