de’Sperati Claudio Professore associatoPsicologiaM-PSI/02

Claudio de’Sperati (Milano, 1962) è laureato in Scienze Biologiche (Torino, 1985) e ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Neurologiche (Torino, 1993). Ha svolto attività di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Neuroscienze dell’Università di Torino (1985-1995), il Dipartimento di Psicologia dell’Università di Monaco di Baviera (2004-2005) e il Laboratorio di Azione Percezione Cognizione (LAPCO) dell’UniSR, di cui è direttore. Claudio de’Sperati è attualmente Professore Associato presso la Facoltà di Psicologia dell’UniSR, dove insegna Metodi di psicofisiologia e Neurofenomenologia della percezione. I suoi interessi di ricerca attuali riguardano principalmente le tecnologie percettive.

 

POSIZIONI DI RICERCA

1996-current: Laboratory of Action, Perception, Cognition, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano (UniSR), currently Director

2015-2019: Experimental Psychology Unit, Neuroscience Division of the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Group leader

2004-2005: Department of Psychology, LMU, Munich, Germany, Visiting Professor

1985-1995: Department of Neurosciences, Università di Torino, PhD and postdoc

 

POSIZIONI ACCADEMICHE

2000-current: Professore Associato di Psicobiologia e Psicologia fisiologica, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

2010-2011: Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, CNRS, Grenoble, France, Visiting Professor

2008-2017: Coordinatore del curriculum di Psicologia, Programma di Dottorato di Ricerca in “Filosofia della mente”, UniSR

2005-2006: “Mercator” professorship, Dept. of Psychology, LMU, Munich, Germany

1996-1999: Professore a contratto, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

 

INSEGNAMENTO

2018-current: Neurophenomenologia della percezione, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

2015-current: Metodi di psicofisiologia, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

2006-2018: Psicobiologia della coscienza, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

2006-2014: Metodi di psicologia sperimentale, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

2006: Mind and brain, Neuro-Cognitive Psychology Program, LMU, Munich, Germany

2000-2006: Neurofisiologia, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

2003: Basi di statistica, PhD program in Neurosciences, University of Turin, Italy

1996-2003: Metodi di ricerca e analisi dei dati, Facoltà di Psicologia, UniSR

 

ATTIVITA’ DI VALUTAZIONE

Riviste scientifiche: Experimental Brain Research; Cognition; Cognitive Brain Research; Memory and Cognition; Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung; Vision Research; Spatial Vision; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Neuropsychology; Giornale Italiano di Psicologia; The Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research; Cortex; Journal of Vision; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; PLoS One; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychological Reports; Phenomenology and Mind; Memory and Cognition; Journal of Eye Movements Research; Acta Psychologica; Journal of Mental Health & Clinical Psychology; Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience; Brain Sciences; Frontiers in Psychiatry; Perception

Congressi: WorldHaptics 2011; ETRA 2012, 2014, 2016; CARE 2020; ECVP 2006, 2010, 2012, 2021

Istituzioni/Agenzie/Organizzazioni (valutazione di finanziamenti): FP6, European Commission (FET Actions, “Bio-Inspired Intelligent Information Systems”); Telethon Italy; The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development; FP7, European Commission (FET-Proactive, “Brain-Inspired Information and Communication Technology”); Italian Ministry of University (Prin and Firb programs); Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France; DAAD, Germany; Estonian Research Council

 

COMITATI EDITORIALI

Riviste scientifiche: Phenomenology and Mind (Scientific board); Journal of Eye Movement Research (Associate Editor); Scientific Reports (Associate Editor); Frontiers in Psychology (Associate Editor)

Altro: Studi Cognitivi – Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia cognitivo-comportamentale, Milano, IT (Scientific board, Trustee).

 

FINANZIAMENTI

2023-2027 “Get grandparents on bikes: The Telecyclette project” (PI, funded by Velux Stiftung, Zuerich, Switzerland)

2023-2024 “How do attentional training programs improve reading skills?” (Local unit coordinator, funded by PRIN, Italian Ministry of Research)

2018-2022 “Stairway to Elders: Bridging Space, Time and Emotions in Their Social Environment for Wellbeing” (Local unit coordinator, funded by Fondazione Cariplo, Milano, Italy)

2017-2019 “Beyond eye movements” (Partner, funded by Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino, Italy)

2010-2012 “Visuomotor responses and the emergence of conscious vision” (Local unit coordinator, funded by PRIN, Italian Ministry of Research)

2006-2007 “Passive and active observer: the importance of voluntary movement in perceptual synchronization of visual stimuli” (Local unit coordinator, funded by PRIN, Italian Ministry of Research)

2004-2005 “Motion extrapolation in imagery” (Local unit coordinator, funded by PRIN, Italian Ministry of Research)

2001-2002 “Motion prediction: the role of stimulus’ geometry and kinematics” (Partner, funded by PRIN, Italian Ministry of Research)

 

BREVETTI

DE’SPERATI C (2024). System for physical activity, and related method. Pubblicato da International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization on 25/01/2024, number WO2024/018419. Submission date: 20/07/2023, number PCT/IB2023/057415.

