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While it has been more than 10 years since the graduation of the CIMeC’s first cohort of Ph.D students, it is evident that our students are finding very good post-doc and professional placements.
Our Ph.D. graduates have gone on to both academic and professional careers, in Italy and abroad:
| Post-doctoral positions* | Corporate careers* | Public sector careers* |
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| approx. 3/5 of our alumni | approx. 1/5 of our alumni | approx. 1/5 of our alumni | |
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In 2020 there were no graduates due to the Doctorate going from a 3-year to a 4-year program.
2018-2019 Graduation Year - XXXI & XXXII Cycle Alumni Dissertations
December 2019 (session 1)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Bonetti Francesca | Massimo Turatto | Distractor filtering in the visual attention domain: evidence for habituation of attentional and oculomotor capture |
| Bonmassar Claudia | Wieske van Zoest & Francesco Pavani | The role of hearing in central cueing of attention |
| Canella Carola | Alessandro Gozzi | A perturbational approach to understand the neural basis of resting-state Functional Connectivity |
| Ferro Demetrio | Stefano Panzeri | Effects of attention on visual processing between cortical layers and cortical areas V1 and V4 |
| Forcellini Giulia | Angelo Bifone | Brain functional connectivity and alcohol use disorder: a graph theoretical approach |
| Marinato Giorgio | Daniel Baldauf | Object-Based Attention in Naturalistic Auditory Streams |
| Moroni Monica | Stefano Panzeri | A novel mathematical approach to the study of behavioral readout |
| Panizza Folco | Giorgio Coricelli | Conformity, Context, Self-Image: A Multifaceted Study of Social Attitudes in Decision Making |
| Parrott Danielle Elizabeth | Lorella Battelli | Signal in the Noise? The Effect of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation on Contrast Perception |
| Rabini Giuseppe | Francesco Pavani | Hearing sounds in space: a neuro-cognitive investigation on the ability to associate auditory cues with external space |
| Sabnis Prerana | Gabriele Miceli, Roelien Bastiaanse | Involvement of the Intraparietal Sulcus in Sentence Comprehension: An rTMS investigation |
| Tagini Sofia | Massimiliano Zampini | Body representations in obesity |
| Zanellini Sara | Gabriele Miceli | The processing of negative sentences: neural and behavioral correlates in healthy volunteers and brain-damaged population |
2017-2018 Graduation year - XXX & XXXI Cycle Alumni Dissertations
December 2018 (session 1)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Battistoni Elisa | Marius Peelen | Attentional mechanisms in natural scenes |
| Gianni Eugenia | Lee Sang Ah | Children's representation of spatial boundaries |
| Gutierrez Barragan Daniel | Stefano Panzeri | Brain-wide mapping of fMRI network dynamics in the mouse brain |
| Pezzelle Sandro | Raffaella Bernardi | Learning the meaning of quantifiers from language and vision |
March 2019 (session 2)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Aglinskas Aidas | Scott Fairhall |
Network level representation of conceptual content |
| Artesini Luca | Francesco Pavani | ERP correlates of semantic and syntactic processing in cochlear implant users |
| Contò Federica | Lorella Battelli | Investigating the neuromodulatory effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on cortical networks and behavior |
| Mangiarulo Marta | Katya Tentori | The effect of evidential impact on perceptual probabilistic reasoning |
March 2019 (session 3)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Malfatti Giulia | Luca Turella | New evidence of functional interactions within the hand motor system |
| Ragni Flavio | Angelika Lingnau | Neural mechanisms of visual mental imagery in the healthy and damaged brain |
| Sharp Poppy | Clayton Hickey & David Melcher | Selective attention modulates temporal processing |
July 2019 (session 4)
| Name | Tutor | Title of Dissertation |
| Popeo Mariagrazia | Angelo Bifone | Assessing functional connectivity in the newborn brain using fNIRS |
| Timberlake Benjamin Frederick | Giorgio Coricelli | The effects of counterfactual comparison on learning and reasoning |
| Viganò Simone | Manuela Piazza | From perceptual to semantic representations in the human brain |
