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Vivian Ciaramitaro, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6316
  • Office Location: McCormack Hall,04,00212

Areas of Expertise

Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention and Sensory Development, Neuroimaging

Degrees

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Blass, E.M. & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994) A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns: Taste and tactile determinants of state, affect and action. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Serial No. 239, 59 (1): 1-81.
  • Diamond, A., Ciaramitaro, V., Donner, E., Djali, S., & Robinson, M. (1994) An animal model of early-treated PKU. Journal of Neuroscience, 14 (5): 3072-3082.
  • Ciaramitaro, V.M., Todd, W.E. & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997) Disinhibition of the superior colliculus restores orienting to visual stimuli in the hemianopic field of the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 387: 568-587
  • Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Glimcher, P.W. (2000) Attending to Contrast. Neuron, 26: 543-550.
  • Ciaramitaro, V.M., Cameron, E.L. & Glimcher, P.W. (2001) Stimulus probability directs spatial attention: an enhancement of sensitivity in humans and monkeys. Vision Research, 41: 57-75.
  • Glimcher, P.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Platt, M.L., Bayer, H.M., Brown, M.A. & Handel, A. (2001) Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 108:131-144.
  • Arman, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Boynton, G.M. (2006) Effects of feature-based attention on the motion aftereffect at remote locations. Vision Research, 46(18): 2968-76.
  • Ng, M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Anstis, S., Boynton, G.M. & Fine, I. (2006) Selectivity for cues to gender, ethnicity and identity in human visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(51): 19552-7.
  • Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007) Spatial and cross-modal attention alter responses to unattended sensory information in early visual and auditory human cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4)
  • Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., & Boynton, G.M. (2011) Object-based attention to one of two superimposed surfaces alters responses in human early visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(3): 1258-65.

Additional Information

Dr. Ciaramitaro’s research focuses on the processing of visual and auditory information in adulthood and throughout development. She investigates mechanisms of attention and plasticity using various methodologies to link quantified changes in behavior with quantified changes in the brain.

Teaching:

Psych 350: Learning and Memory
Psych 475: Experimental Methods: Learning and Perception
Psych 477: Cognitive Development