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These data are relative to the paper "Neural Signatures of Hyper-Realistic AI-Generated Faces: Dissociating Behavioral Indistinguishability from Implicit Neural Evaluation". The present study aimed to determine whether the human brain preserves sensitivity to the artificial origin of hyper-realistic AI-generated faces even when explicit, behavioral discrimination from real faces fails. By integrating behavioral validation with high-density EEG recordings, we sought to characterize the temporal dynamics and neural substrates underlying the processing of real versus GAN-generated faces across perceptual, evaluative, and familiarity-related stages. Specifically, the study investigated whether implicit neural markers reveal systematic differences in the processing of artificial faces that are behaviorally indistinguishable from real ones, thereby dissociating overt recognition performance from covert neural evaluation.

Dataset relative to the study reported in the article "When remembering items is easier than remembering order". The study aimed at investigating whether remembering a series of items and their order are separate operations. The dataset reports the results of an immediate serial recall task performed with two conditions of cognitive load (high and low) and three conditions of aspect of the series to remember (items, order and both). All the scores recorded in the dataset are expresses as a proportion of correct responses.

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The stimulus set was used in the ERP paper "Decoding Motivational States and Craving through Electrical Markers for Neural 'Mind Reading’ by Proverbio AM & Zanetti A (2025). The aim of this study was to identify electrical neuromarkers of 12 different motivational and physiological states (such as visceral craves, affective and somatosensory states, and secondary needs) in LIS, coma, or minimally conscious state patients. Auditory stimuli were designed by combining a human expressive voice with a background sound to evoke a context related to the targeted needs. The stimuli included: primary or visceral needs (hunger, thirst, and sleep), homeostatic or somatosensory sensations (cold, heat, and pain), emotional or affective states (sadness, joy, and fear), and secondary needs (desire for music, movement, and play). 17 audio clips were recorded for each micro-category, each replicated twice: once with a male voice and once with a female voice, totaling 408 stimuli. Audacity software was used to combining the vocal track with a background context coherent with the verbal content. Human voices were recorded using Microphone 202 K38 by Hompower (SNR = 80 dB). The semantic content, the prosodic intonation and the emotional tone of all voices were coherent and appropriately matched. Some of the background sounds were recorded using the same microphone, while others were sourced from the publicly accessible BBC Sound Effects library for scientific purposes (https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search). Research was funded by ATE – Fondo di Ateneo No. 31159-2019-ATE-0064, University of Milano-Bicocca. The research project, entitled “Auditory imagery in BCI mental reconstruction” was preapproved by the Research Assessment Committee of the Department of Psychology (CRIP) for minimal risk projects, under the aegis of the Ethical committee of University of Milano-Bicocca, on February 9th, 2024, protocol n: RM-2024-775).

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An elite professional pianist executed a 30-minute, uninterrupted performance of seven pieces on a Yamaha P-225B digital piano in an anechoic chamber, employing the default soundbank. The repertoire featured Contrapunctus I (BWV 1080) by Bach and an excerpt from Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, Op. 23, performed from memory based on urtext editions. Key-press onset events were annotated per hand to quantify note and gesture counts, excluding legato transitions without discrete attacks. Both performances exhibited a convergent low-frequency periodicity in beat-level timing variability (tactus imprecision), oscillating at approximately 0.36 Hz. This slow temporal modulation aligns with the delta-band range of neural oscillations and may reflect a shared endogenous timing scaffold, plausibly motor in origin, underlying expressive control in skilled performance.

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Complete individual evaluation in cm for hand and finger of sighted and blind participants.

A Nonverbal Signs Dataset for the Italian Population 1,522 Colorful Stimuli of Spontaneous Social Communication, for experimental settings, including EEG/ERP experiments. The provided stimuli are made available for use with the understanding that proper acknowledgment and citation of the source are required in any resulting work or publication. Proper attribution not only ensures academic integrity but also duly recognizes the effort involved in their development. Should further details regarding citation be needed, the relevant information can be provided upon request. SOURCE and VALIDATION studies: - Proverbio AM, Gabaro V, Orlandi A, Zani A. Semantic brain areas are involved in gesture comprehension: An electrical neuroimaging study. Brain Lang. 2015 Aug;147:30-40. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.05.002.  - Proverbio AM, Ornaghi L, Gabaro V. How face blurring affects body language processing of static gestures in women and men. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2018 Jun 1;13(6):590-603. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsy033.

Supplementary materials, neuroimaging data, and analysis code for the submitted manuscript: Unaware Processing of Words Activates Experience-Derived Information in Conceptual-Semantic Brain Networks Marta Ghio1,2,*, Barbara Cassone3,*, Marco Tettamanti2,3 1 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; 2 CIMeC - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy; 3 Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milano, Italy. * Equal contribution. Keywords: conceptual-semantic representations; experience; awareness; continuous flash suppression; manipulable objects; emotions.