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| Massimo TurattoSummaryAffiliation: University of Trento Country: Italy Publications
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Change perception using visual transients: object substitution and deletionMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5, 38068, Rovereto, Italy
Exp Brain Res 167:595-608. 2005..However, no differences in RTs emerged in the same change detection task when objects' identity was not stored in working memory (Experiment 3)...- Attention makes moving objects be perceived to move fasterMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, Rovereto, Italy
Vision Res 47:166-78. 2007..However, our results suggest that this change in visual performance was not accompanied by a corresponding change in the phenomenological appearance of the speed of the moving stimulus... - Redundant visual signals boost saccade executionMassimo Turatto
University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Psychon Bull Rev 13:928-32. 2006.... - Crossmodal object-based attention: auditory objects affect visual processingMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5, 38068 Rovereto TN, Italy
Cognition 96:B55-64. 2005..Hence, in addition to the well documented control of visual objects over what we hear, our findings demonstrate that, in some cases, auditory objects can affect visual processing... 
On the speed of pop-out in feature searchMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Center for Mind Brain Sciences, Rovereto, TN, Italy
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:1145-52. 2010..However, when the task requires a detailed target analysis, the pop-out condition can be faster than the multiple-target condition. Current models of visual search are discussed in light of the findings...- The role of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in visual change awarenessMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben 5, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
Neuroreport 15:2549-52. 2004..Our findings are in agreement with a recent view emphasizing the role of frontal areas, in addition to classical ventral and dorsal pathways, in visual awareness... - On altering motion perception via working memory-based attention shiftsMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, Center for Mind Brain Science, University of Trento, Italy
J Vis 8:11.1-13. 2008..At present these data suggest that WM-based attention operates at different (later) stages of visual analysis than transient attention... - Space-independent modality-driven attentional capture in auditory, tactile and visual systemsMassimo Turatto
University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Exp Brain Res 155:301-10. 2004..The present results cannot be accounted for by spatial artifacts, response priming or criterion shifts, and are interpreted as the consequence of a space-independent attentional shift across sensory modalities... - Microsaccades distinguish between global and local visual processingMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Neuroreport 18:1015-8. 2007..The results provide support to the hypothesis that some coarse visual analysis can be performed in a distributed attention mode... - Microsaccadic responses in a bimodal oddball taskMatteo Valsecchi
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Corso Bettini, 31, 38068, Rovereto, Italy
Psychol Res 73:23-33. 2009.... 
Attentional selection and identification of visual objects are reflected by distinct electrophysiological responsesVeronica Mazza
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Exp Brain Res 181:531-6. 2007....- Microsaccadic response during inhibition of return in a target-target paradigmElena Betta
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5 I 38068 Rovereto, Italy
Vision Res 47:428-36. 2007..The results are consistent with the notion that IOR is composed of both attentional and oculomotor components, and challenge the view that covert orienting paradigms engage the attentional component in isolation... - Visual oddballs induce prolonged microsaccadic inhibitionMatteo Valsecchi
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben, 5, 38068, Rovereto, Italy
Exp Brain Res 177:196-208. 2007..Finally, we also introduce a new method for exploring the visual system response to oddball stimuli... - Inhibition of return in microsaccadesGiovanni Galfano
Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Via Matteo del Ben 5, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
Exp Brain Res 159:400-4. 2004..Because microsaccades are known not to be under conscious control, our results suggest strong links between IOR and unconscious oculomotor programming... - An electrophysiological assessment of distractor suppression in visual search tasksVeronica Mazza
Center for Mind Brain Sciences CIMeC, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Psychophysiology 46:771-5. 2009..Both results indicate that the N2pc is not unequivocally linked to distractor-suppression mechanisms, but may index mechanisms involved in identifying and localizing relevant stimuli through enhancement of their features... - Are you ready? I can tell by looking at your microsaccadesElena Betta
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Neuroreport 17:1001-4. 2006..Our findings, however, surprisingly demonstrate that the effect of preparation and stimulus expectation extends to an automatic and unconscious oculomotor activity such as microsaccade execution... - Cooperative and opposing effects of strategic and involuntary attentionVeronica Mazza
University of Trento, Italy
