Publications

In progress

*equal contribution; ^§data available online

Published

2026

Cafaro, C., Cirillo, G.*, Vermiglio, G., Cavaliere, C., Fracasso, A., & Buonocore, A. (in press) Sustained dynamics of saccadic inhibition and adaptive oculomotor responses during continuous exploration. The Journal of Neuroscience.

Buonocore, A., Cuomo, M., Maresca, M., Capoluongo, G.M. & Fracasso, A. (in press). Contributions of temporal and spatial masking signals in perception of sequential visual events. Visual. Cognition.

2025

Buonocore, A., Cafaro, C., De Luca, C., Vermiglio, G., Sepe, G., Rocco, G., Aiello, M., Soricelli, A., Papa, M., Cavaliere, C., & Cirillo, G. (2025). Lack of pre-movement facilitation as neurophysiological hallmark of fatigue in patients with Parkinson’s disease: A single pulse TMS study. Neurobiology of disease, 208, 106878. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2025.106878

Cuomo, M., Federico, G., Fracasso, A. & Buonocore, A. (2025). The Influence of Spatial Frequencies, Orientation and Familiarity on Face Stimuli Integration. bioRxiv 2025.02.11.637641 doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.11.637641.

2024

Taylor, R., Buonocore, A.*, & Fracasso, A. (2024). Saccadic “inhibition” unveils the
late influence of image content on oculomotor programming. Experimental Brain Research, 242(10), 2281-2294.

Mauti, M. D’Innocenzo, G., Buonocore, A., Coco, M. (2024). Semantic Processing Modulates the
Attentional Accessibility of Verbal and Nonverbal Search Targets. Cognitive Science
(COGSCI), 2024.

2023

*Fracasso, A., *Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2023). Peri-Saccadic Orientation Identification Performance and Visual Neural Sensitivity Are Higher in the Upper Visual Field. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(41), 6884-6897; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1740-22.2023

McIntosh, R. D., Iveson, M. H., Similä, S. S. & Buonocore, A. (2023) Pictorial depth cues always influence reaching distance. Neuropsychologia 190, 108701.

Khademi, F., Zhang, T., Baumann, M., Buonocore, A., Malevich, T., Yu, Y., & Hafed, Z. M. (2023). Visual feature tuning properties of stimulus-driven saccadic inhibition in macaque monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 130, 1282–1302.

Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z.M. (2023). The inevitability of visual interruption. Journal of Neurophysiology, doi:10.1152/jn.00441.2022.

2022

Cregg, J., Mirdamadi, J., Fortunato, C., Okorokova, E., Kuper, C., Nayeem, R., Byun, A., Avraham, C., Buonocore, A., Winner, T., & Mildren, R. (2022). Highlights from the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. Journal of Neurophysiology.

2021

^*§Buonocore, A., *Dietze, N., & McIntosh, R. D. (2021) Time-dependent inhibition of covert shifts of attention. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06164-y

Huber-Huber, C., Buonocore, A., Melcher, D. (2021). The extrafoveal preview paradigm as a measure of predictive, active sampling in visual perception. Journal of Vision, 21(7)-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.7.12..

^*§Buonocore, A., *Tian, X., Khademi, F., Hafed, Z. M. (2021). Instantaneous movement-unrelated midbrain activity modifies ongoing eye movements. Elife, 10, e64150. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64150.

Hafed, Z. M., Yoshida, M, Tian, X., Buonocore, A., & Malevich, T. (2021). Dissociable cortical and subcortical mechanisms for mediating the influences of visual cues on microsaccadic eye movements. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2021.638429.

^§Malevich, T., Buonocore, A., Hafed, Z. M. (2021). Dependence of the stimulus-driven microsaccade rate signature in rhesus macaque monkeys on visual stimulus size and polarity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125, 282-295. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00304.2020.

