2005-2009

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with the thesis
"Neural Correlates of Prospective Memory. A Multimodal Study using EEG, MEG and fMRI."

2004-2005

Tutorial Training (Internship) in the Neurophysiological laboratory of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

1998-2004

Master degree in Experimental Psychology
Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy 

2009 July - Present

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany, directed by prof. Niels Birbaumer

2008 November -
2009 June

Research Fellow
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany.

2007-2008

Permanence Abroad during the Ph.D.
University of Tübingen Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Germany.

2005-2006

Researcher Associate
Neurophysiological laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy)

2003-2004

Research Assistant and master thesis.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy)

2005 October -2008 October

Ph.D. Scholarship from University of Rome "La Sapienza"

2008

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) "International Conference and Lecture Trips" travel grant to attend the X. International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (2008), Bodrum Turkey

2006-2007

Erasmus grant, University of Rome "La Sapienza"- University of Tübingen, Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Germany

Honorary Member of Italian Semir Zeki Neuro-Aesthetics Society 

Papers in journals (or reviewed conferences)

*denotes equal contribution

Rea M., Caria A., Kullmann S., Braun C., Casile A., Veit R., Lee S., Lucci G., Olivetti-Belardinelli M., Birbaumer N. (2010). Emotional prospective memory: an event-related fMRI study. Submitted.

Halder S.*, Rea M.*, Androni R.*, Nijboer F., Hammer E.M., Kleih S., Birbaumer N., Kuebler A. (2010). An auditory P300 brain-computer interface for binary choices. Clinical Neurophysiology, epub ahead of print.

Rea M, Birbaumer N. and Garabaghi A. (2009). Brain Computer Interfaces in the study of consciousness. (Accepted by Paradoxa).

Rea M., Braun C., Lutzenberger W., Gentilomo A., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Birbaumer N. (2008). The Role of Theta event-related synchronization during prospective memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Proceeding Int Conf on Cogn Neuroscience 308 (1).

Book Chapters

Rea M., Lucci G. "N400" (2005). In "Brain by means of the ERPs" Ed. Lucci Kappa (Italian) press Roma.

Conference Proceedings and Oral Presentations

Rea M., Caria A., Kullmann S., Braun C., Canova C., Olivetti-Belardinelli M., Birbaumer N. (2009). The Influence of aversive faces on prospective memory. An event-related fMRI study. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) 49th Annual Meeting Berlin, Germany.

Ramos A., Soares E., Agostini M., Broetz D., Benkner B., Rea M., Halder S., Caria A., Soekader S., Birbaumer N. (2009). Afferent feedback influences for an on-line BCI fro stroke rehabilitation. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) 49th Annual Meeting Berlin, Germany.

Rea M. (2009), "The Influence of emotional faces on prospective memory. An event-related fMRI study". "Percepted Reality: Emotion and Perception versus Perception of Emotion" Seminaries for Ph.D Studentes. Villa Vigoni, Italian-German Centre of Excellence, Lake Como (Italy). Invited Talk.

Nardo D., Lucci G., Rea M., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Gentilomo A. (2006). Exploring the time features of recognition memory for music in the semantic and episodic systems: an ERP study. Human Brain Mapping (HBM), Florence.

Lucci G., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Rea M., Gentilomo A. (2006). Localization of oscillating auditory stimuli: evidence of different cognitive styles reflecting in MMN. Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Cambridge.

Lucci G., Rea M., Gentilomo A. (2006). MMN: an index of motor memory. Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Cambridge.

Basso D., Lucci G., Rea M., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Gentilomo A. (2005). EEG activity of associative cortices in low-level decision making about visuo-spatial patterns. Escop - Leiden