Maria Concetta Morrone
University of Pisa
Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)
Visual Plasticity
Development
Vision during eye movement
Time perception
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Maria Concetta Morrone graduated in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1977 and trained in Biophysics at the elite Scuola Normale Superiore from 1973 to 1980. Following research positions at the University of Western Australia, the Scuola Normale Superiore and the CNR Institute of Neuroscience in Pisa, she was appointed Professor of Psychophysiology in the Faculty of Psychology at the Università Vita-salute San Raffaele (Milan) in 2000. From 2008 she is Professor of Physiology in the School of Medicine of the University of Pisa. Director of the Vision Laboratory of the IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, and Academic Director of the inter-University Masters in Neuroscience. In collaboration with MR group of Fondazione Stella Maris, her recent venture has been to obtain funding for, and set up to full functionality, a new ultra-high-field 7T MR scanner in Pisa. In 2014 she was elected a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and has been awarded major national and international prizes.