2020

Bogadhi, A.R., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2020). Task-irrelevant visual forms facilitate covert and overt spatial selection. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(49), 9496-9506. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1593-20.2020

*Malevich, T., *Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2020). Rapid stimulus-driven modulation of slow ocular position drifts. eLife, 9, e57595. doi:10.7554/eLife.57595

^*Buonocore, A., ^*Dimingen, O., & Melcher, D. (2020). Post-saccadic face processing is modulated by pre-saccadic preview: Evidence from fixation-related potentials. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(11), 2305-2313. https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0861-19.2020

2019

^*Willeke, K., ^*Tian, X., ^*Buonocore, A., Bellet J., Ramirez-Cardenas, A., Hafed, Z.M., (2019). Memory-guided microsaccades. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11711-x

Huber-Huber, C., Buonocore, A., Dimigen, O., Hickey, C., & Melcher, D. (2019). The peripheral preview effect with faces: Combined EEG and eye-tracking suggests multiple stages of trans-saccadic predictive and non-predictive processing. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.059

Buonocore, A., Skinner, J., & Hafed, Z. M. (2019). Eye-position error influence over “open-loop” smooth pursuit initiation. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(14), 2709.

2018

Skinner, J., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2018). The transfer function of the rhesus macaque oculomotor system for small-amplitude slow motion trajectories. Journal of Neurophysiology, 35, 3403.

2017

Buonocore, A., Purokayastha, S., & McIntosh, R. D. (2017). Saccade Reorienting Is Facilitated by Pausing the Oculomotor Program. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(12), 2068–2080.

^§Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A., & Melcher, D. (2017). Pre-saccadic perception: Separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902–23.

Buonocore, A., Chen, C.-Y., Tian, X., Idrees, S., Münch, T. A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2017). Alteration of the microsaccadic velocity-amplitude main sequence relationship after visual transients: implications for models of saccade control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 117(5), 1894–1910.

2016

Buonocore, A., McIntosh, R. D., & Melcher, D. (2016). Beyond the point of no return: effects of visual distractors on saccade amplitude and velocity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115(2), 752–762.

2015

Buonocore, A., & Melcher, D. (2015). Interference during eye movement preparation shifts the timing of perisaccadic compression. Journal of Vision, 15(15), 3.

Buonocore, A., & Melcher, D. (2015). Disrupting saccadic updating: visual interference prior to the first saccade elicits spatial errors in the secondary saccade in a double-step task. Experimental Brain Research, 233(6), 1893–1905.

de Vito, S., Buonocore, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Sala, Della, S. (2015). Eye movements disrupt episodic future thinking. Memory, 23(6), 796–805.

2014

Makovac, E., Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2014). Audio-visual integration and saccadic inhibition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006), 68(7), 1295–1305.

de Vito, S., Buonocore, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Sala, Della, S. (2014). Eye movements disrupt spatial but not visual mental imagery. Cognitive Processing, 15(4), 543–549.

McIntosh, R. D., & Buonocore, A. (2014). Saccadic inhibition can cause the remote distractor effect, but the remote distractor effect may not be a useful concept. Journal of Vision, 14(5), 15–15.

2013

Van Koningsbruggen, M. G., & Buonocore, A. (2013). Mechanisms behind Perisaccadic Increase of Perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(28), 11327–11328.

Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2013). Attention modulates saccadic inhibition magnitude. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006), 66(6), 1051–1059.

2012

Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2012). Modulation of saccadic inhibition by distractor size and location. Vision Research, 69, 32–41.

McIntosh, R. D., & Buonocore, A. (2012). Dissociated effects of distractors on saccades and manual aiming. Experimental Brain Research, 220(3-4), 201–211.

2011

Logie, R. H., Pernet, C. R., Buonocore, A., & Sala, S. D. (2011). Low and high imagers activate networks differentially in mental rotation. Neuropsychologia, 49(11), 3071–3077.

2007 – 2009

Barbieri, F., Buonocore, A., Volta, R. D., & Gentilucci, M. (2009). How symbolic gestures and words interact with each other. Brain and Language, 110(1), 1–11.

Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2008). Saccadic inhibition underlies the remote distractor effect. Experimental Brain Research, 191(1), 117–122.

Barbieri, F., Buonocore, A., Bernardis, P., Volta, R. D., & Gentilucci, M. (2007). On the relations between affordance and representation of the agent’s effector. Experimental Brain Research, 180(3), 421–433.