Maria Concetta Morrone
Professor of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pisa
Curriculum Vitae
Contacts
Current research and interests
Development and plasticity of human visual system
fMRI of human visual cortex
Multi-sensory perception
Infant vision
Motion perception
Neural oscillations
Visual stability
Spatiotopicity
Perception of time
Numerosity perception
- Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, via San Zeno 31, 56123 Pisa (Italy)
- Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Benedetto, A., Binda, P., Costagli, M., Tosetti, M., & Morrone, M. C.
Predictive visuo-motor communication through neural oscillations
Current Biology
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- Bhat, A., Biagi, L., Cioni, G., Tinelli, F., & Morrone, M. C.
Cortical thickness of primary visual cortex correlates with motion deficits in periventricular leukomalacia
Neuropsychologia, 151, 107717
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- Daniele, G., Lunghi, C., Dardano, A., Binda, P., Ceccarini, G., Santini, F., Giusti, L., Ciccarone, A., Bellini, R., Moretto, C., Morrone, M. C., & Del Prato, S.
Bariatric surgery restores visual cortical plasticity in nondiabetic subjects with obesity
International Journal of Obesity
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- Anobile, G., Morrone, M. C., Ricci, D., Gallini, F., Merusi, I., & Tinelli, F.
Typical Crossmodal Numerosity Perception in Preterm Newborns
Multisensory Research, 1–22
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- Jason Bell, David C.Burr, Kate Crookes, Maria Concetta Morrone
Perceptual oscillations in gender classification of faces, contingent on stimulus history
iScience Volume 23, Issue 10, 23 October 2020, 101573
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- JW Kurzawski, K Mikellidou, MC Morrone, F Pestilli
The visual white matter connecting human area prostriata and the thalamus is retinotopically organized
Brain Structure and Function, 1-15
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- Cecilia Steinwurzel; Silvia Animali; Guido Marco Cicchini; Maria Concetta Morrone; Paola Binda
Using psychophysical performance to predict short-term Ocular Dominance plasticity in human adults
Journal of Vision July 2020, Vol.20, 6.
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- Benedetto, A., Morrone, M. C., & Tomassini, A.
The Common Rhythm of Action and Perception
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(2), 187–200.
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- Castaldi, E., Lunghi, C., & Morrone, M. C.
Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 112, 542–552
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- Hao Tam Ho, David C. Burr, David Alais, Maria Concetta Morrone
Auditory Perceptual History Is Propagated through Alpha Oscillations
Current Biology 29 (24)
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- Lunghi C, Daniele G, Binda P, Dardano A, Ceccarini G, Santini F, Del Prato S, Morrone MC
Altered Visual Plasticity in Morbidly Obese Subjects
iScience. 2019 Dec;22 206-213.
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- Benedetto, A., & Morrone, M.C.
Visual sensitivity and bias oscillate phase-locked to saccadic eye movements
Journal of Vision, 14 (19), 15.
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- Huihui Zhang, Maria Concetta Morrone & David Alais
Behavioural oscillations in visual orientation discrimination reveal distinct modulation rates for both sensitivity and response bias.
Sci Rep, 1 (9), 1115.
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- Lo Verde, L., Alais, D., Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C., MacDougall, H., & Verstraten, F. A. J.
Time dilation effect in an active observer and virtual environment requires apparent motion: No dilation for retinal- or world-motion alone.
Journal of Vision, 19(3), 4.
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- Castaldi E, Cicchini GM, Falsini B, Binda P, Morrone MC.
Residual Visual Responses in Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Translational Vision Science & Technology, 6 (8), 44.
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- Tomassini, A., Vercillo, T., Torricelli, F. & Morrone, M. C. (2018).
Rhythmic motor behaviour influences perception of visual time, Proc Biol Sci, 1888 (285).
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- Benedetto, A., Burr, D. C., & Morrone, M. C.
Perceptual Oscillation of Audiovisual Time Simultaneity
ENeuro, 5(3).
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- Mikellidou, K., Frijia, F., Montanaro, D., Greco, V., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2018).
Cortical BOLD responses to moderate- and high-speed motion in the human visual cortex, Sci Rep, 1 (8), 8357.
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- Castaldi, E., Tinelli, F., Cicchini, M. & Morrone, M. C. (2018).
Supramodal agnosia for oblique mirror orientation in patients with periventricular leukomalacia, Cortex.
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- Claudia Lunghi Angela T. Sframeli Antonio Lepri Martina Lepri Domenico Lisi Alessandro Sale Maria C. Morrone
A new counterintuitive training for adult amblyopia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.
