糖心原创

Contact

• workRoom B222 Hearing Sciences
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Elisa.Zamboni1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Background:

2020-2023: Postdoctoral Research Associate (ESRC and BBSRC funded), University of York, UK

2017 - 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Adaptive Brain Lab, University of Cambridge, UK & Maastricht University, Netherlands

2013 - 2017: PhD in Psychology and Visual Neuroscience, 'Biases in Perception of Visual Motion;, 糖心原创, UK

2011 - 2013: MSc (Hons) in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, University of Trento, Italy

2009 - 2010: LLP Erasmus Grant, University of Osnabr眉ck, Germany

2008 - 2011: BSc (Hons) in Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy

Expertise Summary

functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), high and ultra-high field imaging (UHF fMRI), psychophysics, sensory and visual neuroscience

Research Summary

My research is driven by an interest in understanding our senses, both as individual processes as well as how information from multiple senses are integrated to generate experiences and meaningful… read more

Recent Publications

• LAWRENCE, SJD, ZAMBONI, E, VERNON, RJW, GOUWS, AD, WADE, AR and MORLAND, AB, 2023. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(29), 5387-5390
• NG, AKT, JIA, K, GONCALVES, NR, ZAMBONI, E, KEMPER, VG, GOEBEL, R, WELCHMAN, AE and KOURTZI, Z, 2021. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(40), 8362-8374
• JIA, K, ZAMBONI, E, RUA, C, GONCALVES, NR, KEMPER, VG, NG, AKT, RODGERS, CT, WILLIAMS, G, GOEBEL, R and KOURTZI, Z, 2021. STAR Protocols.
• ZAMBONI, E, KEMPER, VG, GONCALVES, NR, JIA, K, KARLAFTIS, VM, BELL, SJ, GIORGIO, J, RIDEAUX, R, GOEBEL, R and KOURTZI, Z, 2020. eLife.

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Current Research

My research is driven by an interest in understanding our senses, both as individual processes as well as how information from multiple senses are integrated to generate experiences and meaningful representations. In the visual domain, I study how different features (e.g., orientation, curvature) are functionally organised in specific regions of the brain and how these domains interact with each other. I am also looking at the brain pathways integrating visual and touch information, with a specific interest at the effects that abnormal sensory inputs (i.e., visual illusions/distortions) might have in the topographical representation of body parts in the cortex and how these manipulations could potentially provide alternative treatments in chronic pain conditions.

In my research, I combine behavioural (psychophisics) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques, with a specific focus on ultra-high field imaging (using scanners at 7+ Tesla) to explore functional and structural brain organisations at very high spatial resolution that would otherwise only be possible invasively. I also collaborate in developing imaging acquisition sequences for Direct Imaging of Neuronal Activity (DIANA) using Real Time fMRI.

Past Research

Effects of attention on perception of visual symmetry; sensory adaptation, perceptual learning, and 3D vision; perceptual decision making and visual motion; visual features in abstract artworks and emotional valence.

• LAWRENCE, SJD, ZAMBONI, E, VERNON, RJW, GOUWS, AD, WADE, AR and MORLAND, AB, 2023. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(29), 5387-5390
• NG, AKT, JIA, K, GONCALVES, NR, ZAMBONI, E, KEMPER, VG, GOEBEL, R, WELCHMAN, AE and KOURTZI, Z, 2021. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(40), 8362-8374
• JIA, K, ZAMBONI, E, RUA, C, GONCALVES, NR, KEMPER, VG, NG, AKT, RODGERS, CT, WILLIAMS, G, GOEBEL, R and KOURTZI, Z, 2021. STAR Protocols.
• ZAMBONI, E, KEMPER, VG, GONCALVES, NR, JIA, K, KARLAFTIS, VM, BELL, SJ, GIORGIO, J, RIDEAUX, R, GOEBEL, R and KOURTZI, Z, 2020. eLife.
• JIA, K, ZAMBONI, E, KEMPER, VG, RUA, C, GONCALVES, NR, NG, AKT, RODGERS, CT, WILLIAMS, G, GOEBEL, R and KOURTZI, Z, 2020. Current Biology. 30(21), 4177-4187
• ZAMBONI E, LEDGEWAY T, MCGRAW PV and SCHLUPPECK D, 2016. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. 283(1833),