Ida Gobbini¶

Contact¶

Address in Italy:
Address:	6207 Moore Hall, Rm 451 Hanover, NH 03755
	Dipartimento di Psicologia, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia Viale C. Berti-Pichat, 5 40127 Bologna, Italy
Email:	mariaida.gobbini@unibo.it

Research focus¶

My research focus is on the cognitive and neural mechanisms for person perception with a particular emphasis on how people recognize familiar individuals, access person knowledge, and form and update representations of others. Immediate access to information about people is essential for effective social interactions. I am currently investigating the neural systems that participate in retrieval of information on someone we know and the automaticity of access to person knowledge and the emotional associations during the process of recognition. I am using both psychophysical and fMRI measures.

Education¶

1994 MD, University of Florence, Italy

1998 Residency in Neurology, University of Florence, Italy

2004 PhD in Esplorazione Molecolare, Metabolica e Funzionale del Sistema Nervoso e degli Organi di Senso, University of Pisa, Italy

Publications¶

Articles¶

[NHC+18]

Nastase, S. A. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Connolly, A. C. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2018). Neural Responses to Naturalistic Clips of Behaving Animals in Two Different Task Contexts. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 316. [URL] DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00316, cited by: 2

[NCO+17]

Nastase, S. A. , et al. (2017). Attention selectively reshapes the geometry of distributed semantic representation. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 4277-4291. [URL]

[VHG+biorxiv17]

Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Halchenko, Y. O. , Guntupalli, J. S. , Gors, J. D. and Gobbini, M. I. (2017). The Neural Representation Of Personally Familiar And Unfamiliar Faces In The Distributed System For Face Perception. bioRxiv. [URL] DOI: 10.1101/138297

[VHG+17]

[CSG+16]

Connolly, A. C. , et al. (2016). How the human brain represents perceived dangerousness or “predacity” of animals. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 5373–5384. [PDF] [URL] DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3395-15.2016, cited by: 19

[GWG16]

Guntupalli, J. S. , Wheeler, K. G. and Gobbini, M. I. (2016). Disentangling the representation of identity from head view along the human face processing pathway. Cerebral Cortex. [URL], cited by: 2

[NCO+biorxiv16]

Nastase, S. A. , et al. (2016). Attention selectively reshapes the geometry of distributed semantic representation. bioRxiv. [PDF] [URL] DOI: 10.1101/045252, cited by: 14

[GGH+13]

Gobbini, M. I. , Gors, J. D. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Hughes, H. C. and Cipolli, C. (2013). Processing of invisible social cues. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 765-770. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.05.002, cited by: 24

[GGH+13b]

Gobbini, M. I. , Gors, J. D. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Rogers, C. , Guntupalli, J. S. , Hughes, H. and Cipolli, C. (2013). Prioritized Detection of Personally Familiar Faces. PLoS ONE, 8. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066620, cited by: 53

[AWC+12]

Abdi, H., Williams, L. J., Connolly, A. C. , Gobbini, M. I. , Dunlop, J. P. and Haxby, J. V. (2012). Multiple Subject Barycentric Discriminant Analysis (MUSUBADA): How to assign scans to categories without using spatial normalization. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2012, 1-15. [PDF] DOI: 10.1155/2012/634165, cited by: 17

[GGR+11]

Gobbini, M. I. , Gentili, C., Ricciardi, E., Bellucci, C., Salvini, P., Laschi, C., Guazzelli, M. and Pietrini, P. (2011). Distinct neural systems involved in agency and animacy detection.. J Cogn Neurosci, 23, 1911-20. [PDF] DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21574, cited by: 67

[HGC+11]

Haxby, J. V. , Guntupalli, J. S. , Connolly, A. C. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Conroy, B. R., Gobbini, M. I. , Hanke, M. and Ramadge, P. J. (2011). A Common, High-Dimensional Model of the Representational Space in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex. Neuron, 72, 404-416. [PDF] [PDF:Supp] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.08.026, cited by: 289

[GH07]

Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2007). Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces.. Neuropsychologia, 45, 32-41. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.015, cited by: 712

[GKB+07]

Gobbini, M. I. , Koralek, A. C., Bryan, R. E., Montgomery, K. J. and Haxby, J. V. (2007). Two takes on the social brain: a comparison of theory of mind tasks.. J Cogn Neurosci, 19, 1803-14. [PDF] DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.11.1803, cited by: 368

[GH06]

Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2006). Neural response to the visual familiarity of faces. Brain Res Bull, 71, 76-82. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2006.08.003, cited by: 155

[GLS+04]

