Dr Alessio Fracasso
- Senior Lecturer (Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging)
email:
Alessio.Fracasso@glasgow.ac.uk
62 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, R610, Level 6, G12 8QB
Publications
2024
Taylor, R., Buonocore, A. and Fracasso, A. (2024) Saccadic “inhibition” unveils the late influence of image content on oculomotor programming. Experimental Brain Research, (doi: 10.1007/s00221-024-06890-z) (PMID:39080097) (Early Online Publication)
2023
Fracasso, A. , Buonocore, A. and Hafed, Z. M. (2023) Peri-saccadic orientation identification performance and visual neural sensitivity are higher in the upper visual field. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(41), pp. 6884-6897. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1740-22.2023) (PMID:3764055) (PMCID:PMC10573757)
Almeida, J., Fracasso, A. , Kristensen, S., Valério, D., Bergström, F., Chakravarthi, R., Tal, Z. and Walbrin, J. (2023) Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing. Communications Biology, 6(1), 940. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x) (PMID:37709924) (PMCID:PMC10502059)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Deodato, M., Melcher, D. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2023) Bilateral increase in MEG planar gradients prior to saccade onset. Scientific Reports, 13, 5830. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32980-z) (PMID:37037892) (PMCID:PMC10086038)
Gaglianese, A., Fracasso, A. , Fernandes, F. G., Harvey, B., Dumoulin, S. O. and Petridou, N. (2023) Mechanisms of speed encoding in the human middle temporal cortex measured by 7T fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 44(5), pp. 2050-2061. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.26193) (PMID:36637226) (PMCID:PMC9980888)
Bianciardi, B., Gajwani, R. , Gross, J. , Gumley, A. I. , Lawrie, S. M., Moelling, M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Fracasso, A. and Uhlhaas, P. J. (2023) Investigating temporal and prosodic markers in clinical high-risk for psychosis participants using automated acoustic analysis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 17(3), pp. 327-330. (doi: 10.1111/eip.13357) (PMID:36205386)
2022
Fabius, J. H., Moravkova, K. and Fracasso, A. (2022) Topographic organization of eye-position dependent gain fields in human visual cortex. Nature Communications, 13, 7925. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35488-8) (PMID:36564372) (PMCID:PMC9789150)
Battaglia, S., Cardellicchio, P., Di Fazio, C., Nazzi, C., Fracasso, A. and Borgomaneri, S. (2022) Stopping in (e)motion: reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 998714. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.998714) (PMID:36248028) (PMCID:PMC9561776)
van Dijk, J. A., de Jong, M. C., Piantoni, G., Fracasso, A. , Vansteensel, M. J., Groen, I. I. A., Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2022) Intracranial recordings show evidence of numerosity tuning in human parietal cortex. PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0272087. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272087) (PMID:35921261) (PMCID:PMC9348694)
Battaglia, S., Cardellicchio, P., Di Fazio, C., Nazzi, C., Fracasso, A. and Borgomaneri, S. (2022) The influence of vicarious fear-learning in "infecting" reactive action inhibition. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 946263. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.946263) (PMID:35941933) (PMCID:PMC9355887)
Fracasso, A. , Gaglianese, A., Vansteensel, M. J., Aarnoutse, E. J., Ramsey, N. F., Dumoulin, S. O. and Petridou, N. (2022) FMRI and intra-cranial electrocorticography recordings in the same human subjects reveals negative BOLD signal coupled with silenced neuronal activity. Brain Structure and Function, 227(4), pp. 1371-1384. (doi: 10.1007/s00429-021-02342-4) (PMID:34363092)
Battaglia, S., Fabius, J. H., Moravkova, K., Fracasso, A. and Borgomaneri, S. (2022) The neurobiological correlates of gaze perception in healthy individuals and neurologic. Biomedicines, 10(3), 627. (doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10030627) (PMID:35327431) (PMCID:PMC8945205)
2021
van Dijk, J. A., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2021) Laminar processing of numerosity supports a canonical cortical microcircuit in human parietal cortex. Current Biology, 31(20), 4635-4640.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.082) (PMID:34418342)
Fracasso, A. , Dumoulin, S. O. and Petridou, N. (2021) Point-spread function of the BOLD response across columns and cortical depth in human extra-striate cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, 202, 102034. (doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102034) (PMID:33741401)
Kristensen, S., Fracasso, A. , Dumoulin, S. O., Almeida, J. and Harvey, B. M. (2021) Size constancy affects the perception and parietal neural representation of object size. NeuroImage, 232, 117909. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117909) (PMID:33652148)
