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  1. Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report

    Article • Neuroscience of Consciousness, January 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  2. The Time Course of Attention Engagement in a Single-stream Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Design

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2026, The MIT Press

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  3. Tracking the Unconscious: Neural Evidence for the Retention of Unaware Information in Visual Working Memory

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2026, The MIT Press

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  4. An Electroencephalographic Investigation of the Impact of Eye Movements in a Memory Probe Task

    Article • Psychophysiology, December 2025, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  5. Vertical Elevation as a Key Factor for the Neural Distinction of Target Selection and Distractor Suppression in Visual Search

    Article • Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, May 2025, IMR Press

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  6. An electroencephalographic investigation of the impact of eye movements in a memory probe task

    Article • May 2025, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  7. The effect of occlusion on the visual working memory pointer-system

    Article • Cortex, February 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  8. (Temporal) Visual Attention NOT in Crisis

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  9. Conscious perception of fear in faces: Insights from high-density EEG and perceptual awareness scale with threshold stimuli

    Article • Cortex, May 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  10. On the functional independence of numerical acuity and visual working memory

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2024, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  11. On target selection as reflected by posterior ERP components in feature‐guided visual search

    Article • Psychophysiology, June 2022, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  12. A bilateral SPCN is elicited by to‐be‐memorized visual stimuli displayed along the vertical midline

    Article • Psychophysiology, March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  13. A neural network predicting the amplitude of the N2pc in individual EEG datasets

    Article • Journal of Neural Engineering, October 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  14. Distilling the distinct contralateral and ipsilateral attentional responses to lateral stimuli and the bilateral response to midline stimuli for upper and lower visual hemifield locations

    Article • Psychophysiology, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  15. Multishell Diffusion MRI–Based Tractography of the Facial Nerve in Vestibular Schwannoma

    Article • American Journal of Neuroradiology, July 2020, American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  16. A Time-Frequency Analysis for the Online Detection of the N2pc Event-Related Potential (ERP) Component in Individual EEG Datasets

    Article • July 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  17. Computer data simulator to assess the accuracy of estimates of visual N2/N2pc event-related potential components

    Article • Journal of Neural Engineering, June 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  18. A bilateral N2pc (N2pcb) component is elicited by search targets displayed on the vertical midline

    Article • Psychophysiology, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  19. Functional dissociation of anterior cingulate cortex and intraparietal sulcus in visual working memory

    Article • Cortex, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  20. Reward motivation and neurostimulation interact to improve working memory performance in healthy older adults: A simultaneous tDCS-fNIRS study

    Article • NeuroImage, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  21. Development of a Computer Simulator of the Visual N2 Event-Related Potential Component for the Study of Cognitive Processes

    Article • September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  22. Mapping hemodynamic changes during hypoglycemia in the very preterm neonatal brain: preliminary results

    Article • July 2019, SPIE

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  23. N2pc reflects two modes for coding the number of visual targets

    Article • Psychophysiology, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Arianna Schiano Lomoriello

  24. On pacing trials while scanning brain hemodynamics: The case of the SNARC effect

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  25. The SNARC effect is not a unitary phenomenon

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  26. Backward masking interrupts spatial attention, slows downstream processing, and limits conscious perception

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  27. Long-term continuous monitoring of the preterm brain with diffuse optical tomography and electroencephalography: a technical note on cap manufacturing

    Article • Neurophotonics, December 2016, SPIE

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  28. On the Role of the Inferior Intraparietal Sulcus in Visual Working Memory for Lateralized Single-feature Objects

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr Mattia Marangon, Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  29. Enhanced frontal activation underlies sparing from the attentional blink: Evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Psychophysiology, January 2016, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  30. Lack of visual field asymmetries for spatial cueing in reading parafoveal Chinese characters

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  31. The Attentional Blink Impairs Detection and Delays Encoding of Visual Information: Evidence from Human Electrophysiology

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, April 2015, The MIT Press

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  32. The distractor frequency effect in the colour-naming Stroop task: An overt naming event-related potential study

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  33. The attentional blink freezes spatial attention allocation to targets, not distractors: Evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Brain Research, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  34. Colour-specific differences in attentional deployment for equiluminant pop-out colours: Evidence from lateralised potentials

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  35. On the costs of lag-1 sparing.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  36. A reference-channel based methodology to improve estimation of event-related hemodynamic response from fNIRS measurements

    Article • NeuroImage, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  37. The “red-alert” effect in visual search: Evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Psychophysiology, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  38. N1pc reversal following repeated eccentric visual stimulation

    Article • Psychophysiology, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  39. Taking one’s time in feeling other-race pain: an event-related potential investigation on the time-course of cross-racial empathy

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  40. Event-Related Potential Evidence for Two Functionally Dissociable Sources of Semantic Effects in the Attentional Blink

    Article • PLOS One, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  41. Electrophysiological evidence of multitasking impairment of attentional deployment reflects target-specific processing, not distractor inhibition

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  42. Number-Space Interactions in the Human Parietal Cortex: Enlightening the SNARC Effect with Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, October 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  43. Exploring the role of primary and supplementary motor areas in simple motor tasks with fNIRS

