People

Research Assistant

Celeste Cafaro graduated at Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Caserta) with a specialization in Psychology of Cognitive Processes and a master specialization in clinical neuropsychology. Celeste is now working as RA in the lab on a project on eye movement control in Parkinson disease.

Teaching Assistant

Maddalena Vasto and Virginia Franceschetti joined the lab as teaching assistant (TA) for the “General Psychology” course held at the first year of Education Sciences at Suor Orsola Benincasa University.

Master students

I supervise several Master students which are involved in different projects answering interesting questions about vision as part of their thesis work and lab training (one year).

Vassallo Rita is a second-year Master’s student in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Education, Psychology, and Communication Sciences at Suor Orsola Benincasa University. Her research investigates how visual asymmetries—particularly differences in perception along the vertical and horizontal meridians—affect visual perception. In particular, she is exploring to which extent visual asymmetries might influence detection, discrimination and recognition processes of everyday objects.

Merilù Salsano is a second-year Master’s student in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Education, Psychology, and Communication Sciences at Suor Orsola Benincasa University. Her research explores how “blue light” affects oculomotor behavior and shape processing. By analyzing eye movements and shape recognition under various isoluminant color conditions, her work aims to clarify the specific impact of “blue light” on visual and cognitive mechanisms, and how these may be modulated by individual differences in light sensitivity.

Bachelor students

I also supervise Bachelor students who take part in smaller projects during their internship period (6 months). At the moment, we are carrying out several interesting experiments on different aspects of inhibitory phenomena in eye movements and perception as well as the effects of eye movements on higher cognitive functions.

Some of the projects are carried on in collaboration with the IRCCS SYNLAB SDN in Naples, where I have access to imaging facilities.

Alumni

AA. 2023-2024

Valentina Pane – Graduate student

Fatima Calace – now enrolled as Master’s student (MSc) in the Neuroscience program at Suor Orsola Benincasa University

Martina Maresca – Graduate student (moved to clinical studies)

Maria Cuomo – Graduate student (moved on to a PhD position at Pavia University)

Giuseppe Michele Canuso – Graduate student

AA. 2022-2023

Maura De Chiara – Graduate student (moved on to work in a company)

Jiacheng Hao – Graduate student (moved on to a PhD position at New York University)