Filomeno Cortese

McMaster University

fil@brain.mcmaster.ca

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Personal

Teaching

Sensory Processes and Perception (PS262BR)

Research Interests

Cognitive Neuroscience: human memory, human learning, auditory pattern perception, speech perception
Visual Cognition: visual memory, visual attention
Human Brain Mapping: event-related potentials (ERPs), fMRI

Education

McMaster University                         Current
University of Western Ontario            B.Ed. M.Ed.
University of Toronto                        B.Sc. - psychology (specialist), astronomy (major), sociology (minor)

Professional

Rotman Research Institute, Toronto             1996-1999
Research Assistant                                      Supervisor:  Claude Alain, Ph.D.
Vision Lab, University of Toronto                1992-1995
Research Assistant and Co-ordinator           Supervisors: Patrick J. Bennett, Ph.D.
                                                                       Allison B. Sekuler, Ph.D.
 

Publications in Refereed Journals:

Cortese, F., Hessels, S.D., Gore, J.L., & Shedden, J.M.  (in preparation). Predicting contextually vivid and familiar events using event-related potentials: Remember/know judgements of regular/irregular words.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., Bernstein, L.J., Yu, H., & Zipursky, R. (2002).  Deficits in automatically detecting changes in conjunction of auditory features in patients with schizophrenia.  Psychophysiology, 39, 599-606.

Alain, C.,  Bernstein, L.J., Cortese, F., Yu, H., & Zipursky, R.B.  (2002).  Visual features conjunction in schizophrenia: An event-related brain potential study.  Schizophrenia Research, 57, 229-309.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., Bernstein, L.J., Yu, H., & Zipursky, R.B.  (2001).  Auditory feature conjunction in patients with schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research, 49, 179-191.

Schiavetto, A., Cortese, F., & Alain, C.  (1999).  Global and local processing of musical sequences: an event related brain potential study.  NeuroReport, 10, 2467-2472.

Cortese, F., Bernstein, L.J., & Alain, C.  (1999).  Binding visual features during high-rate serial presentation.  NeuroReport, 10, 1565-1570.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., & Picton, T.W.  (1998).  Event-related brain activity associated with auditory pattern processing.  NeuroReport, 9, 3537-3541.

Bennett, P.J. & Cortese, F.  (1996).  Masking of spatial frequency in visual memory depends on distal, not retinal, frequency.  Vision Research, 36, 233-238.

Published Abstracts (Refereed):

Cortese, F., & Shedden, J.M. (2002). Visual and verbal short-term memory tasks activate common as well as distinct brain regions: An event-related brain potential study.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Cortese, F., Fernandez, N.M., & Shedden, J.M. (2001). Single features vs. whole objects in visual short-term memory: an event-related brain potential study. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science.

Cortese, F., Hessels, S.D., Gore, J.L., & Shedden, J.M.  (2001). Predicting contextually vivid and familiar events using event-related potentials: Remember/know judgments of regular/irregular words.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Shedden, J.M., Nordgaard, C.L., Cortese, F., & Hahn, M.C.  (2000).  Early components related to perception of form and depth in single-image random-dot stereograms: High density event-related potentials. Society for Neuroscience Program, 427.

Arnott, S., Alain, C., Cortese, F., & Grady, C. (1999).  Separate memory-related processing for auditory object location and identity.  Psychophysiology, 36, p. S27.

Cortese, F., & Alain, C. (1998). Human event-related evoked potential evidence of feature conjunction in vision.  Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science Supplement, 39(4), p. S862.

Schiavetto, A., Alain, C., & Cortese, F. (1998). ERP evidence of global and local processing of musical sequences.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society 1998 Annual Meeting Abstract Program, p. 96.

Alain, C., Cortese, F., & Picton, T.P. (1997).  Representation of complex auditory patterns in the human brain.  Society for Neuroscience, 23(2), 1582.

Cortese, F., & Bennett, P.J. (1992). Short-term visual memory for spatial patterns.  Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science Supplement, 33(4), p. 1344.