
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
Publications
2018
On pacing trials while scanning brain hemodynamics: The case of the SNARC effect Journal Article
In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 2267–2273, 2018.
The SNARC effect is not a unitary phenomenon Journal Article
In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 25, pp. 688-695, 2018.
N2pc reflects two modes for coding the number of visual targets Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. e13219, 2018.
2017
Backward masking interrupts spatial attention, slows downstream processing, and limits conscious perception Journal Article
In: Consciousness and Cognition, no. 54, pp. 101-113, 2017.
On the role of the inferior intraparietal sulcus in visual working memory for lateralized single-feature objects Journal Article
In: J Cogn Neurosci, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 337–351, 2017.
2016
In: Neurophotonics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 045009, 2016.
Enhanced frontal activation underlies sparing from the attentional blink: Evidence from human electrophysiology Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 623–633, 2016.
2015
Lack of visual field asymmetries for spatial cueing in reading parafoveal Chinese characters Journal Article
In: Psychon Bull Rev, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1764–1769, 2015.
Audio-visual dynamics in multiple object processing: Is attending to both modalities a prerequisite for the flexibility of individuation? An N2pc study Conference
Rovereto Attention Workshop, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, 2015.
The attentional blink impairs detection and delays encoding of visual information: Evidence from human electrophysiology Journal Article
In: J Cogn Neurosci, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 720–735, 2015.
Books and chapters
Conference papers
2013
Semantic satiation within-category Conference
International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife (SP). March 20–23, 2013.
Color naming of a non-color word Stroop task as a dual-task Conference
Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto (CA). November 14–17, 2013.
2012
Exploring the role of primary and supplementary motor areas in simple motor tasks with fNIRS Conference
International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Rome (IT). September 4–8, 2012.
Event-related potentials distinguish between distinct sources of semantic activation in the attentional blink Conference
World Congress of Psychophysiology, Pisa (IT). September 13–17, 2012.
Stima della risposta emodinamica evento-relata (HR) da segnali fNIRS Conference
Annual Meeting of the Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria, Rome (IT). June 26–29, 2012.
Seeing red: Color-specific differences in attentional deployment Conference
Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Montreal (CA). February 15–18, 2012.
2011
Central interference and psychological refractory period: Effects of visual spatial attention mechanisms distinguishing target and distractor processing Conference
Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston (USA). September 14–18, 2011.
Contralateral cortical organization of information in visual short-term memory: Isolating target from distractor activity during retrieval Conference
Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston (USA). September 14–18, 2011.
The distractor frequency effect: An overt naming ERPs study Conference
Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Donostia - San Sebastian (SPN). September 29 – October 2, 2011.
Semantic effects in the attentional blink: Relatedness proportion modulates the P2 and the N400 component of the event-related potentials Conference
Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Donostia - San Sebastian (SPN). September 29 – October 2, 2011.
Papers in progress
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