Grassi, M., Burro, R. (2003). Impact sounds. D. Rocchesso e F. Fontana (Eds.), The Sounding Object (pp. 41-62), Firenze: M.E.
Papers
Rocchesso, D., Lemaitre, G., Grassi, M. (2013). Evidence for a spatial bias in the perception of sequences of brief tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, EL346-350. (download)
Grassi, M., Pastore, M., Lemaitre, G. (2013). Looking at the world with your ears: how do we get the size of an object from its sound? Acta Psychologica, 143, 96-104. (download)
Casco, C., Robol, V., Grassi, M., Venturini, C. (2012). Positional noise in Landolt-C stimuli reduces spatial resolution: a study with younger and older observers. Vision Research, 67, 37-43. (download)
Grassi, M., Pavan, A. (2012). The subjective duration of audiovisual looming and receding stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74, 1321-1333. (download)
Grassi, M., Bonato, M. (2012). The interaction between time and number in a temporal bisection task: A reply to Vicario (2011). Perception, 41, 498-500. (download)
Maniglia, M., Grassi, M., Casco, C., Campana, G. (2012). The origin of the audiovisual bounce inducing effect: a TMS study. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1478-1482. (download)
Deguchi, C., Boureux, M., Sarlo, M., Besson, M., Grassi, M., Schon, D., Colombo, M. (2012). Sentence pitch change detection in the native and unfamiliar language in musicians and nonmusicians: Behavioral, electrophysiological and psychoacoustic study. Brain Research, 1455, 75-89. (download)
Grassi, M., Casco, C. (2012). Revealing the Origin of the Audiovisual Bounce-Inducing Effect. Seeing and Perceiving, 25, 223?233. (download)
Kramer, P., Bressan, P., Grassi, M. (2011). Time estimation predicts mathematical intelligence. PLOS ONE, 6, e28621. (download)
Grassi, M. (2010). Sex difference in subjective duration of looming and receding sounds. Perception, 39, 1424-1426. (download)
Castiello, U., Giordano, B. L., Begliomini, C., Ansuini, C., Grassi, M. (2010). When ears drive hands: the influence of contact sound on reaching to grasp. PLOS ONE, 5, e12240. (download)
Grassi, M., Casco, C. (2009). Audiovisual bounce-inducing effect: attention alone does not explain why the discs are bouncing. Journal Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 235-243. (download)
Grassi, M., Soranzo, A. (2009). MLP: a MATLAB toolbox for rapid and reliable auditory threshold estimations. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 20-28. (download)
Grassi, M., Darwin, C. J. (2006). The subjective duration of ramped and damped sounds.
Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1382-1392. (download)
Grassi, M., Bazzo, F. (2005). Una nuova verifica delle ipotesi di Stumpf sulla fusione tonale.
Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 32, 837-842. (download)
Grassi, M. (2005). Do we hear size or sound: balls dropped
on plates. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(2), 274-284. (download)
Bressan, P. Grassi, M. (2004). Parental resemblance in one-year-olds
and the Gaussian curve. Evolution & Human Behavior, 25, 133-141. (download)
Grassi, M., Biasutti, M., Vicario G. B. (2004). Categorizzazione
e valutazione di intervalli musicali. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia,
31, 175-184. (download)
Grassi, M. (2003). Differenza nella durata percettiva di suoni
crescenti o calanti in intensità: permanenza o decurtamento? Giornale
Italiano di Psicologia, 30, 659-663. (download)
Proceedings
Boureux, M., Colombo, L., Grassi, M., & Deguchi, C. (2009). Effetto dell?addestramento musicale sulla soglia minima di discriminazione in vocali di lingua madre e di lingua straniera. Atti del XV congresso annuale della Associazione Italiana di Psicologia ? Sezione sperimentale, Chieti 24-26 settembre 2009, p 112.
Grassi, M. (2009). Cosa pensano, credono e sanno le matricole della psicologia. Atti del III convegno di didattica della psicologia, Padova 6-7 febbraio 2009, p. 16.
Gammieri, M., Kramer, P., Grassi, M., & Brassan, P. (2008). 2+2=5 millisecondi. Il rapporto tra percezione del tempo e abilit? aritmetica. Atti del XIV congresso annuale della Associazione Italiana di Psicologia ? Sezione sperimentale, Padova 18-20 settembre 2008, p 112.
Grassi, M., & Soranzo, A. (2008). MLP: una toolbox MATLAB per una rapida e accurata stima delle soglie uditive. Atti del XIV congresso annuale della Associazione Italiana di Psicologia ? Sezione sperimentale, Padova 18-20 settembre 2008, p 110.
