Elisa Castaldi
Post-Doc in Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa
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Current research and interests
Numerosity perception
Dyscalculia
Plasticity of the visual system
Retinal Prosthesis
fMRI
Education
- 2004-2007: Bachelor in Psycholocical Science, Final mark: 110/110 cum laude, Department of Psychology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. Thesis Title: “Neural substrate of dyslexia”. Supervisor: Prof. Daniela Perani
- 2007 – 2010 : Master degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Final mark: 110/110 cum laude,University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. Thesis Title: “Selectivity to spatial phase of chromatic cortical mechanisms: an fMRI study”. Supervisor: Prof. Maria Concetta Morrone.
- 2011 – 2014: Doctoral School in Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Florence, Italy. Supervisor : David C Burr, M Concetta Morrone.
Research laboratories
- CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa
- Department of Psychology, University of Florence
- Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
- Castaldi, E., Lunghi, C. & Morrone, M. C. (2020).
Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Volume 112, May 2020, Pages 542-552
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.028 - Castaldi E., Turi M., Gassama S., Piazza M., Eger E. (2020)
Excessive visual crowding effects in developmental dyscalculia
Journal of Vision August 2020, Vol.20, 7.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.16.993972 - Elisa Castaldi, Alexandre Vignaud, Evelyn Eger
Mapping subcomponents of numerical cognition in relation to functional and anatomical landmarks of human parietal cortex
NeuroImage Volume 221, 1 November 2020, 117210
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117210 - Giovanni Anobile, Elisa Castaldi, Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, David C. Burr & Roberto Arrighi
“Groupitizing”: a strategy for numerosity estimation
Scientific Report August 2020, 10(13436)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68111-1 - Elisa Castaldi, David Burr, Marco Turi and Paola Binda
Fast saccadic eye-movements in humans suggest that numerosity perception is automatic and direct
Proc. R. Soc. B 287: 20201884.
Downloadhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1884 04-02/09/2020 - Elisa Castaldi, Manuela Piazza, Teresa Iuculano
Learning disabilities: Developmental dyscalculia
Handbook of Clinical Neurology Volume 174, 2020, Chapter 5- Pages 61-75
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64148-9.00005-3 - Paula A. Maldonado Moscoso, Elisa Castaldi, David C. Burr, Roberto Arrighi & Giovanni Anobile
Grouping strategies in number estimation extend the subitizing range
Sci Rep 10, 14979 (2020)
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71871-5
- 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.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1167/tvst.8.6.44 - Elisa Castaldi , Manuela Piazza, Stanislas Dehaene, Alexandre Vignaud, Evelyn Eger
Attentional amplification of neural codes for number independent of other quantities along the dorsal visual stream
eLife
Downloadhttps://10.7554/eLife.45160
- Castaldi, E., Tinelli, F., Cicchini, M. & Morrone, M. C. (2018).
Supramodal agnosia for oblique mirror orientation in patients with periventricular leukomalacia, Cortex.
Download - Castaldi, E., Mirassou, A., Dehaene, S., Piazza, M., & Eger, E. (2018).
Asymmetrical interference between number and item size perception provides evidence for a domain specific impairment in dyscalculia.
- de Hevia, M. D., Castaldi, E., Streri, A., Eger, E. & Izard, V. (2017).
Evidence for a number sense, Perceiving numerosity from birth, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, (40), 21-22.
Download - Anobile, G., Arrighi, R., Castaldi, E., Grassi, E., Pedonese, L., Moscoso PAM., & Bur DC. (2017).
Spatial but Not Temporal Numerosity Thresholds Correlate With Formal Math Skills in Children, Dev Psychol.
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- Castaldi, E., Cicchini, G. M., Cinelli, L., Biagi, L., Rizzo, S. & Morrone, M. C. (2016).
Visual BOLD Response in Late Blind Subjects with Argus II Retinal Prosthesis, PLoS Biol, 10 (14), e1002569.
Download - Anobile, G., Castaldi, E., Turi, M., Tinelli, F. & Burr, D. C. (2016).
Numerosity but not texture-density discrimination correlates with math ability in children, Dev Psychol, 8 (52), 1206-1216.
Download - Castaldi, E., Aagten-Murphy, D., Tosetti, M., Burr, D. & Morrone, M. C. (2016).
Effects of adaptation on numerosity decoding in the human brain, Neuroimage, (143), 364-377.
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Abstracts
2019
Giovanni Anobile, Guido Marco Cicchini, Gasperini Filippo, Elisa Castaldi, Marco Turi, Roberto Arrighi, David C. BurrThe Number Sense and its link with child math abilities
Workshop - Foundations of mathematics in primary and pre-schools Fyssen Foundation – Parigi (Francia)
18-19/10/2019 Tenerife Spainposter
2019
Elisa Castaldi, Guido Marco Cicchini, Benedetto Falsini, Paola Binda, Maria Concetta MorroneResidual Visual Responses In Patients with retinitis pigmentosa revealed by functional magnetic
CNR Annual Retreat 2019
02-04/10/2019 Pisatalk