2023 Research Topics
Action and Intention Understanding
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Beyond action recognition – an RSA approach to elucidate the neural basis of higher-level action interpretation (M. Wurm, F. Pavani)
Cognitive Neurorehabilitation
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Identifying outcome predictors of brain lesions in humans from early functional and anatomical indexes of brain connectivity and plasticity (L. Cattaneo)
Conceptual Representations
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Investigating the neurocognitive underpinnings of navigation in semantic/conceptual spaces (M. Piazza)
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Action recognition and mechanical reasoning - using cross-MVPA to decode the physics of actions and object events (M. Wurm, F. Pavani)
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The neural circuit mechanisms for building spatial and temporal structures (G. Iurilli, R. Bottini)
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Cognitive abilities and their evolution in mini brains (E. Frasnelli)
Decision Making and Reasoning
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Neurophysiological study on the integration between motivation and abstract rules in motor decisions (L. Cattaneo)
Development
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Neural and Cognitive Basis of Communication and Reference in Infants (E. Parise)
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Language Development, Understanding Words and Forming New Concepts in Infants (E. Parise)
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Intuitive Physics in Infants (E. Parise)
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The environment regulation in the development of brain and behavioural asymmetries in an animal model (E. Frasnelli)
Language
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Visually grounded language processing (R. Bernardi)
Learning and Motivation
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Cognitive and neural mechanisms to cope with distraction (M. Turatto)
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How neutral stimuli acquire motivational and attentional salience (M. Turatto)
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Visuomotor mechanisms through which animals learn about the environment they navigate through (E. Frasnelli)
Motor Control and Action Planning
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Studying the cortical motor system in real-world ecological settings (L. Cattaneo)
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Executive control and action inhibition (L. Cattaneo)
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Transforming object features into action affordances – how the brain extracts physical features of tools to infer their function and usage (M. Wurm, F. Pavani)
Neuroethics
- Understanding the lived experiences of Parkinson's disease patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS) (C. Bonfiglioli)
Neuroimaging Methods and Analysis
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An integrated TMS-EEG and MRI approach to explore the interregional brain connectivity (C. Miniussi)
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Brain MRI markers of microstructural and functional plasticity: methodological developments and applications in health and disease (e.g. neurodegeneration, oncology) (J. Jovicich)
Neurostimulation
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Brain stimulation (TMS) techniques in a controlled approach to achieve a novel account of cognitive brain dynamics (C. Miniussi)
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Neuromodulation of functional connectivity in the mouse brain (A. Gozzi)
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TMS as an unbiased brainmapping tool: navigating the cortical and white matter spaces in dense maps (L. Cattaneo)
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Optogenetic modulation of functional connectivity in the mouse brain (A. Gozzi, Y. Bozzi)
Numerical Cognition
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Numerical and magnitude representions in the animal brains (G. Vallortigara)
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Neurobiology of number cognition in zebrafish (G. Vallortigara)
Perception and Attention
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Predictive mechanisms controlling sensory filtering (M. Turatto)
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Establishing a network tracking strategy, a to disclose the principles of communication in the Dorsal Attention Network (C. Miniussi)