Laura Cacciamani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Degrees: Ph.D. in Psychology, The University of Arizona
M.A. in Psychology, The University of Arizona
B.S. in Psychology and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. in Psychology, The University of Arizona
B.S. in Psychology and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
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Journal Articles
. (2018). (in press) Transfer of Learning in People Who Are Blind: Enhancement of Spatial-Cognitive Abilities through Drawing. Journal Of Visual Impairment & Blindness.
. (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 (Original work published 2017)
. (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
. (2016). The Cortical Network for Braille Writing in the Blind. Electronic Imaging, 2016, 1–6. http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.16.HVEI-095
. (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
. (2014). Semantic access occurs outside of awareness for the ground side of a figure. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 2531–2547.
. (2014). Spatially rearranged object parts can facilitate perception of intact whole objects. Frontiers In Psychology, 5.
. (2012). Competition-strength-dependent ground suppression in figure–ground perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74, 964–978.
. (2012). The perirhinal cortex modulates V2 activity in response to the agreement between part familiarity and configuration familiarity. Hippocampus, 22, 1965–1977.
Other Publications
. (2013). Toward a dynamical view of object perception. In Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision (pp. 443–457). Springer London.
Likova Lab: Brain Plasticity, Learning & Neurorehabilitation
The main areas of my research are learning and brain plasticity of multimodal sensorimotor processing in the blind and the sighted.