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Orienting of spatial attention and the interplay between the sensesEmiliano Macaluso
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina 306, Rome, Italy
Cortex 46:282-97. 2010..I discuss these findings in relation to functional/anatomical pathways that may mediate multisensory attention control, highlighting possible links between spatial attention and multisensory integration of space...- The representation of space near the body through touch and visionE Macaluso
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
Neuropsychologia 48:782-95. 2010..These integration processes mediate the orienting of spatial attention and generate an efficient and flexible representation the space around the body... - Delay activity and sensory-motor translation during planned eye or hand movements to visual or tactile targetsE Macaluso
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306 00179 Roma, Italy
J Neurophysiol 98:3081-94. 2007.... - Spatial re-orienting of visual attention along the horizontal or the vertical axisE Macaluso
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Roma, Italy
Exp Brain Res 180:23-34. 2007..We conclude that in healthy volunteers, a bilateral ventral network controls spatial covert re-orienting, and that this system is multidirectional... - Multisensory processing in sensory-specific cortical areasEmiliano Macaluso
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome
Neuroscientist 12:327-38. 2006..These findings highlight integration mechanisms that go beyond traditional models based on a hierarchical convergence of sensory processing... - Multisensory stimulation with or without saccades: fMRI evidence for crossmodal effects on sensory-specific cortices that reflect multisensory location-congruence rather than task-relevanceE Macaluso
Fondazione Santa Lucia, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Rome, Italy
Neuroimage 26:414-25. 2005..These results reveal crossmodal spatial-congruence effects upon visual and somatosensory sensory-specific areas that are relatively 'automatic', determined by the spatial relation of multisensory input rather than by its task-relevance... - Multisensory spatial interactions: a window onto functional integration in the human brainEmiliano Macaluso
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Via Ardeatina, 306 00179 Rome, Italy
Trends Neurosci 28:264-71. 2005..Such findings call for a revision of traditional assumptions about multisensory processing in the brain... - Influence of gaze direction on crossmodal modulation of visual ERPS by endogenous tactile spatial attentionE Macaluso
Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Via Ardeatina, 306 00179, Rome, Italy
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:406-17. 2005..While the P1 crossmodal effect followed purely hemispheric constraints, the attentional modulation of N1 appeared to combine both anatomical and external spatial constraints... - Right temporal-parietal junction engagement during spatial reorienting does not depend on strategic attention controlE Natale
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Neuropsychologia 48:1160-4. 2010.... - Action anticipation beyond the action observation network: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in expert basketball playersA M Abreu
Neuroimaging and Social Neuroscience Laboratories, Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Eur J Neurosci 35:1646-54. 2012..This functional reorganization highlights the tight relationship between action anticipation, error awareness and motor expertise leading to body-related processing and differences in decision-making processes... - Spatial attention can modulate audiovisual integration at multiple cortical and subcortical sitesS L Fairhall
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
Eur J Neurosci 29:1247-57. 2009.... - Single-epoch analysis of interleaved evoked potentials and fMRI responses during steady-state visual stimulationM Bianciardi
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Clin Neurophysiol 120:738-47. 2009..Aim of the study was to record BOLD-fMRI interleaved with evoked potentials for single-epochs of visual stimulation and to investigate the possible relationship between these two measures... - Interactions between voluntary and stimulus-driven spatial attention mechanisms across sensory modalitiesValerio Santangelo
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 21:2384-97. 2009..These results demonstrate that multisensory mechanisms of attentional control can integrate endogenous and exogenous spatial information, jointly determining attentional orienting toward the most relevant spatial location... - Attending to multiple visual streams: interactions between location-based and category-based attentional selectionSabrina Fagioli
Neuro imaging Laborartory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1628-41. 2009..We conclude that, under conditions of multiple streams monitoring, fronto-parietal regions control location- and category-based attentional selection... - The brain network underlying serial visual search: comparing overt and covert spatial orienting, for activations and for effective connectivityS L Fairhall
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, 00179 Rome, Italy
Cereb Cortex 19:2946-58. 2009..We conclude that dynamics within the dorsal fronto-parietal attentional system flexibly reorganize to integrate task demands and oculomotor requirements... - FMRI correlates of visuo-spatial reorienting investigated with an attention shifting double-cue paradigmElena Natale
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2367-81. 2009..Within both circuits, activity was unaffected by the validity of the other cue. These results indicate the existence of separate, noninteracting neural circuits for endogenous and exogenous reorienting of visuo-spatial attention... - Representation of visual gravitational motion in the human vestibular cortexIole Indovina
Department of Neuromotor Physiology, Scientific Institute Foundation Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Science 308:416-9. 2005..These findings demonstrate that predictive mechanisms of physical laws of motion are represented in the human brain... - Interaural temporal and coherence cues jointly contribute to successful sound movement perception and activation of parietal cortexU Zimmer
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy
Neuroimage 46:1200-8. 2009.... - Vestibular nuclei and cerebellum put visual gravitational motion in contextWilliam L Miller
Dept of Neuromotor Physiology, Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