DE’SPERATI C (2022). Sistema per svolgere attività fisica, e relativo procedimento. Richiesta inviata al Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico il 22/07/2022, numero 102022000015501.

ROATTA S, DE’SPERATI C, MESIN L, PASIAN V, PONZIO F. (2020). Method for detecting binary responses by analyzing the pupil diameter of a subject. Pubblicato su European Patent Bulletin (39/2020).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (as of March 2024; 73% as first / senior / corresponding author)

1. RIBATTI RM, LANCIANO T, DE’SPERATI C, CURCI A. Speed and contextual information of a crime-related video bias the responsibility judgments. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY (in press)
2. DALMASSO V, MORETTI M, DE'SPERATI C (2024). Quasi-3D: Reducing vergence effort improves visual comfort of head-mounted stereoscopic displays. VIRTUAL REALITY 28, 49.
3. DE'SPERATI C, MORETTI ME, DALMASSO V, HØEG ER, BAUD BOVY G, COZZI R, IPPOLITO J (2023). Enhancing visual exploration through augmented gaze: high acceptance of immersive virtual biking by oldest olds. INT J ENVIRON RES PUBLIC HEALTH, 20, 12.
4. DE'SPERATI C, GRANATO M, MORETTI M (2022). If you are old, videos look slow. The paradoxical effect of age-related motor decline on the kinematic interpretation of visual scenes. FRONTIERS HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, Jan 2022; 15:783090.
5. DE'SPERATI C, ROATTA S, ZOVETTI N, BARONI T (2021). Decoding overt shifts of attention in depth through pupillary and cortical frequency tagging. JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING 18: 036008.
6. VILLALOBOS AE, GIUSIANO S, MUSSO L, DE’SPERATI C, RIBERI A, SPALEK P, CALVO A, MOGLIA C, ROATTA S (2021). When assistive eye tracking fails: Communicating with a brainstem-stroke patient through the pupillary accommodative response – A case study. BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL, 67:1-6.
7. GIULIANI M, MARTONI RM, CRESPI SA, O'NEILL J, ERZEGOVESI S, DE'SPERATI C, GRGIC RG (2021). Did I do that? Cognitive flexibility and self-agency in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH 304: 114170.
8. DE’SPERATI C. (2020). Cortical resonance to visible and invisible visual rhythms. BRAIN SCIENCES 10: 37.
9. BOCCIGNONE G, DE’SPERATI C, GRANATO M, GROSSI G, LANZAROTTI R, NOCETI N & ODONE F (2020) Stairway to Elders: Bridging Space, Time and Emotions in Their Social Environment for Wellbeing. PROC. 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION APPLICATIONS AND METHODS, p. 1-7.
10. BECHI M, CRESPI SA, AGOSTONI G, PRUDENZIATI F, GRGIC RG, GIULIANI M, MARTONI R, BOCCALINI C, DE'SPERATI C, CAVALLARO R (2020). The role of agency in schizophrenia: A pilot study on gaze agency. SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH 222: 465-466.
11. THORNTON IM, DE’SPERATI C, KRISTJANSSON A (2019). The influence of selection modality, display dynamics and error feedback on patterns of human foraging. VISUAL COGNITION 27: 5-8.
12. PONZIO F, VILLALOBOS AE, MESIN L, DE’SPERATI C, ROATTA S (2019). A human-computer interface based on the “voluntary” pupil accommodative response. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES 126: 53–63.
13. ZULIANI E, CAPUTI M, SCAINI S, DE’SPERATI C (2019). Videos look faster as children grow up: Sense of speed and impulsivity throughout primary school. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 179:190-211.
14. DE’SPERATI C, THORNTON IM (2019). Motion prediction at low contrast. VISION RES 154:85-96.
15. CERRATO V, PARMIGIANI E, FIGUERES-ONATE M, BETIZEAU M, APRATOJ, NAVANATY I, BERCHIALLA P, LUZZATI F, DE’SPERATI C, PLOEZ-MASCARAQUE L, BUFFO A (2018). Multiple origins and modularity in the spatiotemporal emergence of cerebellar astrocyte heterogeneity. PLOS BIOLOGY 27;16(9):e2005513.
16. ROSSI F, MONTANARO E, DE'SPERATI C (2018). Speed biases with real-life video clips. FRONTIERS INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE, Mar 2018;12:11.
17. GIULIANI M, MARTONI RM, GREGORI GRGIČ R, CRESPI SA, CAVALLINI MC, DE'SPERATI C (2017). Who Has Done It? Exploring Gaze Agency in Obsessive-Compulsive Checkers. FRONTIERS INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE, Dec 22;11:39.
18. DE'SPERATI C, BAUD BOVY G (2017). Low perceptual sensitivity to altered video speed in viewing a soccer match. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Nov 13;7(1):15379.
19. GREGORI GRGIČ R, CRESPI SA, DE'SPERATI C (2016). Assessing Self-Awareness through Gaze Agency. PLOS ONE, Nov 3;11(11):e0164682.
20. GREGORI GRGIČ R, DE'SPERATI C (2016). Covert Attention Tracking: Towards Two-Dimensional Real-Time Recordings. JOURNAL OF EYE MOVEMENTS RESEARCH, 9(6).
21. BRUNO N, UCCELLI S, VIVIANI E, DE'SPERATI C (2016). Both vision-for-perception and vision-for-action follow Weber's law at small object sizes, but violate it at larger sizes. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA, Oct;91:327-334.
22. GREGORI GRGIČ R, CALORE E, DE'SPERATI C (2016). Covert enaction at work: Recording the continuous movements of visuospatial attention to visible or imagined targets by means of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs). CORTEX, Jan;74:31-52.
23. BOCCIGNONE G, FERRARO M, CRESPI S, ROBINO C, DE’SPERATI C (2014). Detecting expert’s eye using a multiple-kernel Relevance Vector Machine. JOURNAL OF EYE MOVEMENTS RESEARCH, vol. 7(2):1-15
24. GREGORI-GRGIĈ R., DE’SPERATI C (2013). Psychophysics phenomenologized? Sensation and decision in visual motion perception. PHENOMENOLOGY AND MIND, vol. 7, p.96-107
25. CRESPI S, ROBINO C, SILVA O, DE’SPERATI C (2012). Spotting expertise in the eyes: billiards knowledge as revealed by gaze shifts in a dynamic visual prediction task. JOURNAL OF VISION, vol. 12(11):30, 1-19.
26. ROBINO C, CRESPI S, SILVA O, DE' SPERATI C (2012). Parsing Visual Stimuli Into Temporal Units Through Eye Movements. In: ETRA. p. 181-184, New York:ACM Digital Library.
27. GREGORI-GRGIĈ R, BALDERI M, DE’SPERATI C (2010). Delayed perceptual awareness in rapid perceptual decisions. PLOS ONE, vol. 6(2), e17079.
28. JONIKAITIS D, DEUBEL H, DE'SPERATI C (2009). Time gaps in mental imagery introduced by competing saccadic tasks. VISION RESEARCH. vol. 49, pp. 2164-2175.
29. SCOCCHIA L, ACTIS-GROSSO R, DE’SPERATI C, STUCCHI N, BAUD-BOVY G (2009). Observer’s control of the moving stimulus increases the flash-lag effect. VISION RESEARCH. vol 49, pp. 2363-2370.
30. CICCHINI M, VALSECCHI M, DE'SPERATI C (2008). Head movements modulate responsiveness to visual stimuli in the absence of gaze shifts. NEUROREPORT. vol. 19, pp. 831-834.
31. DE'SPERATI C, BAUD-BOVY G (2008). Blind saccades: An asynchrony between seeing and looking. THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 28, pp. 4317-4321.
32. SHI Z, DE'SPERATI C (2008). Motion-induced positional biases in the flash-lag configuration. COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. vol. 25 , 1027–1038.
33. DE’SPERATI C (2006). Psicologia e neuroscienze alla prova dei fatti: il nuovo/vecchio caso della coscienza. RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA. vol. 3, pp. 45-54.
34. DE'SPERATI C, DEUBEL H (2006) Mental extrapolation of motion modulates responsiveness to visual stimuli. VISION RESEARCH. vol. 46, pp. 2593-601.
35. DE'SPERATI C, SANTANDREA E (2005). Smooth pursuit-like eye movements during mental extrapolation of motion: the facilitatory effect of drowsiness. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH. vol. 25, pp. 328-38.
36. DE'SPERATI C (2003). Precise oculomotor correlates of visuo-spatial mental rotation and circular motion imagery. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 15, pp. 1244-59.
37. DE'SPERATI C (2003). The inner working of dynamic visuo-spatial imagery as revealed by spontaneous eye movements. In HYÖNÄ J, RADACH R, DEUBEL H. The Mind's Eyes: Cognitive and Applied Aspects of Eye Movements. (pp. 119-142). OXFORD: Elsevier Science.
38. DE'SPERATI C, STUCCHI N (2000). Motor imagery and visual event recognition. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. vol. 133, pp. 273-278.
39. CHIAVAZZA G, CALLIANO MASSARA R, DE'SPERATI C (2000). Psicomotricità. L'Universo del corpo. Isitituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. (pp. 221-227).
40. DE'SPERATI C, PIATTELLI PALMARINI M (1999). Cognizione: aspetti cognitivi della corporeità. L'universo del corpo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. (pp. 734-737).
41. DE'SPERATI C (1999). Saccades to mentally rotated targets. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. vol. 126, pp. 563-577.
42. DE'SPERATI C, STUCCHI N (1997). Recognising the motion of a graspable object is guided by handedness. NEUROREPORT. vol. 8, pp. 2761-2765.
43. DE'SPERATI C, VIVIANI P (1997). The relationship between curvature and velocity in two-dimensional smooth pursuit eye movements. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 17, pp. 3932-3945.
44. HARVEY RJ, DE'SPERATI C, STRATA P (1997). The early phase of horizontal optokinetic responses in the pigmented rat and the effects of lesions of the visual cortex. VISION RESEARCH. vol. 37, pp. 1615-1625.
45. DE'SPERATI C (1997). I movimenti oculari. In PURGHÈ F, STUCCHI N., OLIVERIO A. La percezione visiva. TORINO: Utet. (pp. 154-190).
46. DE'SPERATI C, STUCCHI N (1995). Visual tuning to kinematics of biological motion: the role of eye movements. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. vol. 105, pp. 254-260.
47. GAUTHIER GM, DE'SPERATI C, TEMPIA F, MARCHETTI E, STRATA P (1995). Influence of eye motion on adaptive modifications of the vestibuolo-ocular reflex in the rat. EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. vol. 103, pp. 393-401.
48. MASINI R, DE'SPERATI C (1995). The Poggendorff illusion in imagery in the presence of random dot textures between the verticals. RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA. vol. 19, pp. 7-25.
49. GAUTHIER GM, DE'SPERATI C, TEMPIA F, MARCHETTI E, STRATA P (1994). Eye motion-coding information mediate adaptive modification of vestibulo-ocular reflex in rat. In FUCHS A.F., ZEE D. Contemporary ocular motor and vestibular research. (pp. 60-67). STUTTGART, NEW YORK: THIEME.
50. DE'SPERATI C, TEMPIA F, HARVEY R, STRATA P (1994). Vergence compensation during binocularly- and monocularly-evoked horizontal optokinetic nystagmus in the pigmented rat. VISION RESEARCH. vol. 34, pp. 3335-3345.
51. DE'SPERATI C, MONTAROLO PG, STRATA P (1993). Effects of inferior olive inactivation and lesion on the activity of medial vestibular neurons in the rat. NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 53, pp. 139-147.
52. LOPIANO L, DE'SPERATI C, MONTAROLO PG (1990). Long-term habituation of the acoustic startle response: role of the cerebellar vermis. NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 35, pp. 79-84.
53. DE'SPERATI C, LOPIANO L, MONTAROLO PG (1989). Lesions of the inferior olive do not affect long- or short-term habituation of the acoustic startle response in rats. NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS. vol. 100, pp. 164-168.
54. LOPIANO L, CHELAZZI L, DE'SPERATI C, TEMPIA F, STRATA P (1989). Magnesium deficiency affects the pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsions in magnesium-deprived rats. FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGY. vol. 4, pp. 229-234.
55. LOPIANO L, DE'SPERATI C, MONTAROLO PG (1989). Role of the cerebellar vermis in the long-term habituation of the acoustic startle response. In STRATA P. The olivocerebellar system in motor control. Exp Brain Res Series 17. (pp. 380-384). BERLIN, HEIDELBERG: Springer.