Portengen, B. L., Roelofzen, C., Porro, G. L., Imhof, S. M., Fracasso, A. and Naber, M. (2021) Blind spot and visual field anisotropy detection with flicker pupil perimetry across brightness and task variations. Vision Research, 178, pp. 79-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.10.005) (PMID:33161146)
van Dijk, J. A., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2021) Validating linear systems analysis for laminar fMRI: temporal additivity for stimulus duration manipulations. Brain Topography, 34(1), pp. 88-101. (doi: 10.1007/s10548-020-00808-y) (PMID:33210193) (PMCID:PMC7803719)
2020
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Acunzo, D. J., Van der Stigchel, S. and Melcher, D. (2020) Low-level visual information is maintained across saccades, allowing for a postsaccadic hand-off between visual areas. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(49), pp. 9476-9486. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1169-20.2020) (PMID:33115930) (PMCID:PMC7724139)
Zikidi, K., Gajwani, R. , Gross, J. , Gumley, A. I. , Lawrie, S. M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Fracasso, A. and Uhlhaas, P. J. (2020) Grey-matter abnormalities in clinical high-risk participants for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 226, pp. 120-128. (doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.08.034) (PMID:31740178) (PMCID:PMC7774586)
Harvey, B. M., Dumoulin, S. O., Fracasso, A. and Paul, J. M. (2020) A network of topographic maps in human association cortex hierarchically transforms visual timing-selective responses. Current Biology, 30(8), 1424-1434.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.090) (PMID:32142704) (PMCID:PMC7181178)
van Dijk, J. A., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2020) Linear systems analysis for laminar fMRI: evaluating BOLD amplitude scaling for luminance contrast manipulations. Scientific Reports, 10, 5462. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62165-x) (PMID:32214136) (PMCID:PMC7096513)
Fabius, J. H., Nijboer, T. C.W., Fracasso, A. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2020) Intra-saccadic displacement sensitivity after a lesion to the posterior parietal cortex. Cortex, 127, pp. 108-119. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.027) (PMID:32172025) (PMCID:PMC7254053)
2019
Ruotolo, A., Ruggiero, F., Raemaekers, G., Iachini, M., van der Ham, T., Fracasso, A. and Postma, A. (2019) Neural correlates of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference combined with metric and non-metric spatial relations. Neuroscience, 409, pp. 235-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.021) (PMID:31004694)
Ahmadi, K., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Kruijt, C., van Genderen, M., Dumoulin, S. O. and Hoffmann, M. B. (2019) Altered organization of the visual cortex in FHONDA syndrome. NeuroImage, 190, pp. 224-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.053) (PMID:29524626)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Nijboer, T. C.W. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2019) Time course of spatiotopic updating across saccades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(6), pp. 2027-2032. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812210116) (PMID:30655348) (PMCID:PMC6369820)
2018
Klein, B. P., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Paffen, C. L.E., Te Pas, S. F. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Cortical depth dependent population receptive field attraction by spatial attention in human V1. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 301-312. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.055) (PMID:29709626)
van der Zwaag, W., Buur, P. F., Fracasso, A. , van Doesum, T., Uludağ, K., Versluis, M. J. and Marques, J. P. (2018) Distortion-matched T1 maps and unbiased T1-weighted images as anatomical reference for high-resolution fMRI. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 41-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.026) (PMID:29665420)
Naber, M., Roelofzen, C., Fracasso, A. , Bergsma, D. P., van Genderen, M., Porro, G. L. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Gaze-contingent flicker pupil perimetry detects scotomas in patients with cerebral visual impairments or glaucoma. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 558. (doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00558) (PMID:30042727) (PMCID:PMC6048245)
Ferguson, B., Petridou, N., Fracasso, A. , van Den Heuvel, M.P., Brouwer, R.M., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Kahn, R.S. and Mandl, R.C.W. (2018) Detailed T1-weighted profiles from the human cortex measured in vivo at 3 Tesla MRI. Neuroinformatics, 16(2), pp. 181-196. (doi: 10.1007/s12021-018-9356-2) (PMID:29352389) (PMCID:PMC5984962)
