Profile
Second Year Student, PhD Program at Cognitive and Neural Systems Department
Computational Neuroscience and Vision Science
Research interests:
Attention, visual and spatial representation, consciousness, Psychophysics, computational models of LGN and retinal cells, image statistics, eye movements and visual search
Education:
Sept. 2003 B.A. in Cognitive Science and Psychobiology, Padova University
Jan/May. 2004 Exchange student (International Exchange Fellowship) at Cognitive and Neural System Department, Boston University
Jun. 2005 M.A. in Behavioral Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Padova University
Sept.2005-nowPh.D. student at Cognitive and Neural System Department, Boston University
Fall Semester.2006Teaching Fellow with Prof. Eric Schwartz, CN580- Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
since May 2006Research Assistant in the Action Perception Lab with Prof. Rucci, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University.
Memberships:
Society for Neuroscience
Honors and Awards:
International Exchange Fellowship, Padova University - November, 2003.
Publications:
M.Rucci, R.Iovin, M.Poletti, and F.Santini (2007), Miniature Eye Movements Enhance Fine Spatial Detail, Nature. 447(7146), 851-854.
Abstracts:
M.Poletti and M.Rucci, Dependence of Fixational Saccades on the visual task and image fading conditions, Vision Sciences Society 7th Annual Meeting, Sarasota FL, May 2007.
R.Iovin, M.Poletti, F.Santini, and M.Rucci, Visual Discrimination during controlled Retinal Image Motion, Vision Science Society, 7th Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL, May 2007.
M.Rucci, R.Iovin, M.Poletti, and F.Santini, Visual Discrimination with and without Retinal Image Motion, Cosyne: Computational and Systems Neurosceience Conferece, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2007.
Some Links:
Boston University
APLab
Universita' di Padova
CCNL
Vision Science Society
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