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CURRICULUM VITAE
Chiara Della Libera, PhD
April, 2014
Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences
Section of Physiology and Psychology - University of Verona
Strada le Grazie, 8
37134 Verona – Italy
Ph. ++39 045 802 72 19
Fax ++39 045 802 72 79
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.attention-lab.net
Place and date of birth: Verona, July 15th, 1976.
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, 2011.
MAIN SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
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Neural bases of visual selective attention.
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Cognitive processes underlying attentional selection and inhibition.
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Effects of rewards, motivation and learning on visual selective attention mechanisms.
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2006 – 2011
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
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.
March 2006
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.
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2001 – 2002
Post graduate research training at the Department of General Psychology and LIRIPAC,
University of Padua, Italy. Tutor: Prof. Franca Stablum.
February 2001
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.
July 1995
High School degree in business and foreign languages (English and German). ITPACLE
Marco Polo, Verona.
June 1994
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.
2006
“AIP Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Psychology of 2006”, offered by the Italian
Association for Psychology (AIP).
2005
“Young Researchers Grant 2005” offered by the European Society for Cognitive
Psychology (ESCoP).
2003 – 2004
Travel grants for participating to the EDCBS program offered by VolkswagenStiftung –
Hannover and Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg – Delmenhorst, Germany, and Universidàd de
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
2003
Admission to the European Diploma in Cognitive Brain Sciences (EDCBS).
2002
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.
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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).
2011
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 funding agencies:
FWO Vlaanderen – Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium
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
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
PLoS ONE
Psychological Science
Psychophysiology
Visual Cognition
In the scientific committee of the following Conferences:
36th European Conference on Visual Perception, Bremen, Germany, 25-29 August 2013
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Chelazzi, L., Estocinova, J., Calletti, R., Lo Gerfo, E., Sani, I., Della Libera, C., & Santandrea, E.
(submitted). Altering spatial priority maps via reward-based learning.
Perlato, A., Santandrea, E., Della Libera, C., & Chelazzi, C. (in press). Biases of attention in chronic
smokers: Men and women are not alike. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience.
Chelazzi, L., Perlato, A., Santandrea, E. & Della Libera, C. (2013). Rewards Teach Visual Selective
Attention. Vision Research, 85, 58-72.
Chelazzi, L., Della Libera, C., Sani, I. & Santandrea, E. (2011). Neural Basis of Visual Selective Attention.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2(4), 392-407.
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): e19460.
Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2009). Learning to attend and to ignore is a matter of gains and losses.
Psychological Science, 20(6), 778-784.
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), 303-318.
Della Libera, C. & Chelazzi, L. (2006). Visual selective attention and the effects of monetary rewards.
Psychological Science, 17(3), 222-227.
Della Libera, C. & Stablum, F. (2004). Processi e meccanismi sottostanti il cambiare compito. Giornale
Italiano di Psicologia, 31(2), 279-303.
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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. 647-653), 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. 53rd 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. 18th 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. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society,
Minneapolis, MN - USA.
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.
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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. 43rd 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. 33rd 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.
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. 37th 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. 14th
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. 45th 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. 45th 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
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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.
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