Alessio Fracasso

This study investigates whether tACS can enhance neurofeedback control by increasing lateralised posterior alpha activity, but finds no significant improvement in performance.

This paper investigates how spatial frequency and orientation affect face recognition, finding that holistic processing depends on task and familiarity, challenging the foundational role of low spatial frequency information.

The paper investigates how saccadic inhibition and rebound responses change during repeated visual stimuli in naturalistic conditions, finding that inhibition remains stable while rebound habituates.

This paper uses 7-Tesla MRI to identify distinct T1-weighted intensity profiles within the human insula cortex, revealing compartment-specific signal variations and highlighting atlas-dependent parcellation.

This study uses fMRI to investigate retinotopic responses in the auditory cortex of congenitally deaf individuals, finding cross-modal visual representations in the deaf but not in hearing participants.

This study maps tuning width of saccade planning and execution in human intraparietal sulcus using forward-modelling fMRI, revealing topographic organization and hierarchy-specific specificity.

The paper investigates how temporal and spatial masking signals affect perception of sequential visual events, finding that non-overlapping masks can induce temporal inversion judgments.

The paper demonstrates the existence of contentopic maps in ventral and dorsal association cortex that organize manipulable object information topographically.

This study investigates visual performance across different visual fields during saccades and fixation, finding better performance along the horizontal meridian but no significant difference between upper and lower visual fields.

This study examines gray matter changes in congenitally blind individuals before and after sight restoration surgery, finding no post-surgery changes but suggesting white matter alterations as potential biomarkers of plasticity.

This study examines how saccade proximity to visual stimuli affects post-saccadic alpha lateralisation, finding reduced lateralisation when saccades land near stimuli.

The paper shows that resampling large neuroimaging datasets with replacement introduces bias in error estimates for brain-behavior associations, suggesting that meta-analyses should resample only up to 10% of the full sample size to avoid these biases.

The paper investigates the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing by analyzing behavioral and neural data to identify interpretable dimensions that guide object categorization and neural representation.

The paper shows that human peri-saccadic orientation identification is better in the upper visual field, matching the superior colliculus's spatial anisotropy rather than the primary visual cortex's.

The paper uses 7T MRI to analyze 3D structural features in the human hand area of S1 and finds no topographic organization, unlike in some monkeys.

This study investigates speed encoding in the human middle temporal cortex using 7T fMRI, showing two distinct encoding mechanisms in different neuronal groups.

The paper investigates visual cortex plasticity in a rare case of optic chiasm hypoplasia, finding three hemifield maps in one hemisphere and suggesting developmental re-wiring supports their function.