Hendriks, A.D., Fracasso, A. , Arteaga de Castro, C.S., Gosselink, M.W.J.M., Luijten, P.R., Petridou, N. and Klomp, D.W.J. (2018) Maximizing sensitivity for fast GABA edited spectroscopy in the visual cortex at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine, 31(4), e3890. (doi: 10.1002/nbm.3890) (PMID:29442388) (PMCID:PMC5887933)
Dumoulin, S.O., Fracasso, A. , van der Zwaag, W., Siero, J.C.W. and Petridou, N. (2018) Ultra-high field MRI: advancing systems neuroscience towards mesoscopic human brain function. NeuroImage, 168, pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.028) (PMID:28093360)
Fracasso, A. , Luijten, P.R., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2018) Laminar imaging of positive and negative BOLD in human visual cortex at 7 T. NeuroImage, 164, pp. 100-111. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.038) (PMID:28213112)
2017
Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2017) Pre-saccadic perception: separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178902) (PMID:28614367) (PMCID:PMC5470679)
Dumoulin, S.O., Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Zuiderbaan, W., Luijten, P.R., Wandell, B.A. and Petridou, N. (2017) In vivo evidence of functional and anatomical stripe-based subdivisions in human V2 and V3. Scientific Reports, 7, 733. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00634-6) (PMID:28389654) (PMCID:PMC5428808)
2016
Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Systematic variation of population receptive field properties across cortical depth in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 139, pp. 427-438. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.048) (PMID:27374728)
Fabius, J.H., Fracasso, A. and Van Der Stigchel, S. (2016) Spatiotopic updating facilitates perception immediately after saccades. Scientific Reports, 6, 34488. (doi: 10.1038/srep34488) (PMID:27686998) (PMCID:PMC5043283)
Fracasso, A. , van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Myelin contrast across lamina at 7T, ex-vivo and in-vivo dataset. Data In Brief, 8, pp. 990-1003. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.058) (PMID:27508254) (PMCID:PMC4961349)
Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2016) Saccades influence the visibility of targets in rapid stimulus sequences: the roles of mislocalization, retinal distance and remapping. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10, 58. (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00058) (PMID:27445718) (PMCID:PMC4924485)
Fracasso, A. , Van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Lines of Baillarger in vivo and ex vivo: myelin contrast across lamina at 7 T MRI and histology. NeuroImage, 133, pp. 163-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.072) (PMID:26947519)
Fracasso, A. , Koenraads, Y., Porro, G.L. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Bilateral population receptive fields in congenital hemihydranencephaly. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36(3), pp. 324-334. (doi: 10.1111/opo.12294) (PMID:27112226)
2015
Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2015) Topographic representations of object size and relationships with numerosity reveal generalized quantity processing in human parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(44), pp. 13525-13530. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515414112) (PMID:26483452) (PMCID:PMC4640722)
Fracasso, A. , Kaunitz, L. and Melcher, D. (2015) Saccade kinematics modulate perisaccadic perception. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 4. (doi: 10.1167/15.3.4) (PMID:25761349)
van Veluw, S.J., Fracasso, A. , Visser, F., Spliet, W.G.M., Luijten, P.R., Biessels, G.J. and Zwanenburg, J.J.M. (2015) FLAIR images at 7 Tesla MRI highlight the ependyma and the outer layers of the cerebral cortex. NeuroImage, 104, pp. 100-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.011) (PMID:25315783)
2013
Fracasso, A. , Targher, S., Zampini, M. and Melcher, D. (2013) Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e62131. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062131) (PMID:23637981) (PMCID:PMC3637444)
Kaunitz, L., Fracasso, A. , Lingnau, A. and Melcher, D. (2013) Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e60787. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060787) (PMID:23593311) (PMCID:PMC3622026)
2012
Melcher, D. and Fracasso, A. (2012) Remapping of the line motion illusion across eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 218(4), pp. 503-514. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3043-6) (PMID:22392445)
2010
Fracasso, A. , Caramazza, A. and Melcher, D. (2010) Continuous perception of motion and shape across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 10(13), 14. (doi: 10.1167/10.13.14) (PMID:21106679)
Articles
Taylor, R., Buonocore, A. and Fracasso, A. (2024) Saccadic “inhibition” unveils the late influence of image content on oculomotor programming. Experimental Brain Research, (doi: 10.1007/s00221-024-06890-z) (PMID:39080097) (Early Online Publication)
