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• STAIRCASE: a classic MATLAB toolbox for auditory testing
• MLP: a MATLAB toolbox for rapid and reliable auditory threshold
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Research

Research interests

• Auditory and audiovisual perception
• Psychophysical methods

Ad hoc reviewer for

• Attention, Perception & Psychophysics (Perception & Psychophysics)
• Behavior Research Methods
• Cortex
• Experimental Brain Research
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance
• Perception
• Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Publications

Book

• Borgo, M., Soranzo, A., Grassi, M. (in press, March 2012). MATLAB for Psychologists. Springer.
• Grassi, M., Mondini, S. (2010). La tesi di laurea in psicologia. Breve guida alla scrittura e alla preparazione della discussione. Padova: UPSEL - Domeneghini.

Book chapters

• Grassi, M., Burro, R. (2003). Impact sounds. D. Rocchesso e F. Fontana (Eds.), The Sounding Object (pp. 41-62), Firenze: M.E.

Papers

• Grassi, M., Casco, C. (in press). Revealing the origin of the audiovisual bounce-inducing effect. Seeing and Perceiving.
• 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. (2010). Audiovisual bounce-inducing effect: when sound congruence affects grouping in vision. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 378-386. (download)
  Click here to see a demo of the stimuli of this study.
• 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

• 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

• 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

• (2003) - Student Transportation Grant of the Acoustical Society of America for attending at the 145th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, Tennessee, 28 April - 2 May 2003.
• (2002) - Marie Curie Fellowship. Four months of research in United Kingdom at the University of Sussex (supervisor, Prof. Christopher J. Darwin).
• (1999) - Grant studentship of the University of Padova. Six months of research in United Kingdom 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 (Italian Association of Psychology).
• 1997 - Winner of the prize of the "Ordine degli Psicologi del Veneto", the organization of all the psychologists of my region, for the best degree thesis in general psychology for the year 1997.

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