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Overview

Luca Tommasi is affiliated with the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy and has produced extensive research in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work primarily spans cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional focus on social psychology, neurology, and genetics.

The research topics addressed by Tommasi include:

  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Frequent publication venues for Tommasi's work are:

  • Symmetry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Recent papers published include:

  • "The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in Italy: Worry Leads to Protective Behavior, but at the Cost of Anxiety," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Exploring brain activity for positive and negative emotions by means of EEG microstates," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Received Cradling Bias During the First Year of Life: A Retrospective Study on Children With Typical and Atypical Development," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Human Lateralization, Maternal Effects and Neurodevelopmental Disorders," 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Keep a Left Profile, Baby! The Left-Cradling Bias Is Associated with a Preference for Left-Facing Profiles of Human Babies," 2020, Symmetry

Throughout their career, Tommasi has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Giulia Prete
  • Gianluca Malatesta
  • Anita D'Anselmo
  • Nicola Mammarella
  • Daniele Marzoli

Best Publications

  • Scrutinizing visual images: The role of gaze in mental imagery and memory

    Bruno Laeng;Ilona M. Bloem;Stefania D’Ascenzo;Luca Tommasi

  • Separate processing mechanisms for encoding of geometric and landmark information in the avian hippocampus.

    Luca Tommasi;Anna Gagliardo;Richard J. Andrew;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • How birds use their eyes: Opposite left-right specialization for the lateral and frontal visual hemifield in the domestic chick

    Giorgio Vallortigara;Claudio Cozzutti;Luca Tommasi;Lesley J Rogers

  • Encoding of geometric and landmark information in the left and right hemispheres of the Avian Brain.

    Luca Tommasi;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Lateral asymmetries due to preferences in eye use during visual discrimination learning in chicks

    G. Vallortigara;L. Regolin;G. Bortolomiol;L. Tommasi

  • Asymmetries of the human social brain in the visual, auditory and chemical modalities.

    Alfredo Brancucci;Giuliana Lucci;Andrea Mazzatenta;Luca Tommasi

  • Visual perception of biological motion in newly hatched chicks as revealed by an imprinting procedure.

    Lucia Regolin;Luca Tommasi;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • From natural geometry to spatial cognition

    Luca Tommasi;Cinzia Chiandetti;Cinzia Chiandetti;Tommaso Pecchia;Valeria Anna Sovrano

  • Hemispheric processing of landmark and geometric information in male and female domestic chicks (Gallus gallus).

    Luca Tommasi;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Right hemisphere or valence hypothesis, or both? The processing of hybrid faces in the intact and callosotomized brain.

    Giulia Prete;Bruno Laeng;Mara Fabri;Nicoletta Foschi

  • Representation of two geometric features of the environment in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus)

    Luca Tommasi;Camilla Polli

  • Searching for the center: spatial cognition in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus).

    Luca Tommasi;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Young chickens learn to localize the centre of a spatial environment.

    L Tommasi;G Vallortigara;M Zanforlin

  • Social mobbing calls in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): effects of experience and associated cortisol levels

    Elena Clara;Elena Clara;Luca Tommasi;Lesley J. Rogers

  • Motor Control by Vision and the Evolution of Cerebral Lateralization

    R.J. Andrew;L. Tommasi;N. Ford

  • Solving occlusion indeterminacy in chromatically homogeneous patterns.

    Luca Tommasi;Paola Bressan;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Episodic Memory Related to Emotional Visual Stimuli

    Barbara Penolazzi;Alberto Di Domenico;Daniele Marzoli;Nicola Mammarella

  • Footedness in binocular and monocular chicks.

    Luca Tommasi;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Mechanisms and functions of brain and behavioural asymmetries

    Luca Tommasi

  • Left hemisphere specialization for duration discrimination of musical and speech sounds

    Alfredo Brancucci;Anita D’Anselmo;Federica Martello;Luca Tommasi

  • Eye use in search is determined by the nature of task in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus).

    L Tommasi;R.J Andrew;G Vallortigara

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Bruno Laeng
Bruno Laeng University of Oslo
Raffaella Franciotti
Raffaella Franciotti University of Chieti-Pescara
Mara Fabri
Mara Fabri Marche Polytechnic University
Marco Onofrj
Marco Onofrj University of Chieti-Pescara
Richard J. Andrew
Richard J. Andrew University of Sussex
Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Stefano Puglisi-Allegra Sapienza University of Rome
Laura Bonanni
Laura Bonanni University of Chieti-Pescara
Lucia Regolin
Lucia Regolin University of Padua
Maurizio Bertollo
Maurizio Bertollo University of Chieti-Pescara

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