J Neurophysiol 99:1969-82. 2008..Our results suggest an early stage of integration of high-level visual analysis with gravity-related motion information, which may represent the substrate for perceptual constancy of ubiquitous gravitational motion... - Episodic memory impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease is correlated with entorhinal cortex atrophy. A voxel-based morphometry studyM Di Paola
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
J Neurol 254:774-81. 2007..Damage to the entorhinal cortex, deafferenting the hippocampus from neocortical inputs, interferes with episodic memory consolidation in AD patients... - High binaural coherence determines successful sound localization and increased activity in posterior auditory areasU Zimmer
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, Rome 00179, Italy
Neuron 47:893-905. 2005..We conclude that binaural coherence cues are processed throughout the auditory cortex and that these cues are used in posterior regions for successful auditory localization... - Processing of multisensory spatial congruency can be dissociated from working memory and visuo-spatial attentionUlrike Zimmer
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy
Eur J Neurosci 26:1681-91. 2007..Critically, these cross-modal effects occurred irrespective of the level of load. We conclude that processing of visuo-tactile spatial congruency in the visual cortex does not depend on available visuo-spatial and memory resources... - Occipital-parietal interactions during shifts of exogenous visuospatial attention: trial-dependent changes of effective connectivityIole Indovina
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306 00179, Rome, Italy
Magn Reson Imaging 22:1477-86. 2004..Our results highlight how changes of connectivity between brain areas can describe attentional processes such as stimulus-driven shifts of spatial attention... - Processing of targets in smooth or apparent motion along the vertical in the human brain: an fMRI studyVincenzo Maffei
Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina 306, Rome, Italy
J Neurophysiol 103:360-70. 2010..Instead, a region in the inferior parietal lobule showed a preference for visual gravitational motion only in LAM but not RM... - Visual and semantic processing of living things and artifacts: an FMRI studyGian Daniele Zannino
I R C C S S Lucia, 00179 Rome, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 22:554-70. 2010..Finally, we attempt to reconcile contrasting data in the neuropsychological and functional imaging literature on semantic substrate and category specificity... - Amblyopic dyslexia: a little investigated reading disorderFrancesco Barban
Clinical and Behavioural Neurology Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Neurocase 16:397-407. 2010..The criteria for distinguishing amblyopic dyslexia from other reading disorders and the most appropriate treatment are discussed... - Dissociation of stimulus relevance and saliency factors during shifts of visuospatial attentionIole Indovina
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Cereb Cortex 17:1701-11. 2007..These findings indicate that task relevance is critical for stimulus-driven engagement of the attentional network when attentional resources are endogenously allocated somewhere else... - Auditory temporal expectations modulate activity in visual cortexDomenica Bueti
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy
Neuroimage 51:1168-83. 2010.... - The costs of monitoring simultaneously two sensory modalities decrease when dividing attention in spaceValerio Santangelo
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
Neuroimage 49:2717-27. 2010.... - Structural correlates of implicit learning deficits in subjects with developmental dyslexiaDeny Menghini
Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS, Children s Hospital Bambino Gesu, Rome, Italy
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1145:212-21. 2008..These structural abnormalities are consistent with functional changes and reinforce the hypothesis that an impairment of IL might play a relevant role in learning to read... - Grey and white matter changes at different stages of Alzheimer's diseaseLaura Serra
Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
J Alzheimers Dis 19:147-59. 2010.... - Neural basis of generation of conclusions in elementary deductionCarlo Reverberi
Department of Psychology, Universita Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Neuroimage 38:752-62. 2007..Taken together with results from preceding studies, our findings suggest possible theoretically relevant dissociations between elementary propositional deductions and other types of deductive reasoning... - Neural basis for priming of pop-out during visual search revealed with fMRIArni Kristjansson
Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Cereb Cortex 17:1612-24. 2007.... - Simultaneous EEG-fMRI acquisition: how far is it from being a standardized technique?Girolamo Garreffa
Laboratorio Neurofisiopatologia, IRCCS Fondazione S. Lucia, 00179 Roma, Italy; Enrico Fermi Center, 00184 Rome, Italy
Magn Reson Imaging 22:1445-55. 2004..These issues are presented in the context of preliminary data regarding simultaneous acquisition of event-related evoked potentials and BOLD images during a visual odd-ball paradigm... - Multimodal spatial representations in the human parietal cortex: evidence from functional imagingEmiliano Macaluso
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Adv Neurol 93:219-33. 2003 - Multimodal spatial representations engaged in human parietal cortex during both saccadic and manual spatial orientingEmiliano Macaluso
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Street, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 13:990-9. 2003..Here we crossed sensory stimulation of different modalities (vision or touch, in left or right hemifield) with spatially directed responses to such stimulation by different effector-systems (saccadic or manual)... - Supramodal effects of covert spatial orienting triggered by visual or tactile eventsEmiliano Macaluso
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 14:389-401. 2002.... - The functional neuroanatomy of temporal discriminationMaria A Pastor
Department of Neurology, University of Navarre School of Medicine, Clinica Universitaria, 31080 Pamplona, Spain
J Neurosci 24:2585-91. 2004..However, activation of pre-SMA and anterior cingulate was found to be specific to the TD task. This suggests that these two frontal regions may play a role in the temporal processing of somatosensory events... - A common cortical substrate activated by horizontal and vertical sound movement in the human brainFrancesco Pavani
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 12:1584-90. 2002..These results demonstrate that sound movement in vertical and horizontal dimensions engages a common processing network in the human cerebral cortex and show that multidimensional spatial properties of sounds are processed at this level...