Serena Castellotti
Research Associate at the Neuroscience Department of the University of Florence
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Curriculum Vitae
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Current research and interests
Fast vision and efficient coding of information
Eye movements and visual saliency
Covert and overt attention
Cognitive modulation of pupillary response
Institute of Neuroscience of la Timone, Marseilles, France
Institute of Neuroscience of la Timone, Marseilles, FranceDepartment of Neurofarba, University of Florence, Italy
Department of Neurofarba, University of Florence, ItalyCNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa.
CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa.Education
- 2019-2022: PhD in Neuroscience - Dottorato Toscano di Neuroscienze
- 2019-2020: Post-graduate traineeship for the qualification as a psychologist at Institute of Neuroscience of la Timone, Marseilles, France
- 2017: Research Internship at Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku, Finland
- 2016-2019: Master’s degree in psychology (curriculum Neuropsychology and Cognitive Assessment), University of Florence, Italy
- 2013-2016: Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, University of Florence, Italy
Research laboratories
- Department of Neurofarba, University of Florence, Italy
- CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Pisa
- Institute of Neuroscience of la Timone, Marseilles, France
- Serena Castellotti & Maria Michela Del Viva
Neural Substrates for Early Data Reduction in Fast Vision: A Psychophysical Investigation
Brain Sciences
Downloadhttps://doi.org/ 10.3390/brainsci14080753 - Serena Castellotti, Ottavia D'Agostino, Maria Michela Del Viva
Effectiveness of labels in digital art experience: psychophysiological and behavioral evidence
Frontiers in Psychology
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1342667
- Maria Michela Del Viva, Serena Castellotti, & Galina V. Paramei
The Italian colour lexicon in Tuscany: elicited lists, cognitive salience, and semantic maps of colour terms
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 900
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02393-4 - Serena Castellotti, Martin Szinte, Maria Michela Del Viva, & Anna Montagnini
Saccadic trajectories deviate toward or away from optimally informative visual features
IScience, 107282
Downloadhttps://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107282 - Serena Castellotti, Ottavia D’Agostino, Angelica Mencarini, Martina Fabozzi, Raimondo Varano, Stefano Mastandrea, Irene Baldriga, & Maria Michela Del Viva
Psychophysiological and behavioral responses to descriptive labels in modern art museums
PLoS One 18, e0284149
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284149 - Ottavia D’Agostino, Serena Castellotti, & Maria Michela Del Viva
Time estimation during motor activity
Front. Hum. Neurosci. 17:1134027
Download https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1134027 - Serena Castellotti, Ottavia D’Agostino, & Maria Michela Del Viva
Fast discrimination of fragmentary images: the role of local optimal information
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1049615
- Serena Castellotti, Ottavia D’Agostino, Alessandra Biondi, Luigi Pignatiello, & Maria Michela Del Viva
Influence of Motor and Cognitive Tasks on Time Estimation
BrainSci.2022,12,404.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030404 - Castellotti, S., Montagnini, A., & Del Viva, M. M.
Information-optimal local features automatically attract covert and overt attention
Scientific Reports, 12(1), 9994
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14262-2
- Castellotti, S., Scipioni, L., Mastandrea, S., & Del Viva, M. M.
Pupil responses to implied motion in figurative and abstract paintings
PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0258490.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258490 - Castellotti, S., Francisci, C., & Del Viva, M. M.
Pupillary response to real, illusory, and implied motion.
PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0254105.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254105 - Castellotti, S., Montagnini, A., & Del Viva, M. M.
Early visual saliency based on isolated optimal features
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15, 645743.
Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.645743
- Castellotti, S., Conti, M., Feitosa-Santana, C., & Del Viva, M. M.
Pupillary response to representations of light in paintings
Journal of Vision, 20(10), 14–14.
Download https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.10.14
- Grassini S., Revonsuo A., Castellotti S., Petrizzo I. Benedetti V., Koivistoa M.
Processing of natural scenery is associated with lower attentional and cognitive load compared with urban ones.
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 62, 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.01.007