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- Paola Binda, Jan W Kurzawski, Claudia Lunghi, Laura Biagi, Michela Tosetti, Maria Concetta Morrone
Response to short-term deprivation of the human adult visual cortex measured with 7T BOLD
Elife, (7).
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- Paola Binda and Maria Concetta Morrone
Vision During Saccadic Eye Movements
Annual Review of Vision Science, 1 (4), 193-213
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- Zimmermann, E., Morrone, M. C. & Binda, P.
Perception during double-step saccades
Sci Rep, 1 (8), 320
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- Zimmermann, E., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. (2015).
Visual mislocalization during saccade sequences,Exp Brain Res, 2 (233), 577-585.
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- Biagi, L., Crespi, S. A., Tosetti, M. & Morrone, M. C. (2015).
BOLD Response Selective to Flow-Motion in Very Young Infants, PLoS Biol, 9 (13), e1002260.
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- Tomassini, A., Spinelli, D., Jacono, M., Sandini, G. & Morrone, M. C. (2015).
Rhythmic oscillations of visual contrast sensitivity synchronized with action,J Neurosci, 18 (35), 7019-7029.
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- Melcher, D., Morrone, M. C. (2015).
Nonretinotopic visual processing in the brain,Vis Neurosci, 32, e017.
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- Cicchini, G. M., Marino, C., Mascheretti, S., Perani, D. & Morrone, M. C. (2015).
Strong Motion Deficits in Dyslexia Associated with DCDC2 Gene Alteration,J Neurosci, 21 (35), 8059-8064.
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- Lunghi, C., Berchicci, M., Morrone, M. C. & Di Russo, F. (2015).
Short-term monocular deprivation alters early components of visual evoked potentials, J Physiol, 19 (593), 4361-4372.
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- Zimmermann, E., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. (2014).
The visual component to saccadic compression,J Vis, 12 (14).
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- Zimmermann, E., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. (2014).
Buildup of spatial information over time and across eye-movements,Behavioural brain research.
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- Tomassini, A., Gori, M., Baud-Bovy, G., Sandini, G. & Morrone, M. C. (2014).
Motor commands induce time compression for tactile stimuli,J Neurosci, 27 (34), 9164-9172.
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- Morrone, M. C. (2014).
Interaction between Eye Movements and Vision: Perception during Saccades. In J. S. W. L. M. Chalupa (Ed.), The New Visual Neuroscience (2nd ed., pp. 947 -962): MIT Press.
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- Lunghi, C., Morrone, M. C. & Alais, D. (2014).
Auditory and tactile signals combine to influence vision during binocular rivalry,J Neurosci, 3 (34), 784-792.
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- Sani, I., Santandrea, E., Golzar, A., Morrone, M. C. & Chelazzi, L. (2013).
Selective tuning for contrast in macaque area V4,J Neurosci, 47 (33), 18583-18596.
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- Zimmerman, E., Morrone,M.C. & Burr, DC.. (2013).
Spatial position information accumulates steadily over time, J Neurosci 33(47):18396-18401.
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- Pooresmaeili, A., Arrighi, R., Biagi, L. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
Blood oxygen level-dependent activation of the primary visual cortex predicts size adaptation illusion,J Neurosci, 40 (33), 15999-16008.
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- Burr, D., Della Rocca, E. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
Erratum to: Contextual effects in interval-duration judgements in vision, audition and touch,Exp Brain Res.
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- Burr, D., Rocca, E. D. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
Contextual effects in interval-duration judgements in vision, audition and touch,Exp Brain Res.
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- Castaldi, E., Frijia, F., Montanaro, D., Tosetti, M. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
BOLD human responses to chromatic spatial features,Eur J Neurosci, 2 (38), 2290-2299.
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- Orchard-Mills, E., Leung, J., Burr, D., Morrone, M. C., Wufong, E., Carlile, S., et al. (2013).
A mechanism for detecting coincidence of auditory and visual spatial signals,Multisens Res, 4 (26), 333-345.
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- Zimmermann, E., Morrone, M. C., Fink, G. R. & Burr, D. (2013).
Spatiotopic neural representations develop slowly across saccades,Curr Biol, 5 (23), R193-194.
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- Knoll, J., Morrone, M. C. & Bremmer, F. (2013).
Spatio-temporal topography of saccadic overestimation of time,Vision Res, (83C), 56-65.
