Maria Concetta Morrone#
| Membership Number: | 6533 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.pisavisionlab.org/members/maria-concetta-morrone/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1025-0316 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Professor of Physiology Medical School, University of Pisa
- 2008 - 2019 Director of Vision Laboratory , IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, - Pisa
- 2008 - 2017 Part-time Senior Researcher -Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department - Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Genova
- 2000 - 2008 Professor of Psychophysiology, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan.
- 1995 - 2000 Primo Ricercatore ("Principal Scientist"), Istituto di Neurofisiologia CNR, Pisa.
- 1982 - 1987 Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia.
- 1981 - 1995 Ricercatore ("Assistent Professor"), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Fields of Scholarship
- Infant brain development functional Imaging and behavioural
- Vision during eye movements
- Human brain plasticity in adult and in neurodevelopmental disorder and cerebral palsy
- Computational model of vision and application in robotics
- Ultra high-field (7T) MR imaging in human
- Human spatial vision, attention, color, motion, multisensory perception and action
- Human neuroscience
- Sensory system
- Single-cell recording in mammals and primate
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Campbell Award from the Australian Neuroscience Society
- 2002 Accademia Dei Lincei: "Premio Nazionale del Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali" for Physiology and Pathology
- 2004 The Perception Lecture, European Conference of Visual Perception, Budapest
- 2006 Elected member of the International Neuropsychology Symposium
- 2011 The Koffka Medal in development and perception, Giessen
- 2014 Awardee of an ERC-IDEA Advanced Grant
- 2014 Member of the Accademia dei Lincei – “Classe di Scienze di Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali, Categoria V - Sezione Fisiologia, Farmacologia e Neuroscienze”
- 2019 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Visual Science from VSS
