Bilateral Mobility Project
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Home partner:
Contact at home instution:
Host partner:
University of Padua, Italy
Contact at host instution:
Prof. Clara Casco
Email: elisa.zambon@unipd.it
Area:
14.4
Psychology
Sciences
and
Level/Duration:
Behavioural Post Doctorate – 6 months
Title:
Visual Neurosciences, psychophysics of vision
Description:
Department of General Psychology – Experimental and applied Psychophysics Group
Overview
The Experimental & Applied Psychophysics group works within the Department of General
Psychology of the University of Padova. The group carries investigations in vision, auditory
and audiovisual psychophysics with behavioural techniques, interference techniques (TMS),
recording of electrophysiological signals (ERPs) and patient studies.
Research activity
Many of the group members explore the processing of sensory and perceptual mechanisms
producing the formation of perceptual objects. The focus of visual investigations is to shed
light on the perception of texture-defined objects. In audition the group investigates the
acoustical features conveying information about the objects of everyday world. In audiovisual
perception the group investigates the binding of auditory and visual signals in the formation
of audiovisual objects.
The processing of motion in vision and audition is also a major topic of investigation in this
group, as well as the role of past experience in visual perception: Short- and long-term
plasticity of the visual system is investigated using perceptual learning, as well as priming
and adaptation paradigms. In addition of addressing these issues of basic research, the goal
of the group is to exploit the results for the assessment and treatment of sensory deficits
(e.g., low-vision).
Website: http://vision.psy.unipd.it/index.htm
Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia (EMMA)