Antimo Buonocore

Istruzione e formazione

2006 - 2010 University of Edinburgh, University Suor Orsola Benincasa, University of Trieste
Ph.D in Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology
Title: Remote distractor effects in saccadic, manual and covert attention tasks
Edinburgh supervisor: Prof Robert McIntosh

2003 - 2005 University of Trieste, Department of Psychology
Master's degree in Psychology, curriculum: Neuropsychology

2000 - 2003 University of Trieste, Department of Psychology
Bachelor in Psychology, curriculum: Psychobiology

Incarichi accademici (ultimi 5 anni)

Tutor per il Corso di Laurea in Scienze e Tecniche di Psicologia Cognitiva, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli.

Tutor per il Corso di Laurea magistrale in Psicologia: risorse umane, ergonomia cognitiva, neuroscienze cognitive, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli.

Incarichi didattici nazionali

Visual Cognition (AA 2022-2023) - Psicologia: risorse umane, ergonomia cognitiva, neuroscienze cognitive (Laurea magistrale). Dipartimento di Scienze formative, psicologiche e della comunicazione, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli.

Basi neurali della cognizione - modulo metodi (AA 2022-2023) - Scienze e tecniche di psicologia cognitiva (Laurea triennale). Dipartimento di Scienze formative, psicologiche e della comunicazione, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli.

Psicologia dei Processi Cognitivi - supplenza (AA 2022-2023) - Dipartimento di Scienze formative, psicologiche e della comunicazione, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli.

Mobilità internazionale

2016 - 2022 Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience University of Tuebingen, Germany

Responsabilità scientifica per progetti di ricerca internazionali e nazionali, ammessi al finanziamento

2021 - 2024 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), €347.000
Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience University of Tuebingen, Germany
Principal Investigator until April 2022, now Collaborator

2010 - 2012, "Programma Neuroscienze", Compagnia di San Paolo, €55.000
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste (IT) and Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh (UK)
Principal Investigator

Partecipazione in qualità di relatore a congressi e convegni nazionali o internazionali

Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z.M. (2021). A sensory race between oculomotor control areas for coordinating motor timing. V-VSS 2021, May 21-26. Abstract ID: 2420

Malevich, T., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z.M. (2020). Rapid stimulus-driven modulation of slow fixational drift eye movements. V-VSS 2020, June 19-24. Abstract ID: 1322

Buonocore, A., Baumann, M.P., & Hafed, Z.M. (2020). Visual pattern analysis by motor neurons. Cosyne 2020. Denver, CO.

Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z.M. (2019). Every spike counts: intra-saccadic superior colliculus visual bursts modify saccade metrics. Program No. 144.15. 2019 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2019. Online.

Willeke, K. F., Buonocore, A., Tian, X., & Hafed, Z.M. (2018). Engaging spatial visual working memory expands superior colliculus neurons' response fields. Program No. 398.13. 2018 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2018. Online.

Huber-Huber, C., Buonocore, A., Hickey, C., & Melcher, D. (2018). Investigating the role of prediction in trans-saccadic perception: Peripheral preview reduces the fixation-locked N170. 41st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2018 Trieste.

Willeke, K. F., Tian, X., Buonocore, A., Bellet, J., Araceli Ramirez- Cardenas, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2018). Memory-guided microsaccades. 41st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2018 Trieste.

Skinner, J., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2018). The transfer function of the oculomotor system for small-amplitude slow motion trajectories. 41st European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2018 Trieste, Italy.

Buonocore, A. & Hafed, Z.M. (2017). Visual transient onsets decrease initial smooth pursuit velocity and reset the temporal dynamics of catch-up saccades. Program No. 59.03/CC16. 2017 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2017. Online.

Buonocore, A. & Hafed, Z.M. (2017). Visual transient onsets decrease initial smooth pursuit velocity and inhibit the triggering of catch-up saccades. In Radach, R., Deubel, H., Vorstius, C., & Hofmann, M. (eds.) Abstracts of the 19th European Conference on Eye Movements 2017. Journal Of Eye Movement Research, 10(6). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.10.6

McIntosh, R. D., & Buonocore, A. (2017). Saccade reorienting is facilitated by pausing the oculomotor program. 40th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2017, Berlin, Germany. Retrieved from URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pec/collections/ecvp-abstracts/index/ecvp- 2017 on 30th August.

Buonocore, A., Chen, C., Tian, X., Idrees, S., Muench, T., Hafed, Z.M. (2017). Alteration of the microsaccadic velocity-amplitude main sequence relationship after visual transients: implications for models of saccade control. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 894. doi: 10.1167/17.10.894.

Buonocore, A. & Melcher, D. (2015). A predictive copy of the motor command influences visual stability across saccades. In Ansorge, U., Ditye, T., Florack, A., & Leder, H. (eds). Abstracts of the 18th European Conference on Eye Movements 2015. Journal Of Eye Movement Research, 8(4). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.16910/jemr.8.4.1

Melcher, D., Buonocore, A. & Fracasso, A. (2015). Perisaccadic perception: temporal unmasking or spatial uncrowding? Journal of Vision, 15(12):1307. doi: 10.1167/15.12.1307.

