Alessandro Marino El Gornati, Research Assistant

Alessandro Marino is an undergraduate research assistant in the Visual Cognition Lab, where he contributes to research on perception, memory, and reading. His work primarily focuses on eye-tracking data collection and calibration for experiments investigating cognitive processes in music reading and memory. He is currently assisting with a study that examines how eye movement patterns differ between expert and novice musicians.

In addition to eye-tracking, Alessandro is involved in the lab's development of EEG methodologies. He is particularly interested in how neural markers, such as alpha and theta activity, can be utilized to measure cognitive load and working memory during visual search tasks. Alessandro aims to bridge his background in Electrical & Computer Engineering with cognitive psychology to eventually pursue graduate research in neural engineering and brain-computer interfaces.