Pubblicazioni Selezionate / Selected Publications Articoli su riviste

Pubblicazioni Selezionate / Selected Publications
Articoli su riviste
Dell'Acqua, R., Pascali, A., Jolicoeur, P., & Sessa, P. (2003). Four-dot masking produces the attentional blink.
Vision Research, 43, 1907-1913.
Sessa, P. (2005). Analisi distribuzionali dei tempi di reazione: Uno strumento avanzato per la valutazione dei
modelli cognitivi. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 32, 555-573.
Dell'Acqua, R., Jolicoeur, P., Sessa, P., & Turatto, M. (2005). Attentional blink and selection in the tactile
domain. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 537-559.
Jolicoeur, P., Sessa, P., Dell'Acqua, R., & Robitaille, N. (2005). Attentional control and capture in the
attentional blink paradigm: Evidence from human electrophysiology. European Journal of Cognitive
Psychology, 18, 560-578.
Dell'Acqua, R., Sessa, P., Jolicoeur, P., & Robitaille, N. (2006). Spatial attention freezes during the
attentional blink. Psychophysiology, 43, 394-400.
Jolicoeur, P., Sessa, P., Dell'Acqua, R., & Robitaille, N. (2006). On the control of visual spatial attention:
Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychological Research, 70, 414-424.
Dell’Acqua, R., Sessa, P., & Pashler, H. (2006). A neuropsychological assessment of dual-task costs in closedhead injury patients using Cohen’s effect size estimation method. Psychological Research, 70, 553-561.
Sessa, P., Luria, R., Verleger, R., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2007). P3 latency shifts in the attentional blink: Further
evidence for second target processing postponement. Brain Research, 1137, 131-139.
Robitaille, N., Jolicœur, P., Dell'Acqua, R., & Sessa, P. (2007). Short-term consolidation of visual patterns
interferes with visuo-spatial attention: Converging evidence from human electrophysiology. Brain Research,
1185, 158-169.
Sessa, P., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2008). Il fenomeno attentional blink. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 35, 539–
560.
Luria, R., Sessa, P., Gotler, A., Jolicœur, P., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2010). Visual short-term memory capacity for
simple and complex objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 496–512.
Dell'Acqua, R., Sessa, P., Toffanin, P., Luria, R., & Jolicœur, P. (2010). Orienting attention to objects in visual
short-term memory. Neuropsychologia, 48, 419–428.
Jolicœur, P., Dell'Acqua, R., Brisson, B., Robitaille, N., Sauvé, K., Leblanc, E., Prime, D., Grimault, S., Marois,
R., Sessa, P., Grova, C., Lina, J.-M., & Dubarry, A.-S. (2010). Visual spatial attention and visual short-term
memory: Electro-magnetic explorations of the mind. In V. Coltheart (Ed.), Tutorials in visual cognition (pp.
143–185). Hove (UK): Psychology Press.
Dell'Acqua, R., Sessa, P., Peressotti, F., Mulatti, C., Navarrete, E., & Grainger, J. (2010). ERP evidence for
ultra-fast semantic processing in the picture-word interference paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 177.
Sessa, P., Luria, R., Gotler, A., Jolicœur, P., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2011). Inter-hemispheric ERP asymmetries over
inferior parietal cortex reveal differential visual working memory maintenance for fearful versus neutral
facial identities. Psychophysiology, 48, 187–197.
Sessa, P., Tomelleri, S., Luria, R., Castelli, L., Reynolds, M., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2012). Look out for strangers!
Sustained neural activity during visual working memory maintenance of other-race faces is modulated by
implicit racial prejudice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 314-321.
Cutini, S., Scarpa, F., Sessa, P., & Dell'Acqua, R. (in press). Le metodiche dirette per lo studio dell'attività
cerebrale. In A. Zennaro (Ed.), Lo sviluppo della psicopatologia: Fattori biologici, psicologici e relazionali.
Bologna: il Mulino.
Comunicazioni a Congressi
Sessa, P. (2002). Attenzione e Tatto: un effetto di Attentional Blink puro nella modalità tattile. Congresso
Nazionale AIP, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. Riassunti delle Comunicazioni. Bellaria-Rimini, 16-18
Settembre 2002, p.40.
Pesciarelli, F., Sessa, P., Dell’Acqua R., & Job, R. (2002). Semantic activation during the rapid serial visual
presentation of words. 6th AlpeAdria Conference of Psychology. Rovereto, October 3-5, 2002.
Jolicoeur, P., Sessa, P., & Dell’Acqua, R. (2003). Does the attentional blink prevent spatial shifts of
attention? Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning. Hood River, Oregon, July 31-August
4, 2003.
Sessa, P. (2003). L’Attentional Blink preclude il movimento e l’ancoraggio dell’attenzione nello spazio?
Congresso Nazionale AIP, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. Riassunti delle Comunicazioni. Bari, 22-25
Settembre 2003, p. 542.
