In this page you can find files in portable document format (pdf) of some of the things that I've written or participated in writing with other persons. Mostly the collection of files that you can download from here are scientific articles. Besides from those you can also find a copy of my PhD thesis and some other not-so-scientific-things that I wrote or people wrote about stuff that I do. Fell free to download them or just give a look at them. If you read them and find them interesting and you think you would like to discuss things with me please feel free to get in touch with me. You can find informations on how to do that clicking here or on "Contact" from the menu at the top of this page.

Articles

Below is a list of papers that I wrote or coauthored. Please note that these papers' copyright is protected.

• The P4pc: An Electrophysiological Marker of Attentional Disengagement? Toffanin P., de Jong R., Johnson A. Int J Psychophysiol. in press ; ... : ... - ...
• Dynamic crossmodal links revealed by steady-state responses in auditory-visual divided attention. de Jong R., Toffanin P., Harbers M. Int J Psychophysiol. 2010 ; 75 : 3 - 15
• Orienting attention to objects in visual short-term memory. Dell'Acqua R., Sessa P., Toffanin P., Luria R., Jolicoeur P. Neuropsychologia. 2010 ; 48 : 419 - 428
• Using frequency tagging to quantify attentional deployment in a visual divided attention task. Toffanin P., de Jong R., Johnson A., Martens S. Int J Psychophysiol. 2009; 72 : 289 - 98.
• Adaptive control of event integration. Akyurek E.G., Toffanin P., Hommel B. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2008; 34 : 569 - 77.
• Rethinking neural efficiency: effects of controlling for strategy use. Toffanin P., Johnson A., de Jong R., Martens S. Behav Neurosci. 2007; 121 : 854 - 70.
• Adaptive control of event integration: evidence from event-related potentials. Akyurek E.G., Riddell P.M., Toffanin P., Hommel B. Psychophysiology 2007; 44 : 383 - 91.
• Central processing overlap modulates P3 latency. Dell'acqua R., Jolicoeur P., Vespignani F., Toffanin P. Exp Brain Res. 2005; 165 : 54 - 68.

PhD Thesis

Below is a pdf copy of my PhD thesis, whereas here you can find/download an article on my thesis written by Nienke Beintema. The article is in Dutch and it appeared in the science section of the Dutch newspaper NRC on Thursday 01 October 2009 (page 10).

• Brain Economics: Housekeeping routines in the brain. Toffanin P. 2009

Selected Posters

This is a selection of two posters. They are the one I liked the most, because the express my favourite science mixiture: fun, innovation and entertainment. It's educational too.

• Immensely Illuminated: Self-choosen colored light induces relaxation. Toffanin P., Johnson A., Snell D. 2011 This poster is special because the title is also a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti. Given that the experience is similar to the one of being fully immersed in light I found the title very appropriate. And I also really enjoyed creating the carton of the guy taking the shower of light...
• P4pc: An Electrophysiological Marker of Attentional Disengagement? Toffanin P., de Jong R., Johnson A. 2008 What is very nice about this poster is the link between tweety the bird and the ERP components N2pc and P300. The ERP components represents the 2 sequential steps of seing somethign that has target defining features and recognizing it. These 2 are also the sequential steps through which Tweety recognizes Silvester the cat. With this analogy nobody ever told me they did not understand the N2pc and P300.

Other publications

Downhere is a text written by Janita Naaijer about me trying to cook some food. The report (and the recipe) has been published in the column Tjak in the University Newspaper (the UK, Universiteitskrant, Number 38, 07 May 2009, p.31) of the University of Groningen. Tjak is the culinary column of the UK, and Janita wrote a reportage on an evening spent cooking and eating some of the most modest italian food (i.e. polenta), and sharing differences and communalities between the dutch and italian food culture. The reportage is in dutch, and it definitely does not show my most photogenic profile.
This instead is a review of the book "Living in Holland" which I wrote for the BCN newsletter (I don't remember neither the year nor the number of the publication, even if it must have been 2006). The book is about the things that you should try to arrange before and when you arrived to the Netherlands, just to make it a little bit easier to start over.