| Zonca Joshua | Giorgio Coricelli | Gaze data reveal adaptive mechanisms of strategy generation in judgment and decision making |
2016-2017 Graduation year - XXIX & XXX Cycle Alumni Dissertations
December 2017 (session 1)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Matteo De Tommaso | Massimo Turatto | How Learning and Motivational Shifts Determine the Incentive Salience of Reward Cues: a Human Behavioral Perspective |
| Elena Lorenzi | Giorgio Vallortigara | Social predispositions and underlying neural mechanisms in chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) |
| Chiara Maffei | Jorge Jovicich | Finding the missing connection: Diffusion-based tractography reconstruction of the acoustic radiation and other applications |
| Jan Bím | Stefano Panzeri | Determining what information is transmitted across neural populations |
| Adam Liska | Alessandro Gozzi | Brain functional connectivity and its aberrations in mouse models of autism |
March 2018 (session 2a)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Marco Fuscà
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Nathan Weisz | Predispositions of Conscious Perception: from Correlation to Causation |
| Stefania Mattioni | Olivier Collignon | How input modality and visual experience affect the representation of categories in the brain |
| Francesca Perna | Veronica Mazza | Musical Expertise and Rhythm Processing |
March 2018 (session 2b)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Rachel Bhushan | Sang Ah Lee | Spatial representation from birth to old age: Insights from comparative neurobiology and behavioral genomics |
| Davide Potrich | Valeria Sovrano | Numerical Cognition in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) |
| Fleur van Ierschot | Gabriele Miceli | Monitoring of reading and spelling in glioma patients undergoing awake surgery |
June 2018 (session 3)
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
| Ceren Battal | Olivier Collignon | Decoding Auditory Motion Direction and Location in hMT+/V5 and Planum Temporale of Sighted and Blind Individuals |
| Ekaterina Delikishkina | Gabriele Miceli | Behavioral and neural effects of training and word class in object and action naming in healthy subjects |
| Evelyn Muschter | David Melcher | Constructing multiple objects across space and time |
2015-2016 Graduation year - XXVIII & XXIX Cycle Alumni Dissertations
December 2016 (session 1) - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Mara Andrione |
Albercht Haase | Olfactory representation in the honey bee antennal lobe: investigations on a filter’s functions and dysfunctions. |
| Giacomo Ariani | Angelika Lingnau | Neural representations of movement planning within the human prehension system |
| Stefania Ferraro | Olivier Collignon | Investigating multisensory integration in early visual and auditory areas with Intracranial electrophysiological recordings in humans |
| Sara Parmigiani | Luigi Cattaneo | Ready... steady... GO! A transcranial magnetic stimulation study of set-related inhibitory activity in the dorsal precentral region in humans |
December 2016 (session 1) - Language, Interaction & Computation Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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German David Kruszewski Martel |
Marco Baroni | Inference with Distrubutional Semantics Models |
| Angeliki Lazaridou |
Marco Baroni |
From Predictive to Interactive Multi-modal Language Learning |
| The Nghia Pham |
Marco Baroni |
Sentential meaning in Distributional Semantics |
March 2017 (session 2) - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Beatrice Agostini |
Angelika Lingnau | Where Symbols Meet Meanings: the Organization of Gestures and Words in the Middle Temporal Gyrus |
| Ludwig Pasquale Barbaro | Clayton Hickey | The Impact of Reward and Punishment on Visual Attention During Naturalistic Visual Search: Valence or Salience? |
| Florian Herpich | Lorella Battelli | Studies of Cortical Plasticity in the Normal and the Diseased Brain |
| Marco Pagani | Alessandro Gozzi | Gray Matter Covariance Networks in the Mouse Brain |
| Daria Proklova | Marius Peelen | Disentangling the Representations of Object Shape and Object Category in the Brain: the Animate-Inanimate Distinction |
May 2017 (session 3) - Language and Multi-modal interaction
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Rossella Varvara |
Roberto Zamparelli | Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations |
October 2017 (session 4) - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Lia Villanueva Villarreal |
Massimiliano Zampini | Audiotactile interactions in the percepetion of temporal duration |
2014-2015 Graduation year - XXVII & XXVIII Cycle Alumni Dissertations
November 2015 (session 1) - IDEALAB - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Vânia Marisa Correia de Aguiar |
Gabriele Miceli Co-Advisor: Roelien Bastiaanse |
Enhancement of verb retrieval: neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation |
| Adria' Rofes Sanchez |
Gabriele Miceli Co-Advisor: Roelien Bastiaanse |
Verbs and nouns in awake neurosurgery: needs and answers |
December 2015 (session 2) - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Julia Natascha Frey |
Nathan Weisz | Oscillatory signatures of tactile conscious perception and spatial attention |
| Elisa Infanti |
Massimo Turatto |
Influence of Reward History on Visual Working Memory Representations |
| Daniel Kaiser |
Marius Peelen |
Inter-object grouping in visual processing: How the brain uses real-world regularities to efficiently carve up the environment |
| Seth Levine | Jens Schwazbach | Cortical representations of supramodal information during auditory and tactile perceptual decisions |
| Raffaele Tucciarelli | Angelika Lingnau | Characterizing the spatiotemporal profile and the level of abstractness of action representations: neural decoding of magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data |
December 2015 (session 3) - Cognitive Neuroscience and Language, Interaction & Computation Tracks
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Ailbhe Noelle Finnerty |
Fabio Pianesi | Understanding Human Social Behaviour with Computational Social Science |
| Yuan Tao |
Massimo Poesio |
The neural representation of polysemy: The case of dot-object |
| James Francis Hartzell | Uri Hasson | Structural differences in grey and white matter of the brains of verbal memory specialists: the case of professional Vedic Sanskrit Pandits |
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Md. Taufiq Nasseef |
Stefano Panzeri |
Measuring directed functional connectivity in mouse fMRI networks using Granger Causality
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April 2016 (session 4) - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Palipahana Pahalawaththage Chamanthi Rasangika Karunasekara |
Stefano Panzeri | Methods for Analyzing the Information Content of Large Neuronal Populations |
| Rocco Marchitelli |
Jorge Jovicich |
Test-retest reliability of intrinsic human brain default-mode fMRI connectivity: a study of slice acquisition and physiological noise correction effects |
| Davide Paoletti |
Louise Johanna Francisca Maria van Zoest Co-Advisor: Christoph Braun |
Visual search strategies and brain states: a concurrent eye movement and neuroimaging approach |
2013-2014 Graduation year - XXVI & XXVII Cycle Alumni Dissertations
December 2014 session - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Michela Malfatti |
Liliana Albertazzi | Shape-to-color associations in non-synesthetes: perceptual, emotional, and cognitive aspects. |
| David Pascucci | Massimo Turatto | Task-related reinforcement signals and visual plasticity |
| Reshanne Rae Reeder | Marius Peelen |
The search template for object detection in natural scenes: contents, characteristics, neural underpinnings, and individual differences. |
April 2015 session - Language, Interaction & Computation Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Gianluca Schiavo |
Massimo Zancanaro (FBK) | Socially Aware Interfaces for Supporting Co-located Interactions |
April 2015 session - Cognitive Neuroscience Track
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Name |
Tutor |
Title of Dissertation |
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Stefania Ficarella |
Lorella Battelli | The Neurophysiology of internally-driven actions |
| Elisa Leonardelli |
Massimiliano Zampini Co: Christoph Braun |
Audiotactile interactions: psychophysical and neuroimaging approaches |
| Silvia Ubaldi | Luigi Cattaneo | Rule-dependent and stimulus-dependent visuomotor mappings of other’s actions |
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