Cecilia Steinwurzel
Research Associate at the Translational Medicine Department of the University of Pisa
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Curriculum Vitae
Contacts
Current research and interests
Neural plasticity
Neuroimaging
Visual Perception
Education
- 2022-2023: Post-Doc Research Associate - Adaptive Brain Lab, Department of Psychology, Cambridge University, UK
- 2021-2022: Post-Doc Research Fellow - Department of Translational Research on New Techonologies in Medicine and Surgery, under the project PUPILTRAITs, University of Pisa, Italy
- 2018-2021: PhD course in Neuroscience – Dottorato Toscano di Neuroscienze, University of Florence, Italy
- 2009-2015: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, 110/110 cum laude, University of Milan, Italy
Research laboratories
- Adaptive Brain Lab, Department of Psychology, Downing PI, Cambridge CB2 3EB - UK
- Department of Translational Research on New Techonologies in Medicine and Surgery, under the project PUPILTRAITs, University of Pisa, Italy
- Department of Neurofarba, University of Florence, Italy
2025
- Cecilia Steinwurzel, Giacomo Pennella, Maria Concetta Morrone, Giulio Sandini, Paola Binda
Monocular delay during visually guided actions is as effective as monocular deprivation in driving ocular dominance plasticity
Scientific Reports
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18464-2 - Cecilia Steinwurzel, Maria Concetta Morrone, Ele Ferrannini, Francesca Frijia, Domenico Montanaro, Giuseppe Daniele, Paola Binda
Acute supplementation of beta-hydroxybutyrate increases visual cortical excitability in humans: a combined Electro-EncephaloGraphy and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy study
European Journal of Neuroscience
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70270
2023
- C. Steinwurzel, M.C. Morrone, G. Sandini, P. Binda
Active vision gates ocular dominance plasticity in human adults
Curr Biol . 2023 Oct 23;33(20):R1038-R1040
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.062 - M. Acquafredda; I. D. Sarı; C. Steinwurzel; C. Lunghi; P. Binda
Measuring the reliability of binocular rivalry
Journal of Vision September 2023, Vol.23, 5
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.10.5 - S. Animali, C. Steinwurzel, A.Dardano, V. Sancho‐Bornez,S. Del Prato, M. C. Morrone, G. Daniele, P. Binda
Effect of fasting on short-term visual plasticity in adult humans
Eur J Neurosci. 2023 Jan; 57(1): 148–162.
Downloadhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.15873
2020
- 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.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.7.6