TEAM
DOMENICA BUETI
Principal Investigator
I am Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA. Before landing in Trieste I enjoyed science in London (ICN, UCL) and Lausanne (CHUV, EPFL). I am interested in understanding how the human brain processes, represents and uses time information to guide behaviour.
shrikanth kulashekhar
Postdoc
With my work I define the functional properties of SMA chronomaps. Specifically, I try to find out whether the time mapped in SMA is physical rather than perceived or whether chronomaps exist independently from the sensory modality of the stimuli and from the temporal task at hand.
GIANFRANCO FORTUNATO
Phd Student
I am interested in several aspects of duration perception: from duration encoding in visual cortices, to time representations in parietal and prefrontal regions. More recently I got fascinated by the idea of looking at chronomaps in the cerebellum. I use both fMRI and TMS.
YELENA TONOYAN
POSTDOC
I use perceptual distortions of time as a tool to investigate the mechanisms underlying duration perception. Currently I am using EEG to find changes in brain responses correlated with changes in duration perception induced by frequency and duration adaptation.
IRENE TOGOLI
Postdoc
I am interested in the interactions between magnitude dimensions (space, time and numerosity), in different sensory modalities and at different developmental stages. I investigate this topic using both behavioral (psychophysics) and neuroimaging (fMRI mainly) techniques.
DUNIA GIOMO
PhD Student
My research interest focuses on understanding how the human brain processes and represents temporal sequences. Specifically, I ask whether the processing of sequences occur through a summation of discrete elements, or a holistic mechanism. I use psychophysics and EEG.
MICHELE FORNACIAI
Marie Curie fellow
My work focuses on two main topics: a) understanding how we perceive space, time, and numerosity, and how these dimensions interact with each other in the brain; b) investigating the brain processes creating our stable and seamless visual experience. I use psychophysics and EEG.
ANNA TONON APPIANI
PhD Student
My research interests range from the psychophysics of time perception to stress-related psychophysiology. Currently I am investigating how people (mis)perceive time intervals after a mild stressful event and if and how this (mis)perception is mediated by attention and perception.
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