Fracasso, A. , Buonocore, A. and Hafed, Z. M. (2023) Peri-saccadic orientation identification performance and visual neural sensitivity are higher in the upper visual field. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(41), pp. 6884-6897. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1740-22.2023) (PMID:3764055) (PMCID:PMC10573757)
Almeida, J., Fracasso, A. , Kristensen, S., Valério, D., Bergström, F., Chakravarthi, R., Tal, Z. and Walbrin, J. (2023) Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing. Communications Biology, 6(1), 940. (doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x) (PMID:37709924) (PMCID:PMC10502059)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Deodato, M., Melcher, D. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2023) Bilateral increase in MEG planar gradients prior to saccade onset. Scientific Reports, 13, 5830. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32980-z) (PMID:37037892) (PMCID:PMC10086038)
Gaglianese, A., Fracasso, A. , Fernandes, F. G., Harvey, B., Dumoulin, S. O. and Petridou, N. (2023) Mechanisms of speed encoding in the human middle temporal cortex measured by 7T fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 44(5), pp. 2050-2061. (doi: 10.1002/hbm.26193) (PMID:36637226) (PMCID:PMC9980888)
Bianciardi, B., Gajwani, R. , Gross, J. , Gumley, A. I. , Lawrie, S. M., Moelling, M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Fracasso, A. and Uhlhaas, P. J. (2023) Investigating temporal and prosodic markers in clinical high-risk for psychosis participants using automated acoustic analysis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 17(3), pp. 327-330. (doi: 10.1111/eip.13357) (PMID:36205386)
Fabius, J. H., Moravkova, K. and Fracasso, A. (2022) Topographic organization of eye-position dependent gain fields in human visual cortex. Nature Communications, 13, 7925. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35488-8) (PMID:36564372) (PMCID:PMC9789150)
Battaglia, S., Cardellicchio, P., Di Fazio, C., Nazzi, C., Fracasso, A. and Borgomaneri, S. (2022) Stopping in (e)motion: reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 998714. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.998714) (PMID:36248028) (PMCID:PMC9561776)
van Dijk, J. A., de Jong, M. C., Piantoni, G., Fracasso, A. , Vansteensel, M. J., Groen, I. I. A., Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2022) Intracranial recordings show evidence of numerosity tuning in human parietal cortex. PLoS ONE, 17(8), e0272087. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272087) (PMID:35921261) (PMCID:PMC9348694)
Battaglia, S., Cardellicchio, P., Di Fazio, C., Nazzi, C., Fracasso, A. and Borgomaneri, S. (2022) The influence of vicarious fear-learning in "infecting" reactive action inhibition. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 946263. (doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.946263) (PMID:35941933) (PMCID:PMC9355887)
Fracasso, A. , Gaglianese, A., Vansteensel, M. J., Aarnoutse, E. J., Ramsey, N. F., Dumoulin, S. O. and Petridou, N. (2022) FMRI and intra-cranial electrocorticography recordings in the same human subjects reveals negative BOLD signal coupled with silenced neuronal activity. Brain Structure and Function, 227(4), pp. 1371-1384. (doi: 10.1007/s00429-021-02342-4) (PMID:34363092)
Battaglia, S., Fabius, J. H., Moravkova, K., Fracasso, A. and Borgomaneri, S. (2022) The neurobiological correlates of gaze perception in healthy individuals and neurologic. Biomedicines, 10(3), 627. (doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10030627) (PMID:35327431) (PMCID:PMC8945205)
van Dijk, J. A., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2021) Laminar processing of numerosity supports a canonical cortical microcircuit in human parietal cortex. Current Biology, 31(20), 4635-4640.e4. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.082) (PMID:34418342)
Fracasso, A. , Dumoulin, S. O. and Petridou, N. (2021) Point-spread function of the BOLD response across columns and cortical depth in human extra-striate cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, 202, 102034. (doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102034) (PMID:33741401)
Kristensen, S., Fracasso, A. , Dumoulin, S. O., Almeida, J. and Harvey, B. M. (2021) Size constancy affects the perception and parietal neural representation of object size. NeuroImage, 232, 117909. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117909) (PMID:33652148)
Portengen, B. L., Roelofzen, C., Porro, G. L., Imhof, S. M., Fracasso, A. and Naber, M. (2021) Blind spot and visual field anisotropy detection with flicker pupil perimetry across brightness and task variations. Vision Research, 178, pp. 79-85. (doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.10.005) (PMID:33161146)
