Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- mauro.manassi@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272232
- Office Address
School of Psychology, William Guild Building, Room F11, Kings College, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
I got my Bachelor's degree in Psychology of Personality and Interpersonal Relationships at Padua University (Padua, Italy). Right before getting my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology (and starting a career as a clinical psychologist), I fell in love with everything that is about Perception and Visual Neuroscience. Since then, this is what I do and I love.
After my master thesis on motion priming under the supervision of Prof. Gianluca Campana, I joined Prof. Michael Herzog's Psychophysics laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) for a PhD in Neuroscience (2009-2014). My PhD focused on how our visual system organizes the cluttered environment around us in a coherent manner (go here for more info about my work on visual organization).
At the end of my PhD, I was awarded of the Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation, for an 18 months postdoc in Prof. David Whitney's laboratory of Perception and Action at UC Berkeley (California, USA). Here, I have become interested in how our visual system stabilizes our visual interpretations of the world, turning discontinuous and chaotic retinal images into coherent visual percepts (go here for more info about my work on visual stabilization).
In August 2019, I was appointed Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen (UK). In 2022, I was awarded a prize for Best Research Article of the Year by the British Psychology Society, and I will be giving the keynote at BPS Annual Cognitive Section Conference 2022. In August 2024, I will host together with Dr Constanze Hesse the European Conference on Visual Perception in Aberdeen.Qualifications
- PhD Neuroscience2014 - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- MSc Clinical Psychology2009 - University of Padua
- BSc Psychology of Personality and Interpersonal Relationship2006 - University of Padua
- PhD PostDoc2019 - University of California, Berkeley
External Memberships
Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP, 2021-present)
Experimental Psychology Society (EPS, 2020-present)
Vision Sciences Society (2011-present)
Faculty Board Member of Brain & Mind Doctoral Program at Padua University (2021-present)
Latest Publications
Continuity fields enhance visual perception through positive serial dependence
Nature Reviews PsychologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00297-x
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Three's a crowd: Fast ensemble perception of first impressions of trustworthiness
Cognition, vol. 239, 105540Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSerial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review
Journal of Vision, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1-29Contributions to Journals: Review articlesSerial dependence in perception across naturalistic generative adversarial network-generated mammogram
Journal of Medical Imaging, vol. 10, no. 4, 045501Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSerial Dependence in Dermatological Judgments
Diagnostics, vol. 13, no. 10, 1775Contributions to Journals: Articles
Prizes and Awards
British Psychology Society Cognitive Psychology Section Award: Best Research Article of the Year (2022)
- Research
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Research Overview
- Object recognition
- Perceptual Organization
- Visual Stability
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Psychology.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Current Research
https://www.mauromanassi.com/research
Past Research
https://www.mauromanassi.com/crowding
https://www.mauromanassi.com/serialdependence
Collaborations
https://www.mauromanassi.com/collaborations
- Publications
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Continuity fields enhance visual perception through positive serial dependence
Nature Reviews PsychologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00297-x
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Three's a crowd: Fast ensemble perception of first impressions of trustworthiness
Cognition, vol. 239, 105540Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSerial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review
Journal of Vision, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 1-29Contributions to Journals: Review articlesSerial dependence in perception across naturalistic generative adversarial network-generated mammogram
Journal of Medical Imaging, vol. 10, no. 4, 045501Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSerial Dependence in Dermatological Judgments
Diagnostics, vol. 13, no. 10, 1775Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPromoting a stable visual world with serial dependence: Annual Cognitive Paper Prize Award
Contributions to Journals: Features- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscog.2023.1.8.8
Idiosyncratic biases in the perception of medical images
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 1049831Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEnsemble perception: Stacking the hay to find the needle
Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 22, pp. R1264-R1266Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.042
Abstracts of Scottish Vision Group 2022 Meeting
Vision, vol. 6, no. 4, 57Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSearching for serial dependencies in the brain
PLoS Biology, vol. 20, no. 9, e3001788Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEverything we see is a mash-up of the brain’s last 15 seconds of visual information
Contributions to Specialist PublicationsIllusion of visual stability through active perceptual serial dependence
Science Advances, vol. 8, no. 2Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGlobal and high-level effects in crowding cannot be predicted by either high-dimensional pooling or target cueing
Journal of Vision, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 1-25Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSerial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists
Cognitive research: principles and implications, vol. 6, no. 1, 65Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSelective age-related changes in orientation perception
Journal of Vision, vol. 20, no. 13, pp. 1-12Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCapsule networks as recurrent models of grouping and segmentation
PLoS Computational Biology , vol. 16, no. 7, e1008017Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisual crowding in driving
Journal of Vision, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 1-17Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.6.1
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15270/1/Xia_et_al_JoV_VisualCrowdingIn_VoR.pdf
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Serial dependence in a simulated clinical visual search task
Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 19937Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSerial dependence in position occurs at the time of perception
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 2245-2253Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1454-5
- [ONLINE] http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29582377
Serial dependence promotes the stability of perceived emotional expression depending on face similarity
Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 1461-1473Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1533-8
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Multi-level Crowding and the Paradox of Object Recognition in Clutter
Current Biology, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. R127-R133Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.051
Neural Dynamics of Grouping and Segmentation Explain Properties of Visual Crowding.
Psychological Review, vol. 124, no. 4, pp. 483-504Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000070
- [ONLINE] http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28437128
The perceived stability of scenes: serial dependence in ensemble representations
Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1971, 1971Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhat crowds in crowding?
Journal of Vision, vol. 16, no. 11, 25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/16.11.25
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13200/1/JOV_VOR.pdf
What crowding can tell us about object representations
Journal of Vision, vol. 16, no. 3, 35Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/16.3.35
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12744/1/Manassi_et_al_JOV_VOR.pdf
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