Michele Rucci

Michele Rucci is an Italian born neuroscientist and biomedical engineer who studies visual perception. He is a Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and member of the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester.

Biography

Rucci received Laurea (MA) and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Florence and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, respectively. He trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. He was then Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University.

He is primarily known for his work on active perception in humans and machines, particularly for his research on eye movements^{[1][2][3][4][5]} and for developing robotic systems controlled by computational models of neural pathways in the brain.^[6][7][8][9]

Selected works

• Rucci M, Victor JD (2015). "The unsteady eye: an information processing stage, not a bug". Trends in Neurosciences. 38 (4): 195–206. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2015.01.005. PMC 4385455. PMID 25698649.
• Poletti M, Listorti C, Rucci M (2013). "Microsaccades compensate for non-uniform foveal vision". Current Biology. 23 (17): 1691–1695. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.007. PMC 3881259. PMID 23954428.
• Kuang X, Gibson M, Shi BE, Rucci M. (2012) Active vision during coordinated head/eye movements in a humanoid robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 99:1-8.
• Kuang X, Poletti M, Victor JD, Rucci M (2012). "Temporal encoding of spatial information during active visual fixation". Current Biology. 22 (6): 510–514. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.050. PMC 3332095. PMID 22342751.
• Ko HK, Poletti M, Rucci M (2010). "Microsaccades precisely relocate gaze in a high visual acuity task". Nature Neuroscience. 13 (12): 1549–1553. doi:10.1038/nn.2663. PMC 3058801. PMID 21037583.
• Rucci M, Iovin R, Poletti M, Santini F (2007). "Miniature eye movements enhance fine spatial detail". Nature. 447 (7146): 851–854. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..852R. doi:10.1038/nature05866. PMID 17568745. S2CID 4416740.

External links

• The University of Rochester page
• The Active Perception Laboratory

References

1. "Eye flickers key for fine detail". BBC News. June 2007.
2. Kowler E, Collewijn H (2010). "The eye on the needle". Nature Neuroscience. 13 (12): 1443–1444. doi:10.1038/nn1210-1443. PMID 21102565. S2CID 7350173.
3. Kagan I (2012). "Active vision: Fixational eye movements help seeing space in time". Current Biology. 22 (6): R186–R188. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.009. PMID 22440800.
4. Kagan I, Hafed Z (2013). "Active vision: Microsaccades direct the eye to where it matters most". Current Biology. 23 (17): R712–R714. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.038. PMID 24028947.
5. "Shifty eyes see finer details". Science News. 2007.
6. "Neurotic robots act more human". Discovery News. June 2014.
7. "Imagine machines that can see". Wired. June 2003.
8. Wilan, Ken Howard (August 2005). "Technology to mimic mother nature". Boston.com. The Boston Globe.
9. Service RF (October 2014). "Minds of their own". Science. 346 (6206): 182–183. doi:10.1126/science.346.6206.182. PMID 25301614.