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Andrea Albonico BA (Milan-Bicocca), MS (Milan-Bicocca), PhD (Milan-Bicocca), Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (UBC)
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ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1975-0824
Limited Term: Summer 2023 - Spring 2024
I completed my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy. Before that, I also completed my M.S. in Neuropsychology and a B.A in Psychology from the University of Milan-Bicocca. I worked as an assistant Neuropsychologist at the Niguarda Ca-Granda Hospital (Milan) and completed a postdoc training in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia. My research interests largely focus on perception and object recognition, particularly face and visual world recognition in healthy and neurological participants.
Courses Taught
PSYC 1100: Introduction to Psychology - Basic Processes
PSYC 1200: Introduction to Psychology - Areas and Applications
PSYC 2300: Applied Statistics
PSYC 2315: Brain and Behaviour
PSYC 2400: Research Methods in Psychology I
PSYC 3300: Applied Statistics ll
PSYC 3375: Sensation & Perception
PSYC 3910: Neuropsychology
Areas of Interest
My research interests largely focus on Biological Psychology, Neuropsychology, Face Recognition, Visual Word Recognition and Spatial Attention
Scholarly Work
Rahavi A Malaspina M, Albonico A, Barton JS. Covert face recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: the 'looking-at-nothing' effect (in press). Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Tien M, Albonico A, Barton JS. Faces, English words and Chinese characters: a study of dual-task interference in mono- and bilingual speakers (2023). Brain Research, 241(4), 1131-1144.
Barton JS, Rubino C, Albonico A, Jackson, ML, Davies-Thompson J (2022). Right hemi-alexia. Cortex, 157: 288-303.
Manouchehri V, Albonico A, Hemström, J, Djouab, S, Kim, H, Barton JS (2022). The impact of hemianopia on visual search for faces, words and cars. Experimental Brain Research, 1-12.
Albonico A*, Yu S*, Corrow SL, Barton JS (2022). Facial identity and facial speech processing in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 168: 108163.
Malaspina M, Albonico A, Rahavi A, Barton JS (2022). An ocular motor index of rapid face recognition: the 'looking-at-nothing' effect. Brain Research, 1783: 147839.
Gerlach C, Susilo T, Barton JS, Albonico A, Malaspina M, Starrfelt R (2022). Contrasting shared- and specific-mechanism accounts of developmental prosopagnosia: a new approach. Behavioural Research Methods, 1-14.
Feizabadi M, Singh M, Albonico A, Barton JS (2022). The inversion effect in word recognition ¬the effect of language familiarity and handwriting. Perception, 1-13.
Rock O, Albonico A, Javadian F, Ashkenani M, Malaspina M, Taylor A, Dreyer M, Barton JS (2022). Oblique saccades in internuclear ophthalmoplegia. Experimental Brain Research: 1-19.
Dietz C, Malaspina M, Albonico A, Barton JS (2022). The persistence of remote visual semantic memory following ocular blindness. Neuropsychologia: 165: 108110.
Feizabadi, M, Albonico A, Starrfelt R, Barton JS (2021). Whole-object effects in visual word processing: parallels with and differences from face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1-27.
Daini R, Primativo S, Albonico A, Veronelli L, Malaspina M, Corbo M, Martelli M, Arduino LS (2021). The focal attention window size explains letter substitution errors in reading. Brain Sciences, 11, 247.
Furubacke A, Albonico A, Barton JS (2020). Alternating dual-task interference between visual words and faces. Brain Research, 1746: 147004.
Djouab S*, Albonico A*, Yeung SC, Malaspina M, Mogard A, Wahlberg R, Corrow SL, Barton JS (2020). Search for face identity or expression: set-size effects in developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-17.
Hemstrom J, Albonico A, Barton JS (2019). The face-number effect: a new test of face discrimination. Vision Research, 162, 8-19.
Albonico A, Barton JS (2019). Progress in perceptual research: the case of prosopagnosia. F1000 Faculty Reviews, 8.
Barton JS, Albonico A, Susilo T, Duchaine B, Corrow SL (2019). Object recognition in acquired and developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1-31.
Malaspina M, Albonico A, Daini R (2019). Self-face and self-body advantages in congenital prosopagnosia: evidence for a common mechanism. Experimental Brain Research, 237(3), 673-686.
Albonico A, Furubacke A, Barton JS, Oruc I (2018). Perceptual efficiency and the inversion effect for faces, words and houses. Vision Research, 153, 91-97.
Corrow SL, Albonico A, Barton JS (2018). Diagnosing Prosopagnosia: The Utility of Visual Noise in the Cambridge Face Recognition Test. Perception, 46(3): 030100661775004.
Albonico A, Malaspina M, Daini R (2017). Italian normative data and validation of two neuropsychological tests of face recognition: Benton Facial Recognition Test and Cambridge Face Memory Test. Neurological Sciences, 38(9), 1637-1643.
Albonico A, Barton JS (2017). Face perception in pure alexia: Complementary contributions of the left fusiform gyrus to facial identity and facial speech processing. Cortex, 96: 59-72.
Albonico A, Malaspina M, Daini R (2017). Target type modulates the effect of task demand on focal attention. Vision, 1(2): 13.
Malaspina M, Albonico A, Toneatto C, Daini R (2017). What do eye movements tell us about the visual perception of individuals with congenital prosopagnosia? Neuropsychology, 31(5), 546.
Palermo R, Rossion B, Rhodes G, Laguesse R, Tez T, Hall B, Albonico A, Malaspina M, Daini R, Irons J, Al-Janabi S, Taylor E, Rivolta D, McKone E (2016). Do people have insight into their face recognition abilities? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-16.
Malaspina M, Albonico A, Daini R (2016). Right Perceptual Bias and Self-Face recognition in individuals with Congenital Prosopagnosia. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 21(2), 118-142.
Albonico A, Malaspina M, Bricolo E, Martelli M, Daini R (2016). Temporal dissociation between the focal and orientation component of spatial attention in central and peripheral vision. Acta Psychologica, 171:85-92.
Albonico A, Malaspina M, Daini R (2015). Something in the way people move: the benefit of facial movements in face identification. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 6:1-8.
Malaspina M, Albonico A, Daini R, Ricciardelli P (2014). Processing of emotional and non-emotional facial expression in individuals with Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning autism. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 41(3): 573-590.
Daini R, Albonico A, Malaspina M, Martelli M, Primativo S, Arduino LS (2013). Dissociation in optokinetic stimulation sensitivity between omission and substitution reading errors in neglect dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7: 1-10.