McIntosh, R.D., Sandoval Similä, S., Iveson, M., & Buonocore, A. (2014). Pictorial depth cues al- ways influence reach amplitude. Poster session presented at The UEA Workshop on Perception and Ac- tion hosted by the School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, 9 June 2014, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Abstract retrieved from: https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/416705/5310683/UEA+Perception+and +Action+Booklet/c9a57a91-281b-425c-8868-e0e336941abb

Sandoval Similä, S., Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R.D. (2012). The details of distractor interference differ for eyes and hands. Poster session presented at London Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, 5 - 6 January 2012, London, UK. Abstract retrieved from: http://www.eps.ac.uk/images/epsfiles/programmelondon2012.pdf

Conseguimento di premi e riconoscimenti nazionali e internazionali per attività di ricerca

2022 Neural Control of Movement Society (NCM)
NCM scholarship

2021 Vision Sciences Society (VSS)
Elsevier/Vision Research Virtual Travel Award

Pubblicazioni scientifiche (ultimi dieci anni)

*equal contribution; §data available online

*Fracasso, A., *Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2022). Peri-saccadic visual sensitivity is higher in the upper visual field. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.05.498850

*§Buonocore, A., *Dietze, N., & McIntosh, R. D. (2021) Time-dependent inhibition of covert shifts of attention. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06164-y

Huber-Huber, C., Buonocore, A., Melcher, D. (2021). The extrafoveal preview paradigm as a measure of predictive, active sampling in visual perception. Journal of Vision, 21(7)-12. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.7.12..

*§Buonocore, A., *Tian, X., Khademi, F., Hafed, Z. M. (2021). Instantaneous movement-unrelated midbrain activity modifies ongoing eye movements. Elife, 10, e64150. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64150.

Hafed, Z. M., Yoshida, M, Tian, X., Buonocore, A., & Malevich, T. (2021). Dissociable cortical and subcortical mechanisms for mediating the influences of visual cues on microsaccadic eye movements. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2021.638429.

§Malevich, T., Buonocore, A., Hafed, Z. M. (2021). Dependence of the stimulus-driven microsaccade rate signature in rhesus macaque monkeys on visual stimulus size and polarity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 125, 282-295. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00304.2020.

Bogadhi, A.R., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2020). Task-irrelevant visual forms facilitate covert and overt spatial selection. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(49), 9496-9506. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1593-20.2020

*Malevich, T., *Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2020). Rapid stimulus-driven modulation of slow ocular position drifts. eLife, 9, e57595. doi:10.7554/eLife.57595

*Buonocore, A., *Dimingen, O., & Melcher, D. (2020). Post-saccadic face processing is modulated by pre-saccadic preview: Evidence from fixation-related potentials. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(11), 2305-2313. https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0861-19.2020

*Willeke, K., *Tian, X., *Buonocore, A., Bellet J., Ramirez-Cardenas, A., Hafed, Z.M., (2019). Memory-guided microsaccades. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11711-x

Huber-Huber, C., Buonocore, A., Dimigen, O., Hickey, C., & Melcher, D. (2019). The peripheral preview effect with faces: Combined EEG and eye-tracking suggests multiple stages of trans-saccadic predictive and non-predictive processing. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.059

Buonocore, A., Skinner, J., & Hafed, Z. M. (2019). Eye-position error influence over "open-loop" smooth pursuit initiation. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(14), 2709.

Skinner, J., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2018). The transfer function of the rhesus macaque oculomotor system for small-amplitude slow motion trajectories. Journal of Neurophysiology, 35, 3403.

Buonocore, A., Purokayastha, S., & McIntosh, R. D. (2017). Saccade Reorienting Is Facilitated by Pausing the Oculomotor Program. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(12), 2068-2080.

§Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A., & Melcher, D. (2017). Pre-saccadic perception: Separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902-23.

Buonocore, A., Chen, C.-Y., Tian, X., Idrees, S., Münch, T. A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2017). Alteration of the microsaccadic velocity-amplitude main sequence relationship after visual transients: implications for models of saccade control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 117(5), 1894-1910.

Buonocore, A., McIntosh, R. D., & Melcher, D. (2016). Beyond the point of no return: effects of visual distractors on saccade amplitude and velocity. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115(2), 752-762.

Buonocore, A., & Melcher, D. (2015). Interference during eye movement preparation shifts the timing of perisaccadic compression. Journal of Vision, 15(15), 3.

Buonocore, A., & Melcher, D. (2015). Disrupting saccadic updating: visual interference prior to the first saccade elicits spatial errors in the secondary saccade in a double-step task. Experimental Brain Research, 233(6), 1893-1905.

de Vito, S., Buonocore, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Sala, Della, S. (2015). Eye movements disrupt episodic future thinking. Memory, 23(6), 796-805.

Makovac, E., Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2014). Audio-visual integration and saccadic inhibition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006), 68(7), 1295-1305.

de Vito, S., Buonocore, A., Bonnefon, J.-F., & Sala, Della, S. (2014). Eye movements disrupt spatial but not visual mental imagery. Cognitive Processing, 15(4), 543-549.

McIntosh, R. D., & Buonocore, A. (2014). Saccadic inhibition can cause the remote distractor effect, but the remote distractor effect may not be a useful concept. Journal of Vision, 14(5), 15-15.

Van Koningsbruggen, M. G., & Buonocore, A. (2013). Mechanisms behind Perisaccadic Increase of Perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(28), 11327-11328.

Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2013). Attention modulates saccadic inhibition magnitude. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006), 66(6), 1051-1059.

Buonocore, A., & McIntosh, R. D. (2012). Modulation of saccadic inhibition by distractor size and location. Vision Research, 69, 32-41.

McIntosh, R. D., & Buonocore, A. (2012). Dissociated effects of distractors on saccades and manual aiming. Experimental Brain Research, 220(3-4), 201-211.