J Cogn Neurosci 23:2838-51. 2011..Overall, these findings suggest that, together with the physical properties of the stimuli presented in the visual field, irrelevant memory contents represent a powerful class of factors that lead to involuntary attentional control... - Attention selection, distractor suppression and N2pcVeronica Mazza
Center for Mind Brain Sciences CIMeC, University of Trento, Italy
Cortex 45:879-90. 2009..We propose that the N2pc indexes mechanisms involved in identifying and localizing relevant stimuli in the scene through enhancement of their features and not suppression of distractors... - Microsaccadic response to visual events that are invisible to the superior colliculusMatteo Valsecchi
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Cortso Bettini 31, I 38068 Rovereto, Italy
Behav Neurosci 121:786-93. 2007..Although the SC may be the generator of microsaccades, this research suggests that the specific fixational oculomotor activity in response to visual events can be controlled by other brain centers... - Microsaccadic inhibition and P300 enhancement in a visual oddball taskMatteo Valsecchi
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Psychophysiology 46:635-44. 2009.... - Unconscious priming instructions modulate activity in default and executive networks of the human brainNicola De Pisapia
CIMeC Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto TN 38068, Italy
Cereb Cortex 22:639-49. 2012.... - The role of the magnocellular and parvocellular systems in the redundant target effectMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Exp Brain Res 158:141-50. 2004..In contrast, stimuli presumably processed by the parvocellular system are compatible with a probabilistic redundancy gain... - Are the effects of attention on speed judgments genuinely perceptual?Matteo Valsecchi
University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Atten Percept Psychophys 72:637-50. 2010..We suggest that the effect revealed by comparative judgments arises at the decisional, rather than the perceptual, stage... - Stimulus-driven attentional capture: An empirical comparison of display-size and distance methodsMassimo Turatto
Department of Cognition Sciences and Education, University of Trenton, Rovereto, Italy
Q J Exp Psychol A 57:297-324. 2004.... - Change blindness in profoundly deaf individuals and cochlear implant recipientsDavide Bottari
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Brain Res 1242:209-18. 2008.... - Small-sample characterization of stochastic approximation staircases in forced-choice adaptive threshold estimationLuca Faes
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Trento, Povo, Trento, Italy
Percept Psychophys 69:254-62. 2007..These results prompt the utilization of SA staircases in practical forced-choice estimation of sensory thresholds... - Change perception in complex auditory scenesFrancesco Pavani
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Percept Psychophys 70:619-29. 2008..Taken together, these findings indicate that the intuitive parallels between visual and auditory change perception should be reconsidered... - Change detection evokes a Simon-like effectGiovanni Galfano
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Universita di Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131 I Padova, Italy
Acta Psychol (Amst) 127:186-96. 2008..Overall, our findings show that a Simon-like effect can only be observed under conditions of explicit change detection, likely because a shift of attention towards the change location has occurred... - How automatic are audiovisual links in exogenous spatial attention?Veronica Mazza
Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Neuropsychologia 45:514-22. 2007..This is consistent with the notion that peripheral auditory stimuli are very powerful in capturing visual attention... - Rare stimuli or rare changes: what really matters for the brain?Veronica Mazza
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Neuroreport 16:1061-4. 2005..Hence, we suggest that changes are preferentially processed by the brain only when they involve the occurrence of new and rare stimuli... - Foreground-background segmentation and attention: a change blindness studyVeronica Mazza
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Psychol Res 69:201-10. 2005..This also supports the phenomenal observations made by Gestaltists, who demonstrated the greater salience of the foreground than the background... - Nonspatial attentional shifts between audition and visionMassimo Turatto
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 28:628-39. 2002..The authors suggest that such cross-modal limitation can be produced by simply presenting S1 and S2 in different modalities and that central processing mechanisms are also, at least partially, modality dependent... - Looking without seeing the background change: electrophysiological correlates of change detection versus change blindnessMassimo Turatto
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Cognition 84:B1-10. 2002..These results, which challenge directly the position that 'dumb attentional mechanisms' can account for word learning, stand as evidence for the central role of conceptual information in mapping words to meaning... - Two orienting mechanisms in posterior parietal lobule: an rTMS study of the Simon and SNARC effectsElena Rusconi
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Cogn Neuropsychol 24:373-92. 2007..Results suggested a causal role of the anterior portion of PPL of both hemispheres in the Simon effect and of the posterior portion of PPL of both hemispheres in the Simon effect and the SNARC effect...