Roberto Ardigo’s (and Wilhelm Wundt’s) Pupil Gino Melati and the First Attempt to Introduce Experimental Psychology at the University of Padua

Silvia De Marchi (1929) on numerical estimation: A translation and commentary

“…Benussi had already started exploring this topic while working at the University of Graz, approximately from 1908 (Antonelli, 2018;Bobbio & Giora, 2019;Bobbio & Roncato, 2023). In Padua, he handed over the investigation on the perception of numerosity to De Marchi around 1922, similar to what he had done with the stereokinetic effect, which was described by Benussi around 1918 and later assigned to Musatti (Bobbio & Giora, 2023;Giora & Bobbio, 2022;Musatti, 1924Musatti, , 1975. A recent review of stereokinetic phenomena is in Zanforlin (2017).…”

“…When in 1919 he obtained the chair of Experimental psychology at the University of Padua he brought innovative research methods to the Kingdom of Italy, as well as Gestalt school ideas and debates. He had many interests, from basic research on perception of shape and time, to the study of suggestion and hypnosis and applied psychology (Antonelli, 2018;Bobbio & Giora, 2019;Giora & Bobbio, 2022). 2011), and to provide the building block for numerical development in general (Cantlon & Brannon, 2006;Dehaene, 2009;Piazza, 2010).…”