Visual Cognition and Eye Movements
Lead Investigator: Antimo Buonocore
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The research team in visual cognition and eye movements explores how the brain constructs a stable and coherent perception of the external world across time and space, despite constant eye movements and dynamic visual input. By integrating sensory, motor, and cognitive perspectives, the team investigate how the brain distinguishes motion caused by self-initiated movements from that caused by external events. Central to the team's work is understanding how the visual and oculomotor systems prioritize relevant information, suppress distractions, coordinate eye movements to shift attention, and integrate sensory inputs before and after eye movements to ensure perceptual stability. By using advanced eye-tracking techniques and controlled visual environments, the research team aim to uncover the mechanisms that enable these processes. The team insights seek to connect experimental findings with real-world visual perception and action.
Key lab members
Antimo Buonocore
Antimo Buonocore
Celeste Cafaro
Celeste Cafaro
Methods
Behavioral studies
Eye-tracking
Neuroimaging
Selected publications
Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2023). The inevitability of visual interruption. Journal of neurophysiology, 130(2), 225–237.
Willeke, K., Tian, X., Buonocore, A., Bellet J., Ramirez-Cardenas, A., Hafed, Z.M., (2019). Memory-guided microsaccades. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3710.
Latest publications
Buonocore, A., Cuomo, M., Maresca, M., & Fracasso, A. (under review). Contributions of temporal and spatial masking signals in perception of sequential visual events bioRxiv.
Taylor, R., Buonocore, A., & Fracasso, A. (2024). Saccadic “inhibition” unveils the late influence of image content on oculomotor programming. Experimental Brain Research, 242(10), 2281-2294.
Fracasso, A., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2023). Peri-Saccadic Orientation Identification Performance and Visual Neural Sensitivity Are Higher in the Upper Visual Field. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(41), 6884-6897
McIntosh, R. D., Iveson, M. H., Similä, S. S. & Buonocore, A. (2023) Pictorial depth cues always influence reaching distance. Neuropsychologia 190, 108701.
Khademi, F., Zhang, T., Baumann, M., Buonocore, A., Malevich, T., Yu, Y., & Hafed, Z. M. (2023). Visual feature tuning properties of stimulus-driven saccadic inhibition in macaque monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology, 130, 1282–1302.
Buonocore, A., Dietze, N., & McIntosh, R. D. (2021). Time-dependent inhibition of covert shifts of attention. Experimental Brain Research, 239(8), 2635–2648.
Huber-Huber, C., Buonocore, A., Melcher, D. (2021). The extrafoveal preview paradigm as a measure of predictive, active sampling in visual perception. Journal of Vision, 21(7)-12.
Buonocore, A., Tian, X., Khademi, F., Hafed, Z. M. (2021). Instantaneous movement-unrelated midbrain activity modifies ongoing eye movements. Elife, 10, e64150.
Buonocore, A., Tian, X., Khademi, F., Hafed, Z. M. (2021). Instantaneous movement-unrelated midbrain activity modifies ongoing eye movements. Elife, 10, e64150.
Buonocore, A., Dimingen, O., & Melcher, D. (2020). Post-saccadic face processing is modulated by pre-saccadic preview: Evidence from fixation-related potentials. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(11), 2305-2313.
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