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Stefano Baldassi

curriculum vitae

 

Contacts 

The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

2318 Fillmore Street, 94115 San Francisco (California, USA)

 

e-mail: stefano@ski.org

Tel. +1-415-3452093

Fax. +1-415-3458455

 

Personal 

…       Citizenship: Italian

…       Date of birth: 13/9/ 1968

…       Place of birth: Rome

 

Titles

1995: Italian laurea cum laude in General and Experimental Psychology

University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Psychology. 

2001: PhD in Visual Perception. Supervisor: Prof. David C. Burr. University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Psychology & Istituto di Neurofisiologia del CNR, Pisa (Italy)

 

Other training

September1996 – October 1997 Research Assistantship at "The Institute of Ophthalmology", University College London. London, UK. Supervisor: Prof. Michael J. Morgan

 

Awards

Travel Fellowship Grant for the 99 ARVO meeting provided by "Fondazione GB Bietti per l’oftalmologia".

 

Selected as student at the EU Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience, taken at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy). 17/8 – 23/9/1999.

 

Foreign languages

English. French, elementary.

 

Pubblications

Baldassi, S., Modelli di mascheramento e di sommazione nello studio della soppressione saccadica (The study of saccadic suppression by using masking and summation models). Laurea thesis. University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Psychology. Rome (1995).

 

Morgan M.J., Baldassi S., (1997). How the human visual system encodes the orientation of a texture and why it makes mistakes. Current Biology, 7, 999-1002.

 

Morgan M.J., Mason, A.J.S., Baldassi, S. (1999). Are there separate Fourier and non-Fourier mechanisms for orientation discrimination? Vision Research (in press).

 

Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., (2000) Feature-based integration of orientation signals in visual search. Vision Research 40 (10-12), 1293-1300

 

Selected abstracts

Burr D.C., Baldassi S., Marconi B., Morrone M.C., (1996). Spatial frequency selectivity during saccadic eye movements revealed by masking. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science,1988, S432.

 

Baldassi S., Burr D.C., (1998). Effect of noise and attention on orientation discrimination. Perception, 27, 35a.

 

Baldassi S., Burr D.C., (1999). Spatial attention may influence the extent of second-stage integration for orientation discrimination tasks. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 5124, S972 (40:4).

 

Baldassi S., Burr D.C., (1999). The effect of attention on orientation thresholds for location and discrimination of oriented targets amongst vertical and tilted distractors. Perception 28, 58b.

 

Baldassi S., Burr D.C., (2000). Colour and luminance do not pop out at threshold. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, B212 (41:4).

 

Baldassi, S., Verghese, P., Burr, D.C., (2001) Effect of orientation noise on a two-tailed orientation discrimination during visual search. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 4970, S926 (42:4).

 

Seminars and conferences

1995: Marconi, B., Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C. Selective suppression of lowspatial frequency patterns during saccadic eye movements. Oral talk at the Symposium on Perception and Cognition. Trieste, Italy.

 

1997: Baldassi, S., Morgan, M.J., How the human visual system encodes the orientation of a texture and why it makes mistakes. Oral talk at the Symposium on Perception and Cognition. Trieste (Italy).

 

1998: Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., Effects of noise and attention on orientation discrimination. Paper at the European Conference on Visual Perception. Oxford, UK.

 

1998: Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., The effects of attention on orientation

discrimination in noise: Evidence for a 2nd stage integrator. Oral talk at the Symposium on Perception and Cognition. Trieste (Italy).

 

1999: Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., Different attention based mechanisms for locating and discriminating oriented targets. Poster at the 3rd Annual Vision Research Conference "Pre-attentive and attentive mechanisms in vision". FtLauderdale, USA.

 

1999: Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., Spatial attention may influence the extent of second-stage integration for orientation discrimination tasks. Paper at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Ft.Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

 

1999: Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., The effect of attention on orientation thresholds for location and discrimination of oriented targets amongst vertical and tilted distractors. Paper at the European Conference on Visual Perception. Trieste (Italy).

 

2000: Baldassi, S., Burr, D.C., Colour and luminance do not pop out at threshold. Poster at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Ft.Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

 

2001: Baldassi, S., Verghese, P., Burr, D.C., Effect of orientation noise on a two-tailed orientation discrimination during visual search. Paper at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Ft.Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

 

2001: Baldassi, S., Verghese, P., Effect of attention on a search task with orientation noise. Poster at theÝ meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Florida, USA.

 

 

 

Memberships

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Section VI

 

 

 

Scientific Interest

Visual Attention. Psychophysics, neurophysiology and neuropsychology of the visual system.

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