David Burr
Professor Emeritus of Physiological Psychology, University of Florence
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Curriculum Vitae
Contacts
Current research and interests
Motion perception
Numerosity perception
Visual stability
Spatiotopicity
Perception of time
Multi-sensory perception
Autism
Department of Psychology UNIFI
Department of Psychology, University of FlorenceSTELLA MARIS FOUNDATION
Viale del Tirreno, 331 - 56128 - CALAMBRONE (PISA)Research laboratories
- CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa
- Department of Psychology, University of Florence
- Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
2025
- Tonelli, A., Burr, D., Gori, M., & Alais, D.
Continuous tracking of audiovisual motion
Journal of Vision, 25(10), 10.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.10.10 - Binda P., Terzo C., Turi M., & Burr D.C.
Pupillometric signature of implicit learning of statistical regularities
Current Biology
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.011 - Petrizzo, I., Cicchini, G. M., Burr, D. C., & Anobile, G.
Multisensory Number Channels Derived from Individual Differences
Multisensory Research
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-bja10154 - Tonelli, A., Burr, D. C., Gori, Monica, M., & Alais, D.
Continuous tracking of audiovisual motion
Journal of Vision (2025) 0(0):09256, 1–16
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.0.0.09256 - Rucci, M., Ahissar, E., Burr, D. C., Kagan, I., Poletti, M., & Victor, J. D.
The visual system does not operate like a camera
Journal of Vision, 25(3), 2
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.3.2 - Xie, X.-Y., Burr, D. C., & Morrone, M. C.
Recent, but not long-term, priors induce behavioral oscillations in peri-saccadic vision
Communications Psychology, 3(1), 1–11
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00224-7 - Cicchini, G. M., D’Errico, G., & Burr, D. C.
Reply to: Failure to replicate a superiority effect in crowding
Nature Communications, 16(1), 1638
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56763-4 - Ranieri, G., Burr, D. C., Bell, J., & Morrone, M. C.
Serial dependence in face-gender classification revealed in low-beta frequency EEG
BMC Biology, 23(1), 203.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02289-6
2024
- Cicchini, G. M., D’Errico, G., & Burr, D. C.
Color crowding considered as adaptive spatial integration
Journal of Vision, 24(13), 9
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.13.9 - Alais, D., Burr, D., & Carlson, T. A.
Positive serial dependence in ratings of food images for appeal and calories.
Current Biology
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.012 - Burr, D. C., Anobile, G., & Arrighi, R.
Number Adaptation: Reply
SSRN Scholarly Paper 4839798
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4839798 - Cicchini, G. M., Mikellidou, K., & Burr, D. C.
Serial Dependence in Perception
Annual Review of Psychology
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021523-104939 - C.Caponi, E. Castaldi, D.C. Burr, P. Binda
Adaptation to numerosity affects the pupillary light response
Sci Rep 14, 6097 (2024)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55646-w - Gori, M., Burr, D., & Campus, C.
Disambiguating vision with sound
Current Biology, 34(6), R235–R236
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.043 - Ambrosi, Pierfrancesco, David Charles Burr, e Maria Concetta Morrone
Investigating cross-orientation inhibition with continuous tracking
Journal of Vision 24
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2023
- Giovanni Anobile, Irene Petrizzo, Daisy Paiardini, David Burr, Guido Marco Cicchini
Sensorimotor mechanisms selective to numerosity: evidence from individual differences
eLife
Download https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.92169.1 - Cicchini, G. M., Anobile, G., Burr, D. C., Marchesini, P., & Arrighi, R.
The role of non-numerical information in the perception of temporal numerosity.
Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1197064.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1197064 - Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Burr, D. C., & Cicchini, G. M.
Serial dependence improves performance and biases confidence-based decisions
Journal of Vision, 23(7), 5.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.7.5 - Xie, X.-Y., Morrone, M. C., & Burr, D. C.
Serial dependence in orientation judgments at the time of saccades
Journal of Vision, 23(7), 7.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.7.7 - Pomè, A., Karaminis, T., & Burr, D. C.
Autistic individuals show less grouping-induced bias in numerosity judgments
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2, 1–9.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2023.1202032 - Burr, D. C., & Morrone, M. C.
The role of neural oscillations in visuo-motor communication at the time of saccades
Neuropsychologia, 108682
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108682 - G.M. Cicchini, K. Mikellidou, D.C. Burr
Serial Dependence in Perception
Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2024. 75:9.1–9.26
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2022
- Galluzzi, F., Benedetto, A., Cicchini, G. M., & Burr, D. C.
Visual priming and serial dependence are mediated by separate mechanisms.
Journal of Vision, 22(10)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.10.1 - Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Anobile, G., Burr, D. C., Arrighi, R., & Castaldi, E.
Symmetry as a grouping cue for numerosity perception.
Scientific Reports, 12(1)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18386-3 - Cicchini, G. M., D’Errico, G., & Burr, D. C.
