Giacomo Handjaras

This study shows that early sensory input gates phonetic attunement, with visual speech supporting phonetic encoding in the absence of early auditory input.

This study analyzes dream content using a multimodal dataset to show how individual traits and external events shape dream experiences.

The paper identifies two distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep based on thalamic involvement and synchronization mechanisms using EEG-fMRI data.

This study examines how immersive NREM dreaming affects perceived sleep depth despite declining sleep pressure.

The paper examines cortical structure in relation to empathy and psychopathy in incarcerated men, finding specific associations between cortical metrics and psychopathy factors.

This study identifies factors influencing morning dream recall in adults, finding associations with attitude towards dreaming, mind wandering, sleep patterns, age, and interference vulnerability.

This study examines how face masks affect neural tracking of speech by comparing auditory and visual obstacles in three conditions: no-mask, virtual mask, and real mask.

This study examines neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants, finding resilience in early auditory processing but vulnerability in higher-level speech processing.

This study uses EEG-fMRI to examine age-related changes in cortical and thalamic activity during slow waves in children, showing posterior-to-anterior shifts and thalamic maturation.

The paper investigates how the brain encodes affect using sensory-specific or abstract codes by analyzing brain activity in blind, deaf, and typically-developed participants during movie viewing.

This study shows that the human superior temporal cortex synchronizes across auditory and visual conditions even in individuals without audiovisual experience, suggesting a modality-independent organization for multisensory processing.

The paper examines whether spontaneous brain activity in the somatomotor cortex is influenced by visual hand stimuli and their inferred use, finding stronger correlations with natural hand images than other stimuli.

The paper examines how brain network connectivity dynamics track affective changes during movie watching across multiple timescales.

This study maps cortical and subcortical hemodynamic changes during human sleep slow waves using EEG-fMRI recordings, showing regional BOLD signal fluctuations linked to slow wave propagation and functional connectivity.

The paper investigates how object shape is encoded in the visual cortex by analyzing orthogonal and shared representations using fMRI data.

The paper shows that different analysis workflows by 70 teams on the same fMRI dataset led to varied results, but meta-analysis found consensus in activated regions.

The paper shows that the human striate cortex represents sound envelopes, demonstrating that V1 is a genuine locus for this representation.

This study identifies emotionotopy in the human right temporo-parietal cortex, showing gradients that encode emotional polarity, complexity, and intensity.

The paper shows that low-level visual features, shape, and category are processed in overlapping spatial locations early in time, suggesting parallel computations in visual processing.

The paper studies foreground-background segmentation during natural image viewing using fMRI data from seven visual areas, finding foreground enhancement in all regions and background suppression in V4 and LOC.