Conveners
Attention, Perception and Consciousness
- Federica Bencivenga (Université de Montréal)
The electrophysiological distinction between proper neural correlates of visual consciousness and post-perceptual processes remains a debated topic, with many questions about the timing and location of the respective neural mechanisms still open. To shed light on this matter, we employed a partial report paradigm: this allowed us to keep activity associated with stimulus perception identical...
Pazienti con disturbo da Stress Post-Traumatico (PTSD) possono mostrare deficit nel controllo inibitorio rispetto ad individui traumatizzati che non sviluppano il disturbo; tuttavia, i meccanismi neurocognitivi in risposta al trauma che permettono di distinguere tra resilienza e PTSD risultano poco esplorati.
Mediante l’uso del Flanker task a disegno fattoriale durante registrazione...
Feeling a touch is different from observing a touch. However, previous observations suggest shared neural representations between the two sensory modalities. To clarify this phenomenon, in this fMRI study, we employed inter-subject correlation (ISC) analysis, a measure of brain synchronization across individuals, between two groups of participants exposed either to a continuous passive tactile...
The perceived body location arises from the integration of multisensory inputs. However, whether top-down factors can modulate body position perception beyond multisensory integration remains unclear. Here, we investigated whether verbal conditioning could change the perceived body location and whether this effect depends on the presence of visual information (i.e., visual exposure to a...
Introduction
Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the cognitive neuroscience of prior knowledge implementation in perceptual decision-making. Previous studies emphasized the role of posterior alpha rhythms in exploiting explicit priors, showing cue-related amplitude modulations. Yet, the oscillatory mechanisms underlying prior learning remain poorly understood. In this study, we...
Lo studio indaga la relazione tra alcuni elementi strutturali basici di un’immagine (BSE) e il senso di rigeneratività (RIG) elicitata dalla visione di paesaggi naturali. L’Attention Restoration Theory (ART) postula che i paesaggi naturali possiedano caratteristiche che catturano automaticamente l’attenzione visiva, favorendo l’elaborazione dell’immagine e generando la percezione di RIG. Il...
Inherited Retinal Dystrophies (IRDs) are a group of genetically inherited disorders marked by the gradual degeneration of photoreceptors and leading to progressive vision loss. As retinal degeneration advances, compensatory changes may emerge across sensory, neural, motor, and psychological domains. The extent to which IRDs shape cortical responsiveness and the mechanisms underlying adaptive...
Eye-hand coordination is critical in many daily tasks and essential in sporting contexts, directly relating to performance outcomes. This topic has been central in research on traditional sports (i.e., tennis, basketball). This study investigates the learning patterns underlying eye-hand coordination and performance in videogames, a yet understudied but rapidly emerging discipline, focusing on...
Introduction: The dot-probe task assesses attentional bias toward emotional stimuli, though dot-locked dynamics, a marker of attentional engagement, remain underexplored. By combining behavioral (reaction times, RTs) and event-related potential (ERP) measures, we examined whether attentional engagement in healthy participants changed over the course of the task as a function of emotional...
