Clara Casco phone: +39 049 827 6610 email: clara.clasco@unipd.it room 316 Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale via Venezia 8 - 35131 Padova - Italy
	Research interests Human vision: perceptual mechanisms of figure-ground segmentation with texture-defined stimuli and motion perception, perceptual learning and synaptic plasticity in normal and low vision observers, audiovisual perception. Publications Maniglia, M., Grassi, M., Casco, C., Campana, G. (in press). The origin of the audiovisual bounce inducing effect: a TMS study. Neuropsychologia. Mather, G., Pavan, A., Bellacosa Marotti, R., Casco C. (2012). Psychophysical evidence for interactions between visual motion and form processing at the level of motion integrating receptive fields. Neuropsychologia, 50, 153-159. Grassi, M., Casco, C. (2012). Revealing the Origin of the Audiovisual Bounce-Inducing Effect. Seeing and Perceiving, 25, 223-233. Pavan, A., Casco, C., Mather, G., Bellacosa, R.M., Cuturi, L.F. & Campana, G. (2011). The effect of spatial orientation on detecting motion trajectories in noise. Vision Research, 51(18), 2077-2084. De Stefani, E., Pinello, L., Campana, G., Mazzarolo, M., Lo Giudice, G. & Casco, C. (2011). Illusory contours over pathological retinal scotomas. PLoS ONE, 6(10), e26154. Guzzon, D., Casco, C. (2011). The effect of visual experience on texture segmentation without awareness. Vision Research, 51: 2509-2516. Campana, G., Pavan, A., Maniglia, M. & Casco, C. (2011). The fastest (and simplest), the earliest: the locus of processing of rapid forms of motion aftereffect. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2929-2934. Maniglia, M., Pavan, A., Cuturi, L. F., Campana, G., Sato, G., Casco, C. (2011). Reducing crowding by weakening inhibitory lateral interactions in the periphery with perceptual learning. PLoS One, 6(10):e25568. Cansino, S., Guzzon, D., Martinelli, M., Barollo, M., Casco, C. (2011). Effects of aging on interference control in selective attention and working memory. Memory and Cognition, 39, 1409-1422. Casco, C., Robol, V., Barollo, M., Cansino, S. (2011). Effects of aging on visual contour integration and segmentation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 52, 3955-3961. Pavan, A., Cuturi, F.L., Maniglia, M., Casco, C., & Campana, G. (2011). Implied motion from static photographs influences the perceived position of stationary objects. Vision Research, 51, 187-194. Alberti, C.F, Pavan, A., Campana, G., & Casco, C. (2010). Segmentation by single and combined features involves different contextual influences. Vision Research, 50, 1065, 1073. Pavan, A., Campana, G., Maniglia, M., & Casco, C. (2010). The role of high-level visual areas in short- and longer-lasting forms of neural plasticity. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3069-3079. Grassi, M., Casco, C. (2010). Audiovisual bounce-inducing effect: when sound congruence affects grouping in vision. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 378-386. Click here to see a demo of the stimuli of this study. Campana G., & Casco C. (2009). Repetition effects of features and spatial position: evidence for dissociable mechanisms. Spatial Vision, 22, 325-338 Roncato, S., & Casco, C. (2009). A new "tilt" illusion reveals the relation between border ownership and border binding. Journal of Vision, 9, 1-10. Campana, G. & Casco, C. (2009). Repetition effects of features and spatial position: evidence for dissociable mechanisms. Spatial Vision, 22,325-338. Pavan, A., Campana, G., Guerreschi, M., Manassi, M., & Casco, C. (2009). Separate motion-detecting mechanisms for first- and second-order patterns revealed by rapid forms of visual motion priming and motion aftereffect. Journal of Vision, 9(11), 1-16. Sinico, M., Parovel G., Casco C., Anstis, S. (2009) Perceived Shrinkage of Motion Paths. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 35, 948-957. Casco, C., Campana, G., Han, S. & Guzzon, D. (2009). Psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence of independent facilitation by collinearity and similarity in texture grouping and segmentation. Vision Research, 49(6), 583-593. Grassi, M., Casco, C. (2009). Audiovisual bounce-inducing effect: attention alone does not explain why the discs are bouncing. Journal Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 235-243. Casco, C.