Valerio Santangelo

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Last update (19th December, 2011)

 

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Attention and memory have been traditionally studied as isolated processes, although they dramatically interact to provide us a stable representation of the external world. My current research is devoted to the understanding of the dynamical interaction between these two complex cognitive systems.


Contact: v.santangelo@gmail.com                          My Curriculum Vitae 

Current affiliations: Department of Human & Educational Sciences, University of Perugia

                            Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation

Ongoing collaborations:

CROSSMODAL RESEARCH LAB, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada

COGNITIVE SCIENCE & PSYCHOLOGY LAB, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome


Publications

    Peer-reviewed articles
  • Santangelo, V., & Macaluso, E. (in press). The contribution of working memory to divided attention. Human Brain Mapping.
  • Botta, F., Santangelo, V., Raffone, A., Sanabria, D., Lupianez, J., & Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2011). Multisensory integration affects visuo-spatial working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1099-1109.
  • Nardo, D., Santangelo, V., & Macaluso, E. (2011). Stimulus-driven orienting of visuo-spatial attention in complex dynamic environments. Neuron, 69, 1015-1028.
  • Santangelo, V., Botta, F., Lupianez, J., & Spence, C. (2011). The time-course of attentional capture under dual-task conditions. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73, 15-23.
  • Barban, F., Zannino, G. D., Santangelo, V., Serra, L., Macaluso, E., Caltagirone, C., & Carlesimo, G. A. (2010). Amblyopic dyslexia: A little investigated reading disorder. Neurocase, 16, 397-407. [Full-Text]
  • Botta, F., Santangelo, V., Raffone, A., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Lupianez, J. (2010). Exogenous and endogenous spatial attention effects on visuo-spatial working memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1590-1602. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Fagioli, S., & Macaluso, E. (2010). The costs of monitoring simultaneously two sensory modalities decrease when dividing attention in space. NeuroImage, 49, 2717-2727. [Full-Text]
  • Spence, C., & Santangelo, V. (2009). Capturing spatial attention with multisensory cues: A review. Hearing Research, 258, 134-142. (Special Isssue on: "Multisensory integration in auditory and auditory-related areas of cortex", T. A. Hackett & C. E. Schroeder, Eds.) [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Spence, C., & Macaluso, E. (2009). Interactions between voluntary and stimulus-driven spatial attention mechanisms across sensory modalities. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 2384-2397.[Full-Text]
  • Mastroberardino, S., & Santangelo, V. (2009). New perspectives in assessing deception: The evolution of the truth machine. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 1085-1099. [Full-Text]
  • Dalton, P., Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2009). The role of working memory in auditory selective attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 2126-2132. [Full-Text]
  • Ho, C., Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2009). Multisensory warning signals: When spatial correspondence matters. Experimental Brain Research, 195, 261-272. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2009). Crossmodal exogenous orienting improves the accuracy of temporal order judgments. Experimental Brain Research, 194, 577-586. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2008). Is the exogenous orienting of spatial attention truly automatic? Evidence from unimodal and multisensory studies. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 989-1015. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Ho, C., & Spence, C. (2008). Capturing spatial attention with multisensory cues. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 398-403. [Full-Text]
  • Mastroberardino, S., Santangelo, V., Botta, F., Marucci, F. S., & Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2008). How the bimodal format of presentation affects working memory: An overview. Cognitive Processing, 9, 69-76. (Special Isssue on: "Domain-general and Domain-specific Components of Working Memory", H. D. Zimmer, Ed.) [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2008). Crossmodal attentional capture in an unspeeded simultaneity judgment task. Visual Cognition, 16, 155-165. (Special Isssue on: "Attentional Capture", B. S. Gibson, C. Folk, J. Theeuwes, & A. Kingstone, Eds.) [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Van der Lubbe, R. H. J., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Postma, A. (2008). Multisensory integration affects ERP components elicited by exogenous cues. Experimental Brain Research, 185, 269-277. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Finoia, P., Raffone, A., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Spence, C. (2008). Perceptual load affects exogenous spatial orienting while working memory load does not. Experimental Brain Research, 184, 371-382. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2007). Multisensory cues capture spatial attention regardless of perceptual load. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1311-1321. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2007). Assessing the automaticity of the exogenous orienting of tactile attention. Perception, 36, 1497-1505. [Full-Text]
  • Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Santangelo, V., Botta, F., & Federici, S. (2007). Are vertical meridian effects due to audio-visual interference? A new confirmation with deaf subjects. Disability & Rehabilitation, 29, 797-804. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Spence, C. (2007). The suppression of reflexive visual and auditory orienting when attention is otherwise engaged. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 137-148. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Spence, C. (2007). Assessing the effect of verbal working memory load on visuo-spatial exogenous orienting. Neurosciences Letters, 413, 105-109. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., Van der Lubbe, R. H. J., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Postma, A. (2006). Spatial attention triggered by unimodal, crossmodal, and bimodal exogenous cues: A comparison of reflexive orienting mechanisms. Experimental Brain Research, 173, 40-48. [Full-Text]
  • Olivetti Belardinelli, M., & Santangelo, V. (2005). The head-centered meridian effect: Auditory attention orienting in conditions of impaired visuo-spatial information. Disability & Rehabilitation, 27, 761-768. [Full-Text]
  • Santangelo, V., & Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2002). Spatial modeling: Simulating place cells activity by an action potential timing network. Cognitive Processing, 3, 123-129.
    
    Book Chapters
  • Santangelo, V., & Macaluso, E. (in press). Spatial attention and audiovisual processing. In: B. E. Stein (Ed.), The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Spence, C., & Santangelo, V. (2010). Auditory attention. In: C. Plack (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: Hearing (pp. 249-270). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [Full-Text]