Simone Rossi and Alessia Zecchini on Artribune Podcast

The latest episode of Contemporaneamente, a podcast by Mariantonietta Firmani published on Artribune.com and Parallelo42.it, features neurophysiologist Simone Rossi and freediver Alessia Zecchini. They discuss research and emotions, technology and breath, seas and brain. Rossi, a professor of Neurology at the University of Siena and director of the Si-BIN Lab, specializes in transcranial stimulation and neuromodulation for Parkinson's disease, using vibrating bracelets and anklets to restore gait. He also explores how the brain reacts to robotic devices and virtual reality, which can cause incurable seasickness. Zecchini, a world-record-holding freediver, describes the pressure at -30 meters compressing lungs to fist size, with descent becoming free fall. Rossi contrasts AI's lack of creativity and memory, operating only on statistical algorithms. Zecchini, born in Rome in 1992, has won 17 gold, 6 silver, and 2 bronze medals at World Championships, plus 3 gold, 6 silver, and 1 bronze at Europeans, and 37 world records. She is considered "the deepest woman in the world" and has received three Gold Medals for Athletic Valor and the Collar of Gold for sporting merit in 2018.