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- Gori, M., Sciutti, A., Jacono, M., Sandini, G., Morrone, C. & Burr, D. C. (2013).
Long Integration Time for Accelerating and Decelerating Visual, Tactile and Visuo-tactile Stimuli, Multisensory Research, 1-2 (26), 53-68.
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- Pooresmaeili, A., Cicchini, G.M., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D.C. (2013).
Spatiotemporal filtering and motion illusions, Journal of Vision, (13)10-21.
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- Lunghi, C. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
Early interaction between vision and touch during binocular rivalry,Multisens Res, 3 (26), 291-306.
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- Lunghi, C., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
Long-term effects of monocular deprivation revealed with binocular rivalry gratings modulated in luminance and in color,J Vis, 6 (13),
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- Cicchini, G. M., Binda, P., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2013).
Transient spatiotopic integration across saccadic eye movements mediates visual stability,J Neurophysiol, 4 (109), 1117-1125.
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- Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2012).
Constructing stable spatial maps of the world,Perception, 11 (41), 1355-1372.
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- Morrone, M. C. M. (2012).
Plasticità ed adattabilità della visione,Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, (3), 517-522.
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- Tomassini, A., Gori, M., Burr, D., Sandini, G. & Morrone, M. C. (2012).
Active movement restores veridical event-timing after tactile adaptation,J Neurophysiol, 8 (108), 2092-2100.
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- Zimmermann, E., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. (2012).
Visual motion distorts visual and motor space, J Vis, 2 (12),
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- Panichi, M., Burr, D., Morrone, M. C. & Baldassi, S. (2012).
Spatiotemporal dynamics of perisaccadic remapping in humans revealed by classification images,J Vis, 4 (12), 11.
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- Tinelli, T., Cicchini, G.M., Arrighi, R., Tosetti, M., Cioni, G., Morrone M. C. (2012).
Blindsight in children with congenital and acquired cerebral lesions, Cortex (published online 10 August 2012)
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- Pooresmaeili, A., Cicchini, G. M., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. (2012).
“Non-retinotopic processing” in Ternus motion displays modeled by spatiotemporal filters,J Vis, 1 (12),
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- Binda, P., Morrone, M. C. & Bremmer, F. (2012).
Saccadic compression of symbolic numerical magnitude,PLoS One, 11 (7), e49587.
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- Zimmerman, E., Burr D.C., and Morrone, M.C. (2011).
Spatiotopic Visual Maps Revealed by Saccadic Adaptation in Humans, Curr Biol. 2011 Aug 23;21(16):1380-4
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- Tomassini A, Gori M, Burr D, Sandini G and Morrone MC (2011).
Perceived duration of visual and tactile stimuli depends on perceived speed. Front. Integr. Neurosci. 5:51
- Crespi, S., Biagi, L., d'Avossa, G., Burr, D. C., Tosetti, M. & Morrone, M. C. (2011).
Spatiotopic Coding of BOLD Signal in Human Visual Cortex Depends on Spatial Attention,PLoS One, 7 (6), e21661.
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- Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2011).
Spatiotopic coding and remapping in humans,Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 1564 (366), 504-515.
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- Burr, D. C., Cicchini, G. M., Arrighi, R. & Morrone, M. C. (2011).
Spatiotopic selectivity of adaptation-based compression of event duration, J Vis, 2 (11), 21; author reply 21a.
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- Lunghi C, Burr DC, Morrone C. (2011).
Brief periods of monocular deprivation disrupt ocular balance in human adult visual cortex, Curr Biol. 2011 Jul 26;21(14):R538-9.
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- Knoll, J., Binda, P., Morrone, M. C. & Bremmer, F. (2011).
Spatiotemporal profile of peri-saccadic contrast sensitivity,J Vis, 14 (11).
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- Binda, P., Morrone, M. C., Ross, J. & Burr, D. C. (2011).
Underestimation of perceived number at the time of saccades,Vision Res, 1 (51), 34-42.
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- Campanella, F., Sandini, G. & Morrone, M. C. (2010).
Visual information gleaned by observing grasping movement in allocentric and egocentric perspectives,Proc Biol Sci, 1715 (278), 2142-2149.
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- Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2010).
Vision: keeping the world still when the eyes move,Curr Biol, 10 (20), R442-444.
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- Schutz, A. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2010).
Compression of time during smooth pursuit eye movements,Vision Res, 24 (50), 2702-2713.
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- Morrone, M. C. (2010).
