Concetta Morrone - Selected publications

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Reviews and commentaries:

Burr, D., & Morrone, M.C. (2005). Eye movements: building a stable world from glance to glance. Curr Biol, 15 (20), R839-840. PDF

Ross, J., Morrone, M. C., Goldberg, M. E. & Burr, D. C. Changes in visual perception at the time of saccades. Trends in Neuroscience 24, 131-121 (2001). PDF

See also: Ross, J., Morrone, M. C., Goldberg, M. E. & Burr, D. C. Response: 'Saccadic suppression' - no need for an active extra-retinal  mechanism. Trends in Neuroscience 24, 317-318 (2001). PDF

Ross, J., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. Suppression of the Magnocellular Pathways during Saccades. Behavioural Brain Research 80, 1-8 (1996). PDF

 

Published Papers

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2008

Morrone, MC, Gazzetta, A, Tinelli, F,Tosetti, M,  Del Viva, M, Montanaro, D, Burr, D and Cioni, C (2008) Inversion of Perceived Direction of Motion Caused by Spatial Undersampling in Two Children with Periventricular Leukomalacia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Jan 22; PDF

2007

Bruno, A and Morrone, MC (2007) Influence of saccadic adaptation on spatial localization: comparison of verbal and pointing reports. J of Vision 5(9):7, 741-754, http://journalofvision.org/5/9/7/, doi:10.1167/5.9.7

Binda, P., Bruno,A.,  Burr, D.C.,  and Morrone, M.C.  (2007) Fusion of Visual and Auditory Stimuli during Saccades: A Bayesian Explanation for Perisaccadic Distortions. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(32), 8525-32. PDF

See also Collignon, O (2007) Reinforcing the weight attributed to auditory space across Saccades Journal of Neuroscience 27(46) 12438-12439 PDF

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, 10 (2), 249-255. PDF

Burr, D., Tozzi, A., & Morrone, M.C. (2007). Neural mechanisms for timing visual events are spatially selective in real-world coordinates. Nat Neurosci, 10 (4), 423-425. PDF

Perna, A., & Morrone, M.C. (2007). The lowest spatial frequency channel determines brightness perception. Vision Res, 47 (10), 1282-1291. PDF

Tozzi, A., Morrone, M.C., & Burr, D.C. (2007). The effect of optokinetic nystagmus on the perceived position of briefly flashed targets. Vision Res, 47 (6), 861-868. PDF

Chirimuuta, M., Burr, D., & Morrone, M.C. (2007). The role of perceptual learning on modality-specific visual attentional effects. Vision Res, 47 (1), 60-70. PDF

 

2006

Alais, D., Morrone, C. & Burr, D. Separate attentional resources for vision and audition. Proc. Roy. Soc.  PDF

Bruno A, Brambati SM, Perani D, Morrone MC (2006) Development of saccadic suppression in children. J Neurophysiol. PDF

 Burr D, McKee S, Morrone CM (2006) Resolution for spatial segregation and spatial localization by motion signals. Vision Res 46:932-939. PDF

2005

Rhodes G, Peters M, Lee K, Morrone MC and Burr D. (2005) Higher-Level Mechanisms Detect Facial Symmetry. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 272 (1570), 1379-1384. PDF

Perna A, Tosetti M, Montanaro D and Morrone M C (2005) Neuronal mechanisms for brightness perception in humans. Neuron. 47:645-651. PDF

Morrone MC, Ma-Waytt A and Ross J. (2005) Seeing and ballistic-pointing at perisaccadic targets. Journal of Vision, 5(9), 741-754, http://journalofvision.org/5/9/7/, doi:10.1167/5.9.7.

Morrone, C., Ross, J. & Burr, D. Saccades cause compression of time as well as space. Nature Neuroscience 8 950 - 954 (2005). PDF

See also Eagleman, D. Distortions of time during rapid eye-movements. Nature Neuroscience 8 850 - 851 (2005). PDF

Awater, H., Burr, D., Lappe, M., Morrone, M. C. & Goldberg, M. E. The effect of saccadic adaptation on the perception of visual space. J. Neurophysiology 93 3605-3614 (2005) PDF

 

2004

Morrone, M C, Denti, V & Spinelli, D. (2004) Different attentional resources modulate the gain mechanisms for color and luminance contrast. Vision Res, 44 (12), 1389-1401.

Melcher, D, Crespi, S, Bruno, A & Morrone, MC (2004) The role of attention in central and peripheral motion integration. Vision Res, 44 (12), 1367-1374.

