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Barbara Montagna - Lab Alum

Hails From: Italy

Educated at: University of Trieste, Laurea cum Laude in Experimental Psychology (2002)

Research Interests: Visual Perception, Attention, Psychophysics

Publications:

• Montagna, B., Pestilli, F., & Carrasco, M. (2009). Attention trades off spatial acuity. Vision Research, 49(7), 735-745.
  
  
• Yeshurun, Y., Montagna, B., & Carrasco, M. (2008). On the flexibility of sustained attention and its effects on a texture segmentation task. Vision Research, 48(1), 78-93.
  
  
• Montagna, B., & Carrasco, M. (2006). Transient covert attention and the perceived rate of flicker. Journal of Vision, 6(9), 955-965, http://journalofvision.org/6/9/8/, doi:10.1167/6.9.8.
  

  Conference Presentations:
  

• Pestilli, F., Montagna, B., Gardner, J., Heeger, D., & Carrasco, M. (2009, May). Spatial attention reduces contrast adaptation. Talk delivered by first author at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. http://www.journalofvision.org/9/8/219/
  
  
• Montagna, B., Pestilli, F., & Carrasco, M. (2008, May). Trading off visual acuity? Transient attention increases acuity at cued locations and decreases it at uncued locations. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. http://journalofvision.org/8/6/985/
  
  
• Montagna, B., Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (2007, May). Differential effects of endogenous and exogenous covert attention on texture segmentation. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. http://www.journalofvision.org/7/9/912/
  


• Montagna, B., & Carrasco, M. (2006, May) Transient covert attention increases the perceived rate of flicker. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/224/
  
  
• Montagna, B., Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (2005, May). On the flexibility of covert attention and its effects on a texture
  segmentation task. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. http://journalofvision.org/5/8/164/
  
  
• Montagna, B., & Carrasco, M. (2002, October). Effects of spatial covert attention and selective adaptation on the visual processing of texture. Talk given at The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, University of Trieste.
  
  

Other Interests: Visual art, contemporary dancing, classical music, reading, handcrafts, traveling, hiking, ice skating, Calvin and Hobbes... and I love daisies..

Email: bm603@nyu.edu