& Guzzon, D. (2008).The joyful aesthetic experience of "contour binding". Spatial Vision, 21, 291-314. Mather, G., Pavan, A., Campana, G., & Casco, C. (2008). The motion aftereffect reloaded. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 481-487. Campana, G., Pavan, A., & Casco, C. (2008). Priming of first- and second-order motion: mechanisms and neural substrates. Neuropsychologia, 46(2), 393-398. Campana, G., Cowey, A., Casco, C., Oudsen, I., & Walsh, V. (2007). Left frontal eye field remembers "where" but not "what". Neuropsychologia, 45(10), 2340 - 2345. Fuggetta, G., Campana, G., & Casco, C. (2007). The principle of good continuation in space and time can guide visual search in the absence of priming and contextual cues. Visual Cognition, 15(7), 834-853. Giora, E., & Casco, C. (2007). Region- and edge-based mechanisms in texture segmentation. Vision Research, 47, 879-2006. Anstis, S., & Casco, C. (2006). Induced movement: The flying bluebottle illusion. Journal of Vision, 10(8), 1087-1092, http://www.journalofvision.org/6/10/8/, Roncato, S., & Casco, C. (2006). Illusory boundary interpolation from local association field. Spatial Vision, 19(6), 581-206. Parovel, G., & Casco, C. (2006). The psychophysical law of speed estimation in Michotte's causal events. Vision Research, 46(24), 4134-4142. Grieco, A., Casco, C., & Roncato, S. (2006). Texture segregation on the basis of contrast polarity of odd-symmetric filters. Vision Research, 46(20), 3526-3536. Grieco, A., Beretta, G., & Casco, C. (2006). Reaction time reduction after parafoveal preview in a lexical decision task. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 103, 105-112. Casco, C., Grieco, A., Giora, E., & Martinelli, M. (2006). Saliency from orthogonal velocity component in texture segregation. Vision Research, 46, 1091-1098. Casco, C., Forcella, C., Beretta, G., Grieco, A., & Campana, G. (2005). Ecstasy long-term effects on the human central nervous system revealed by Visual evoked potentials (VEPs). Addiction Biology, 10, 187-195. Casco, C., Grieco, A., Campana, G., Corvino, M.P., & Caputo, G. (2005). Attention modulates psychophysical and electrophysiological response to visual texture segmentation in humans. Vision Research, 45, 2384-2396. Casco, C. (2004). La gestalt nelle neuroscienze della visione. Teorie & modelli, 9, 103-122. Casco, C., Campana, G., Grieco, A., & Fuggetta, G. (2004). Perceptual learning modulates electrophysiological and psychophysical response to visual texture segmentation in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 371, 18-23. Grieco, A., Bettella, S., Conti, M., Orioli, M., & Casco, C. (2004). The effect of preview eccentricity in a lexical decision task. Visual Cognition, 11, 781-796. Casco, C., Campana, G., Grieco, A., Musetti, S., & Perrone, S. (2003). Hyper-vision in patient with central and paracentral vision loss reflects cortical reorganization. Visual Neuroscience, 20, 1-10. Campana, G., & Casco, C. (2003). Learning in combined-feature search: specificity to orientation. Perception and Psychophysics, 65, 1197-1207. Roncato, S., & Casco, C. (2003). The influence of contrast and spatial factors in the perceived shape of boundaries. Perception and Psychophysics, 65, 1252-1272. Casco, C. (2002). Fenomenologia sperimentale e visione. Teorie & modelli, 7, 155-172. Casco, C., Grieco, A., & Caputo, G. (2001). Discrimination of an orientation difference in dynamic textures. Vision Research, 41, 275-284. Casco, C., Campana, G., & Gidiuli, O. (2001). Stimulus specific dynamics of learning in conjunction search tasks. Visual Cognition, 8, 145-162. Campana, G., & Casco, C. (2001). Learning of combined-features search: specificity of stimulus characteristics. In Musio, C. (Ed.), Vision. The approach of biophysics and neurosciences (323-326). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.