Assistant Professor of Psychology

Neuroscience

Office: 008 Wilson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-7466
Fax: (615) 343-8449
Email: 

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Degrees

• Ph.D., Brown University, 1996

Research Area

• Rossi studies how sensory information is represented in visual cortex, and in what manner cognitive processes are incorporated with that information at higher levels of visual processing. These research questions are approached using a combination of perceptual studies in humans and electrophysiological recordings in behaving monkeys to examine the relationship between brain activity and perception. Current research interests include contextual interactions in visual cortex, mechanisms of attentional selection, and the role of cortical feedback in visual processing.

Representative Publications

• Rossi, A.F & Paradiso, M.A. (2003) Surface Completion: Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Studies of Brightness. In Filling-in: From Perceptual Completion to Cortical Reorganization (L. Pessoa and P. De Weerd editors).
• Rossi, A.F., Desimone, R. & Ungerleider, L.G. (2001) Contextual modulation in primary visual cortex of macaques. J. Neuroscience, 21 1698-1709.
• Rossi, A.F & Paradiso, M.A. (1999) Neural correlates of perceived brightness in the retina, LGN, and striate cortex. J. Neuroscience, 19: 6145-6156.
• Rossi, A.F., Rittenhouse, C.D. & Paradiso, M.A. (1996) The representation of brightness in primary visual cortex. Science, 273: 1104-1107.
• Rossi, A.F. & Paradiso, M.A. (1996) Temporal limits of brightness induction and mechanisms of brightness perception. Vision Research, 36: 1391-1398.
• Rossi, A.F. & Paradiso, M.A. (1995) Feature-specific effects of selective visual attention. Vision Research, 35: 621-634.