
Conferences
Castaldi E., Benedetto A., Arrighi R.
“Late cortical response underlying the symmetry-induced numerosity underestimation illusion”
[Invited Speaker - Symposioum]
MCLS 2026, Padova, Italy
Castaldi E.
“Groupitizing: a strategy for numerosity estimation based on subitizing and calculation abilities”
[Invited Speaker]
Quantity2Number Conference 2025, Florence, Italy
Castaldi E., Cicchini M.
“A sense for number in fish, humans and machines”
[Symposioum Organizer]
SINS 2025, Pisa, Italy
Castaldi E.
“Pupillometric Readout of Numerosity Perception”
[Invited Speaker]
SINS 2025, Pisa, Italy
Burgio I., Castaldi E., Binda P.
“Pupillometric and behavioural assays of numerosity perception”
[Poster]
ECVP 2025, Mainz, Germany
Castaldi E., Benedetto A., Arrighi R.
“Late cortical response underlying the symmetry-induced numerosity underestimation illusion”
[Talk]
ECVP 2025, Mainz, Germany
Castaldi E., Benedetto A., Arrighi R.
“Temporal dynamics of numerosity and symmetry processing in the human brain”
[Poster]
CogSci 2025, San Francisco, USA
Castaldi E.
“Valutazione neurocognitiva delle capacità matematiche nel paziente neurochirurgico”
[Invited Speaker]
Live Neurosurgery & Neuromonitoring 2024, Florence, Italy
Bonaudo C, Pedone A, Capelli F, Gori B, Baldanzi F, Fedi F, Troiano S, Maiorelli A, Masi G, Martinelli C, Pieropan E, Castaldi E, Capialbi N. A, Enderage Don S, Battista F, Campagnaro L, Muscas G, Amadori A, Fainardi E, Carrai R, Grippo A, Della Puppa A “Chirurgia cerebrale guidata dalla stimolazione magnetica transcranica neuronavigata (ntms) per il mapping del calcolo aritmetico”
[Talk]
SNO 2024, Bologna, Italia
Bonaudo C, Pedone A, Capelli F, Gori B, Baldanzi F, Fedi F, Troiano S, Maiorelli A, Masi G, Martinelli C, Pieropan E, Castaldi E, Capialbi N. A, Enderage Don S, Battista F, Campagnaro L, Muscas G, Amadori A, Fainardi E, Carrai R, Grippo A, Della Puppa A “Proposta di un Indice di Plasticità Corticale (Brain Plasticity Index, BPI) basato sulla stimolazione magnetica transcranica neuronavigata (nTMS)”
[Talk]
SNO 2024, Bologna, Italia
Bonaudo C., Castaldi E., Arrighi R., Maduli G., Anobile G., Burr D., Della Puppa A. “Mapping cognition by ntms: a single case of functional preoperative mapping of language and calculation functions”
[Talk]
SNO 2023, Firenze, Italia
Bonaudo C., Castaldi E., Arrighi R., Maduli G., Anobile G., Burr D., Della Puppa A. “Innovativa valutazione neurocognitiva per funzioni matematiche e geometriche in pazienti neurochirurgici”
[Talk]
SNO 2023, Firenze, Italia
Arrighi R., Caponi C., Grasso P.A., Castaldi E.
“Feature selective adaptation of numerosity perception”
[Talk]
ECVP 2023, Paphos, Cyprus
Maldonado Moscoso P.A., Maduli G., Anobile G., Arrighi R., Castaldi E.
“The symmetry-induced numerosity underestimation is attention-dependent”
[Talk]
ECVP 2023, Paphos, Cyprus
Caponi C., Castaldi E., Burr D., Binda P.
“The pupil reflects perceived numerosity after adaptation”
[Poster]
ECVP 2023, Paphos, Cyprus
[Conference Organizer]
Active Perception Conference 2023, Florence, Italy
Maldonado Moscoso, P.A., Anobile, G., Castaldi, E., Greenlee, M., Arrighi, R., Grasso, P.A., Caponi, C., & Burr, D.
“Groupitizing a strategy for numerosity estimation”
[Talk]
22nd ESCOP 2022, Lille, France
Caponi C., Maldonado Moscoso P., Grasso P., Anobile G., Castaldi E., Arrighi R. “Groupitizing, as subitizing, modulates early visual component of the EEG signal”
[Poster]
ECVP 2022, Nijmegen
Burr D., Castaldi E., Pomè A., Cicchini M., Binda P.
“Numerosity modulates the gain of pupillary response”
[Poster]
VSS 2022, St. Pete Beach, Florida
Castaldi E., Pomè A., Cicchini M., Burr D., Binda P.
“The pupil responds spontaneously to perceived numerosity”
[Talk]
43rd ECVP 2021, Online conference
Castaldi E., Maldonado Moscoso P., Anobile G., Arrighi R., Burr D. & Greenlee M.
“Groupitizing modifies neural coding of numerosity”
[Poster]
OHBM Virtual Meeting 2021, Online conference
Castaldi E., Pomè A., Cicchini M., Burr D., Binda P.
