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Curriculum
BIO
My main field of interest in research regards the neural correlates of the orienting of spatial attention and the particular relationship between attention and visual awareness. I also developed a particular interest in the way probabilistic and temporal expectations drive and influence our ability to orient attention and to become aware of upcoming stimuli. I approached this issue by conducting my study both on healthy subjects and on neurological right-brain damaged patients with spatial neglect, using different techniques such as EEG, fMRI and pupil size measurement.
EDUCATION
05/02/2013: PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience; Sapienza University of Rome/Italy; PhD Advisor: Prof. Fabrizio Doricchi
14/07/2009: Master s degree in Diagnosis and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Disorders (110 cum laude)/Department of Psychology/ Sapienza University of Rome/Italy
CURRENT POSITION(S)
2022 - present: Assistant professor (RTD-B)/Department of Psychology/ Sapienza University of Rome/Italy
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2020 2022: Post-doctoral research fellow/Department of Psychology/ Sapienza University of Rome/Italy
2019 2020: Post-doctoral research fellow/Department of Psychology/ Sapienza University of Rome/Italy
2015 2019: Post-doctoral research fellow/Neuropsychology Department/IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia/Rome/Italy
2009: Master student in the lab of Prof. Juan Lupianez University of Granada/Spain
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
2018: Fellowship for a project entitled: Perceptual and productive components of the representative distortion of space in right-brain injured patients. Effects of global and local probabilistic contingency on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in neglect patients /Neuropsychology Department/IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia/Rome/Italy
2017:Fellowship for a project entitled: Spatial and expectancy components in the re-orienting of attention: differential contribution of the upper and lower parietal areas /Neuropsychology Department/IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia/Rome/Italy
2014: Fellowship for a project entitled: Electrophysiological correlates of predictive orienting of attention and reinforcement learning in right-brain injuries /Neuropsychology Department/IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia/Rome/Italy
2013: Fellowship for a project entitled: Preparatory and predictive components of the orienting of spatial attention in right brain-damaged patients /Neuropsychology Department/IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia/Rome/Italy
TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS
2016 2022 Adjunct Professor Psychobiology and Decision Making in Organizations/Department of Human Sciences/LUMSA University/Rome/Italy
2016 2019 Adjunct Professor General Psychology; Medical and Health Psychology/Faculty of Medicine and Surgery/Catholic University of the Sacred Heart/Rome/Italy
2019 - 2022 Supervisor of the final thesis for more than 60 bachelor s degree students/Department of human sciences/LUMSA University/Rome, Italy
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022: Seed Grant (10000) funded by Sapienza University of Rome for a project entitled: "The intrinsic reward of believing in fake news"
2021: Grant (2000 ) Avvio alla ricerca funded by Sapienza University of Rome for a project entitled: "Effetti dei tratti stabili di temperamento e dei suoi correlati psico-biologici, sull'orientamento ed il ri-orientamento della attenzione visuo-spaziale"
2021: Grant (2000 ) Avvio alla ricerca funded by Sapienza University of Rome for a project entitled: "Neural bases of the mental associations between Space and Numbers: an fMRI study"
2012: De Renzi award (1000 ), awarded by Italian Society of Neuropsychology (SINP) for the best oral presentation of the two-years (2010-2012) annual meeting of the society
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2021 Member of the scientific committee and reviewer of submitted material, ICSC 2021/Italy https://www.icsc-rome.org/
2018 Youngest Convenor of the symposium entitled New Issues in Attentional Control , ICSC 2018/Italy https://www.icsc-rome.org/archive/2018/
EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2022 Associate Editor/Frontiers in Cognition (Attention section)/Frontiers
Reviewer/Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology/ISSN: 1747-0218/SAGE journals
Reviewer/Neuroimage/1053-8119/Elsevier
2021 Member of the Journal Topic Board/Brain Sciences/EISSN 2076-3425/MDPI
Reviewer/Psychophysiology/Online ISSN:1469-8986/Wiley
Reviewer/Cerebral Cortex/Online ISSN:1460-2199/Oxford University Press
Reviewer/Cortex/ISSN: 0010-9452/Elsevier
Reviewer/Scientific Reports/ISSN 2045-2322/SpringerNature
2020 Reviewer/European Journal of Neuroscience/Online ISSN:1460-9568/Wiley
Reviewer/Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience/E-ISSN: 1530-8898/MIT Press
Reviewer/Neurocase/Online ISSN: 1465-3656/Taylor&Francis
2019 Reviewer/Plos One/EISSN: 1932-6203/PLOS
Reviewer/Cognitive Processing/EISSN: 1612-4790/Springer
Reviewer/Neuroscience and Biobehavioural review/ISSN: 0149-7634/Elsevier
2018 External Reviewer for the final thesis of PhD dissertation of Dr. Pietro Zingaretti/PhD programme in Cognitive Neuroscience/Department of Psychology/ Sapienza University of Rome/Italy
Reviewer/Annals of Neurology/Online ISSN:1531-8249/Wiley
Review Editor/Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience/EISSN 1662-5145/Frontiers
2015 Review Editor/Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience/EISSN 1662-5161/Frontiers
Reviewer/Experimental Brain Research/EISSN:1432-1106/Springer
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2021 present Associated Member, Italian Society of Psychophysiology (SIPF)/ Membership ID: 61762407
2013 2014 Associated Member, Society for Neuroscience (SfN)/Membership ID: 210488560
MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
Prof. Ana B Chica/Neural correlates of attention and awareness/The Mind, Brain, and Behaviour Research Centre/University of Granada/Spain;
Prof. Paolo Bartolomeo/Neural correlates of attention and awareness/Paris Brain Institute, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS/Paris/France;
Prof. Marzia De Lucia/Multivariate methods of EEG analysis in right-brain damaged patients/Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie, LREN, Lausanne University Hospital /Lausanne/Switzerland;
Prof. Francesco Tomaiuolo/Study of anatomical and functional correlates of spatial neglect/Department of clinical and experimental medicine/University of Messina/Italy;
Prof. Marco Costanzi/Behavioural correlates of memory and conditioning/Department of human sciences/LUMSA University/Rome/Italy;
Prof. Massimo Silvetti/Reinforcement Learning and computational neuroscience/ISTC-CNR & co-founder of the Computational and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory (CTNLab)/National Research Council (CNR)/Rome/Italy
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS (for a complete list of publication see: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36437362600)
Doricchi, F., Lasaponara, S., Pazzaglia, M., & Silvetti, M. (2022). Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as match/mismatch hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function. Physics of Life Reviews.
