Contributi Scientifici

Titoli:

2013 – Dottorato (Ph.D.) in Scienze della Vita e della Salute, Specialità: Neuroscienze e Neurofisiologia – Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury – Faculté des sciences médicales et paramédicales, Université Aix-Marseille

2008 – Laurea Specialistica (M.Sc.) in Psicologia Sperimentale – 110 e Lode – Facoltà di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze

2006 – Laurea Breve (B.S.) in Psicologia Generale e Sperimentale – 108/110 – Facoltà di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze


Seminari / Conferenze:

2018 – “Miniature eye movements adjust to the statistics of naturalistic images in humans ” – GDR Vision – Paris

2017 – “Visual information integration” – GDR Vision – Lille

2015 – “Spatio-temporal integration of visual information for eye movements and perception” – Neurobiology Department University of Chicago – Chicago

2014 – “Use of Motion Clouds stimuli in Visual Neuroscience” – Computational Neuroscience Seminars University of Chicago – Chicago

2014 – “Motion Clouds stimuli and fixation eye movements” – Coordination for Optimal Decisions in Dynamic Environment annual meeting – Amsterdam

2012 – “Adaptive gain control explains dissociation between perception and action” – GDR Vision – Paris

2012 – “Dissociation between perception and action”  – Center for Integrative Neuroscience Tubingen University – Tubingen

2011 – “Modulation of orientation discrimination thresholds by positive reward in absence of attention” – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Pisa

2011 – “Ocular Following responses for natural statistic visual stimuli” – European Conference Eye Movements – Marseille

2010 – “Ocular Following Reflex and speed perception” – Coordination for Optimal Decisions in Dynamic Environment annual meeting – Barcelona

2008 – “Reward modulates the signal to noise ratio of orientation tuned channel” – European Conference on Visual Perception – Regensburg

2008 – “Mechanism of motion and speed perception” – Coordination for Optimal Decisions in Dynamic Environment annual meeting – Khalkidhiki


Articoli e Abstracts pubblicati su riviste scientifiche:

F. Bardozzo, A. Terlizzi, C. Simoncini, P. Lió, R. Tagliaferri (2024) Elegans-AI: How the connectome of a living organism could model artificial neural networks. Neurocomputing 584, 127598

C. Salvi, C. Simoncini, J. Grafman, M. Beeman (2020) Oculometric signature of switch into awareness? Pupil size predicts sudden insight whereas microsaccades predict problem-solving via analysis. NeuroImage 217, 116933

G.S. Masson, N. Gekas, A.I. Meso, C. Simoncini, P. Mamassian (2019) Dynamic non-linear interactions serving speed estimation inferred from channel interactions during ocular following. Journal of Vision 19 (10), 167b-167b

T. Mukherjee, B. Liu, C. Simoncini, L.C. Osborne (2017) Spatiotemporal filter for visual motion integration from pursuit eye movements in humans and monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience 37 (6), 1394-1412

T. Mukherjee, M. Battifarano, C. Simoncini, L.C. Osborne (2015) Shared sensory estimates for human motion perception and pursuit eye movements. Journal of Neuroscience 35 (22), 8515-8530

A.I. Meso, C. Simoncini (2014) Towards an understanding of the roles of visual areas MT and MST in computing speed . Frontiers in computational neuroscience 8, 92

C. Simoncini, A. Montagnini, L.U. Perrinet, G.S. Masson (2014) The characteristics of microsaccadic eye movements varied with the change of strategy in a match-to-sample task. Journal of Vision 14 (10), 110-110

A.I. Meso, C. Simoncini, L. Perrinet, G.S. Masson (2014) Beyond simply faster and slower: exploring paradoxes in speed perception. Journal of Vision 14 (10), 491-491

C. Simoncini (2013) Intégration spatio-‐temporelle de l’information visuelle pour les mouvements oculaires et la perception. Tesi di Dottorato

C. Simoncini, L.U. Perrinet, A. Montagnini, G.S. Masson (2013) Different temporal integration for ocular following and speed perception. Journal of Vision 13 (9), 385-385

A.I. Meso, C. Simoncini, L.U. Perrinet, G.S. Masson (2013) How and why do image frequency properties influence perceived speed? Journal of Vision 13 (9), 354-354

C. Simoncini, L.U. Perrinet, A. Montagnini, P. Mamassian, G.S. Masson (2013) More is not always better: adaptive gain control explains dissociation between perception and action. Nature neuroscience 15 (11), 1596-1603

C. Simoncini, A. Montagnini, L.U. Perrinet, G.S. Masson (2012) Effect of image statistics on fixational eye movements. Journal of Vision 12 (9), 1014-1014

C. Simoncini, L.U. Perrinet, A. Montagnini, P. Mamassian, G. Masson (2012) Measuring speed of moving textures: different pooling of motion information for human ocular following and perception. Front. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Neural Coding. Decision-Making & Integration in Time

C. Simoncini, A. Montagnini, L.U. Perrinet, P. Mamassian, G.S. Masson (2011) Pattern discrimination for moving random textures: Richer stimuli are more difficult to recognize. Journal of Vision 11 (11), 749-749

S. Baldassi, C. Simoncini (2011) Reward sharpens orientation coding independently of attention. Frontiers in neuroscience 5, 13

C. Simoncini, L.U. Perrinet, A. Montagnini, P. Mamassian, G.S. Masson (2010) Different pooling of motion information for perceptual speed discrimination and behavioral speed estimation. Journal of Vision 10 (7), 834-834

S. Baldassi, C. Simoncini (2009) Reward sharpens orientation coding independently on attention. Nature Precedings, 1-1

S. Baldassi, C. Simoncini (2009) Reward modulates the signal-to-noise ratio of orientation-tuned channels. PERCEPTION, 6-6

C. Simoncini, S. Baldassi (2008) Low-level effects of reward can be disentangled from both spatial and feature attention. PERCEPTION, 94-94

C. Simoncini, S. Baldassi (2007) Modulation of orientation discrimination thresholds by positive reward in absence of attention. PERCEPTION, 0-0


Capitoli di opere a carattere scientifico:

S. Baldassi, C. Simoncini (2012) Reward sharpens orientation coding independently of attention – in: Lee, D., Glimcher, P. and Trommershaeuser, J. Neurobiology of Choice. Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience. Frontiers, pp. 103-110. ISBN 9782889190119


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