We study the interactive neurocognitive systems underlying Selective Attention and Motivated Cognition.

We have laboratories dedicated to behavioral, TMS and eye-movement studies on human subjects, as well as neurophysiology labs for single and multi-unit recordings from behaving non human primates.


We are based at the Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences - Section of Physiology and Psychology, at the University of Verona, Italy.

Research


MAIN PROJECTS

OTHER PROJECTS

  • The role of the cerebellum in cognitive functions
  • Attentional capture in Parkinson disease patients
  • The role of posterior parietal cortex (PPC) in spatial as well as non-spatial attention
  • To what extent biased competition captures the fundamental mechanism of visual selective attention in the ventral stream?
  • The processing locus (loci) where visual selective attention operates
  • Associative knowledge controls deployment of visual selective attention
  • To what extent the attentional deficits in extinction and neglect are truly spatial in nature?
  • The potential role of attention deficits in the autistic syndrome
  • The role of spatial and temporal attention deficits in developmental dyslexia