Brain development: critical periods for cross-sensory plasticity,Curr Biol, 21 (20), R934-936.
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- Morrone, M. C., Cicchini, M. & Burr, D. C. (2010).
Spatial maps for time and motion,Exp Brain Res, 2 (206), 121-128.
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- Binda, P., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. (2010).
Temporal auditory capture does not affect the time course of saccadic mislocalization of visual stimuli,J Vis, 2 (10), 7 1-13.
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- Burr, D. C., Ross, J., Binda, P. & Morrone, M. C. (2010).
Saccades compress space, time and number,Trends Cogn Sci, 12 (14), 528-533.
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- Lunghi, C., Binda, P. & Morrone, M. C. (2010).
Touch disambiguates rivalrous perception at early stages of visual analysis,Curr Biol, 4 (20), R143-144.
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- Burr, D. C., Baldassi, S., Morrone, M. C. & Verghese, P. (2009).
Pooling and segmenting motion signals,Vision Res, 10 (49), 1065-1072.
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- Burr, D., Banks, M. S. & Morrone, M. C. (2009).
Auditory dominance over vision in the perception of interval duration,Exp Brain Res, 1 (198), 49-57.
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- Burr, D., Silva, O., Cicchini, G. M., Banks, M. S. & Morrone, M. C. (2009).
Temporal mechanisms of multimodal binding,Proc Biol Sci, 1663 (276), 1761-1769.
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- Cicchini, G. M. & Morrone, M. C. (2009).
Shifts in spatial attention affect the perceived duration of events,J Vis, 1 (9), 9 1-13.
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- Binda, P., Cicchini, G. M., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2009).
Spatiotemporal distortions of visual perception at the time of saccades,J Neurosci, 42 (29), 13147-13157.
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- Morrone, M. C., Guzzetta, A., Tinelli, F., Tosetti, M., Del Viva, M., Montanaro, D., et al. (2008).
Inversion of perceived direction of motion caused by spatial undersampling in two children with periventricular leukomalacia,J Cogn Neurosci, 6 (20), 1094-1106.
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- Perna, A., Tosetti, M., Montanaro, D. & Morrone, M. C. (2008).
BOLD response to spatial phase congruency in human brain,J Vis, 10 (8), 15 11-15.
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- Chirimuuta, M., Burr, D. & Morrone, M. C. (2007).
The role of perceptual learning on modality-specific visual attentional effects,Vision Res, 1 (47), 60-70.
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- Perna, A. & Morrone, M. C. (2007).
The lowest spatial frequency channel determines brightness perception,Vision Res, 10 (47), 1282-1291.
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- Tozzi, A., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. (2007).
The effect of optokinetic nystagmus on the perceived position of briefly flashed targets,Vision Res, 6 (47), 861-868.
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- d'Avossa, G., Tosetti, M., Crespi, S., Biagi, L., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2007).
Spatiotopic selectivity of BOLD responses to visual motion in human area MT,Nat Neurosci, 2 (10), 249-255.
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- Burr, D., Tozzi, A. & Morrone, M. C. (2007).
Neural mechanisms for timing visual events are spatially selective in real-world coordinates,Nat Neurosci, 4 (10), 423-425.
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- Bruno, A. & Morrone, M. C. (2007).
Influence of saccadic adaptation on spatial localization: comparison of verbal and pointing reports,J Vis, 5 (7), 16 11-13.
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- Binda, P., Bruno, A., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (2007).
Fusion of visual and auditory stimuli during saccades: a Bayesian explanation for perisaccadic distortions,J Neurosci, 32 (27), 8525-8532.
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- Burr, D. & Morrone, C. (2006).
Time perception: space-time in the brain,Curr Biol, 5 (16), R171-173.
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- Alais, D., Morrone, C. & Burr, D. (2006).
Separate attentional resources for vision and audition,Proc Biol Sci, 1592 (273), 1339-1345.
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- Burr, D., McKee, S. & Morrone, C. M. (2006).
Resolution for spatial segregation and spatial localization by motion signals,Vision Res, 6-7 (46), 932-939.
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- Burr, D. & Morrone, C. (2006).
Perception: transient disruptions to neural space-time,Curr Biol, 19 (16), R847-849.
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- Bruno, A., Brambati, S. M., Perani, D. & Morrone, M. C. (2006).
Development of saccadic suppression in children,J Neurophysiol, 3 (96), 1011-1017.
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- Del Viva, M. M. & Morrone, M. C. (2006).
