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1 CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM: ALBERTO PISONI - PhD Born in Legnano (MI) on 08/05/1985 Address: via Trieste 21/c Santo Stefano Ticino (MI) Tel +39/ Mobile +39/ a.pisoni1@campus.unimib.it EDUCATION 22 nd January 2014 PhD Thesis defense. Title: Investigating the neural correlates of language production by means of tdcs. Jan 2010 Dec 2013 PhD student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistic and Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology department, University Milano-Bicocca (XXV cycle). July 2009 Degree in CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. Final dissertation: Arcuate Fasciculus and Language deficit recovery in post awake-surgery Patients (110/110 cum laude) Committee: Prof.ssa Costanza Papagno July 2007 Degree in CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES, Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. Final dissertation: Hemispheric lateralization of abstract vs concretewords: evidences from an rtms study (110/110 cum laude) Committee: Prof.ssa Costanza Papagno July 2004 Linguistic high school degree at Liceo classic statale S. Quasimodo, via Volta 4, Magenta (MI) (100/100)

Jan 2010 Dec 2013 PhD student in Experimental Psychology, Linguistic and Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology department, University Milano-Bicocca (XXV cycle).

2 ACADEMIC POSITIONS 01/01/2015 now Post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Milano Bicocca, department of Psychology. 15/03/ /09/2014 Research assistant to prof. H. Stassen, Institute for Response-Genetics, University of Zurich. TEACHING EXPERIENCES 23/01/2014 now Teaching assistant in Neuropsychology and Psychobiology at the department of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca. ADVANCED COURSES AND TRAINING 01/03/ /03/2013 Visiting PhD student at Clinical Neurophysiology department, Universitatsmedizin Gottingen under the supervision of Prof W. Paulus and Dr. Rer. Nat A. Antal. 05/09/ /09/2011 AIP Summer School on Mixed Linear Model and its application in repeated measures, hierarchic models and changes study, Bertinoro (FC). 22/02/ /02/2011 NWG practical course in Transcranial Magnetic and Electrical Stimulation (TMS/tDSC/tACS/tRNS) in Gottingen, department of Clinical Neurophysiology, focusing on theoretical and practical issues and future trends of non invasive brain stimulation techniques. 28/06/ /06/2010 Magstim TMS summer school at Oxford University, department of experimental psychology, focusing on important emerging trends in human brain stimulation research. 15/09/ /03/ hours training in Università degli studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, P.zza dell Ateneo Nuovo 1 MI, Psychology department. Research assistant to Dott.ssa Z. Cattaneo, Conducting experimental studies concerning TMS stimulation and Visual language Processing. 09/03/ /06/ hours training in Università degli studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, P.zza dell Ateneo Nuovo 1 MI, Psychology department. Research

TEACHING EXPERIENCES 23/01/2014 now Teaching assistant in Neuropsychology and Psychobiology at the department of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca.

3 assistant to Dott.ssa N. Bolognini, Conducting experimental studies concerning tdcs stimulation and Multisensory integration (visuospatial). 09/03/ /06/ hours training in Università degli studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, P.zza dell Ateneo Nuovo 1 MI, Psychology department. Research assistant to Dott.ssa N. Bolognini, Conducting experimental studies concerning tdcs stimulation and Multisensory integration (visuospatial). 26/02/ /05/ hours training in Università degli studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, P.zza dell Ateneo Nuovo 1 MI, Psychology department and at Ospedale Civile di Legnano U.O. functional rehabilitation, Legnano (MI). Research assistant to Prof.ssa C. Papagno and Dott.ssa MG. Colombo, conducting experimental studies concerning TMS stimulation and Word discrimination; and language assessment and rehabilitation. SCIENTIFIC CV Abstract Posters and oral Presentations Pisoni A, Casarotti A, Gallucci M, Castellano A, Bello L, Papagno C, Fascicolo arcuato e recupero dei deficit di linguaggio in pazienti post-awake surgery. AIP Sper annual meeting, Bologna 2-3/09/2010. Awarded for Poster session presentation Pisoni A, Papagno C, Cattaneo Z, tdcs interferes with naming of semantically related items, Academy of aphasia annual meeting, Athens 24 26/10/2010. Poster session Pisoni A, Cattaneo Z, Papagno C, Transcranial direct current stimulation over Broca s region improves phonemic and semantic fluency in healthy individuals, EWCN annual meeting, Brixen 23 28/01/2011. Poster session Romero Lauro LJ, Pisoni A, Ottone S, Ponzano F, Zarri L, MEP modulation by the meaning of an action: a TMS Study, ESN annual meeting, Basel 7 9/09/2011. Poster session Pisoni A, Romero Lauro LJ, Ottone S, Ponzano F, Zarri L, MEP modulation by the meaning of an action: a TMS study EWCN annual meeting Brixen. Poster Session Turi Zs, Pisoni A, Raithel A, Schacht A, Ambrus G, Paulus W, Antal A, Bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation over the posterior parietal cortex enhances recognition

Research 26/02/2007 26/05/2007 250 hours training in Università degli studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, P.zza dell Ateneo Nuovo 1 MI, Psychology department and at Ospedale Civile di Legnano U.O. functional rehabilitation, Legnano (MI).

