A5046836832- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Multisensory perception and integration
Fondazione Santa Lucia
2015-2025
Sapienza University of Rome
2015-2025
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2010-2024
Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
2017-2022
Neuroelectronics Research Flanders
2020
Remembering places in which emotional events occur is essential for individual's survival. However, the mechanisms through emotions modulate information processing working memory, especially visuo-spatial domain, little understood and controversial. The present research was aimed at investigating effect of incidentally learned stimuli on memory (VSWM) performance by using a modified version object-location task. Eight black rectangles appeared simultaneously computer screen; this immediately...
EEG studies in healthy humans have highlighted that alpha-band activity is relatively reduced over the occipital–parietal areas of hemisphere contralateral to direction spatial attention. Here, we investigated hemispheric distribution alpha during orienting attention male and female right brain-damaged patients with left neglect. Temporal spectral evolution showed neglect oscillations damaged were pathologically enhanced both baseline-fixation period preceded cued (capturing tonic changes)...
Studies with event-related potentials have highlighted deficits in the early phases of orienting to left visual targets right-brain-damaged patients spatial neglect (N+). However, brain responses associated preparatory attention, target novelty and detection a match/mismatch between expected actual (contextual updating), not been explored N+. Here study healthy humans brain-damaged both sexes we demonstrate that frontal activity reflects supramodal mechanisms attentional (Anterior Directing...
In humans, invalid visual targets that mismatch spatial expectations induced by attentional cues are considered to selectively engage a right hemispheric "reorienting" network includes the temporal parietal junction (TPJ), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), and medial (MFG). However, recent findings suggest this dominance is not absolute it rather observed because TPJ IFG areas in left hemisphere engaged both valid cued targets. Because of this, BOLD response usually cancelled out standard...
Quadrato Motor Training (QMT) is a new training paradigm, which was found to increase cognitive flexibility, creativity and spatial cognition. In addition, QMT reported enhance inter- intra-hemispheric alpha coherence as well Fractional Anisotropy (FA) in number of white matter pathways including corpus callosum. Taken together, these results seem suggest that electrophysiological structural changes induced by may be due an enhanced interplay communication the different brain areas within...
Right brain-damaged patients with unilateral spatial neglect fail to explore the left side of space. Recent EEG and clinical evidence suggests that might suffer deficits in predictive coding, i.e. identifying exploiting probabilistic associations among sensory stimuli environment. To gain direct insights on this issue, we focussed hierarchical components coding. We recorded responses evoked by central, left-side or right-side tones were presented at end sequences four central tones....
Background: Previous investigations on healthy humans showed conflicting evidence regarding the impact of mood working memory performance. A systematic investigation how affects apathy levels in participants is currently missing. Methods: We administered a visuospatial (VS) and numerical (N) n-back task to sample 120 individuals. In these participants, using series questionnaires, we also evaluated apathy, mood, memory, perceived stress, PTSD symptoms caused by COVID-19 pandemic outbreak,...