Gobbini, M. I. , Leibenluft, E., Santiago, N. and Haxby, J. V. (2004). Social and emotional attachment in the neural representation of faces.. Neuroimage, 22, 1628-35. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.03.049, cited by: 283

[HHG02]

Haxby, J. V. , Hoffman, E. A. and Gobbini, M. I. (2002). Human neural systems for face recognition and social communication. Biological psychiatry, 51, 59-67. [PDF], cited by: 1231

[HGF+01]

Haxby, J. V. , Gobbini, M. I. , Furey, M. L., Ishai, A., Schouten, J. L. and Pietrini, P. (2001). Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex. Science, 293, 2425-2430. [PDF] [PDF:Supp] DOI: 10.1126/science.1063736, cited by: 3160

Review Articles¶

[HHG00]

Haxby, J. V. , Hoffman, E. A. and Gobbini, M. I. (2000). The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends Cogn Sci, 4, 223-233. [PDF] DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01482-0, cited by: 4152

Book Chapters¶

[CGH12]

Connolly, A. C. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2012). Three Virtues of Similarity-Based Multivariate Pattern Analysis: An Example from the Human Object Vision pathway in Understanding visual population codes: Toward a common multivariate framework for cell recording and functional imaging. In Kriegeskorte, N. and Kreiman, G. (Eds.) ” (pp. 335-355): MIT Press. [PDF], cited by: 28

[HG11]

Haxby, J. V. and Gobbini, M. I. (2011). Oxford Handbook of Face Perception. In Rhodes, Gillian and Calder, Andy and Johnson, Mark and Haxby, James V. (Eds.) ” (pp. ): Oxford University Press. [PDF], cited by: 139

Miscellaneous¶

Posters¶

[CVG+OHBM18]

Contier, O. and di~Oleggio Castello, V. (2018). Temporal dynamics and effective connectivity in the distributed system of familiar face processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore. [PDF]

[NPC+OHBM18]

Nastase, S. , Philip, R., Chauhan, V., Ma, F., Taylor, M., Halchenko, Y. O., Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. (2018). Decoding the neural representation of observed social and nonsocial human actions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Singapore. [PDF]

[NVH+SFN15]

Nastase, S. A. , Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Halchenko, Y. O. , Connolly, A. C. and Oosterhof, N. N. (2015). Attention alters animal and action representation in highly-distributed functionally-defined cortical parcels. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. [PDF]

[VNH+SFN15]

Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Nastase, S. A. , Gobbini, M. I. , Haxby, J. V. and Halchenko, Y. O. (2015). Finding cortical patches of shared representations: a comparison of clustering algorithms on representational geometries, and the effect of cross-validation to reduce physiological noise. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. [PDF]

[VNH+OHBM15]

Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Nastase, S. A. , Haxby, J. V. , Gobbini, M. I. and Halchenko, Y. O. (2015). Clustering cortical searchlights based on shared representational geometry. Poster presented at the annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, HI. [PDF]

[NCO+OHBM14]

Nastase, S. A. , Connolly, A. C. , Oosterhof, N. N. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Gors, J. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2014). Attention locally modulates the discriminability of high-level, task-relevant representations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hamburg, Germany. [PDF]

[NCO+VSS14]

Nastase, S. A. , Connolly, A. C. , Oosterhof, N. N. , Halchenko, Y. O. , Gors, J. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2014). Attentional allocation locally warps representational space. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, FL. [PDF]

[CSG+HBM13]

Connolly, A. C. , Sha, L., Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2013). Decoding representations of actions of other species using multivariate pattern analysis. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA 2013. Poster. [PDF]

[CSG+VSS13]

Connolly, A. C. , Sha, L., Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2013). Representations of action categories generalize across the phylum, genus, and species of the actor. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL 2013. Poster. [PDF]

[HGG+12]

Halchenko, Y. O. , Gors, J. , Guntupalli, J. S. , Haxby, J. V. and Gobbini, M. I. (2012). Investigation of the familiar face recognition model. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Poster. [PNG] [URL]

[CGH+11]

Connolly, A. C. , Guntupalli, J. S. , Hanke, M. , Gobbini, M. I. and Haxby, J. V. (2011). More or less human: The animate-inanimate distinction in visual cortex may be more continuum than distinction. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster. [PNG]

Talks¶

[NOH+OHBM15]

Nastase, S. A. , Visconti di Oleggio Castello, M., Haxby, J. V. , Gobbini, M. I. and Halchenko, Y. O. (2015). Clustering cortical searchlights based on shared representational geometry. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, HI.

The HaxbyLab@Dartmouth

Ida Gobbini