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I am a psychologist and neuroscientist now working as a postdoc at UC San Diego. My background includes education and work at universities in different countries, including Duke University, UC San Diego, University of Milan-Bicocca and University of Verona. I have a 10+ years record of appraising literature, conducting experiments, analyzing data, writing and publishing scientific articles. I developed a multitude of research projects and conducted them to successful outcomes (publications, conference presentations). • Fluent with designing experiments, collecting and analyzing data using several behavioral and neural techniques including psychophysics, eye-tracking, fMRI, EEG, ERP, TMS, tDCS. • Software: Matlab, Psychtoolbox, E-Prime, FSL, Neuroscan, EEGLAB/ERPLAB, Statistica, SPSS, R, Excel.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Visual Neuroscience
• ☆ Neuropsychology
• ☆ Psychology
• ☆ Human Behavior & Psychology
• ☆ Cognitive Science
• ☆ SPSS

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Systematic Literature Review

Work Experience

Quantitative Researcher

Facebook

November 2019 - Present

Postdoc

University of California San Diego

June 2018 - Present

Postdoc

University of Nevada Reno

October 2016 - Present

Postdoc

University of California San Diego

April 2015 - October 2016

Research Associate

Università degli Studi di Verona

January 2014 - December 2014

Education

Ph.D. Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (Psychology Department)

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

January 2010 - January 2014

Visiting Scholar (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience)

Duke University

September 2012 - August 2013

M.Sc. Experimental Psychology (Psychology Department)

Università degli Studi di Firenze

September 2001 - July 2007

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Francesco Marini, Marco A. Petilli, Roberta Daini(2020). Distractor context manipulation in visual search: How expectations modulate proactive control . Cognition. 196. p. 104129. Elsevier {BV}

Francesco Marini, Leonardo Chelazzi, David Pascucci, Massimo Turatto(2019). Getting rid of visual distractors: the why, when, how, and where . Current Opinion in Psychology. 29. p. 135--147. Elsevier {BV}

Francesco Marini, Clement Lee, Johanna Wagner, Scott Makeig, Mateusz Gola(2019). A comparative evaluation of signal quality between research-grade and wireless dry-electrode mobile {EEG} systems . Journal of Neural Engineering. {IOP} Publishing

Francesco Marini, Lydia T. Nguyen, Lidia Zacharczuk, Daniel A. Llano, Raksha A. Mudar(2019). Theta and alpha band oscillations during value-directed strategic processing . Behavioural Brain Research. 367. p. 210--214. Elsevier {BV}

Francesco Marini, Katherine A. Breeding, Jacqueline C. Snow(2019). Dataset of 24-subject {EEG} recordings during viewing of real-world objects and planar images of the same items . Data in Brief. 24. p. 103857. Elsevier {BV}

Ravagli A, Marini F, Marino BFM, Ricciardelli P(2018). Context Modulates Congruency Effects in Selective Attention to Social Cues . Frontiers in psychology.

Marini F, Scott J, Aron AR, Ester EF(2017). Task-irrelevant distractors in the delay period interfere selectively with visual short-term memory for spatial locations . Attention, perception & psychophysics.

Francesco Marini, Daniele Romano, Angelo Maravita(2016). The contribution of response conflict, multisensory integration, and body-mediated attention to the crossmodal congruency effect . Experimental Brain Research. Springer Nature

Francesco Marini, Elise Demeter, Kenneth C. Roberts, Leonardo Chelazzi, Marty G. Woldorff(2016). Orchestrating Proactive and Reactive Mechanisms for Filtering Distracting Information: Brain-Behavior Relationships Revealed by a Mixed-Design {fMRI} Study . Journal of Neuroscience. 36. (3). p. 988--1000. Society for Neuroscience

Marini F, Demeter E, Roberts KC, Chelazzi L, Woldorff MG, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2016, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 988-1000, 2016 .

Marini F, Marzi CA, Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016, vol. 10, pp. 446, 2016 .

Marini F, van den Berg B, Woldorff MG, Visual cognition, 2015, vol. 23, no. 1-2, pp. 313-335 .

Marini F, Tagliabue CF, Sposito AV, Hernandez-Arieta A, Brugger P, Estévez N, Maravita A, Neuropsychologia, 2014, vol. 53, pp. 178-186 .

Marini F, Chelazzi L, Maravita A, Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2013, vol. 142, no. 3, pp. 906-922 .

Marini F, Marzi T, Viggiano MP, Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2011, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 627-643 .

Arrighi R, Marini F, Burr D, Journal of vision, 2009, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 25.1-7 .