Sessa, P. (2003). L’Attentional Blink preclude il movimento e l’ancoraggio dell’attenzione nello spazio.
Convegno di presentazione dell’attività di ricerca dei dottorandi del XVII ciclo della Macroarea 4 (Medicina
e Chirurgia - Psicologia). Padova, 17 Ottobre 2003, p.153.
Jolicoeur, P., Sessa, P., & Dell’Acqua, R. (2004). Interaction between central and spatial attention: evidence
from the N2pc event-related potential in the Attentional Blink paradigm. Process-based and code-based
interference in dual tasks. Ohlstadt (Germany) February 26-29, 2004.
Jolicoeur, P., Sessa, P., Dell’Acqua, R., Brisson, B., Robitaille, N., & Ouimet, C. (2004). The control of visual
spatial attention and central attention: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Unique and shared
processing limitations in dual-task performance.
Workshop organized by Guido Band, Jiska Memelink, and Elkan Akyürek Leiden University Funded by EPOS
Graduate School and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Leiden (The
Netherlands), May 13-15.
Sessa, P. (2004). Elettrofisiologia del rapporto tra attenzione spaziale e attenzione temporale. Congresso
Nazionale AIP, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Sciacca (Agrigento), 18-20 Settembre 2004.
Sessa, P. Dell’Acqua, R., & Jolicoeur, P. (2005). Evidenze elettrofisiologiche di un sistema unico per
l’allocazione delle risorse attentive nei domini spaziale e temporale. Congresso Nazionale AIP, Sezione di
Psicologia Sperimentale, Cagliari, 18-20 Settembre 2005.
Sessa, P., Dell'Acqua, R., Ouimet, C., & Jolicoeur, P. (2005). On the control of visual spatial attention:
Evidence from human electrophysiology. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Psychophysiological Research. Lisbon (PTG), September 21 - 24.
Jolicoeur, P., Brisson, B., Dell'Acqua, R., Eimer, M., Robitaille, N., & Sessa, P. (2006).
Perceptual and cognitive processes leading to conscious access: Evidence from human electrophysiology in
dual-task paradigms. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Houston (Texas,
USA), November 16 - 19.
Sessa, P. (2006). Modulazioni della latenza della P3 durante l’Attentional Blink: Evidenze elettrofisiologiche
di un processo seriale”. Congresso Nazionale AIP, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, Rovereto (TN), 13-15
Settembre 2006.
Sessa, P., Luria, R., Gotler, A., Jolicœur, & Dell'Acqua, R. (2008). Is visual working memory capacity for facial
identities modulated by emotional face processing? Invited talk for the Symposium “Cognitive neuroscience
of attention and visual short-term memory” for the International Congress of Psychology. Berlin (GER), July
21.
Sessa, P., Tomelleri, S., Luria, R., Castelli, L., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2009).
The race is in the brain: Neural activity predicts individual disposition towards members of a different race.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Berlin (GER),
October 21–24.
Dell'Acqua, R., Sessa, P., Toffanin, P., & Jolicœur, P. (2009). Orienting attention to objects in visual shortterm memory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research.
Berlin (GER), October 21–24.
Tomelleri, S., Sessa, P., Luria, R., Castelli, L., & Dell'Acqua, R. (2010). The race is in the brain: Neural activity
reveals individual disposition towards members of a different race. Paper presented at the CAOS
Workshop. Rovereto (IT), May 20–23.
Meconi, F., Sessa, P. Taking One’s Time in Feeling Other-Race Pain: Neural Activity Reveals Different
Empathic Responses to Own-Race and Other-Race Individuals. Index to Abstract Descriptors.
Psychophysiology, 48: S28.
Meconi, F., Sessa, P. Taking One’s Time in Feeling Other-Race Pain: Neural Activity Reveals Different
Empathic Responses to Own-Race and Other-Race Individuals. Poster presented at III Annual Meeting of
“Neuroetica. Le Neuroscienze incontrano le altre discipline”. Padova, Italy, May 4th- 6th, 2011.
Meconi, F., Sessa, P. Taking One’s Time in Feeling Other-Race Pain: Neural Activity Reveals Different
Empathic Responses to Own-Race and Other-Race Individuals. Poster presented at 51st Annual Meeting of
the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Boston, USA, September 13th-18th, 2011.
Meconi, F., Sessa, P. Taking One’s Time in Feeling Other-Race Pain: Neural Activity Reveals Different
Empathic Responses to Own-Race and Other-Race Individuals. Poster presented at 19st Annual Meeting of
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), Chicago, USA, March 31st -April 3rd , 2012.
Meconi, F., Sessa, P. Can I remember him? It is better if he looks like trustworthy: An ERPs study. Poster
presented at IV Annual Meeting of “Neuroetica. Le Neuroscienze tra spiegazione della vita e cura della
mente”. Padova, Italy, May 9th-11th, 2012.