Tomaso Vecchi

Tomaso Vecchi is Professor of Experimental Psychology and Dean of the School of Psychology at the University of Pavia, Italy.

Books by this Author

Memory as Prediction

From Looking Back to Looking Forward

By Tomaso Vecchi, Daniele Gatti

What is memory? What is memory for? Where is memory in the brain? Although memory is probably the most studied function in cognition, these fundamental questions remain challenging. We can try to answer the question of memory's purpose by defining the function of memory as remembering the past. And yet this definition is not consistent with the many errors that characterize our memory, or...

Blind Vision

The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment

By Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi

Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. And yet, if we conceive of "seeing" as the ability to generate internal mental representations that may contain visual details, the idea of blind vision becomes a concept subject to investigation. In this book, Zaira Cattaneo and Tomaso Vecchi examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development...

Journal Articles by this Author

Motion on Numbers: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on the Ventral Intraparietal Sulcus Alters Both Numerical and Motion Processes

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volume 21, Issue 11 ()

By Elena Salillas, Demis Basso, Maurizia Baldi, Carlo Semenza, Tomaso Vecchi