“Pupil size automatically encodes numerosity”
[Poster]
VSS Virtual Meeting 2021, Online conference
Castaldi E., Burr D., Turi M., Binda P.
“Numerosity drives fast saccades in humans”
[Poster]
SfN Global Connectome: A Virtual Event 2021, Online conference
Castaldi E.
"Il groupitizing: una strategia per stimare la numerosità basata sul subitizing e sull’abilità di calcolo"
[Talk]
AIRIPA 2020, Online conference
Castaldi E, Tinelli F, Cicchini M, Biagi L, Morrone MC
“Supramodal agnosia for oblique mirror orientation in patients with periventricular leukomalacia”
[Talk]
CVRS Meeting 2019, Pisa, Italy
Castaldi E., Moscoso P., Turi M., Tinelli F., Arrighi R., Burr C. D., Piazza M., Eger E., Anobile G.
“On the link between spatial numerosity and math ability”
[Poster]
CVRS Meeting 2019, Pisa, Italy
Castaldi E., Piazza M., Dehaene S., Vignaud A., Eger E.
“Task and feature influences on numerosity representation across the human dorsal visual stream”
[Poster]
OHBM 2019, Rome, Italy
Castaldi E.
"Perception of numerosity and its relation with mathematical abilities"
[Invited Speaker - Symposium]
AIRIPA 2018, Arezzo, Italy
Castaldi E., Piazza M., Dehaene S., Vignaud A., Eger E.
“Task and feature influences on numerosity representation across the human dorsal visual stream”
[Poster]
SfN 2018, San Diego, USA
Castaldi E.
"Perception of numerosity and its relation with mathematical abilities"
[Invited Speaker - Symposium]
AIRIPA 2018, Arezzo, Italy
Castaldi E., Vignaud A., Eger E.
“Numerical processing in relation to functional/anatomical landmarks of human parietal cortex”
[Poster]
OHBM 2018, Singapore
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Invited Speaker - Symposium]
SINS 2017, Ischia, Italy
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis" [Talk+Poster]
European Retina Meeting 2017, Paris, France
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Invited Speaker - Symposium]
XVII SINS National Congress 2017, Ischia, Italy
Castaldi E., Mirassou A., Dehaene S., Piazza M., Eger E.
“Interactions between numerosity and mean size perception in humans”
[Poster]
20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) 2017, Postam, Germany
Castaldi E., Mirassou A., Dehaene S., Piazza M., Eger E. [Poster]
“Interactions between numerosity and mean size perception in humans”
The Royal Society, The origins of numerical abilities 2017, London, UK
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Talk]
European Conference of Visual Perception 2016, Barcelona, Spain
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Poster]
Vision Science Society 2016, St. Pete Beach, Florida
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Talk]
European Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation 2015, Oxford, UK
Accepted Travel Grant to attend and present my data at the
Italian Society for Neuroscience Congress 2015, Cagliari, Italy
Castaldi E., Tinelli F., Cicchini M., Biagi L. and Morrone M.C.
"Supramodal mirror agnosia in patients with periventricular leukomalacia"
[Poster]
16th International Multisensory Research Forum 2015, Pisa, Italy
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Poster]
CNR Retreat 2015, Pisa, Italy
Castaldi E., Cicchini M., Cinelli L., Biagi L., Tosetti M., Rizzo S. and Morrone M.C.
"Visual BOLD response in late-blind subjects with Argus II retinal prosthesis"
[Poster]
The European Winter Conference on Brain Research | The European Brain and Behaviour Society 2015, Brides les Bains, France
Castaldi E., Aagten-Murphy D., Tosetti M., Burr D., Morrone C.
"Effects of adaptation on numerosity decoding in human brain”
[Poster]
Federation of European Neuroscience Society 2014, Milan, Italy
Castaldi E., Aagten-Murphy D., Tosetti M., Burr D., Morrone C.
"Effects of adaptation on numerosity decoding in human brain”
[Talk]
Active Vision Workshop 2013, Sant'Elia a Pianisi, Italy
Castaldi E., Aagten-Murphy D., Tosetti M., Burr D., Morrone C.
"Effects of adaptation on numerosity decoding in human brain”
[Poster]
Workshop “20 years of SNARC” 2013, Paris, France
Castaldi E., Frijia F., Tosetti M., Montanaro D., Morrone M.C.
“Selective Human BOLD responses to chromatic spatial features”
[Poster]
Workshop on multi-sensory space perception 2011, Sestri Levante, Italy
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Media Coverage
For Castaldi, E., Pomé A., Burr D., Binda P. (2021). The pupil responds spontaneously to perceived numerosity. Nat Commun. 2021 Oct 12;12(1):5944, the media coverage list can be seen here: https://www.pupiltraits.eu/media-coverage/media-coverage-news/#toggle-id-3
For Castaldi, E., Cicchini, G. M., Cinelli, L., Biagi, L., Rizzo, S. & Morrone, M. C. (2016). Visual BOLD Response in Late Blind Subjects with Argus II Retinal Prosthesis, PLoS Biol, 10 (14), e1002569 the media coverage list can be seen here:
