Carlo Umiltà

Research Interests
Neuropsychology; cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology; neural bases of cognitive
processes, with special reference to selective attention, spatial attention, mathematical cognition,
executive functions and visuo-motor integration.

Education
Doctor of Medicine, University of Bologna.
Doctor of Psychology, University of Padova.

Representative publications

• Bonato, M., Zorzi, M. & Umiltà, C. (in press). When time is space: Evidence for a mental time line
  and for a common magnitude system. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews. http://dx.doi.org/
  10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.08.007

• Rusconi, E., Kwan, B., Giordano, B., Umiltà, C., Butterworth, B. (2006). Spatial representation of
  pitch height: the SMARC effect. Cognition 99, 113-129.
• Zorzi M., Priftis, K., & Umiltà C. (2002). Neglect disrupts the mental number line. Nature, 417,
  138-139.
• Craighero, L., Fadiga, L., Rizzolatti, G., Umiltà, C. (1999). Action for perception: A motor-visual
  attentional effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25,
  1673-1692.
• Valenza, E., Simion, F., Cassia, V.M., Umiltà, C. (1996). Face preference at birth. Journal of
  Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 22, 892-903.
• Castiello, U., Umiltà, C. (1992). Splitting focal attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
  Human Perception and Performance 18 837-848.
• Rizzolatti, G., Riggio, L., Dascola, I., & Umiltà, C. (1987). Reorienting attention across
  the horizontal and vertical meridians: Evidence in favor of a premotor theory of attention.
• Neuropsychologia 25, 31-40.

Links

• Personal webpage