Dr Massimiliano (Max) Di Luca

Massimiliano (Max) Di Luca

School of Psychology
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email
m.diluca@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Psychology
Gisbert Kapp
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Max Di Luca - Research in 60 seconds videoDr Di Luca investigates the mechanisms of human perception using psychophysical methods and computational modeling. The goal of his research is to understand how the brain progressively builds the perception of the environment by picking up information through actions and by integrating sensations over time.

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Qualifications

  • 2000, Laurea in Psychology, Università di Trieste, Italy
  • 2006, PhD in Cognitive Science, Brown University, USA

Teaching

  • since 2019 Mind, Brain, and Models
  • 2016-2017 Mind, Brain, and Models 
  • 2014-2015 Mind, Brain, and Models
  • 2014-2015 Foundations of CNCR 
  • 2013-2014 Mind, Brain, and Models
  • 2013-2014 Foundations of CNCR 
  • 2012-2013 Mind, Brain, and Models

Postgraduate supervision

Max Di Luca’s research interests are within the field of human perception with the goal of understanding how the brain combines multisensory information for perception and action. Dr Di Luca is especially interested in capturing the temporal properties of multisensory processing and to model the computations performed in obtaining a percept. For this, Dr Di Luca uses psychophysical methods, signal processing, Bayesian modeling, and a wide range of technological tools. Current research covers several areas of perception and action:

Perception of temporal properties
Temporal factors in multisensory integration
Visual-haptic interaction
Perceptual recalibration
3D shape perception

Publications

Highlight publications

Di Luca, M, Seifi, H, Egan, S & Gonzalez-Franco, M 2021, . in CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 128, CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Virtual, Online, Japan, 8/05/21.

Di Luca, M & Rhodes, D 2016, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 6, 28563.

Di Luca, M, Ernst, MO & Backus, BT 2010, '', Current Biology, vol. 20, no. 20, pp. 1860-1863.

Di Luca, M, Machulla, T-K & Ernst, MO 2009, '', Journal of Vision, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 7.1-16.

Sun, H-C, Welchman, AE, Chang, DHF & Di Luca, M 2016, '', NeuroImage, vol. 128, pp. 353-361.

Recent publications

Article

Abdlkarim, D, Di Luca, M, Aves, P, Maaroufi, M, Yeo, SH, Miall, RC, Holland, P & Galea, JM 2024, '', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 1052-1063.

Adkins, A, Normoyle, A, Lin, L, Sun, Y, Ye, Y, Di Luca, M & Joerg, S 2023, '', ACM Transactions on Graphics.

Cataldo, A, Di Luca, M, Deroy, O & Hayward, V 2023, '', iScience, vol. 26, no. 3, 106180.

Conference contribution

Bhatia, A, Mughrabi, MH, Abdlkarim, D, Di Luca, M, Franco, MG, Ahuja, K & Seifi, H 2025, . in N Yamashita, V Evers, K Yatani, X Ding, B Lee, M Chetty & P Toups-Dugas (eds), CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 1223, Human factors in computing systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025 CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 26/04/25.

Tremonte de Carvalho, H, Li, M, Di Luca, M & Wing, A 2024, . in B Kaneshiro, G Mysore, O Nieto, C Donahue, C-ZA Huang, JH Lee, B McFee & M McCallum (eds), Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2024) : San Francisco, California, USA and Online November 10-14, 2024. Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), pp. 618-624, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, San Francisco, California, United States, 10/11/24.

Tremonte de Carvalho, H, Li, M, Di Luca, M & Wing, A 2024, . in Proceedings of the 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). 1 edn, Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), pp. 618-624, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, San Francisco, California, United States, 10/11/24.

Gonzalez-Franco, M, Abdlkarim, D, Bhatia, A, Macgregor, S, Fotso-Puepi, JA, Gonzalez, EJ, Seifi, H, Di Luca, M & Ahuja, K 2024, . in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV). Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV), IEEE International Symposium on, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 13-16, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse, Bellevue, Washington, United States, 21/10/24.

Ortenzi, V, Filipovica, M, Abdlkarim, D, Pardi, T, Takahashi, C, Wing, A, Di Luca, M & Kuchenbecker, KJ 2022, . in HRI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, ACM/IEEE, pp. 256–264, HRI '22, 7/03/22.

Editorial

Pacchierotti, C, Chinello, F, Koumaditis, K, Luca, MD, Ofek, E & Georgiou, O 2024, '', IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 17, no. 2, 10566110, pp. 122-128.

Letter

Sarac, M, Huh, TM, Choi, H, Cutkosky, M, Di Luca, M & Okamura, AM 2022, '', IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 6099-6106.

Preprint

Tomczak, M, Li, MS, Bradbury, A, Elliott, M, Stables, R, Witek, M, Goodman, T, Abdlkarim, D, Luca, MD, Wing, A & Hockman, J 2022 '' arXiv.

Sarac, M, Okamura, AM & Luca, MD 2022 '' arXiv. <>

Sarac, M, Luca, MD & Okamura, AM 2022 '' arXiv. <>

Review article

Fraser, DS, Di Luca, M & Cook, JL 2025, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 243, no. 5, 107.

Web publication/site

Bhatia, A, Mughrabi, MH, Abdlkarim, D, Di Luca, M, Gonzalez-Franco, M, Ahuja, K & Seifi, H, , 2025, Web publication/site.