Educated at: University of Trieste, Laurea cum Laude in
Experimental Psychology (2002)
Research Interests: Visual Perception, Attention, Psychophysics
Publications and Presentations:
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.
Montagna, B., Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (2007). Differential effects of endogenous and exogenous covert attention on
texture segmentation. Poster presented at Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, May 11-16.
Montagna, B., & Carrasco, M. (2006, May) Transient covert
attention increases the perceived rate of flicker. 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. Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FL.
http://journalofvision.org/5/8/164/
Other Interests: Visual art, contemporary dancing, classical
music, reading, handcrafts, traveling, hiking, ice skating, Calvin
and Hobbes... and I love daisies..
Barbara
Montagna - graduate student