Lasaponara, S., D'Onofrio, M., Pinto, M., Aiello, M., Pellegrino, M., Scozia, G., ... & Doricchi, F. (2021). Individual EEG profiling of attention deficits in left spatial neglect: A pilot study. Neuroscience Letters, 761, 136097.
Doricchi, F., Pinto, M., Pellegrino, M., Marson, F., Aiello, M., Campana, S., ... & Lasaponara, S. (2021). Deficits of hierarchical predictive coding in left spatial neglect. Brain communications, 3(2), fcab111.
Lasaponara, S., Fortunato, G., Conversi, D., Pellegrino, M., Pinto, M., Collins, D. L., ... & Doricchi, F. (2021). Pupil dilation during orienting of attention and conscious detection of visual targets in patients with left spatial neglect. Cortex, 134, 265-277.
Lasaponara, S., Pinto, M., Scozia, G., Pellegrino, M., D'Onofrio, M., Isabella, R., & Doricchi, F. (2020). Pre-motor deficits in left spatial neglect: An EEG study on Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) and response-related beta oscillatory activity. Neuropsychologia, 147, 107572.
Lasaponara, S., Pinto, M., Pellegrino, M., Caratelli, L., Rossi-Arnaud, C., Cestari, V., ... & Doricchi, F. (2020). Spatial uncertainty improves the distribution of visual attention and the availability of sensory information for conscious report. Experimental Brain Research, 238(9), 2031-2040.
Doricchi, F., Pellegrino, M., Marson, F., Pinto, M., Caratelli, L., Cestari, V., ... & Lasaponara, S. (2020). Deconstructing Reorienting of Attention: Cue Predictiveness Modulates the Inhibition of the No-target Side and the Hemispheric Distribution of the P1 Response to Invalid Targets. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 32(6), 1046-1060.
Lasaponara, S., Fortunato, G., Dragone, A., Pellegrino, M., Marson, F., Silvetti, M., ... & Doricchi, F. (2019). Expectancy modulates pupil size both during endogenous orienting and during re orienting of spatial attention: A study with isoluminant stimuli. European Journal of Neuroscience, 50(5), 2893-2904.
Lasaponara, S., Pinto, M., Aiello, M., Tomaiuolo, F., & Doricchi, F. (2019). The hemispheric distribution of -band EEG activity during orienting of attention in patients with reduced awareness of the left side of space (spatial neglect). Journal of Neuroscience, 39(22), 4332-4343.
Dragone, A., Lasaponara, S., Pinto, M., Rotondaro, F., De Luca, M., & Doricchi, F. (2018). Expectancy modulates pupil size during endogenous orienting of spatial attention. Cortex, 102, 57-66.
Lasaponara, S., D'Onofrio, M., Pinto, M., Dragone, A., Menicagli, D., Bueti, D., ... & Doricchi, F. (2018). EEG correlates of preparatory orienting, contextual updating, and inhibition of sensory processing in left spatial neglect. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(15), 3792-3808.
Lasaponara, S., D Onofrio, M., Dragone, A., Pinto, M., Caratelli, L., & Doricchi, F. (2017). Changes in predictive cuing modulate the hemispheric distribution of the P1 inhibitory response to attentional targets. Neuropsychologia, 99, 156-164.
Silvetti, M., Lasaponara, S., Lecce, F., Dragone, A., Macaluso, E., & Doricchi, F. (2016). The response of the left ventral attentional system to invalid targets and its implication for the spatial neglect syndrome: a multivariate fMRI investigation. Cerebral Cortex, 26(12), 4551-4562.
Lasaponara, S., Dragone, A., Lecce, F., Di Russo, F., & Doricchi, F. (2015). The serendipitous brain : low expectancy and timing uncertainty of conscious events improve awareness of unconscious ones (evidence from the attentional blink). Cortex, 71, 15-33.
Bueti, D., Lasaponara, S., Cercignani, M., & Macaluso, E. (2012). Learning about time: plastic changes and interindividual brain differences. Neuron, 75(4), 725-737.
Lasaponara, S., Chica, A. B., Lecce, F., Lupianez, J., & Doricchi, F. (2011). ERP evidence for selective drop in attentional costs in uncertain environments: challenging a purely premotor account of covert orienting of attention. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2648-2657.