Giuseppe Sartori

Giuseppe Sartori is an active research scientist and full professor of forensic neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Padova in Italy. He also heads the doctoral programs in brain, mind, and computer science. He is a subject matter expert in the scientific study of eyewitness memory. His expertise spans wide areas including mental insanity, neurolaw, cognitive psychology, forensic psychiatry, neuroimaging, fMRI, and neuropsychological assessment, among others.

Prof. Sartori’s research areas have spanned neural basis of intentions and conscious decisions, child testimony, malingering, natural capacity parenting, psychopathy, behavioral genetics, mental insanity, and reduced capacity. He has contributed pioneering research in behavioral lie detection techniques and forensic psychiatry.

Specifically, Prof. Sartori has been involved in the development of a novel autobiographical memory detection technique, aIAT. This is an adaptation of the Implicit Association Test, which has been used in validating testimony in real-world forensic cases. He has developed techniques for implicit lie detection without the examinee being aware of credibility scrutiny using human-mouse interaction, keyboard dynamics, and eye-blinking. In general, he has established that there is potential to detect faked identify, lying through analysis of these human behaviors using neurosciences and machine learning techniques. Prof. Sartori has also developed techniques to evaluate risk credit scores based on the psychological features of an individual.

Publishing more than 200 writings in national and international indexed journals, Prof. Sartori’s work has appeared in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Brain and Cognition, Brain and Language, Brain, the Journal of Memory and Language, and Neuropsychology & Neuroimage. His highly ranked Google Scholar profile may be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xLxEpUsAAAAJ&hl=it.

Prof. Sartori is currently considered a leading expert on neuroscientific evidence, so much so that his latest works have been published in specialized legal journals, such as Contemporary Criminal Law. His depositions in civil and criminal cases in the Italian courts have attracted enormous scientific attention for how behavioral genetics can influence judicial determinations in Italy.