Forschung

Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Welfare, Machine Learning

Aufgabenbereich

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Vision for Primates

Kurzprofil

Since 2020: Senior Engineer and Scientist at the German Primate Center in Göttingen for:

- machine learning approaches for tracking animal behavior;

- gamify psychophysics tasks for humans;

- adaptive cognitive training and enrichment systems for non-human primates.

 

Previously, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center Göttingen (2016 - 2019), leading projects on autonomous psychophysics, developing cage-based audiology setups for common marmosets, and designing wireless optogenetic devices.

 

Dr. rer. nat. Systems Neuroscience in 2016 from the Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at Georg August University Göttingen: neural basis of disparity and motion perception, microsaccadic eye movements, and autinomous training devices.

 

Service

Deigninging, development, and optimization of autonomous devices, softwares, and data pipelines for cognitive enrichment, neuroscience, and machine learning animal tracking and behavioral characterization.

Tutor for High Vision and Attention, MSc/PhD Neurosciences Program from 2018 to 2023

Publikationen

2024 - preprint TechRxiv - Social brains meet robots: Perspectives on using artificial agents for investigating social and observational learning in humans and monkeys. Sophie Atzpodien, Ricarda Bothe, Rene Burgardt, Antonino Calapai, Ana Chavez, Martina De Eccher, Melissa Franch, Hakim Guedjou, Rajalakshmi Madhavan, Nivedita Mani, Fatih Sivridag, Neda Shahidi - www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.172927049.98678655

 

2024 - eLife - Confidence over competence: Real-time integration of social information in human continuous perceptual decision-making. Felix Schneider, Antonino Calapai, Roger Mundry, Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Alexander Gail, Igor Kagan, Stefan Treue - elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/101021

 

2023 - Animals - A Touchscreen-Based, Multiple-Choice Approach to Cognitive Enrichment of Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta). Antonino Calapai, David Pfefferle, Laura C. Cassidy, Arash Nazari, Pinar Yurt, Ralf R. Brockhausen, Stefan Treue - www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/17/2702

 

2023 - eNeuro - Home-Enclosure-Based Behavioral and Wireless Neural Recording Setup for Unrestrained Rhesus Macaques. Laura Hansmeyer, Pinar Yurt, Naubahar Agha, Attila Trunk, Michael Berger, Antonino Calapai, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail - www.eneuro.org/content/10/1/ENEURO.0285-22.2022.abstract

 

2022 - Frontiers in Psychology - Assessing cognitive flexibility in humans and rhesus macaques with visual motion and neutral distractors. Pinar Yurt, Antonino Calapai, Roger Mundry, Stefan Treue - www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1047292/full

 

2022 - Frontiers in Psychology - Group-based, autonomous, individualized training and testing of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in their home enclosure to a visuo-acoustic continuous task. Juan Cabrera-Moreno, Laure Jeanson, Markus Jeschke, Antonino Calapai - www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1047242/full

 

2022 - Nature Communications - Flexible auditory training, psychophysics, and enrichment of common marmosets with an automated, touchscreen-based system. Antonino Calapai, Juan Cabrera-Moreno, Tobias Moser, Markus Jeschke - www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29185-9

 

2020 - Scientific Reports - Sustained spatial attention accounts for the direction bias of human microsaccades. Chang Xue, Antonino Calapai, Jens Krumbiegel, Stefan Treue - www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77455-7

 

2018 - Journal of Neurophysiology - Standardized automated training of rhesus monkeys for neuroscience research in their housing environment. Berger M, Calapai A, Stephan V, Niessing M, Burchardt L, Gail A, Treue S - journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00614.2017

 

2017 - Behavior Research Methods - A cage-based training, cognitive testing and enrichment system optimized for rhesus macaques in neuroscience research. A Calapai, M Berger, M Niessing, K Heisig, R Brockhausen, S Treue, A Gail - doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0707-3

 

2011 - IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience - Hand and mouth movement-related neurons in the macaque Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex - Rozzi S, Simone L, Rodà F, Bimbi M, Calapai A, Luppino G, Fogassi L - air.unipr.it/handle/11381/2915856