Crowding results from optimal integration of visual targets with contextual information.
Nature Communications, 13(1)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33508-1 - Burr, D., & Morrone, M. C.
Vision: Neuronal mechanisms enabling stable perception
Current Biology: CB, 32(24), R1338–R1340
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.003 - Ranieri, G., Benedetto, A., Ho, H. T., Burr, D. C., & Morrone, M. C.
Evidence of Serial Dependence from Decoding of Visual Evoked Potentials
Journal of Neuroscience, 42(47), 8817–8825
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1879-21.2022 - Grasso, P. A., Anobile, G., Arrighi, R., Burr, D. C., & Cicchini, G. M.
Numerosity perception is tuned to salient environmental features
IScience, 25(4), 104104
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104104 - Tortelli C, Pomè A, Turi M, Igliozzi R, Burr DC, Binda P.
Contextual Information Modulates Pupil Size in Autistic Children
Front Neurosci. 2022 Apr 1;16:752871
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.752871 - Pierfrancesco Ambrosi; David Charles Burr; Guido Marco Cicchini
Ideal observer analysis for continuous tracking experiments
Journal of Vision February 2022, Vol.22, 3
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.2.3 - Irene Petrizzo, Giovanni Anobile, Eleonora Chelli, Roberto Arrighi, David Charles Burr
Visual Duration but Not Numerosity Is Distorted While Running
Brain Sciences, 12(1), 81
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2021
- Antonella Pomè, Camilla Caponi, David C. Burr
The Grouping-Induced Numerosity Illusion Is Attention-Dependent
Front. Hum. Neurosci. (15:745188) 2021
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.745188 - Pierfrancesco Ambrosi; Antonella Pomè; David Charles Burr
The dynamics of grouping-induced biases in apparent numerosity revealed by a continuous tracking technique
Journal of Vision 2021, Vol.21, 8
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.13.8 - Guido Marco Cicchini, Giovanni Anobile, Eleonora Chelli, Roberto Arrighi, David Burr
Uncertainty and Prior Assumptions, Rather Than Innate Logarithmic Encoding, Explain Nonlinear Number-to-Space Mapping
Psychological Science, 09567976211034501
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211034501 - David Burr, Giovanni Anobile, Elisa Castaldi, Roberto Arrighi
Numbers in action
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000996 - Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Greenlee, M. W., Anobile, G., Arrighi, R., Burr, D. C., & Castaldi, E.
Groupitizing modifies neural coding of numerosity
Human Brain Mapping
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25694 - Ho, H. T., Burr, D. C., Alais, D., & Morrone, M. C.
Propagation and update of auditory perceptual priors through alpha and theta rhythms
European Journal of Neuroscience
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15141 - Mikellidou, K., Cicchini, G. M., & Burr, D. C.
Perceptual History Acts in World-Centred Coordinates
I-Perception, 12(5), 20416695211029300
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1177/20416695211029301 - Tortelli, C., Turi, M., Burr, D. C., & Binda, P.
Objective pupillometry shows that perceptual styles covary with autistic-like personality traits
ELife, 10, e67185
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67185 - Pomè, A., Caponi, C., & Burr, D. C.
The Grouping-Induced Numerosity Illusion Is Attention-Dependent
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 598
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.745188 - Castaldi, E., Pomè, A., Cicchini, G. M., Burr, D., & Binda, P.
The pupil responds spontaneously to perceived numerosity
Nature Communications, 12(1), 5944
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Perception of geometric sequences and numerosity both predict formal geometric competence in primary school children
Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14243
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93710-x - Anobile, G., Castaldi, E., Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Arrighi, R., & Burr, D.
Groupitizing Improves Estimation of Numerosity of Auditory Sequences
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 339
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.687321 - Pomè, A., Caponi, C., & Burr, D. C.
Grouping-Induced Numerosity Biases Vary with Autistic-Like Personality Traits
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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2020
- Cicchini, G. M., Benedetto, A., & Burr, D. C.
Perceptual history propagates down to early levels of sensory analysis
Current Biology, 31(6), 1245-1250.e2.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.004 - Anobile, G., Arrighi, R., Castaldi, E., & Burr, D. C.
A Sensorimotor Numerosity System
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(1), 24–36
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.10.009 - Chiara Tortelli, Marco Turi, David C. Burr & Paola Binda
Pupillary Responses Obey Emmert’s Law and Co-vary with Autistic Traits
J Autism Dev Disord (2020)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04718-7 - Antonella Pomè, Diego Thompson, David Charles Burr & Justin Halberda
Location- and object-based attention enhance number estimation
Atten Percept Psychophys (2020)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02178-w - 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
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101573 - Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Castaldi, E., Burr, D. C., Arrighi, R., & Anobile, G.
Grouping strategies in number estimation extend the subitizing range
Scientific Reports, 10(1), 14979
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71871-5 - Karaminis, T., Arrighi, R., Forth, G., Burr, D., & Pellicano, E.
