Paolo Grasso

Post-Doc in Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence

PAOLO GRASSO

Curriculum Vitae

Contacts

Current research and interests

  • Numerosity perception and adaptation
  • Attention and perception
  • Visual plasticity
  • Recovery of visual field defects
  • Electrophysiology (EEG)
  • Neuromodulation techniques (TMS, tDCS)

Department of Neurofarba, University of Florence

Department of Neurofarba, University of Florence

CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa

CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa

Education

  • 2013-2017: Joint International PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bologna. Thesis title: “The role of the subcortical dorsal visual pathway in the recovery of visual field defects”. Supervisor: Elisabetta Làdavas
  • 2009-2012: Master’s degree in psychology (curriculum Experimental Psychology), University of Florence. Thesis title: “Audio-visual recalibration in the ventriloquism aftereffect”. Supervisor: David C. Burr
  • 2005-2009: Bachelor’s degree in Experimental Psychology, University of Florence. Thesis title: “Saccadic suppression and visual selectivity filters”. Supervisor: David C. Burr

Research laboratories

  • Department of Neurofarba, University of Florence
  • CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa

Abstracts

  • 2019
    Grasso P. A.
    The role of V1-independent networks in visual field defects recovery

    Perceptual, Cognitive and Affective components of Space representation. A Festschrift in honor of Elisabetta Làdavas

    11-12/04/2019 Bologna

    invited talk

  • 2019
    Grasso P.A., Tonolli E., & Miniussi C.
    Offline anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over posterior parietal cortex reduces context-mediated visual search facilitation: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

    Rovereto Attention Workshop

    24-26/10/2019 Rovereto

    poster

  • 2015
    Grasso P.A., Benassi M., Bertini C., & Làdavas E.
    An audio-visual multisensory training enhances the visual processing of motion stimuli in healthy participants: an electrophysiological study

    IV Congress of the Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia

    27-28/11/2015 Padova

    talk

  • 2017
    Grasso P.A., Làdavas E., Bertini C., Caltabiano S., Thut G., & Morand S.
    Early V5 processing decoupled from awareness with fast- but not slow-moving stimuli: TMS evidence for dynamic deployment of parallel pathways depending on motion velocity

    XXXV European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology

    22-27/01/2017 Bressanone

    talk

  • 2015
    Grasso P. A.
    Visual field defects and cortical plasticity after an audio-visual multisensory stimulation

    CCNi Lecture, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

    07-07/10/2015 Glasgow

    invited talk

  • 2018
    Grasso P.A., Tonolli E., Esposito R., & Miniussi C.
    Transcranial direct current stimulation and visuo-spatial contextual learning reveal homeostatic regulatory principles in the human posterior parietal cortex

    XXVI Congress of the Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia

    15-17/11/2018 Torino

    poster

  • 2018
    Grasso P.A., Tonolli E., Miniussi C.
    Transcranial direct current stimulation and visuo-spatial learning: the interaction between stimulation-dependent and brain activity-dependent mechanisms

    CIMeC Seminars

    30-30/11/2018 Rovereto

    talk

  • 2018
    Grasso P.A., Tonolli E., Esposito R., & Miniussi C.
    Transcranial direct current stimulation and visuo-spatial contextual learning reveal homeostatic regulatory principles in the human posterior parietal cortex

    Transcranial Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop

    06-07/12/2018 Rovereto

    poster

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