van Dijk, J. A., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2021) Validating linear systems analysis for laminar fMRI: temporal additivity for stimulus duration manipulations. Brain Topography, 34(1), pp. 88-101. (doi: 10.1007/s10548-020-00808-y) (PMID:33210193) (PMCID:PMC7803719)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Acunzo, D. J., Van der Stigchel, S. and Melcher, D. (2020) Low-level visual information is maintained across saccades, allowing for a postsaccadic hand-off between visual areas. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(49), pp. 9476-9486. (doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1169-20.2020) (PMID:33115930) (PMCID:PMC7724139)
Zikidi, K., Gajwani, R. , Gross, J. , Gumley, A. I. , Lawrie, S. M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Fracasso, A. and Uhlhaas, P. J. (2020) Grey-matter abnormalities in clinical high-risk participants for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 226, pp. 120-128. (doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.08.034) (PMID:31740178) (PMCID:PMC7774586)
Harvey, B. M., Dumoulin, S. O., Fracasso, A. and Paul, J. M. (2020) A network of topographic maps in human association cortex hierarchically transforms visual timing-selective responses. Current Biology, 30(8), 1424-1434.e6. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.090) (PMID:32142704) (PMCID:PMC7181178)
van Dijk, J. A., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2020) Linear systems analysis for laminar fMRI: evaluating BOLD amplitude scaling for luminance contrast manipulations. Scientific Reports, 10, 5462. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62165-x) (PMID:32214136) (PMCID:PMC7096513)
Fabius, J. H., Nijboer, T. C.W., Fracasso, A. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2020) Intra-saccadic displacement sensitivity after a lesion to the posterior parietal cortex. Cortex, 127, pp. 108-119. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.027) (PMID:32172025) (PMCID:PMC7254053)
Ruotolo, A., Ruggiero, F., Raemaekers, G., Iachini, M., van der Ham, T., Fracasso, A. and Postma, A. (2019) Neural correlates of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference combined with metric and non-metric spatial relations. Neuroscience, 409, pp. 235-252. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.04.021) (PMID:31004694)
Ahmadi, K., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Kruijt, C., van Genderen, M., Dumoulin, S. O. and Hoffmann, M. B. (2019) Altered organization of the visual cortex in FHONDA syndrome. NeuroImage, 190, pp. 224-231. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.053) (PMID:29524626)
Fabius, J. H., Fracasso, A. , Nijboer, T. C.W. and Van der Stigchel, S. (2019) Time course of spatiotopic updating across saccades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(6), pp. 2027-2032. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812210116) (PMID:30655348) (PMCID:PMC6369820)
Klein, B. P., Fracasso, A. , van Dijk, J. A., Paffen, C. L.E., Te Pas, S. F. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Cortical depth dependent population receptive field attraction by spatial attention in human V1. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 301-312. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.055) (PMID:29709626)
van der Zwaag, W., Buur, P. F., Fracasso, A. , van Doesum, T., Uludağ, K., Versluis, M. J. and Marques, J. P. (2018) Distortion-matched T1 maps and unbiased T1-weighted images as anatomical reference for high-resolution fMRI. NeuroImage, 176, pp. 41-55. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.026) (PMID:29665420)
Naber, M., Roelofzen, C., Fracasso, A. , Bergsma, D. P., van Genderen, M., Porro, G. L. and Dumoulin, S. O. (2018) Gaze-contingent flicker pupil perimetry detects scotomas in patients with cerebral visual impairments or glaucoma. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 558. (doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00558) (PMID:30042727) (PMCID:PMC6048245)
Ferguson, B., Petridou, N., Fracasso, A. , van Den Heuvel, M.P., Brouwer, R.M., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Kahn, R.S. and Mandl, R.C.W. (2018) Detailed T1-weighted profiles from the human cortex measured in vivo at 3 Tesla MRI. Neuroinformatics, 16(2), pp. 181-196. (doi: 10.1007/s12021-018-9356-2) (PMID:29352389) (PMCID:PMC5984962)
Hendriks, A.D., Fracasso, A. , Arteaga de Castro, C.S., Gosselink, M.W.J.M., Luijten, P.R., Petridou, N. and Klomp, D.W.J. (2018) Maximizing sensitivity for fast GABA edited spectroscopy in the visual cortex at 7 T. NMR in Biomedicine, 31(4), e3890. (doi: 10.1002/nbm.3890) (PMID:29442388) (PMCID:PMC5887933)
Dumoulin, S.O., Fracasso, A. , van der Zwaag, W., Siero, J.C.W. and Petridou, N. (2018) Ultra-high field MRI: advancing systems neuroscience towards mesoscopic human brain function. NeuroImage, 168, pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.028) (PMID:28093360)
