Education and Training
[2023] Visiting PhD Student in Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK. Supervisor: Prof. Alex Sel.
[2023] Successfully passed the state examination to practice as a psychologist, University of Pavia, Italy, 100/100.
[2020 – 2023] PhD Student in "Health and Technologies," University of Bologna, Italy. Supervisors: Prof. Vincenzo Romei, Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari" – PSI and Prof. Stefano Diciotti, Department of Electrical Energy and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI.
[2019-2020] Postgraduate training internship. Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience (CsrNC), University of Bologna, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo Romei.
[2017-2019] Master's Degree in "Neurosciences and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" (110/110 with honors). Thesis: "The role of re-entrant projections V5-V1 and IPS-V1 in perceptual decision making". Supervisor: Prof. Vincenzo Romei.
[2014-2017] Bachelor's Degree in "Psychological Sciences and Techniques" (110/110). Thesis: "Analyticity and Intuitiveness as modulators of the feeling of regret". Supervisor: Elisa Gambetti.
Honours and awards
2023 - SIPF GIOVANI Award for the best scientific contribution presented at
the XXXI SIPF National Congress by young researchers under the age of 35.
2019 - Study Grant (€1,500) for deserving students enrolled during the 2018/19 a.y. in Degree Programmes
at the University of Bologna.
2018 - Study Grant (€1,500) for deserving students enrolled during the 2017/18 a.y. in Degree Programmes at the University of Bologna.
2017 - Study Grant (€1,500) for deserving students enrolled during the 2016/17 a.y. in Degree Programmes at the University of Bologna.
Conferences
- Tarasi L., Romei V. "Pre-stimulus alpha frequency shapes sensory precision". Talk, XXXI Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). 9-11 November 2023, Siena, Italy.
- Ippolito G., Tarasi L., Bertaccini R., Trajkovic J., Fusco G., Finisguerra A., Urgesi C., Romei V. "Believe to see: manipulating prior visual expectations shapes religious attitudes in exteroceptive tasks". Poster, XXXI Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). 9-11 November 2023, Siena, Italy.
- Romei V., Bertini C., Avenanti A., Tarasi L. "Neurobehavioral signatures of predictive coding in aging". Poster, XXXI Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). 9-11 November 2023, Siena, Italy.
- Bertaccini R., Ippolito G., Tarasi L., Zazio A., Stango A., Bortoletto M., Romei V. "Rhythmic TMS as a Feasible Tool to Uncover the Oscillatory Signatures of Audiovisual Integration". Poster, XXXI Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). 9-11 November 2023, Siena, Italy.
- Invited seminar on "Autistic and schizotypal traits shape neural markers of predictive inference" by Prof. Franziska Knolle, 02 November 2023, Technical University of Munich (DE).
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Tarasi L., Lobov A., Rainer C., Kowshik V., Romei V., Sel A. "Manipulating connectivity in the primary motor cortex changes interregional oscillatory communication". Poster, Brainbox Initiative Conference 2023 for non-invasive brain stimulation & imaging. 21-22 September 2023, London, UK
- Chairman of the session "Clinical aspects of vision”, European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). 27-31 August 2023, Paphos, Cyprus.
- Tarasi L., Martelli M.E., di Pellegrino G., Romei V. "Autistic and schizotypal traits shape neural markers of predictive inference". Talk, European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). 27-31 August 2023, Paphos, Cyprus.
- Romei V., Poch C., Tarasi L. "Pre-stimulus alpha speed dictates the precision of visual perception". Talk, European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). 27-31 August 2023, Paphos, Cyprus.
- Invited lecture on "Non Invasive Brain Stimulation: Methods and Applications" course, for MSc in Neurosciences and neuro-psychological rehabilitation, University of Bologna (Italy), by Prof. Simone Battaglia, 27-28 October 2022.
- Orsoni, M., Scutari, M, Tarasi, L.,Romei, V., and Benassi, B., (2022) "Bayesian networks and Jensen-Shannon divergence for item selection." European Mathematical Psychology Group (EMPG 2022), 5-7 September 2022 Rovereto TN-Italy)
- Tarasi L., Di Pellegrino G., Romei V. "Neurocomputational underpinnings of predictive perception". Neuromatch Conference. Flash Talk, 27-28 September 2022.
- Chairman of the symposium "Predictive waves in human perception”, XXX Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). 15-17 September 2022, Udine, Italy.
- Tarasi L. "Neural signatures of human predictive processes along the autism-schizophrenia continuum". Talk, XXX Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). 15-17 September 2022, Udine, Italy.
- Invited lecture on "Electrophysiological measures in cognitive neuroscience", Centre for studies and research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna (Italy), by prof. Simone Battaglia, 28 January 2022.
- Tarasi L., Di Pellegrino G., Romei V. "Decision-making along the autism continuum: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence". Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF). Poster, September 2021,Palermo, Italy.
- Di Luzio P., Tarasi L., Avenanti A., Romei V. "Functional modulation of targeted perceptual decision-making networks causally dissociates accuracy and confidence components performance". European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). Poster, August 22-27, 2021.
- Tarasi L., Di Pellegrino, G., Romei V. "Electrophysiological correlates underlying reduced use of priors in the autistic continuum". Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA). Poster, 15-16 July 2021.
- Di Luzio P., Tarasi L., Silvanto J., Avenanti A., Romei V. "Induced plasticity in feedback visual networks selectively affect subjective and objective forms of perceptual decisions". Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA). Poster, 15-16 July 2021.
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Di Luzio P., Tarasi L., Silvanto J., Avenanti A., Romei V. "Driving associative plasticity in reentrant visual networks dissociate subjective vs. objective components of perceptual decision-making". Transcranical Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop (CIMeC). Poster, 3-4 December 2020, Rovereto, Italy.
- Di Luzio P., Tarasi L., Russo A., Romei V. “Driving plasticity in recurrent visual networks affects perceptual decision-making”. 7th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS), March 24 - 26, 2020 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Courses and certificates
- Summer School - Structural Equation Models, June 27-July 2, 2022, organized by Italian Psychology Association (AIP), Bertinoro (Italy).
- Winter School - Data Analysis in R, 10-14 January 2022, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) MEG/EEG course organized by the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (UCL) 18th October – 21st October 2021
- Computational Psychiatry Course 2021 organized by the Translational Neuromodeling Unit, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich
- Winter School on Biotechnology, 7th Edition – Virtual Edition. Biotechnologies in the time of COVID – 19, 18-25 January 2021, Perugia (Italy).
- Corso Strumenti di data analysis and visualization (60 ore) II edizione, financed by the Emilia Romagna Region and the European Social Fund, July 2020.
- Summer School - Advanced Tools for Psychology and Social Science, 26-30 August 2019, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy).