2003

Melcher, D., & Morrone, M.C. (2003). Spatiotopic temporal integration of visual motion across saccadic eye movements. Nat Neurosci, 6 (8), 877-881PDF

Scognamillo, R., Rhodes, G., Morrone, C. & Burr, D. A feature-based model of symmetry detection. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 270, 1727-33 (2003). PDF

 

2002

Santoro, L., Burr, D. & Morrone, M. C. Saccadic compression can improve detection of Glass patterns. Vision Res 42, 1361-6 (2002). PDF

Morrone, M.C., Denti, V., & Spinelli, D. (2002). Color and luminance contrasts attract independent attention. Curr Biol, 12 (13), 1134-1137. 

2001

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Ross, J. Separate visual representations for perception and action revealed by saccadic eye movements. Curr Biol 11, 798-802 (2001). PDF

See also Husain, M. & Jackson, S. R. Vision: Visual space is not what it appears to be. Curr Biol 11, R753-5 (2001). PDF

Di Russo F, Spinelli D & Morrone M C (2001) Automatic gain control contrast mechanisms are modulated by  attention in human: evidence from visual evoked potentials. Vision Research 2435-2447.

Fahle M., biester A, Morrone M C. (2001) Spatiotemporal interpolation and quality of apparent motion. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2001;18(11):2668-78.

 

 

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2000

Morrone, Mc, Tosetti, M, Montanaro, D. Fiorentini A. Cioni, G. & Burr D C (2000) “A cortical area that responds specifically to optic flow, revealed by fMRI. Nature Neuroscience, 3: 1221-1228. PDF

Diamond M R, Ross J, Morrone M C (2000) “Extraretinal Control of saccadic Suppression” J. Neurosci. 20:3442 - 3448. PDF

 

1999

Porciatti, V., Fiorentini, A., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. The effects of ageing on reaction times to motion onset. Vision Research 39, 2157-2164 (1999).

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C., Di Pietro, S. & Stefanelli, M. A. Cardinal directions for visual optic flow. Current Biology 9, 763-766 (1999). PDF

Burr, D. C., Morgan, M. J. & Morrone, M. C. Saccadic suppression precedes visual motion analysis. Current Biology 9, 1207-1209 (1999). PDF

Morrone M C, Atkinson J, Cioni G, Braddick O J, Fiorentini A, 1999 “Development changes in optokinetic mechanisms in the absence of unilateral cortical control.” Neuroreport 10, 1-7, 1999.  

1998

Neri, P., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Seeing Biological motion. Nature 394, 894-896 (1998). PDF

Burr, D. C., Fiorentini, A. & Morrone, M. C. Reaction time to motion onset of luminance and chromatic gratings is determined by perceived speed. Vision Research 38, 3681-3690 (1998). PDF

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Vaina, L. Large receptive fields for optic flow direction in humans. Vision Research 38, 1731-1743 (1998). PDF

Del Viva, M.M. & Morrone, M.C. (1998) Motion Analysis by feature tracking. Vision Research. 38: 3633-3655.

 

1997

Ross, J., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Compression of visual space before saccades. Nature 384, 598-601 (1997).

Morrone, M. C., Ross, J. & Burr, D. C. Apparent position of visual targets during real and simulated saccadic eye movements. J. Neuroscience 17, 7941-7953 (1997). PDF

Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Capture and transparency in coarse quantized images. Vision Research 37, 2609-2629 (1997). PDF

 

1996

Morrone, M. C., Fiorentini, A. F. & Burr, D. C. Development of the temporal properties of visual evoked potentials to luminance- and colour-contrast in infants. Vision Research 36, 3141-3155 (1996). PDF

Martini, P., Girard, P., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. Sensitivity to spatial phase at equiluminance. Vision Res. 36, 1153-1162 (1996). PDF

Fiorentini, A., Porciatti, V., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Visual ageing: unspecific decline of the response to luminance and colour. Vision Research 36, 3557-3566 (1996). PDF

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. Temporal impulse response functions for luminance and colour during saccades. Vision Research 36, 2069-2078 (1996). PDF

Ross, J., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. Suppression of the Magnocellular Pathways during Saccades. Behavioural Brain Research 80, 1-8 (1996). PDF

 

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1995

Morrone, M. C., Navangione, A. & Burr, D. An adaptive approach to scale selection for line and edge detection. Pattern Rec. Letters 16, 667-677 (1995).

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Vaina, L. Two stages of visual processing for radial and circular motion. Nature 376, 507-509 (1995). PDF

 

1994

Spinelli, D. S., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. Spatial neglect is associated with increased latencies of visual evoked potentials. Visual Neuroscience, 909-918 (1994).