    Article • Cognitive Processing, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  44. Contralateral cortical organisation of information in visual short-term memory: Evidence from lateralized brain activity during retrieval

    Article • Neuropsychologia, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  45. Sparing from the attentional blink is not spared from structural limitations

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  46. Surfing the attentional waves during visual curve tracing: Evidence from the sustained posterior contralateral negativity

    Article • Psychophysiology, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  47. Look out for strangers! Sustained neural activity during visual working memory maintenance of other-race faces is modulated by implicit racial prejudice

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  48. A hemodynamic correlate of lateralized visual short-term memories

    Article • Neuropsychologia, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  49. Spatial layout of letters in nonwords affects visual short-term memory load: Evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Psychophysiology, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  50. Interhemispheric ERP asymmetries over inferior parietal cortex reveal differential visual working memory maintenance for fearful versus neutral facial identities

    Article • Psychophysiology, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  51. What Phonological Facilitation Tells about Semantic Interference: A Dual-Task Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  52. Bayesian filtering of human brain hemodynamic activity elicited by visual short-term maintenance recorded through functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

    Article • Optics Express, December 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  53. Object-substitution masking modulates spatial attention deployment and the encoding of information in visual short-term memory: Insights from occipito-parietal ERP components

    Article • Psychophysiology, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  54. Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced cortical activity in the human brain during visual curve tracing

    Article • Vision Research, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  55. Visual Short-term Memory Capacity for Simple and Complex Objects

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, March 2010, The MIT Press

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  56. Tutorials in Visual Cognition

    Article • January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  57. Orienting attention to objects in visual short-term memory

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  58. ERP Evidence for Ultra-Fast Semantic Processing in the Picture–Word Interference Paradigm

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2010, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  59. The attentional blink within and across the hemispheres: Evidence from a patient with a complete section of the corpus callosum

    Article • Biological Psychology, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  60. Reevaluating encoding-capacity limitations as a cause of the attentional blink.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  61. On the representation of words and nonwords in visual short-term memory: Evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Psychophysiology, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  62. Attentional requirements for the selection of words from different grammatical categories.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  63. Attentional capture by visual singletons is mediated by top-down task set: New evidence from the N2pc component

    Article • Psychophysiology, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  64. Selective activation of the superior frontal gyrus in task-switching: An event-related fNIRS study

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  65. Short-term consolidation of visual patterns interferes with visuo-spatial attention: Converging evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Brain Research, December 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  66. Semantic and repetition priming within the attentional blink: An event-related brain potential (ERP) investigation study

    Article • Biological Psychology, September 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  67. The picture-word interference effect is not a Stroop effect

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  68. The interdependence of spatial attention and lexical access as revealed by early asymmetries in occipito-parietal ERP activity

    Article • Psychophysiology, May 2007, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  69. P3 latency shifts in the attentional blink: Further evidence for second target processing postponement

    Article • Brain Research, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  70. Short-term consolidation of individual identities leads to Lag-1 sparing.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  71. Spatial attention freezes during the attention blink

    Article • Psychophysiology, July 2006, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  72. Attentional control and capture in the attentional blink paradigm: Evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  73. Attentional blink and selection in the tactile domain

    Article • The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  74. Unitary attention in callosal agenesis

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychology, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  75. On the control of visual spatial attention: evidence from human electrophysiology

    Article • Psychological Research, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  76. A neuropsychological assessment of dual-task costs in closed-head injury patients using Cohen’s effect size estimation method

    Article • Psychological Research, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  77. Bidirectional semantic priming in the attentional blink

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  78. Central processing overlap modulates P3 latency

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  79. Multitasking costs in close-head injury patients

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  80. Four-dot masking produces the attentional blink

    Article • Vision Research, August 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  81. Electrophysiological evidence of visual encoding deficits in a cross-modal attentional blink paradigm

    Article • Psychophysiology, July 2003, Wiley

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  82. Is global shape sufficient for automatic object identification?

    Article • Visual Cognition, December 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  83. Cross-modal attentional deficits in processing tactile stimulation

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, July 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  84. Naming times and standardized norms for the italian PD/DPSS set of 266 pictures: Direct comparisons with American, English, French, and Spanish published databases

    Article • Behavior Research Methods Instruments &amp Computers, December 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  85. Selective influence of second target exposure duration and Task1 load effects in the attentional blink phenomenon

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  86. Visual encoding of patterns is subject to dual-task interference

    Article • Memory & Cognition, March 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  87. Unconscious semantic priming from pictures

    Article • Cognition, November 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  88. Attentional and structural constraints on visual encoding

    Article • Psychological Research, July 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  89. Is object recognition automatic?

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, September 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  90. The Demonstration of Short-Term Consolidation

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, July 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  91. Reassessing the Role of Control in the Modulation of the Attentional Blink Effect

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  92. Multiple primes and semantic satiation: Attenuation of the P2 amplitude following massive exposure to semantic co-ordinate words

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua

  93. Color Naming of Non-Color Word Stroop Task as a Dual-Task

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua