Laura Piccardi is a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome and scientific advisor for San Raffaele Cassino Hospital (Italy). She earned her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Sapienza University of Rome, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Collège de France and Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris (France). She is the principal investigator of the Spatial Cognition Lab. She led collaborative efforts and engaged in various projects related to topographic orientation and individual differences, as well as aesthetic pleasure in art and in ambiguous perceptual artworks.