Deguchi, C., Boureux, M., Colombo, L., Sarlo, M., Grassi, M., Besson, M. & Schon, D. (2008). Effetto dell?addrestramento musicale sulla percezione della frequenza fondamentale in lingua madre e in lingue non familiari. Atti del XIV congresso annuale della Associazione Italiana di Psicologia ? Sezione sperimentale, Padova 18-20 settembre 2008, p 103.
Boureux, M., Deguchi, C., Colombo, L., Sarlo, M., Grassi, M., Besson, M. & Schon, D. (2008). Effetto delle componenti prosodiche e semantiche nella percezione di F0 in lingua madre e straniera. Atti del XIV congresso annuale della Associazione Italiana di Psicologia ? Sezione sperimentale, Padova 18-20 settembre 2008, pp. 36-37.
Grassi, M. (2003). Dal suono di un oggetto
alla sua dimensione: percezione diretta o indiretta? Congresso Nazionale
della Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale: Riassunti delle Comunicazioni,
Grafica 080, pp. 214-216.
Grassi, M. (2003). Perception of duration of rising and falling
tones: a preliminary study. U. Savardi & A. Mazzocco (Eds.), Figura
e sfondo: temi e variazioni per Paolo Bozzi (pp. 275-278), Padova: CLEUP.
Grassi, M. (2002). Recognising the size of objects from sounds
with manipulated acoustical parameters. In: Da Silva, J. A., Matsushima,
E. H. & Ribeiro-Filho, N, P. (eds.), Fechner Day 2002. Proceedings
of the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics.
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: The International Society for Psychophysics,
392-397.
(download)
Grassi, M., Darwin, C. J. (2001). Perception of the duration of ramped
and damped sounds with raised cosine amplitude. Fechner Day 2001, Proceedings
of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics.
The International Society for Psychophysics, Leipzig, Germany, 345 - 350.
(download)
Grassi, M. (1999). Mistuned musical scales in presence of th tonic.
In: Research in Perception. Proceedings of the meeting in memory of Fabio
Metelli, Zanforlin M., & Tommasi L. (Eds). Padova: Logos Press. Grassi, M. (1998). Mistuned Scales. Proceedings of the XII Colloquium
on Musical Informatics. Gorizia: Grafiche Goriziane.
Abstracts
Leonardelli, E., Occelli, V., Demarchi G., Grassi, M., Braun, C., Zampini, M. (2012). Effects of looming and static sounds on somatosensory processing: A MEG study, Seeing and Perceiving, 25, 94.
Grassi, M. (2008). Size from sound: Size estimates of balls dropped from various height. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 3413.
Grassi, M., Casco, C. (2007). Streaming or bouncing? Attention does
not explain the bounce-inducing effect. Perception, 36 (Supp.), 171.
Grassi, M. (2003). From sound to size: A research in ecological
acoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, p 2327.
Grassi, M., Darwin C. J. (2002). Perception of duration of ramped
and damped sounds with exponential and raised cosine ramps. Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America, 111, p 2359. (download)
Grassi, M., Darwin C. J. (2001). Perception of the duration of sounds
with increasing or decreasing amplitude. British Journal of Audiology.
35(2), p 135.
Grassi, M. (1998). Mistuned Musical Scales. Abstracts of the Symposium
of Music and Cognition. Roma: Kappa Edizioni.
Others
Grassi, M. (1999). Scale musicali stonate. La Rivista dello Psicologo
del Veneto. n. 18, pp. 31-32.
PhD thesis
Grassi, M., (2003). Two researches in ecological psychoacoustics.
Università di Padova. (download)
International Talks
22 October 2010 - The subjective duration of audiovisual looming and receding objects. Fechner Day 2010, Padova, Italy.
2 July 2008 - Size from sound: balls of different masses dropped from different heights. Acoustics08, Paris, France.
31 August 2007 - Streaming or bouncing? Attention does not explain the bounce-inducing
effect. 30th ECVP, Arezzo, Italy.
2 May 2003 - From sound to size: a research in ecological acoustics. 145th meeting
of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, USA.
2 August 2001 - On phenomenology of sound events. Satellite Event of 7th International
Conference on Auditory Display, Espoo, Finland.
18 July 2000 - "On the perception of mistuned scales" and "Perception of duration of
sound increasing or decreasing in amplitude", Padua - Freiburg Tag, Freiburg, Germany.
Grants
(2002) - Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Sussex (supervisor, Prof. Christopher J. Darwin).
(1999) - Grant studentship of the University of Padova at the University of Sussex (supervisor, Prof.
Christopher J. Darwin).
Honours
2004 - Winner of the prize "Franco Purghé" for researches in
perception and psychophysics. Prize awarded by the "Associazione Italiana
di Psicologia".
1997 - Winner of the prize of the "Ordine degli Psicologi del Veneto", for the best
degree thesis in experimental psychology for the year 1997.
