Paolo Bernardis PhD Present Position Post-doctoral fellow, Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (until the end of 2007). Education 1989-1993. University of Architecture IUAV - Venezia, Italy. Corso di Laurea in Architettura. 2000 - Degree in Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy. 2001-2003. PhD student at University of Trieste, Experimental Psychology. Supported by a PhD fellow from the University of Trieste. 2002 - I have spent two month at the Department of Orthoptics, St. Paul's Oculomotor Group of the University of Liverpool, UK. as visiting student. Supported by Progetto giovani ricercatori University of Trieste. 2004 - Participation at the Workshop: Motor Control for Vision Scientists, January, 7-11, Lunteren, NL. Supported by the European Union and NWO/British Council 2004-2005. Post-doc fellowship for research on the "Study of imitation with kinematics and TMS techniques" at the department of Neuroscience, University of Parma under the supervision of Prof. Maurizio Gentilucci. 2006 - Participation at the Summer School: The Fundamentals of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication and the Biometrical Issue. September, 2-12, 2006, Vietri sul mare, Italy. Supported by NATO Programme Security Through Science 2006-2007. Post-doc fellowship for research on Criteri di categorizzazione nelle discipline umanistiche e sociali at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. Nicoletta Caramelli. Teaching 1999 - Teaching assistant of prof. E. Bardi. Course: Bases of Informatics, Istituto Enenkel, Trieste. Supported by project "EUROFORMAZIONE" Ministry of the Defense. 2001 - Teaching assistant of prof. N. Bruno, Course: Presentation and Interpretation of data, Faculty of Psychology, University of Trieste.
2003-2007. Teaching assistant of Prof. W. Gerbino, Course: Perception, Consorzio Nettuno for teledidactics and University of Trieste. Publications on international journals with referee 1. Bruno, N. Bernardis P. e Schirillo J. (1997). Lightness, equivalent background, and anchoring. Perception & Psichophysics, 59,(5) 643-654 2. Bruno, N., & Bernardis, P. (2002). Dissociating perception and action in Kanizsa s compression illusion. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9,(4) 723-730. 3. Bruno, N., & Bernardis (2003). When does action resist visual illusions? Effector position modulates illusory influences on motor responses. Experimental Brain Research. 151(2), 225-237. 4. Battaglini, P. P., Bernardis, P., & Bruno, N. (2004) At least some electrophysiological and behavioural data cannot be reconciled with the planning/control model. Brain and Behavioural Sciences, 27(1), 24-25. 5. Bernardis, P., Knox, P. C. & Bruno. N. (2005) How does action resist visual illusion? Uncorrected oculomotor information does not account for accurate pointing in peripersonal space. Experimental Brain Research, 162(2), 133-144. 6. Bernardis, P. & Gentilucci, M. (2006) Speech and Gesture share the same communication system. Neuropsychologia, 44(2), 178-190. 7. Gentilucci, M. Bernardis, P., Crisi, G. & Dalla Volta, R.(2006) Verbal responses to gesture observation are interfered by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of Broca s area. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 18(7), 1059-1074. 8. Gentilucci, M. Bernardis. P. (2007) Imitation during phoneme production. Neuropsychologia. 45(3), 608-615. 9. Barbieri, F., Buonocore, A., Bernardis, P., Dalla Volta, R. & Gentilucci, M. (2007) On the relation between affordance and representation of the agent s effector. Experimental Brain Research. online DOI 10.1007/s00221-007-0869-4. Proceeding of international conferences 1. Bruno, N, Bernardis, P and Schirillo, J. Equivalent backgrounds, increments, and decrements. Paper presented at European Conference on Visual Perception. Strasbourg, (France), September, 9-13, 1996. 2. Bernardis, P and Bruno, N. Kinetic illusory figures: interaction of information from accretion/deletion of surface texture and surface contours. Paper presented at European Conference on Visual Perception. Trieste (Italy), August, 22-26, 1999. 3. Bruno, N and Bernardis, P. Interaction of two sources of information in spatiotemporal occlusions. Paper presented at Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Fort Lauderdale FL (USA), March, 2000. 4. Bruno, N and Bernardis, P. Dissociating perception and action in Kanizsa's compression illusion. Paper presented at Vision Science Society. Sarasota FL (USA), May, 4-8, 2001.
