The 2023 edition of the Fechner Day, the 39th Annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics is organized by the Patrizio Paoletti Foundation and by its Research Institute for Neuroscience, Education and Didactics (RINED).

Fechner Day is an opportunity to share and discuss frontier discoveries in the field of psychophysics, bringing together influential figures from academia and promising young researchers. This year it will be held in Assisi from September 10 to 14.

Thirty-three papers are scheduled from speakers from Germany (Kaiserslautern, Darmstadt), Japan (Kyushu University), US and UK, Italy (Bicocca, Sapienza) and Israel (Bar-Ilan, Ariel University). Speakers include Mark Elliott, Joseph Glicksohn and Marc Wittmann, with talks on physical and psychological temporal perception.

In addition, this year Fechner Day meets ICONS, the international conference on the neurophysiology of silence now in its third edition, which will be dedicated to the theme of neuroaesthetics. A day of scientific work introduced by Patrizio Paoletti, to investigate the points of contact between aesthetic experience and silence from a neuroscientific perspective. An opportunity to investigate the role of art in the development of awareness, which will feature, among others, the participation of neuroscientist Margriet Sitskoorn, an expert in neuroplasticity, Jean-Yves Beziau, creator of the UNESCO World Day of Logic, and Narayanan Srinivasan an expert in attention and perception, and will conclude with a musical workshop by harpist and music-therapist Marianne Gubri.