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
In: Cogn Psychol, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 138–202, 1998.
Publications
2024
The effect of occlusion on the visual working memory pointer-system Journal Article Forthcoming
In: Cortex, Forthcoming.
On the functional independence of numerical acuity and visual working memory Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 15, no. 1335857, 2024.
Unmasking conscious fear perception from faces: Insights from high-density EEG and perceptual awareness scale with threshold stimuli Journal Article
In: Cortex, vol. 174, pp. 93-109, 2024.
2023
Nulla si crea, nulla si distrugge, tutto si trasforma Journal Article
In: Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, vol. 3, pp. 597-601, 2023.
2022
On target selection as reflected by posterior ERP components in feature-guided visual search Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 59, pp. e14131, 2022.
A bilateral SPCN is elicited by to-be-memorized visual stimuli displayed along the vertical midline Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 59, pp. e14045, 2022.
2021
A neural network predicting the amplitude of the N2pc in individual EEG datasets Journal Article
In: Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, pp. 056044, 2021.
2020
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. e13651, 2020.
Multi-shell diffusion MRI based tractography of the facial nerve in vestibular schwannoma Journal Article
In: American Journal of Neuroradiology, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 1480-1486, 2020.
A bilateral N2pc (N2pcb) component is elicited by search targets displayed on the vertical midline Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. e13512, 2020.
Books and chapters
2016
Attenzione e coscienza Book Chapter
In: Girotto, V.; Zorzi, M. (Ed.): Manuale di psicologia generale, Chapter 6, pp. 125–139, Bologna: il Mulino , 2016.
Memorie non coscienti Book Chapter
In: Girotto, V.; Zorzi, M. (Ed.): Manuale di psicologia generale, Chapter 9, pp. 181–194, Bologna: il Mulino, 2016.
2012
L'attenzione. Book Chapter
In: Job, R.; Cubelli, R. (Ed.): I processi cognitivi, Chapter 3, pp. 93–120, Roma: Carocci Editore, 2012.
2011
Le tecniche di "neuroimaging" Book Chapter
In: 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
In: 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
In: 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
In: Soresi, S. (Ed.): Disabilità, trattamento e integrazione, pp. 55–86, Pordenone: ERIP Editrice, 2001.
2000
In: 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
In: Paper submitted to International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2017.
Differences in human electrophysiology for words and nonwords predict group differences in lexical processing Journal Article
In: Paper submitted to Psychophysiology, 2017.
A dual task account of non-color word interference on color naming Journal Article
In: 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
In: Manuscript in preparation, 2017.
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