Morrone, M. C., Porciatti, V., Fiorentini, A. & Burr, D. C. Pattern-reversal electroretinigram in response to chromatic stimuli: I Humans. Visual Neuroscience 10, 861-871 (1994).

Morrone, M. C., Fiorentini, A., Bisti, S., Porciatti, V.  & Burr, D. C. Pattern-reversal electroretinogram in response to chromatic stimuli: II monkey. Visual Neuroscience 10, 873-884 (1994).

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Ross, J. Illusory brightness step in the Chevreul illusion. Vision Res. 34, 1567-1574 (1994).

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Ross, J. Selective suppression of the magnocellular visual pathway during saccadic eye movements. Nature 371, 511-513 (1994). PDF

Girard, P. & Morrone, M.C. (1994) Spatial structure of chromatically opponent receptive fields in human visual system Visual Neuroscience 12 103-116.

 

1993

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Fiorentini, A. Development of infant contrast sensitivity to chromatic stimuli. Vision Research 33, 2535-2552 (1993).

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. Impulse response functions for chromatic and achromatic stimuli. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 1706-1713 (1993).

 

1992

Porciatti, V., Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Fiorentini, A. The effects of ageing on the pattern electroretinogram and visual evoked potential in humans. Vision Res. 32, 1199-1209 (1992).

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Fiorentini, A. Electro-physiological investigation of edge-selective mechanisms of human vision. Vision Research 32, 239-247 (1992).

 

1991

Speed, H. D., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. The effects of monocular deprivation on the development of visual inhibitory interactions in kittens. Visual Neuroscience 7, 335-344 (1991).

Morrone, M. C., Speed, H. D. & Burr, D. C. Development of inhibitory interactions in kittens. Visual Neuroscience 7, 321-334 (1991).

Anderson, S. J., Burr, D. C. & , M. C. Morrone. The two-dimensional spatial and spatial frequency properties of motion sensitive mechanisms in human vision. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 8, 1340-1351 (1991).

 

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1990

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Fiorentini, A. Development of infant contrast sensitivity and acuity to chromatic stimuli. Proc Roy Soc B 242, 134-139 (1990).

 

1989

Ross, J., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. The conditions for the appearance of Mach bands. Vision Res. 29, 699-715 (1989).

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Spinelli, D. Discrimination of spatial phase in central and peripheral vision. Vision Res. 29, 433-445 (1989).

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Spinelli, D. Evidence for edge and bar detectors in human vision. Vision Res. 29, 419-431 (1989).

 

1988

Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Feature detection in human vision: a phase dependent energy model. Proc. R. Soc. (Lond) B235, 221-245 (1988). PDF

 

1987

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Speed, H. D. Cross-orientation inhibition in cat is GABA mediated. Expl. Brain Res. 67, 635-644 (1987).

Burr, D. C., Fiorentini, A. & Morrone, M. C. Electrophysiological correlates of positive and negative afterimages. Vision Res. 27, 201-207 (1987).

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. Inhibitory interactions in the human visual system revealed in pattern visual evoked potentials. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 389, 1-21 (1987).

Morrone, M.C. & Owens, R. (1987) Feature detection from local energy. Pattern Rec. Letters. 1 103-113.

 

1986

Morrone, M. C., Ross, J., Burr, D. C. & Owens, R. Mach bands depend on spatial phase. Nature 324, 250-253 (1986). PDF

Morrone, M. C., Di Stefano, M. & Burr, D. C. Spatial and temporal selectivity of neurones of the lateral suprasylvian gyrus of the cat. J. Neurophysiol. 56, 969-986 (1986).

Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Evidence for the existence and development of visual inhibition in humans. Nature 321, 235-237 (1986). PDF

Hayes, A., Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Ross, J. Recognition of positive and negative bandpass-filtered images. Perception 15, 595-602 (1986).

Burr, D. C., Ross, J. & Morrone, M. C. Smooth and sampled motion. Vision Research 26, 643-652 (1986). PDF

Burr, D. C., Ross, J. & Morrone, M. C. A spatial illusion from motion rivalry. Perception 15, 59-66 (1986).

Burr, D. C., Ross, J. & Morrone, M. C. Seeing objects in motion. Proc. Roy. Soc. (Lond) B227, 249-265 (1986). PDF

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Ross, J. Local and global visual analysis. Vision Res. 26, 749-757 (1986).

 

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1985

DiStefano, M., Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Spatial acuity of cells of the post medial lateral suprasylvian gyrus. Brain Res. 331, 382-385 (1985).

Burr, D. C., Ross, J. & Morrone, M. C. Local regulation of luminance gain. Vision Res. 25, 717-728 (1985).