1. Bruno, N and Bernardis, P. When does action resist visual illusions? Effector position modulates relational influences on motor programs. Paper presented at Vision Science Society. Sarasota FL (USA), May, 10-15, 2002. 2. Bruno, N and Bernardis, P. Oculomotor information not needed for accurate effectorrelative pointing. Paper presented at European Conference on Visual Perception. Glasgow (UK), August, 25-29, 2002. 3. Bernardis, P, Knox, P and Bruno, N. Saccades are sensitive to the Müller-Lyer illusion, pointing is not. Paper presented at European Conference on Visual Perception. Paris (France), September, 1-5, 2003. 4. Bernardis, P, Knox, P and Bruno, N. Pointing and saccading toward the Müller-Lyer illusion: common or separate mechanisms? Paper presented at Vision Science Society. Sarasota FL (USA), April, 30 - May, 5, 2004. 5. Gentilucci, M, Bernardis, P and Secchi, C. Speech and arm gesture share a common communication system. Paper presented at Society for Neuroscience. San Diego CA (USA), October, 23-27, 2004. 6. Gentilucci, M, Bernardis, P and Cattaneo, L. Imitation and cross-modal integration in speech perception. Paper presented at 6th International Multisensory Research Forum. Rovereto (Italy), June, 5-8, 2005. 7. Gentilucci, M, Bernardis, P and Dalla Volta, R. Broca s area and coding symbolic gesture. Paper presented at Society for Neuroscience. Washington, DC (USA), November, 12-16, 2005. 8. Bernardis, P. Can words prime gestures? Paper presented at the Summer School: The Fundamentals of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication and the Biometrical Issue. Vietri sul mare, (Italy). September, 2-12, 2006. 9. Gentilucci, M, Bello, A. Pettenati, P., Stefanini, S. & Bernardis, P. Preverbal effects of object manipulation on 11-13 months aged children. Paper presented at the 14th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. New York, NY (USA), May, 5-8, 2007 10. Bernardis, P. and Caramelli, N. Semantic priming between words and iconic gestures Paper presented at the Second european Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, (Greece). May, 23-27, 2007. Proceeding of national conferences 1. Bernardis, P. & Bruno, N. Breathing square illusion e assunzione di rigidità. Paper presented at Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, 24-26 settembre 2000. Carlo Delfino Editore, p.101. 2. Bernardis, P. Percezione e azione nell illusione di compressione di Kanizsa. Paper presented at Congressino di primavera del Dipartimento di Psicologia di Trieste, 15-16 giugno 2001, Casteldobro (SL). 3. Bernardis, P., Detoni, M. & Bruno, N. (2001). Percezione e azione nell illusione di compressione di Kanizsa. Paper presented at Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, 23-25 settembre 2001. Editrice Democratica Sarda, pp.137-140.
1. Bernardis, P., Bruno, N. Trasformazioni visuomotorie e illusioni ottico-geometriche. Paper presented at Congressino di primavera del Dipartimento di Psicologia di Trieste, 30 maggio - 1 giugno 2002, Casteldobro (Slovenia). 2. Bernardis, P., Bruno, N. Confronto fra due trasformazioni visuomotorie nell'illusione di Müller-Lyer: movimenti oculari saccadici e trasporto della mano. Paper presented at Congressino di primavera del Dipartimento di Psicologia di Trieste, 12-14 giugno 2003, Casteldobro (Slovenia). 3. Bernardis, P., Dalla Volta, R., Gentilucci, M. L area di Broca e codifica verbale del gesto simbolico. Paper presented at Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, 18-20 settembre 2005, Cagliari. 4. Bernardis, P., Caramelli, N. Effetti di Priming tra parola e gesto. Paper presented at Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, 13-15 settembre 2005, Rovereto (TN). Invited presentations Bernardis, P. Gesto e Linguaggio parlato: due componenti di un unico sistema di comunicazione. Dipartimento di Psicologia, March 21th 2006, Trieste (TS) Bernardis, P. Interactions between the language and the iconic gesture systems. CIMeC Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, June 4th 2007, Rovereto (TN) Knowledge of experimental methodology and techniques Specific Knowledge of the main methodology in psychophysics of vision with CRT monitor controlled by personal computers. Knowledge of graphic toolbox (COGENT and PsychToolBox) to built applications for visual presentation of stimuli and online interaction with the observer. Specific knowledge of kinematic analysis techniques for body movements with optical motion capture systems (SMART from emotion - Padova, and ELITE from BTS - Milano, Italy), and with camcorder based systems. Specific knowledge of the brain stimulation technique (repetitive and single pulse TMS) and basic knowledge of electroencephalography. Basic knowledge of tracking techniques to analyze ocular movements measured with infrared limbus eye tracker (Skalar IRIS IR Light Eye Tracker from Cambridge Research). Informatics Operative Systems: MacOS, Windows, Unix (basic). Statistical software: Datadesk, Statistica Programming: basic knowledge of programming in Matlab, C, TrueBasic.
Graphical software: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Art Director, Macromedia FreeHand, Deneba Canvas. Internet: Macromedia DreamWeaver. Foreign Languages French: fluent written and spoken English: scholastic written and spoken Trieste, june 2007