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.

Elisa Santandrea

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Personal information

Position
Post Doctoral Fellow
Contact info

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Phone +39-0458027148
Email elisa.santandrea [AT] univr.it

Education

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2008 PhD in Psychological and Psychiatric Sciences
Dept. of Neurological and Vision Sciences – Sect. of Physiology – University of Verona – Italy

2003 Degree in Experimental Psychology (magna cum laude)
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano – Italy

Research interests

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1. Spatial priority maps for attentional control: plasticity, functional organization, permeability to multiple biasing signals.
2. Neural and functional correlates of visual selective attention. Temporal dynamics of perceptual and attentional processes.
3. Behavioral and neural manifestations of perceptual and attentional learning, with a specific interest in reward-based learning and statistical learning processes
4. Preparatory signals for reaching and grasping arm/hand actions in the posterior parietal cortex of the macaque monkey
5. Role of the cerebellum in cognitive functions, notably in perceptual learning

History

Member for
13 years 22 weeks