 

1984

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Ross, J. Noise and recognizability of coarse quantized images. Nature 308, 211-212 (1984).

 Berardi, N. & Morrone, M. C. (1984) The role of  g-aminobutyric acid mediated inhibition in the response properties of cat lateral geniculate nucleus neurones. J. Physiol. 357  505- 523.

Berardi, N. & Morrone, M.C. (1984) Development of   g-aminobutyric acid mediated inhibition of X cells of the cat lateral geniculate nucleus. J. Physiol. 357  525-537. 

1983

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Ross, J. Added noise restores recognition of coarse quantised images. Nature 305, 226-228 (1983).

 

1982

Morrone, M. C., Burr, D. C. & Maffei, L. Functional significance of cross-orientational inhibition: part I Neurophysiological evidence. Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) B216, 335-354 (1982).

 

1981

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Maffei, L. Intracortical inhibition prevents simple cells from responding to textured patterns. Exp. Brain Res. 43, 455-458 (1981).

Cattaneo, A., Maffei, L. & Morrone, M. C. (1981) Patterns in the discharge of simple and complex visual cortical cells. Proc. Roc. Soc. (Lond.) B 212 279-297.

Cattaneo, A., Maffei, L. & Morrone, C. (1981) Two firing patterns in the discharge of complex cells encode different attributes of the visual stimulus. Exp Brain Research 43 115-118.

 

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1980

Hoffmann, K.P., Morrone, C. & Reuter, J.H. (1980) A comparison of the response of simple cells in the LGN and visual cortex to bar and noise stimuli in cat. Vision Research 20 771- 777. 

1979

Maffei, L., Morrone, M.C., Pirchio, M. & Sandini, G. (1979) A perceptual phenomenon and its neurophysiological correlate. Perception 8 43-46.

Maffei, L., Morrone, M. C., Pirchio, M. & Sandini, G. (1979) Response of visual cortical cells to periodic and non-periodic stimuli. J. Physiol. 296  27-47.

 

Book Chapters

Melcher, D  and Morrone, M C (2007) Transsaccadic memory: Building a stable world from glance to glance. In R.P.G. van Gompel, R.P.G., M.H. Fischer, W.S. Murray, & R.L. Hill (Eds.). Eye-movements: A window on mind and brain. Oxford: Elsevier. 213-236. PDF

Morrone, M.C., Ross, J., and Burr, D.C. (2006). Keeping vision stable: rapid updating of spatiotopic receptive fields may cause relativistic-like effects. In Space and time in perception and action, R. Nijhawan, ed. (Cambridge: CUP). In press PDF

Burr, D. & Morrone, M. C. in The visual neurosciences (eds. Chalupa, L. & Werner, J.) 1391-1401 (MIT Press, Boston, 2004).

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Ross, J. in John Dalton's colour vision legacy. (ed. C.M. Dickinson, I. M. D. C.) (Talor and Francis, London, 1996).

Morrone, M.C. & Bedarida, L. (1996) A model of cone interaction for coding chromatic information. In John Dalton's colour vision legacy. 599-610 (Edited by Dickinson, Murray & Carden.). Taylor and Francis, London

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Fiorentini, A. in EBBS workshop series: development of infant vision. (ed. F. Vital-Durant, J. A. O. B.) 63-77 (OUP, Oxford, 1996).

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. in Higher-order processing in the visual system. (ed. Morgan, M. J.) (John Wiley, London, 1994).

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. (ed. Levialdi, B.) (Word Scientific, 1994).

Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. in Robots and biological systems: Towards a new Bionics? (ed. Dario, P., Sandini, G. & Aebischer, P.) 43-64 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993).

Morrone, M. C. & Burr, D. C. Meccanismi visivi per la percezione di strutture e caratteristiche di immagini. Sistemi Intelligenti 4, 7-28 (1992).

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. in Non-linear vision. (ed. Nabet, R. B. P. a. B.) 309-328 (CRC Press, Inc., 1992).

Fiorentini, A., Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. in From Pigment to Perception: Advances in understanding visual processing. (eds. Valberg, A. & Lee, B. B.) 139-150 (Nato ASIS series 203, Berlin, 1991).

Burr, D. C., Morrone, M. C. & Fiorentini, A. in From Pigment to Percpetion: Advances in understanding visual processes. (ed. Lee, A. V. a. B. B.) 185-187 (Nato ASI Series 203, Berlin, 1991).

Burr, D. C. & Morrone, M. C. in Vision: Coding and Efficiency (ed. Blakemore, C.) 185-194 (CUP, Cambridge, 1990).

 

 

 


Last update: 22 July 2005