4 memory in healthy individuals, 5th International Conference on Non-invasive Brain Stimulation, Leipzig 19 21/03/ Pisoni A, Mattavelli G, Romero Lauro LJ, Crespi M, Papagno C, Neuropsychological correlates of tdcs - induced enhancement of language production, SINP annual meeting, Milano 15-16/11/2013, oral presentation. Speaker Pisoni A. 8. Pisoni A, Mattavelli G, Papagno C, Romero Lauro JL, Direct evidence of tdcs effect on cortical excitability ad task performance: a TMS-EEG Study on Verbal Fluency, ESCOP annual meeting, Paphos, Cyprus, 22-24/09/2015. Publications in peer reviewed international journals 1. Romero LJ, Pisoni A, Zerboni H, Papagno C. The neural correlates of abstract versus concrete words: evidence from an rtms study, Brain and Language, 2007, 103(8): IF: 3.386, citations: Pisoni A, Papagno C, Cattaneo Z. tdcs interferes with naming of semantically related items, Procedia-Social and behavioral Sciences, 2010, 6: 231. IF: -, citations: Cattaneo Z, Pisoni A, Papagno C, Silvanto J. Modulation of visual cortical excitability by working memory: effect of luminance contrast of mental imagery. Frontiers in Psychology, 2011, 2(1):29. IF: -, citations: Cattaneo Z, Pisoni A, Papagno C. Transcranial direct current stimulation over Broca s region improves phonemic and semantic fluency in healthy individuals. Neuroscience, 2011, 183: IF: 3.122, citations: Pisoni A, Papagno C, Cattaneo Z. Neural correlates of the semantic interference effect: New evidence from transcranial direct current stimulation. Neuroscience, 2012, IF: 3.122, citations: Chaieb L, Antal A, Pisoni A, Saiote C, Opitz A, Ambrus GG, Focke N, Paulus W. Safety of 5 khz tacs. Brain Stimulation, 2013, 7(1): IF: 4.538, citations: Pisoni A, Iasevoli L, Rendina F, Cattaneo Z, Papagno C. Guess Who? Temporal Pole and Facename Association: New Evidences from tdcs, Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 2013, 94, IF: -, citations: Romero LJ, Rosanova M, Mattavelli G, Convento S, Pisoni A, Opitz A, Bolognini N, & Vallar G. Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tdcs) increases cortical excitability: direct evidence from TMS-EEG. Cortex, 2014.

5 9. Pisoni A, Lo Gerfo E, Ottone S, Ponzano F, Vergallito A, Romero Lauro LJ. Fair play doesn t matter, MEP modulation as a neurophysiological signature of status quo bias in economic interactions. Neuroimage, Renzi C, Ferrari C, Schiavi S, Pisoni A, Papagno C, Vecchi T, Antal A, Cattaneo Z. The Role of the Occipital Face Area in Holistic Processing Involved in Face Detection and Discrimination: A tdcs Study. Neuropsychology, Papagno, C., Casarotti, A., Comi, A., Pisoni, A., Lucchelli, F., Bizzi, A.,... & Bello, L. Longterm proper name anomia after removal of the uncinate fasciculus. Brain Structure and Function, 2015, Pisoni, A., Vernice, M., Iasevoli, L., Cattaneo, Z., & Papagno, C. Guess who? Investigating the proper name processing network by means of tdcs. Neuropsychologia, 2015, 66, Pisoni, A.*, Turi, Z.*, Raithel, A., Ambrus, G. G., Alekseichuk, I., Schacht, A.,... & Antal, A. Separating Recognition Processes of Declarative Memory via Anodal tdcs: Boosting Old Item Recognition by Temporal and New Item Detection by Parietal Stimulation. PloS one, 2015, 10(3), e Lauro, L. J. R., Pisoni, A., Rosanova, M., Casarotto, S., Mattavelli, G., Bolognini, N., & Vallar, G. Localizing the effects of anodal tdcs at the level of cortical sources: A Reply to Bailey et al. Cortex, GG Ambrus*, A Pison*i, A Primaßin, Z Turi, W Paulus, A Antal. Bi-frontal transcranial alternating current stimulation in the ripple range reduced overnight forgetting, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, H index (Google Scholar) : 5 Total number of citations: 133 Awards: AIP Sper annual meeting award for best poster presentation. Poster: Pisoni A, Casarotti A, Gallucci M, Castellano A, Bello L, Papagno C, Fascicolo arcuato e recupero dei deficit di linguaggio in pazienti post-awake surgery. AIP Experimental annual meeting, Bologna 2-3/09/2010. CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Neurophysiological basis of neuromodulation investigated by means of TMS-EEG TMS-EEG Mechanisms of action

The Role of the Occipital Face Area in Holistic Processing Involved in Face Detection and Discrimination: A tdcs Study. Neuropsychology, 2014. 11. Papagno, C., Casarotti, A., Comi, A., Pisoni, A.

6 Neural correlates of proper naming Linguistic abilities and plasticity in post-surgery oncologic patients Reviewer for the following international journals: BMC Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Brain Stimulation.. FOREIGN LANGUAGES SKILLS Italian: Native speaker. English: Fluent Spoken and written knowledge of English. French: Good knowledge of written and spoken French. Spanish: Moderate knowledge of written and spoken Spanish. German: Basic knowledge of written and spoken German. TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL SKILLS Operating systems: MS Windows, OSX Softwares: Microsoft office Apple Keynote Adobe CS5 (Photoshop, Illustrator) Statistical programs IBM SPSS R Statistica Technical softwares CED Signal Mathworks Matlab (Basic knowledge) PST E-Prime Brain products Brain vision (Recorder and Analyzer) MRIcron / NPM Softaxic optic 2.0 Eximia Nexstim Devices Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Single pulse, repetitive

Spanish: Moderate knowledge of written and spoken Spanish. German: Basic knowledge of written and spoken German.

7 Integrated TMS EEG system EEG EMG Transcranial direct / alternating current stimulation (tdcs/tacs)

PhD student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Department of Psychology,

PhD student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Department of Psychology, March 2015 Piercarlo Mauri Curriculum Vitae Personal Details: Date of birth: 23/12/1983 Place of birth: Tradate (VA) - Italy Nationality: Italian Phone: +39 0303501595 E-mail: piercarlo.mauri@cognitiveneuroscience.it