A feature-tracking model simulates the motion direction bias induced by phase congruency,J Vis, 3 (6), 179-195.
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- Alessandro Benedetto, Paola Binda, Mauro Costagli, Michela Tosetti, and Maria Concetta Morrone
Voluntary action rhythmically modulates 7T BOLD visual responses in primary visual cortex
AIRMM XI Congress
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- Morrone Maria Concetta, Benedetto Alessandro, Costagli Mauro, Tosetti Michela, Binda Paola
Voluntary action rhythmically modulates 7T BOLD visual responses in primary visual cortex
ISMRM 2020
Paris Francedigital poster
- Benedetto Alessandro, Binda Paola, Costagli Mauro, Tosetti Michela, Morrone Maria Concetta
Voluntary action modulates visually evoked cortical responses in primary visual cortex: an integrated ultra-high field fMRI and EEG study
CyPi
Nicosia, Cyprusinvited talk
2019
Luca Lo Verde, David Alais , David Charles Burr, Maria Concetta Morrone , Hamish MacDougall, Frans A. J. Verstraten Recalibrating time perception to self-motion
Sage journals
https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619863862 25-29/08/2019 Pisatalk
- Ho, H.Tam, David Burr, Alais, D., Morrone, M. C.
Oscillations of Sensitivity and Response Bias in Auditory Perception
Département d'études cognitives, École normale supérieure
Paristalk
2019
Elisa Castaldi, Guido Marco Cicchini, Benedetto Falsini, Paola Binda, Maria Concetta Morrone Residual Visual Responses In Patients with retinitis pigmentosa revealed by functional magnetic
CNR Annual Retreat 2019
02-04/10/2019 Pisatalk
2019
Maria Concetta Morrone Neural plasticity of the visual brain in infants and in adults
International Neuropsychological Symposium
25-29/06/2019 Vietri sul Mare Italia talk
- Benedetto Alessandro, Binda Paola, Costagli Mauro, Tosetti Michela, Morrone Maria Concetta
Voluntary action modulates visually evoked cortical responses in primary visual cortex: an integrated ultra-high field fMRI and EEG study
FEPS-SIF meeting
Bolognatalk
- Benedetto Alessandro, Binda Paola, Costagli Mauro, Tosetti Michela, Morrone Maria Concetta
Voluntary action modulates visually evoked cortical responses in primary visual cortex: an integrated ultra-high field fMRI and EEG study
ECVP, 42nd edition of the European Conference on Visual Perception
Leuven, Belgiumtalk
2018
Steinwurzel Cecilia, Animali Silvia, Guido Marco Cicchini, Morrone Maria Concetta, Binda PaolaBehavioral indices of plasticity and inhibition change with metabolism
Sensory Plasticity, Adaptation and Development (SPADe) Workshop, 2018
16-19/06/2018 poster
2019
Steinwurzel Cecilia, Animali Silvia, Guido Marco Cicchini, Morrone Maria Concetta, Binda PaolaPerceptual dynamics predict plasticity
NextGenVis Workshop
24-28/02/2019 poster
2019
Steinwurzel Cecilia*, Animali Silvia*, Guido Marco Cicchini, Morrone Maria Concetta, Binda PaolaInter-individual variability of short-term ocular dominance plasticity in human adults
ECVP, 42nd edition of the European Conference on Visual Perception
25-29/08/2019 Leuven, Belgiumposter
2019
Steinwurzel Cecilia*, Animali Silvia*, M.Concetta Morrone, Paola BindaInter-individual variability of short-term ocular dominance plasticity in human adults
CVRS 17th biennial meeting of the Child Vision Research Society
15-17/06/2019 Pisaposter
2019
Steinwurzel Cecilia*, Animali Silvia*, Guido Marco Cicchini, Morrone Maria Concetta Binda PaolaInter-individual variability of short-term ocular dominance plasticity in human adults
2nd BraYn (Brainstorming Research Assembly for Young Neuroscientists)
14-16/11/2019 Milanoposter
2019
Steinwurzel Cecilia*, Animali Silvia*, Guido Marco Cicchini, Morrone Maria Concetta Binda PaolaInter-individual variability of short-term ocular dominance plasticity in human adults
CNR Retreat
02-04/10/2019 Pisaposter
2018
Steinwurzel Cecilia, Animali Silvia, Guido Marco Cicchini, Morrone Maria Concetta, Binda PaolaAdult cortical plasticity peaks after every meal
ECVP, 41nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)
26-30/08/2018 poster