Adaptation to the Speed of Biological Motion in Autism
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 50(2), 373–385
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04241-4 - Antonella Pomè, David C.Burr, Annalisa Capuozzo, Paola Binda
Spontaneous pupillary oscillations increase during mindfulness meditation
Current Biology Volume 30, Issue 18, 21 September 2020, Pages R1030-R1031
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.064 - Castaldi, E., Burr, D., Turi, M., & Binda, P.
Fast saccadic eye-movements in humans suggest that numerosity perception is automatic and direct
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935), 20201884
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1884 - Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Cicchini, G. M., Arrighi, R., & Burr, D. C.
Adaptation to hand-tapping affects sensory processing of numerosity directly: Evidence from reaction times and confidence
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1927), 20200801
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0801 - David Burr; Simon Laughlin
Horace Barlow (1921–2020)
Current Biology July 2020
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.060 - Anobile, G., Castaldi, E., Moscoso, P. A. M., Burr, D. C., & Arrighi, R.
“Groupitizing”: A strategy for numerosity estimation
Scientific Reports, 10(1), 13436
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68111-1 - Sujin Kim, David Burr, Guido Marco Cicchini, David Alais
Serial dependence in perception requires conscious awareness
Current Biology 30, R237–R262, March 23, 2020
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.008 - Pomè, A., Binda, P., Cicchini, G.M., Burr. D.C. (2020).
Pupillometry correlates of visual priming, and their dependency on autistic traits
Journal of Vision 2020;20(3):3
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2019
- Sujin Kim; David Burr; David Alais
Attraction to the recent past in aesthetic judgments: A positive serial dependence for rating artwork
Journal of Vision October 2019, Vol.19, 19.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/19.12.19 - Hao Tam Ho, David C. Burr, David Alais, Maria Concetta Morrone
Auditory Perceptual History Is Propagated through Alpha Oscillations
Current Biology 29 (24)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.041 - Anobile, G., Domenici, N., Togoli, I., Burr, D., Arrighi, R. (2019).
Distortions of visual time induced by motor adaptation
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Downloadhttps://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2019-71073-001.html - Kim, S., Burr, D. & Alais, D. (2019).
Attraction to the recent past in aesthetic judgments: A positive serial dependence for rating artwork.
Journal of Vision, 12 (19), 19.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/19.12.19 - Pomè, A., Anobile, G., Cicchini, G. M., Scabia, A. & Burr, D. C. (2019).
Higher attentional costs for numerosity estimation at high densities.
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01831-3 - Alais, D. & Burr, D. (2019).
Cue combination within a bayesian framework.
In Multisensory processes. The auditory perspective.
Downloadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10461-0_2 - Anobile, G., Arrighi, R. & Burr, D. C. (2019).
Simultaneous and sequential subitizing are separate systems, and neither predicts math abilities.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, (178), 86-103.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.09.017 - Doricchi, F., Willmes, K. & Burr, D. (2019).
Number cognition
Cortex, (114), 1-4.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.04.001 - 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.
Downloadhttp://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2728677 - Anobile, G., Burr, D. C., Gasperini, F. & Cicchini, G. M. (2019).
Near optimal encoding of numerosity in typical and dyscalculic development.
Cortex, (120), 498-508.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.009 - Pomè, A., Anobile, G., Cicchini, G. M. & Burr, D. C. (2019).
Different reaction-times for subitizing, estimation, and texture.
Journal of Vision, 6 (19), 14.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/19.6.14 - Cicchini, G. M., Anobile, G., & Burr, D. C. (2019).
Spontaneous representation of numerosity in typical and dyscalculic development.
Cortex.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.019 - Anobile, G., Guerrini, G., Burr, D. C., Monti, M., Del Lucchese, B. & Cicchini, G. M. (2019).
Spontaneous perception of numerosity in pre-school children.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1906 (286), 20191245.
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2018
- Anobile, G., Arrighi, R., Castaldi, E., Grassi, E., Pedonese, L., Moscoso, P. A. M., & Burr, D. C.
Spatial but not temporal numerosity thresholds correlate with formal math skills in children
Developmental Psychology, 54(3), 458–473
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000448 - Benedetto, A., Burr, D. C., & Morrone, M. C.
Perceptual Oscillation of Audiovisual Time Simultaneity
ENeuro, 5(3).
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0047-18.2018 - Marco Turi, David Charles Burr Is a corresponding author, Paola Binda
Pupillometry reveals perceptual differences that are tightly linked to autistic traits in typical adults
Elife, (7).
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2017
- Anobile, G., Cicchini, G. M., Pomè, A. & Burr, D. (2017).
Connecting Visual Objects Reduces Perceived Numerosity and Density for Sparse but not Dense Patterns, Journal of Numerical Cognition, 4 (3).
2012
- 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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Spatiotopic perceptual maps in humans: evidence from motion adaptation,Proc Biol Sci, 1740 (279), 3091-3097.
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