Antimo Buonocore

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📅 Dec 16th/17th
📍 Nottingham
👩‍💻 Day 1 - Create experiments in PsychoPy and optimise for EEG
🧠 Day 2 - EEG data collection and ERP analysis strategies
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Sustained dynamics of saccadic inhibition and adaptive oculomotor responses during continuous exploration In natural environments, stimuli often recur across time and space, requiring the visual system to remain sensitive to novelty while managing predictability. A central question in systems neuroscience...

New implication for sensorimotor adaptability 👀 A new study from our laboratory shows that during visual exploration, saccadic inhibition remains stable, while oculomotor rebound weakens with repetition, demonstrating motor habituation.

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Sustained dynamics of saccadic inhibition and adaptive oculomotor responses during continuous exploration In natural environments, stimuli often recur across time and space, requiring the visual system to remain sensitive to novelty while managing predictability. A central question in systems neuroscience...

When flashes interrupt vision, the eyes pause before moving again. That pause stays stable, but recovery weakens with repetition — the oculomotor system stays alert to novelty while cutting unnecessary eye movements to irrelevant events. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sustained dynamics of saccadic inhibition and adaptive oculomotor responses during continuous exploration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.28.679009v1

AIP Sperimentale 2025, 31° Congresso annuale AIP Sperimentale 2025Benvenute e benvenuti nella pagina ufficiale del XXXI Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, che si terrà a Torino presso il Campus Luigi Einau...

It was a pleasure to present at #AIP2025 in Turin! 🏛️ Our latest data on the inevitability of visual interruption show that visuomotor capture may look strong, but inhibition dictated the rhythm! 👁️✨
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How does the oculomotor system keep up with visual interference? 👁️

🚩 Discover how repeated flashes fatigue eye movements—without breaking inhibition. A look into oculomotor habituation: a poster by
@antimobuonocore.bsky.social, @celestecafaro.bsky.social, and Alessio Fracasso at #VSS2025! 👇

Sunday May 18, I’ll present remotely at #VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social a study with @celestecafaro.bsky.social and Alessio Fracasso on how repeated visual transients reliably trigger saccadic inhibition, while motor recovery adapts over time
🖼️ Poster 🎥 video:
🔗 www.visionsciences.org/presentation...

Lack of pre-movement facilitation as neurophysiological hallmark of fatigue in patients with Parkinson's disease: A single pulse TMS study Fatigue is a debilitating symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD), significantly affecting quality of life. Despite its prevalence, the underlying neuroph…

In Parkinson’s disease, fatigue may reflect impaired motor preparation. 🔍

This TMS study shows absent pre-movement facilitation (PMF) in the most affected hemisphere of fatigued patients — a potential neurophysiological marker ⚡🧠

#Parkinsons #Neurophysiology #Fatigue #TMS

Lack of pre-movement facilitation as neurophysiological hallmark of fatigue in patients with Parkinson's disease: A single pulse TMS study Fatigue is a debilitating symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD), significantly affecting quality of life. Despite its prevalence, the underlying neuroph…

Our study reveals that Parkinson’s patients with fatigue show a lack of pre-movement facilitation in the most affected hemisphere, linking impaired motor preparation to fatigue severity. Could TMS-based interventions restore excitability and alleviate symptoms? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How Our Brain Recognizes Faces: Rethinking Spatial Frequency Processing When we see an object, our brain doesn’t process all the details at once but instead builds a representation step by step. Traditional models suggest that recognition starts with broad, low-detail …

Some thoughts on face perception based on our recent findings: antimo-buonocore.org/2025/02/15/h...

The Influence of Spatial Frequencies, Orientation and Familiarity on Face Stimuli Integration When we observe an object, our visual system identifies its shape and integrates it with specific details to form a coherent representation. This coarse-to-fine approach involves rapid processing of low spatial frequency (LSF) content to generate a basic template, which aids the integration of the more detailed high spatial frequency (HSF) information. Here we explore with two experiments how the contribution of LSF and HSF integration extends to face processing. To do so, we leveraged the face inversion effect, whereby inverted faces are more difficult to recognize than upright ones. In Experiment 1, ten participants matched two familiar faces displayed in rapid succession (template and probe face, respectively). The template and the probe shared either the same SF (congruent) or had complementary SF (incongruent). In congruent conditions, HSF templates yielded better matching accuracy than LSF templates. However, in incongruent conditions, mapping LSF probes onto HSF templates was more effective, but only for upright faces. We propose that, depending on the task, holistic processing may be facilitated by detailed information. In Experiment 2, twelve participants performed the same task with both familiar and unfamiliar faces. While for familiar faces the effects were the same as Experiment 1, for unfamiliar faces the overall accuracy was better for congruent than incongruent conditions, and, crucially, it was independent of the template SF. Our results challenge the view that LSF content provides a foundational template for integrating HSF information, and instead suggest a flexible encoding of SF information, that depends on image contingencies. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

A new paper from the lab! 📑

🔍 Our brain processes faces using both coarse and fine details—but does LSF always guide perception? This study suggests a more flexible integration

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YouTube video by Giovanni Federico RAI 3 - TGR Leonardo del 29/01/2025 - Federico et al. 2025 (NeuroImage)

Do mechanical and digital tools engage our brain differently? 🔨💻

@neurogiovanni.bsky.social ‘s research featured in a national TV report!

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PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

..Naples is a very hard city where to bike, but when you get to the sea, you are rewarded 🤩

Visual stimuli near eye movements can appear closer in time or even reversed—a known effect also seen with visual masks. Our findings show that visual masks not covering the stimuli can also trigger this temporal inversion, suggesting that mask onset time anchors perceptual organization.

The new website from the lab!

SOBU XPCN Lab Latest news

Hi Bluesky! 🦋 This is the CogSci Lab.

We are a laboratory of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience studying neural mechanisms and behavioral patterns using Eye-Tracking, EEG, fMRI. Based in Naples, the world’s most astonishing city 🌋☀️

For more information: www.cogsci.it

SVG2025 The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) is a collective of vision researchers aimed at encouraging collaboration among laboratories engaged in studying visual perception in Scotland and beyond. Every spring s...

Scottish Vision Group 2025 website is now live: sites.google.com/view/svg2025/. It's one of my fave conferences - small, friendly, excellent scenery. Join us 4th-6th April 2025! #VisionScience #PsychSciSky @riadsala.bsky.social

We are hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Cognition & Perception. Join our program at New York University Abu Dhabi. Pass this along to potential candidates!