Behavior - Psychophysics

Caramellino R, Piasini E, Buccellato A, Carboncino A, Balasubramanian V & Zoccolan D (2021). Rat sensitivity to multipoint statistics is predicted by efficient coding of natural scenes. eLife. 2021; 10:e72081 [link] [pdf] [commentary on Nature Italy] [seminar]

Matteucci G, Zattera B, Bellacosa Marotti R, & Zoccolan D (2021). Rats spontaneously perceive global motion direction of drifting plaids. Plos Comp. Biol. 17(9): e1009415 [link] [pdf]

Vidal Y, Viviani E, Zoccolan D & Crepaldi D (2021). A general-purpose mechanism of visual feature association in visual word identification and beyond. Curr. Biol. 31(6), 1261-1267 [link] [commentary]

Vanzella W, Grion N, Bertolini D, Perissinotto A, Gigante M & Zoccolan D (2019). A passive, camera-based head-tracking system for real-time, three-dimensional estimation of head position and orientation in rodents. J. Neurophys. 122, 2220-2242 [link]

Djurdjevic V, Ansuini A, Bertolini D, Macke JH & Zoccolan D (2018). Accuracy of rats in discriminating visual objects is explained by the complexity of their perceptual strategy. Curr. Biol. 28(7),1005-1015 [link] [pdf] [commentary]

Nikbakht N, Tafreshiha A, Zoccolan D & Diamond ME (2018). Supralinear and supramodal integration of visual and tactile signals in rats: psychophysics and neuronal mechanisms. Neuron 97, 626-639 [link] [pdf] [commentary]

Rosselli BF, Alemi A, Ansuini A & Zoccolan D (2015). Object similarity affects the perceptual strategy underlying invariant visual object recognition in rats. Front. Neural Circuits 9(10). doi: 10.3389/fncir.2015.00010 [link] [pdf] (Frontiers Research Topic What can simple brains teach us about how vision works)

Alemi-Neissi A, Rosselli BF & Zoccolan D (2013). Multifeatural shape processing in rats engaged in invariant visual object recognition. J. Neurosci. 33, 5939-5956 [link] [pdf]

Tafazoli S, Di Filippo A & Zoccolan D (2012). Transformation-tolerant object recognition in rats revealed by visual priming. J. Neurosci. 32, 21-34 [link] [pdf]

Zoccolan D, Oertelt N, DiCarlo JJ & Cox DD (2009). A rodent model for the study of invariant visual object recognition. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 8748-53 [link] [pdf] [Supp Inf] [movie]