CURRICULUM VITAE. Chiara Della Libera, PhD October 2013

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Chiara Della Libera, PhD October 2013 Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences Section of Physiology and Psychology - University of Verona Strada le Grazie, Verona Italy Ph Fax chiara.dellalibera@univr.it Web: Place and date of birth: Verona, July 15th, Married, mother of Emilia (born on August 20th, 2007) and Lucia (born on May 7th, 2009). CURRENT POSITION Researcher (Assistant Professor) in Physiology, at the Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Italy, since September 1st, MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS Neural bases of visual selective attention. Cognitive processes underlying attentional selection and inhibition. Effects of rewards, motivation and learning on visual selective attention mechanisms. EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological and Movement Sciences Section of Physiology and Psychology, at the University of Verona, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi. May 2006 March 2006 PhD in Neuroscience, at the Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, University of Verona. Thesis title: Visual Selective Attention and the Effects of Monetary Rewards. Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi. fmri Visiting Fellowship at the MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA U.S.A. October 2004 European Diploma in Cognitive Brain Sciences (EDCBS) at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany and Universidàd de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. 1

2 Post graduate research training at the Department of General Psychology and LIRIPAC, University of Padua, Italy. Tutor: Prof. Franca Stablum. February 2001 July 1995 June 1994 Laurea (BA and MSc equivalent) in General and Experimental Psychology, Neuropsychology. Thesis title: Il Costo Residuo nel Cambiamento di Compito. Supervisor: Prof. Franca Stablum, University of Padua. High School degree in business and foreign languages (English and German). ITPACLE Marco Polo, Verona. American High School diploma, Rosemount High School, Rosemount, MN U.S.A. GRANTS AND AWARDS 2010 Young Researchers Award offered by the Italian Association for Psychology (AIP) branch of Experimental Psychology AIP Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Psychology of 2006, offered by the Italian Association for Psychology (AIP) Young Researchers Grant 2005 offered by the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) Travel grants for participating to the EDCBS program offered by VolkswagenStiftung Hannover and Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, Germany, and Universidàd de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Admission to the European Diploma in Cognitive Brain Sciences (EDCBS) Qualified for a CNR (National Research Council) post graduate studentship in the field of Neuroscience. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Current teaching appointments Physiology Human Physiology for the Degrees in Speech Therapist and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Therapist, Medical School, University of Verona. Physiology of Movement for the Degree in Physiotherapist, Medical School, University of Verona. Past teaching appointments From 2005 'till 2009 contract lecturer in Psychology of Perception for students of Multimedia Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Verona. 2

3 From 2010 'till 2013 lecturer in Physiology Signal Processing for the Master Degree in Bioinformatics and Medical Biotechnologies at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Verona. INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS 2013 Invited speaker at the Genova Science Festival, with the talk: Il piacere della bellezza nel cervello di chi guarda. Le neuroscienze dell'esperienza edonica - The pleasure of beauty in the brain of the observer. Neurosciences of the hedonic experience (Genova, IT) Invited speaker at the conference Infinitamente, with the talk: Attenzione ed esperienza. La pratica rende davvero perfetti? - Attention and experience. Does really practice make perfect? (Verona, IT). MEMBERSHIPS Member of the following national and international scientific societies: Psychonomic Society European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) Italian Association for Psychology (AIP), branch of Experimental Psychology Association for Neuroscience Giuseppe Moruzzi Verona Since 2002 registered in the Association of Italian Practitioner Psychologists Veneto Region. REFEREE ACTIVITY Ad hoc referee for the following journals: Attention Perception & Psychophysics, Cognition, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Emotion, Experimental Brain Research, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Neuroscience Letters, Perception, Psychological Science, Visual Cognition. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles Chelazzi, L., Perlato, A., Santandrea, E. & Della Libera, C. (2013). Rewards Teach Visual Selective Attention. Vision Research, 85, Chelazzi, L., Della Libera, C., Sani, I. & Santandrea, E. (2011). Neural Basis of Visual Selective Attention. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(4),

