Alessia received her Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Florence in Italy under the supervision of Professor Roberto Arrighi. She obtained her Ph.D. in Bioengineers and Robotics from the University of Genoa, affiliated with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, under the supervision of Dr. Monica Gori and Luca Brayda. During her Ph.D., she focused on spatial cognition in blind and sighted people, particularly on human echolocation. After her Ph.D., she spent one year of post-doc at the Department of Translational Research and New Technologies of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Pisa working on visual motion processing. From 2021 to 2022, she worked within the MySpace project as a post-doc researcher in Dr. Monica Gori's lab group (U-VIP, Unit for Visually Impaired People). In February 2023, she began working on the Flex-U project funded by the European Union within the HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) in collaboration with Dr. Monica Gori and Prof. David Alais from the University of Sydney. The project aims to unravel the influence of contextual information on the flexibility of perceptual systems in sensory disabilities.
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
About
All Publications
2025
Casado-Palacios M., Tonelli A., Campus C., Gori M.
Cross-Modal Interactions and Movement-Related Tactile Gating: The Role of Vision
Brain Sciences, vol. 15, (no. 3)
Article
Journal
2025
Tonelli A., Mazzola C., Sciutti A., Gori M.
The Influence of Blindness on Auditory Context Dependency
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Article
Journal
2025
Tonelli A., Phan C., Alais D.
When Vision Aligns with Touch but Not Audition: Sensory-Specific vs. Supramodal Priors in Speed Perception
International Multisensory Research Forum
Poster
Conference
2024
Tonelli A., Burr D.C., Alais D.
Continous tracking of audiovisual stimuli
International Multisensory Research Forum
Poster
Conference
2024
Tonelli A., Phan C., Alais D.
Cross-modal reliability defeats the central tendency effect.
European Conference of Visual Perception
Poster
Conference
Oral presentations
2025
Tonelli A., Phan C., Alais D.
When Vision Aligns with Touch but Not Audition: Sensory-Specific vs. Supramodal Priors in Speed Perception
International Multisensory Research Forum
Conference
2024
Tonelli A., Burr D.C., Alais D.
Continous tracking of audiovisual stimuli
International Multisensory Research Forum
Conference
2024
Tonelli A., Phan C.K., Alais D.
The influence of sensory modality on contextual processing: evidence from temporal and spatial perception.
Congresso Associazione Italiana Psicologia (AIP)
Conference
2023
Tonelli A., Mazzola C., Sciutti A., Gori M.
Context-dependency mechanisms in auditory distance estimation: the effect of blindness.
European Conference of Visual Perception
Conference
2022
Tonelli A., Gori M.
Development of audiotactile integration in sighted and blind children.
XXX Congresso Nazionale Associazione Italiana di Psicologia della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale
Conference
Awards and Achievements
2025
Tonelli A.
Abilitazione seconda fascia SETTORE CONCORSUALE 11/E1 PSICOLOGIA GENERALE, PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOMETRIA
2022
Tonelli A.
Flex-U, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship
Colleagues of Unit for Visually Impaired People