People
TEAM
We are a multidisciplinary team, including neuroscientists, neuropsychologists and a neuroradiologist, who integrates advanced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neuropsychological evidence, to disclose the interplay between memory, time and space processing.
RESERCHERS
Maddalena Boccia
PhD, Principal Investigator
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I am interested in the brain mechanisms supporting environmental navigation, temporal processing and autobiographical memory and the effect of brain damage on these complex behaviors.
In my research studies I integrate different approaches, including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging, lesion-symptom mapping, and behavioral paradigms of cognitive psychology..
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Alice Teghil
PhD, Research Fellow
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I’m interested in cognitive and neural mechanisms supporting the processing of durations and temporal information across different timescales.
My research focuses on how individual differences and contextual factors affect our representation of durations, and on how bodily signals shape the perception of time. Moreover, I investigate cognitive and brain mechanisms supporting the representation of temporal information in service of multicomponential processes such as environmental navigation, autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking.
Matilde Conti
Neuropsychologist and PhD student
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My work is focused on assessment cognitive functioning in people with developmental and neurodegenerative disorders and who suffered a brain damage (e.g. traumatic brain injury, stroke)
in order to establish a rehabilitative program tailored on the individual and his context. My research interests regard brain mechanisms underpinning autobiographical memory and how to apply the resulting data in clinical contexts.
Francesca Vecchione
Neuropsychologist, Research Fellow
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I am a Neuropsychologist. I conducted research in the neuropsychological fields of developmental age and life span.
In particular, I've been focusing on the development of new assessments and rehabilitation tools.
Gaia Cartocci
PhD, Radiologist
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During the Radiology specialization, finished in 2016, I dedicated myself the last year of training to neuroradiology, becoming enthusiast about the subject.
For this reason, I underwent a PhD program, also in collaboration with the Department of Forensic Medicine and terminated in 2019, in which I studied the neural correlates of persons detained in REMS, with particular regard to the circuits of morality, salience and reward. In my research I integrated different imaging approaches with Magnetic Resonance, using functional and structural RM techniques. I currently work as a Radiologist at the Emergency Department of Umberto I University Hospital, since 2018.
Valentina Sulpizio
PhD
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My research activity mainly concerns the study of perceptive, sensory-motor, and cognitive functions in humans, with a specific focus on their neural correlates.
Specifically, I am interested in studying the neural basis of three functions that are highly interconnected to each other and intrinsically linked to our daily experience of interaction with the external environment such as 1) perception of visual movement, 2) integration of visual and motor information to visually guide actions, and 3) spatial navigation and orientation. In my research activity, I usually combine behavioral testing with functional magnetic resonance imaging procedures including individual surface-based brain mapping, task-evoked activity, and advanced procedures of data analysis (parametric and representational similarity analyses, multivoxel patterns analysis, functional and effective connectivity analysis).
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COLLABORATORS
SPECIALISTS AND STUDENTS
Maria Bianca Muneghina
Post-graduate trainee in Neuropsychology
Loredana Carmen Russo
Student
Maria Schettino
Student
Irene Ruffo
Student
Silvia Chironi
Student
Federico Tamigi
Student
Francesca Cinelli
Student
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