4 Della Libera, C., Perlato, A. & Chelazzi, L. (2011). Dissociable effects of reward on attentional learning: From passive associations to active monitoring. PLoS ONE, 6(4): e Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2009). Learning to attend and to ignore is a matter of gains and losses. Psychological Science, 20(6), Mirabella, G., Bertini, G., Samengo, I., Kilavik, B. E., Frilli, D., Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2007). Neurons in area V4 of the macaque translate attended visual features into behaviorally relevant categories. Neuron, 54(2), Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2006). Visual selective attention and the effects of monetary rewards. Psychological Science, 17(3), Della Libera, C. & Stablum, F. (2004). Processi e meccanismi sottostanti il cambiare compito. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 31(2), Book Chapters Chelazzi, L., Della Libera, C. & Santandrea, E. (2009). Attentional mechanisms in the ventral pathway. In L. Squire, T. Albright, F. Bloom, F. Gage and N. Spitzer (Eds.), The New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp ), Elsevier, Oxford. Conference Presentations Calletti, R., Ferrari, V., Santandrea, E., Estocinova, J., Della Libera, C., Codispoti, M., Chelazzi, L. (2013). Psychophysiological correlates of the attentional bottleneck: An ERP study of spatial selective attention. Rovereto Attention Workshop, Rovereto Trento, I. Ferrari, V., Calletti, R., Estocinova, J., Santandrea, E., Della Libera, C., Codispoti, M., Chelazzi, L. (2013). The deployment of spatial visual attention among multiple targets. 53 rd Conference of the Society for Psychophysiological Research SPR, Florence, I. Calletti, R., Ferrari, V., Santandrea, E., Estocinova, J., Della Libera, C., Codispoti, M., Chelazzi, L. (2013). Psychophysiological correlates of the attentional bottleneck: An ERP study of spatial selective attention. XV Congress of the Italian Society of Neuroscience, Rome, I. Della Libera, C. (2013). The pervasive effects of reward on skill learning: From visual selective attention to visuo-motor performance. 18 th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology ESCoP, Budapest, Hungary. Della Libera, C., Perlato, A., Santandrea, E., Chelazzi, L. (2012). Attentional Biases for Smoking Cues in Smokers: Role of Gender and Individual Traits. 53 rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN - USA. 4

5 Estocinova, J., Lo Gerfo, E., Della Libera, C., Santandrea, E. & Chelazzi, L. (2011). Transcranial magnetic stimulation improves visual processing and attentional selection within human LO region. Riunione Autunnale Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia, Bologna, I. Della Libera, C., Perlato, A. & Chelazzi, L. (2011). Gli effetti delle ricompense sull'apprendimento attentivo: dalle associazioni passive al controllo attivo. Riunione Autunnale Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia, Bologna, I. Perlato, A., Della Libera, C., Santandrea, E., Chelazzi, L. (2011). Attention biases for smoke-related items in chronic smokers. Rovereto Attention Workshop, Rovereto Trento, I. Estocinova, J., Lo Gerfo, E., Della Libera, C., Santandrea, E., Chelazzi, L. (2011). Enhanced filtering of visual distracters by rtms of the human Lateral Occipital (LO) region. Rovereto Attention Workshop, Rovereto Trento, I. Della Libera, C., Perlato, A., Chelazzi, L. (2011). Dissociable effects of reward on attentional learning: from passive associations to active monitoring. Rovereto Attention Workshop, Rovereto Trento, I. Estocinova, J., Lo Gerfo, E., Della Libera, C., Santandrea, E., Chelazzi, L. (2011). Enhanced filtering of visual distracters by rtms of the human Lateral Occipital (LO) region. Congresso Nazionale SIF, Sorrento Napoli, I. Della Libera, C., Perlato, A., Chelazzi, L. (2011). Dissociable effects of reward on attentional learning: from passive associations to active monitoring. 43 rd Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society EBBS, Seville, E. Della Libera, C., Perlato, A., Chelazzi, L. (2010). Effetti delle ricompense sull apprendimento attentivo: associazioni passive o controllo attivo? Congresso Nazionale AIP Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Bologna, I. Della Libera, C., Perlato, A., Chelazzi, L. (2010). Distinct effects of reward on attentional learning: from passive associations to active monitoring. 33 rd European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP, Lausanne, CH. Chelazzi, L., Perlato, A., & Della Libera, C. (2010). Learning to attend and to ignore depends on past rewards. New evidence on the existence of distinct mechanisms related to active monitoring versus passive associations. FENS Abstr., vol 5, 145.4; FENS Forum 2010, Amsterdam, NL. Chelazzi, L., Perlato, A., & Della Libera, C. (2010). Gains and losses adaptively adjust attentional deployment towards specific objects. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL U.S.A. Gianesini, T. & Della Libera, C. (2006). Inibizione di ritorno in un paradigma di cambio di compito. Congresso Nazionale AIP Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Rovereto Trento, I. 5

6 Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2006). L attenzione selettiva e gli effetti delle ricompense pecuniarie. Riunione Primaverile Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia, Bologna, I. Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2005). Short and long term effects of rewards on the deployment of visual selective attention. 37 th Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society EBBS, Dublin, EIRE. Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2005). L attenzione selettiva e gli effetti delle ricompense pecuniarie. Congresso Nazionale AIP Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Cagliari, I. Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2005). Visual selective attention and the effects of monetary rewards. 14 th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology ESCoP, Leiden, NL. Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2004). Deployment of attention can be controlled through operant conditioning. 45 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN U.S.A.. Gianesini, T., Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2004). Spatial effects in a nonspatial task-switching paradigm. 45 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN U.S.A.. Gianesini, T., Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2004). Lo svolgimento di un compito si oppone allo svolgimento di un compito diverso nel medesimo luogo. Congresso Nazionale AIP Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Sciacca Agrigento, I. Della Libera, C., Zordan, L. & Stablum, F. (2004). Reconfiguration of task sets and task switching cost: The role of interfering stimuli. Trends in European Cognitive Psychology, Napoli, I. Zordan, L., Della Libera, C., Stablum, F. & Morra, S. (2003). L effetto della prevedibilità e della difficoltà nel costo del cambio di compito. Congresso Nazionale AIP Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Bari, I. 6