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Laura Cacciamani

Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University
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Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University
Laura Cacciamani @ CalPoly

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Likova, L. T., & Cacciamani, L.. (2018). Transfer of Learning in People Who Are Blind: Enhancement of Spatial-Cognitive Abilities through Drawing. Journal Of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 4(112). Retrieved from https://www.afb.org/jvib/Newjvibabstract.asp?articleid=jvib120406
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Cacciamani, L., & Likova, L. T.. (2017). Memory-guided drawing training increases Granger causal influences from the perirhinal cortex to V1 in the blind. Neurobiology Of Learning And Memory, 141. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.03.013 PMID: 28347878 PMCID: PMC 5488874
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Likova, L. T., Tyler, C. W., Cacciamani, L., Mineff, K. N., & Nicholas, S. C.. (2016). The Cortical Network for Braille Writing in the Blind. Electronic Imaging, 2016, 1–6. http://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.16.HVEI-095 PMID: 28890944 PMCID: PMC5589194
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Cacciamani, L., & Likova, L. T.. (Apr 12 2016). Tactile object familiarity in the blind brain reveals the supramodal perceptual-mnemonic nature of the perirhinal cortex. Frontiers In Human Neuroscience, 10, 92. http://doi.org/ 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00092 PMID: 27148002 PMCID: PMC4828456
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Cacciamani, L., & Likova, L. T.. (2016). The role of the perirhinal cortex in tactile perception and memory in the blind. Journal Of Vision, 16(12).
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Likova, L. T., Tyler, C. W., Cacciamani, L., Mineff, K. N., & Nicholas, S. C.. (2015). Effect of familiarity on Braille writing and reading in the blind: From graphemes to comprehension. Journal Of Vision, 15, 920–920. http://doi.org/10.1167/15.12.920
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Cacciamani, L. (2014). Beyond Conscious Object Perception: Processing and Inhibition of the Groundside of a Figure.
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Cacciamani, L., Mojica, A. J., Sanguinetti, J. L., & Peterson, M. A.. (2014). Semantic access occurs outside of awareness for the ground side of a figure. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 2531–2547.
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Cacciamani, L., Ayars, A. A., & Peterson, M. A.. (2014). Spatially rearranged object parts can facilitate perception of intact whole objects. Frontiers In Psychology, 5.
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Salvagio, E., Cacciamani, L., & Peterson, M. A.. (2012). Competition-strength-dependent ground suppression in figure–ground perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74, 964–978.
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Peterson, M. A., Cacciamani, L., Mojica, A. J., & Sanguinetti, J. L.. (2012). Meaning can be accessed for the ground side of a figure. Gestalt Theory, 34.
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Peterson, M. A., Cacciamani, L., Barense, M. D., & Scalf, P. E.. (2012). The perirhinal cortex modulates V2 activity in response to the agreement between part familiarity and configuration familiarity. Hippocampus, 22, 1965–1977.
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Presentations/Posters
Likova, L. T., Cacciamani, L., Nicholas, S. C., & Mineff, K. N.. (2017). Top-down working memory reorganization of the primary visual cortex: Granger Causality analysis. http://doi.org/10.1167/17.10.594
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Likova, L. T., Tyler, C. W., Mineff, K. N., Cacciamani, L., & Nicholas, S. C.. (2016). Dissociable brain networks revealed to single-repetition learning in Braille reading and Braille writing-fromm. Retrieved from ECVP 2016 Perception 45, 164-165
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Likova, L. T., Tyler, C. W., Mineff, K. N., Cacciamani, L., & Nicholas, S. C.. (2016). High-order multisensory mechanisms: Insights from Braille writing and reading. Retrieved from IS&T Int Symp Electron Imaging
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Cacciamani, L., & Likova, L. T.. (2016). Memory-guided drawing training increases Granger causal influences from the perirhinal cortex to V1 in the blind. Retrieved from SfN. San Diego Ca, USA
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Other Publications
Likova, L. T., Cacciamani, L., Nicholas, S. C., & Mineff, K. N.. (2017). Top-down working memory reorganization of the primary visual cortex: Granger Causality analysis. Retrieved from Jurnal of Vision
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Peterson, M. A., & Cacciamani, L.. (2013). Toward a dynamical view of object perception. In Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision (pp. 443–457). Springer London.
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The main areas of my research are learning and brain plasticity of multimodal sensorimotor processing in the blind and the sighted.

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