Mercoledì 16.30-17.30 in dipartimento, previo appuntamento tramite email (alessio.toraldo@unipv.it) almeno una settimana prima.

Alessio Toraldo is Lecturer at the Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences (Psychology Section), where he has been teaching Methodology in Neuropsychology (now Theory of Research in Neuroscience) and Anatomo-Physiological Bases of Mental Processes since 2004. He graduated in Padova University (1996) and obtained a PhD in Psychology in Pavia (2000). He visited the Psychology Department, University of St Andrews (1999) as part of his research activity towards his PhD. He was granted an Assegno di Ricerca (2000-2004) for research on the parietal lobe in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS), Trieste.

-Disordini nella percezione della metrica dello spazio, in relazione ad emianopsia e neglect unilaterale

-Dislessia da neglect

-Perseverazione nel neglect in compiti di cancellazione (in collaborazione con G. Bottini)

-Dislessie centrali da lesione emisferica sinistra, e sistemi di codifica dell'accento tonico (in collaborazione con M. Coltheart)

-Funzioni percettive e visuo-motorie dell'emisfero destro (in collaborazione con A.D. Milner)

-Rotazione mentale e codifica delle relazioni spaziali metriche e categoriche (in collaborazione con T. Shallice)

-Metodologia neuropsicologica, in particolare relativa ai metodi di misurazione

ARTICOLI 

Gandola, M., Toraldo, A., Invernizzi, P., Corrado, L., Sberna, M., Santilli, I., Bottini, G., & Paulesu, P. (in press). How many forms of perseveration? Evidence from cancellation tasks in right hemisphere patients. Neuropsychologia.

Fiori F., Sedda A., Ferrè E.R., Toraldo A., Querzola M., Pasotti F., Ovadia D., Piroddi C., Dell’Aquila R., Redaelli T., Bottini G. (in press).Motor imagery in spinal cord injury patients: moving makes the difference. Journal of Neuropsychology.

Toraldo A., Laiacona M., Pagani R., Mandelli A., Capitani E. (in press).Perceptual and response-related components of unilateral neglect may evolve independently of one another: evidence from five single-case studies. Neurocase.Published online: 16 november 2012. DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.741257

Toraldo A (2013). How many movements in a scribble? A method for quantifying “continuous” perseveration in cancellation tasks. Front. Hum. Neurosci.7:332. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00332

Fiori F., Sedda A., Ferrè E.R., Toraldo A., Querzola M., Pasotti F., Ovadia D., Piroddi C., Dell’Aquila R., Lunetta C., Corbo M., Bottini G. (2013). Exploring motor and visual imagery in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Experimental Brain Research, 226, 537-547.  DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3465-9

Facchin A., Daini R., Toraldo A. (2013). Prismatic adaptation in the rehabilitation of neglect patients: Does the specific procedure matter? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 137. Doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00137

Facchin A., Beschin N., Toraldo A., Cisari C., Daini R. (2013). Aftereffect induced by prisms of different power in the rehabilitation of neglect: a multiple single case report. NeuroRehabilitation 32, 839-853.

Chiappedi M., Toraldo A., Mandrini S., Scarpina F., Aquino M., Magnani F.G., Bejor M.(2013). Easy quantitative methodology to assess visual-motor skills. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 9, 93-100. Doi: 10.2147/NDT.S37187

Toraldo A., Lorusso M.L. (2012). Syllables per Second versus Seconds per Syllable when measuring reading speed. Frontiers in Psychology: Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, 3, 518. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00518.

http://www.frontiersin.org/Quantitative_Psychology_and_Measurement/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00518/full

Tessari A., Toraldo A., Lunardelli A., Zadini A., Rumiati R. I. (2011). Prova standardizzata per la diagnosi del disturbo aprassico ideomotorio selettivo per tipo di gesto e tipo di effettore. Ricerche di Psicologia 3, 311-339.

