Su appuntamento.
EDUCATION
01/2013 – 04/2016
Ph.D., Psychology
University of Padua
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Zorzi
10/2006 – 07/2011
M.Sc., (Neuro-)psychology
Bicocca University of Milan
Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Vallar
EMPLOYMENT
01/2023 - present
Assistant Professor (RTDa)
University of Florence (Italy)
05/2020 – 05/2022
Senior Postdoc Fellow (type B fellowship)
Department of General Psychology
University of Padua (Italy)
02/2018 – 02/2020
Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow
ImpAct Team: INSERM, CNRS, Centre de Neuroscience de Lyon, and University Claude Bernard of Lyon (France)
06/2016 - 01/2018
PRESTIGE, Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow
01/2013 - 04/2016
Ph.D. candidate
02/2015 – 09/2015
Visiting Ph.D. Student
03/2012 – 12/2012
Research Assistant
Department of Psychology
Bicocca University of Milan (Italy)
7/2011 – 03/2012
Department of Brain Rehabilitation
IRCCS – Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan (Italy)
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(Latest update: September 2023; Source: Scopus; h-index= 8; highest IF journal: Psychological Science)
Year
Article
Citations
2023
Blini, E., & Zorzi, M. (2023). Pupil size as a robust marker of attentional bias toward nicotine-related stimuli in smokers. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(2), 596-607.
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2022
Felisatti, A., Ranzini, M., Blini, E., Lisi, M., & Zorzi, M. (2021). Effects of attentional shifts along the vertical axis on number processing: an eye-tracking study with optokinetic stimulation. Cognition, 221, 104991.
3
2021
Zorzi, M., Filippo De Grazia, M. D., Blini, E., & Testolin, A. (2021). Assessment of Machine Learning Pipelines for Prediction of Behavioral Deficits from Brain Disconnectomes. In International Conference on Brain Informatics (pp. 211-222). Springer, Cham.
Zanini, A., Patané, I., Blini, E., Salemme, R., Koun, E., Farnè, A., & Brozzoli, C. (2021). Peripersonal and reaching space differ: evidence from their spatial extent and multisensory facilitation pattern. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28 (6), 1894-1905.
10
Dureux*, A., Blini*, E., Grandi, L.C., Bogdanova, O., Desoche, C., Farnè, A., & Hadj-Bouziane, F. (2021). Close facial emotions enhance physiological responses and facilitate perceptual discrimination. Cortex, 138, 40-58.
* Shared first authorship
9
Reynaud, A. J., Blini, E., Koun, E., Macaluso, E., Meunier, M., & Hadj-Bouziane, F. (2021). Atomoxetine modulates the contribution of high-and low-level signals during free viewing of natural images in rhesus monkeys. Neuropharmacology, 182, 108377.
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Blini, E., Farnè, A., Brozzoli, C., and Hadj-Bouziane, F. (2021). “Close is better: visual perception in peripersonal space”. In “The World at our Fingertips: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space” eds. de Vignemont, F., et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198851738
*5 (scholar)
(book chapter)
2020
Blini, E., Tilikete, C., Chelazzi, L., Farnè, A., & Hadj-Bouziane, F. (2020). The role of the vestibular system in value attribution to positive and negative reinforcers. Cortex, 133, 215-235.
2019
Bonato, M., Romeo, Z., Blini, E., Pitteri, M., Durgoni, E., Passarini, L., Meneghello, F., and Zorzi, M. (2019). Ipsilesional impairments of visual awareness after right-hemispheric stroke. Front. Psychol., 10, 697.
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Blini, E., Pitteri, M, and Zorzi, M. (2019). Spatial grounding of symbolic arithmetic: evidence from optokinetic stimulation. Psychological Research, 83 (1), 64-83.
13
2018
Blini, E., Desoche, C., Salemme, R., Kabil, A., Hadj-Bouziane, F., and Farnè, A. (2018). Mind the depth: visual perception of shapes is better in peripersonal space. Psychological Science, 29 (11), 1868-1877.
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Blini, E., Tilikete, C., Farnè, A. & Hadj-Bouziane, F. (2018). Probing the role of the vestibular system in motivation and reward-based attention. Cortex, 103, 82-99.
14
2016
Blini, E., Romeo, Z., Spironelli, C., Pitteri, M., Meneghello, F., Bonato, M., & Zorzi, M. (2016). Multi-tasking uncovers right spatial neglect and extinction in chronic left-hemisphere stroke patients. Neuropsychologia, 92, 147-157.
38
2015
Ranzini, M., Lisi, M., Blini, E., Pitteri, M., Treccani, B., Priftis, K., and Zorzi, M. (2015). Larger, smaller, odd or even? Task-specific effects of optokinetic stimulation on the mental number space. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27(4), 459-470.
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2013
Blini, E., Cattaneo, Z., Vallar, G. (2013). Different effects of numerical magnitude on visual and proprioceptive reference frames. Front. Psychol., 4, 190.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Reference
Type
Blini, E., De Filippo De Grazia, M., Testolin, A., and Zorzi, M. (2020). FCnet: An R package for the analysis of Functional Connectivity matrices through elastic NETs. R package version 0.1.1.9000:https://github.com/EBlini/FCnet
R package
Blini, E. (2016). Biases in Visuo-Spatial Attention: from Assessment to Experimental Induction.
