
Research Areas
Behavioral investigations of attention limitations in the temporal domain
Neuropsychological assessment of attention functions following brain damage
Cognitive electrophysiology of attention functions in human adults
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy of attention functions in human adults
Selected Publications
1998 |
The demonstration of short-term consolidation Journal Article Cogn Psychol, 36 (2), pp. 138–202, 1998. |
Publications
2020 |
Psychophysiology, 57 (11), pp. e13651, 2020. |
Multi-shell diffusion MRI based tractography of the facial nerve in vestibular schwannoma Journal Article American Journal of Neuroradiology, 41 (8), pp. 1480-1486, 2020. |
A bilateral N2pc (N2pcb) component is elicited by search targets displayed on the vertical midline Journal Article Psychophysiology, 57 (3), pp. e13512, 2020. |
Computer data simulator to assess the accuracy of estimates of visual N2/N2pc event-related potential components Journal Article Journal of Neural Engineering, 17 (3), pp. 036024, 2020. |
2019 |
Functional dissociation of anterior cingulate cortex and intraparietal sulcus in visual working memory Journal Article Cortex, 121 , pp. 277-291, 2019. |
Reward motivation and neurostimulation interact to improve working memory performance in healthy older adults: A simultaneous tDCS-fNIRS study Journal Article NeuroImage, 202 , pp. 116062, 2019. |
Mapping hemodynamic changes during hypoglycemia in the very preterm neonatal brain: preliminary results Inproceedings European Conference on Biomedical Optics, pp. 11074_13, Optical Society of America 2019. |
2018 |
On pacing trials while scanning brain hemodynamics: The case of the SNARC effect Journal Article Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25 (6), pp. 2267–2273, 2018. |
The SNARC effect is not a unitary phenomenon Journal Article Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25 , pp. 688-695, 2018. |
N2pc reflects two modes for coding the number of visual targets Journal Article Psychophysiology, 55 (11), pp. e13219, 2018. |
Books and chapters
2016 |
Attenzione e coscienza Book Chapter Girotto, V; Zorzi, M (Ed.): Manuale di psicologia generale, Chapter 6, pp. 125–139, Bologna: il Mulino , 2016. |
Memorie non coscienti Book Chapter Girotto, V; Zorzi, M (Ed.): Manuale di psicologia generale, Chapter 9, pp. 181–194, Bologna: il Mulino, 2016. |
2012 |
L'attenzione. Book Chapter Job, R; Cubelli, R (Ed.): I processi cognitivi, Chapter 3, pp. 93–120, Roma: Carocci Editore, 2012. |
2011 |
Le tecniche di "neuroimaging" Book Chapter Zennaro, A (Ed.): Lo sviluppo della psicopatologia, pp. 86–108, Bologna: il Mulino, 2011. |
2010 |
Visual spatial attention and visual short-term memory: Electro-magnetic explorations of the mind Book Chapter Coltheart, V (Ed.): Tutorials in visual cognition, pp. 143–185, Hove (UK): Psychology Press, 2010. |
2006 |
Attenzione e percezione Book Roma: Carocci Editore, 2006. |
2001 |
The attentional blink bottleneck Book Chapter Shapiro, K (Ed.): The limits of attention: Temporal constraints on human information processing, pp. 82–99, New York (NY): Oxford University Press., 2001. |
Teoria e metodi per lo studio di casi singoli neuropsicologici Book Chapter Soresi, S (Ed.): Disabilità, trattamento e integrazione, pp. 55–86, Pordenone: ERIP Editrice, 2001. |
2000 |
Monsell, S; Driver, J (Ed.): Attention & Performance XVIII: Control of Mental Processes, pp. 309–330, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2000. |
Conference papers
2016 |
Cross-modal matching of numerosity is subserved by the left parietal cortex in the developing brain Conference Biennal Meeting of the Society for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Paris (FR). October 13-16, 2016. |
A multi-modal fNIRS/EEG investigation of the fronto-parietal network during audio-visual matching Conference Biennal Meeting of the Society for Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Paris (FR). October 13-16, 2016. |
Comparing brain activity related to attention for lateral versus central targets presented among distractors Conference Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Minneapolis (USA). September 20–25, 2016. |
Comparing brain activity related to attention for lateral versus central targets presented among distractors Conference Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston (USA). November 17–20, 2016. |
The role of color in short-term memory maintenance Conference Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Ottawa (CA). June 24–26, 2016. |
2015 |
The neural substrate of lateralized visual short-term memory representations Conference Best Abstract Award at the Annual Meeting of Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu (USA). June 14–18, 2015. |
Encoding, attention, and masking in the attentional blink Conference Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Seattle (USA). September 30–October 4, 2015. |
2014 |
Working memory encoding in the attentional blink and its role in early attentional processing: Evidence from human electrophysiology Conference Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Toronto (CA). July 3–5, 2014. |
2013 |
Visual saliency pushes around the locus of attentional selection: Evidence from occipito-parietal ERP asymmetries Conference Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Firenze (IT). October 2–6, 2013. |
N2pc modulations reveal a local filtering mechanism in the human brain Conference Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research Firenze (IT). October 2–6, 2013. |
Papers in progress
2017 |
On the deployment of spatial attention to parafoveal Chinese characters: An event-related potential investigation Journal Article Paper submitted to International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2017. |
Differences in human electrophysiology for words and nonwords predict group differences in lexical processing Journal Article Paper submitted to Psychophysiology, 2017. |
A dual task account of non-color word interference on color naming Journal Article Paper submitted to Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2017. |
On the spatial nature of attentional selection indexed by the N2pc component Journal Article Manuscript in preparation, 2017. |
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