Ragona F., Granata T., Dalla Bernardina B., Offredi F., Darra F., Battaglia D., Morbi M., Brazzo D., Cappelletti S., Chieffo D., De Giorgi I., Fontana E., Freri E., Marini C., Toraldo A., Specchio N., Veggiotti P., Vigevano F., Guerrini R., Guzzetta F., Dravet C. (2011). Cognitive development in Dravet syndrome: a retrospective, multicentre study of 26 patients. Epilepsia, 52, 386-392.

Facchin A., Toraldo A., Daini R. (2011). Adattamento prismatico con prismi di diverso potere. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, XXXVIII, 1, 127-145.

Buiatti T., Mussoni A., Toraldo A., Skrap M., Shallice T. (2011). Two qualitatively different impairments in making rotation operations. Cortex, 47, 166-179.

Toraldo A., Fiori F., Vanzan S. (2010). The geometry of the Landmark task.Behavioural Neurology 23, 221-223.

Scarpa P., Piazzini A., Pesenti G., Brovedani P., Toraldo A., Turner K., Scotti S., Dal Lago C., Brizzolara D., Canger R., Bottini G. (2006). Italian standardized tests on memory, attention and frontal functions for developmental age. Neurological Sciences 27(6), 381-396.

Lorusso M.L., Toraldo A., Cattaneo C. (2006). Parametri “tempo” e “velocità” per la misurazione della rapidità di lettura. Dislessia 3(3), 263-278.

Toraldo A., Cattani B., Zonca G., Saletta P., Luzzatti C. (2006). Reading disorders in a language with shallow orthography: A multiple single-case study in Italian.Aphasiology 20, 823-850.

Reverberi C., Toraldo A., D’Agostini S., Skrap M. (2005). Better without (lateral) frontal cortex? Insight problems solved by frontal patients. Brain 128, 2882-2890.

Toraldo A., Luzzatti C. (2006). Which variability? Brain and Language, 96, 154-156.

Lorusso M.L, Facoetti A., Toraldo A., Molteni M. (2005). Treatment of Dyslexia changes the distribution of visual spatial attention. Brain and Cognition 57, 135-142.

Toraldo A., Gandola M., Loffredo S., Rancati A., Zanardi G., Bottini G. (2005).Canceling out both the real and the spectral lines. Brain and Cognition 57, 226-235.

Toraldo A., Shallice T. (2004). Error analysis at the level of single moves in Block Design. Cognitive Neuropsychology 21(6), 645-659.

Toraldo A., Reverberi C. (2004). Misprojection of landmarks onto the spatial map.Brain and Cognition 55, 479-489.

Toraldo A. (2003). A ruler for measuring representational space. Visual Cognition10(5), 567-603.

Toraldo A., McIntosh R.D., Dijkerman H.C., Milner A.D. (2004). A revised method for analyzing neglect using the Landmark Task. Cortex 40, 415-431.

Tomasino B., Toraldo A., RumiatiR.I. (2003). Dissociation between the mental rotation of visual images and motor images in unilateral brain-damaged patients.Brain and Cognition 51, 368-371.  

Bottini G., Toraldo A. (2003). The influence of contralesional targets on the cancellation of ipsilesional targets in unilateral neglect. Brain and Cognition 53, 117-120.

Toraldo A., McIntosh R.D., Dijkerman H.C., Milner A.D. (2002). Disentangling perceptual and response bias in unilateral neglect: A methodological proposal.Brain and Cognition 48(2-3), 593-597.

 Luzzatti C., Toraldo A., Guasti M.T., Ghirardi G., Lorenzi L., Guarnaschelli C. (2001). Comprehension of reversible active and passive sentences in agrammatism. Aphasiology 15(5), 419-441.

Toraldo A., Reverberi C., Rumiati R.I. (2001). Critical dimensions affecting imitation performance of patients with ideomotor apraxia. Cortex 37, 737-740.

CAPITOLI DI LIBRI

Reverberi C., Toraldo A. (2012). Basi fisiologiche dell’attività psichica. In: Cherubini P. (curatore), Psicologia generale, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, pp. 49-87.