University of Padova – director: Marco Zorzi
2011
Blini, E. (2011). La cognizione numerica nella negligenza spaziale unilaterale: effetti di ri-orientamento attentivo dati dalle informazioni di quantità numerica.
Bicocca University of Milan – director: Giuseppe Vallar
ATTENDED CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND PUBLIC OUTREACH
2013 – 2022
RAW 2013, Rovereto, IT, workshop; SINP 2013, Milano, IT, congress; AIP 2014, Pavia, IT, congress; RAW 2015, Rovereto, IT, workshop; SINP 2015, Padova, IT, congress; From Research to business 2018, EU webinar; Italian Open Science Society 2018, Milano, IT, founding congress; AIP 2020, online; ICSC 2021, online; EWCN 2022, Brixen, online;
Invited speaker
“Oculomotricité et perception en réalité virtuelle”, Lyon, FR, 06/10/2016, hosted by ImpAct and IRBA (Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées).
Outreach
Fête de la science 2017 (10th to 15th October), Musée de Confluences, Lyon, FR.
Exhibitor with the neuro-immersion platform. Public: general. Theme: virtual reality in science and research. http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/evenements/plateforme-neuro-i
The Web Conference 2018 (23th to 27th April), Cité internationale, Lyon, FR.
Exhibitor with the neuro-immersion platform. Public: general; start-up and innovators; engineers and computer scientists. Theme: new directions for the World Wide Web. https://www2018.thewebconf.org/
Press coverage:
Motivation and decision-making: a new role for the vestibular system. CORDIS – the magazine of European Research (2020). Available in six different languages. Link
Twitter account: @e_blini (EN, IT, FR).
ACADEMIC FUNDING, AWARDS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS
STARS@UniPD 2021 for the project HARVEST
Scouting program of the University of Padova to retrieve ERC applicants. The project was eventually granted funding of 110 k€ for 2 years (including the postdoc salary), though I declined it to accept a researcher position in Florence.
2020 – 2022
Senior postdoc (type B) fellowship – Departments of excellence
The public competition (based on a project as PI) was made possible thanks to a grant from MIUR (Departments of Excellence DM 11/05/2017 n. 262) to the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova. ~50k€, 2 years
2017 – 2020
Marie Skłodowska Curie individual fellowship (IF-746154)
Funded under the European Union’s H2020 Program to study the link between the vestibular system and motivation. Application number: IF-746154 (BRAVEST). 173k€, 2 years
2016 – 2017
PRESTIGE Incoming Mobility co-financing grant.Funded by the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement PCOFUND-GA-2013-609102, through the PRESTIGE program coordinated by Campus France. Application number: PRESTIGE-2016-2-0003. ~30k€, 1 year
2013 – 2015
Theme “New applications for the bio-medical industry”, worth one full Ph.D. scholarship. ~50k€, 3 years
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2021 - present
Expert evaluator for the European Union Horizon Europe framework (EX2019D361005). Evaluator for the HE-MSCA-PF program (Marie Curie program) in the 2021, 2022, and 2023 editions.
Expert evaluator for the Complutense University of Madrid (number: 2024). Evaluator for the Proyecto UNA4CAREER postdoctoral program.
2013 – present
Ad hoc reviewer for: Frontiers in: (Human Neuroscience, Psychology), Cortex, Neuropsychologia, PeerJ, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, the Peer Community Initiative – Registered Reports section.
SKILLS
Advanced
R – a Language for Statistical Computing ; Python ; MATLAB ; OpenSesame , PsychoPy, E-Prime; Neuropsychological assessment ; Statistical and Computational modelling ; brain stimulation ; Eye-Tracking ; Virtual Reality; fMRI ; Pupillometry, heart rate recording ;
Languages
Italian (native), English and French (fluent).
Other skills/interests
Voracious devourer of music and literature. During my spare time I occasionally write short novels or dialogues. Almost decent cook.
TEACHING
2023 – 2024
B033299 - METODI DI PSICOFISIOLOGIA E NEUROIMAGING NELLA CLINICA E NELLE NEUROSCIENZE COGNITIVE
(Psychophysiological methods and neuroimaging in the clinical and cognitive neurosciences)
3 c.f.u., 21 ore, (6 c.f.u. totali, cotitolarità con A. Benedetto)
Università di Firenze, cdl magistrale in Psicologia Clinica, della salute e Neuropsicologia
2022 – 2023
B018669 - ESERCITAZIONI IN PSICOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI COGNITIVI (Practices in Psychology of Cognitive Processes)
4 c.f.u., 30 ore
Università di Firenze, cdl triennale in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche
Attenzione spaziale; neuropsicologia dell'attenzione spaziale; pupillometria; motivazione; sistema vestibolare; machine learning applicato alle neuroimmagini
Legenda
Spatial attention; neuropsychology of spatial attention; pupillometry; motivation; vestibular system; machine learning for neuroimaging methods