Fracasso, A. , Luijten, P.R., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2018) Laminar imaging of positive and negative BOLD in human visual cortex at 7 T. NeuroImage, 164, pp. 100-111. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.038) (PMID:28213112)
Buonocore, A., Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2017) Pre-saccadic perception: separate time courses for enhancement and spatial pooling at the saccade target. PLoS ONE, 12(6), e0178902. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178902) (PMID:28614367) (PMCID:PMC5470679)
Dumoulin, S.O., Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Zuiderbaan, W., Luijten, P.R., Wandell, B.A. and Petridou, N. (2017) In vivo evidence of functional and anatomical stripe-based subdivisions in human V2 and V3. Scientific Reports, 7, 733. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00634-6) (PMID:28389654) (PMCID:PMC5428808)
Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Systematic variation of population receptive field properties across cortical depth in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 139, pp. 427-438. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.048) (PMID:27374728)
Fabius, J.H., Fracasso, A. and Van Der Stigchel, S. (2016) Spatiotopic updating facilitates perception immediately after saccades. Scientific Reports, 6, 34488. (doi: 10.1038/srep34488) (PMID:27686998) (PMCID:PMC5043283)
Fracasso, A. , van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Myelin contrast across lamina at 7T, ex-vivo and in-vivo dataset. Data In Brief, 8, pp. 990-1003. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.058) (PMID:27508254) (PMCID:PMC4961349)
Fracasso, A. and Melcher, D. (2016) Saccades influence the visibility of targets in rapid stimulus sequences: the roles of mislocalization, retinal distance and remapping. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10, 58. (doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2016.00058) (PMID:27445718) (PMCID:PMC4924485)
Fracasso, A. , Van Veluw, S.J., Visser, F., Luijten, P.R., Spliet, W., Zwanenburg, J.J.M., Dumoulin, S.O. and Petridou, N. (2016) Lines of Baillarger in vivo and ex vivo: myelin contrast across lamina at 7 T MRI and histology. NeuroImage, 133, pp. 163-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.072) (PMID:26947519)
Fracasso, A. , Koenraads, Y., Porro, G.L. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2016) Bilateral population receptive fields in congenital hemihydranencephaly. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 36(3), pp. 324-334. (doi: 10.1111/opo.12294) (PMID:27112226)
Harvey, B.M., Fracasso, A. , Petridou, N. and Dumoulin, S.O. (2015) Topographic representations of object size and relationships with numerosity reveal generalized quantity processing in human parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(44), pp. 13525-13530. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515414112) (PMID:26483452) (PMCID:PMC4640722)
Fracasso, A. , Kaunitz, L. and Melcher, D. (2015) Saccade kinematics modulate perisaccadic perception. Journal of Vision, 15(3), 4. (doi: 10.1167/15.3.4) (PMID:25761349)
van Veluw, S.J., Fracasso, A. , Visser, F., Spliet, W.G.M., Luijten, P.R., Biessels, G.J. and Zwanenburg, J.J.M. (2015) FLAIR images at 7 Tesla MRI highlight the ependyma and the outer layers of the cerebral cortex. NeuroImage, 104, pp. 100-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.011) (PMID:25315783)
Fracasso, A. , Targher, S., Zampini, M. and Melcher, D. (2013) Fooling the eyes: the influence of a sound-induced visual motion illusion on eye movements. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e62131. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062131) (PMID:23637981) (PMCID:PMC3637444)
Kaunitz, L., Fracasso, A. , Lingnau, A. and Melcher, D. (2013) Non-conscious processing of motion coherence can boost conscious access. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e60787. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060787) (PMID:23593311) (PMCID:PMC3622026)
Melcher, D. and Fracasso, A. (2012) Remapping of the line motion illusion across eye movements. Experimental Brain Research, 218(4), pp. 503-514. (doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3043-6) (PMID:22392445)
Fracasso, A. , Caramazza, A. and Melcher, D. (2010) Continuous perception of motion and shape across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Vision, 10(13), 14. (doi: 10.1167/10.13.14) (PMID:21106679)
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Stable visual flow over time: dynamic eye-movement encoding in human cortex
BIAL Foundation
2021 - 2023
- Stable perception of external stimuli over time: oculo-motor and visual processing mechanisms
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
2019 - 2022
Supervision
Supervised Postgraduate Students
- Gina Brunner (Postgraduate)
- Connor Dalby (Postgraduate)
- Katarina Moravkova (Postgraduate)
Research Assistants
- Gina Brunner (Research Assistant)
- Yulia Lazarova (Research Assistant)