Present Position

Associate Professor – Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova

Education

Ph.D. in Psychobiology, University of Padova, 2007

M.S. Psychology, University of Padova, March 2003

Academic Employment history (day/month/year)

30/05/2014-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova.

01/02/2013-29/05/2014: Senior post-doc (Assegno di ricerca senior) research fellow, awarded with the project “Pushing to the limits the visuo-spatial capacities of humans: an fNIRS investigation”.

01/01/2011-31/01/2013: Post-doc research fellow in the ERC: “Generative models of human cognition”. Team Leader prof. M. Zorzi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.

01/09/2008-31/12/2010: Post-doc research fellow in the CARIPARO project: “Neuroscienze ed educazione: potenziare l’intelligenza numerica nelle difficoltà di apprendimento matematico”. Team Leader prof. M. Zorzi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.

1/03/2008-31/08/2008: Collaboration contract for the European Research: “Psychologically Augmented Social Interaction Over Networks” (PASION). Team Leader prof. L. Gamberini, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.

16/04/2007-15/02/2008: Collaboration contract for the European Research: “Development of high therapeutic value IST-based games for monitoring and improving the quality of life of Elderly People” (ELDERGAMES). Team Leader prof. L. Gamberini, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova.

Research Interests

Behavioral and neuroimaging investigation of cognitive control, visual short-term memory, numerical cognition.

Peer-Review Activity

Ad-hoc Reviewer for:

Neuroimage, Cortex, Psychophysiology, Neuropsychologia, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Biological Psychology, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Neuroscience Letters, BMC Neuroscience, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Virtual Reality, Cognitive Processing, Behavioral and Brain Functions, PLOS one, Cerebral Cortex.

Pubblicazioni selezionate

Cutini, S., Scarpa, F., Scatturin, P., Dell’Acqua, R., Zorzi, M., 2014. Number-space interactions in the human parietal cortex: Enlightening the SNARC effect with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 444–51.

Cutini, S., Scatturin, P., Basso Moro, S., Zorzi, M., 2014. Are the neural correlates of subitizing and estimation dissociable? An fNIRS investigation. Neuroimage, 85, 391–9.

Cutini, S., Basso Moro, S., Bisconti, S., 2012. Functional near infrared optical imaging in cognitive neuroscience: an introductory review. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 20, 75–92.

Cutini, S., Scatturin, P., Zorzi, M., 2011. A new method based on ICBM152 head surface for probe placement in multichannel fNIRS. Neuroimage, 54, 919–27.

Cutini, S., Scatturin, P., Menon, E., Bisiacchi, P.S., Gamberini, L., Zorzi, M., Dell’Acqua, R., 2008. Selective activation of the superior frontal gyrus in task-switching: an event-related fNIRS study. Neuroimage, 42, 945–55.

Investigazione comportamentale e tramite neuroimmagini del controllo cognitivo, memoria visiva a breve termine e cognizione numerica.

Investigazione comportamentale di:
memoria visiva a breve termine e attenzione
cognizione numerica: effetto SNARC (Spatial Numerical Association of Response Codes), subitizing e stima.
Controllo cognitivo: cambio di compito e doppio compito.
Studi comportamentali sull'effetto placebo.

Per gli esperimenti di neuroimmagini si prega di contattarmi direttamente.