Davide Bottari

The paper shows newborns can synchronize non-nutritive sucking to auditory temporal structures within days of birth, even with weak predictability.

This study shows that blindness changes occipital cortex dynamics to resemble frontal cortex, enhancing top-down connectivity and linking faster dynamics to stronger frontal influence.

The paper investigates ocular speech tracking in blind and sighted individuals, finding it is not modulated by speech intelligibility and has two frequency-specific components influenced by visual experience.

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 shows that cochlear implants alter neural predictive processing of audiovisual speech by disrupting pre-target beta power decreases in CI users compared to normal-hearing controls.

This study uses MEG to show that auditory cortex hemispheres specialize in processing local sound features versus summary statistics, with right hemisphere involvement in both and left hemisphere engagement in summary statistics for long sounds.

This paper demonstrates using EEG to measure neural tracking of continuous, unpredictable tactile events, showing reliable TRF after 3 minutes and digit lateralization.

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.

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 shows that early visual cortex tracks speech envelope without visual input, with effects modulated by noise and semantic content.

This study shows that short-term monocular deprivation alters neural responses to visual and audio-visual events in an eye-specific manner, with increased excitability in the deprived eye and enhanced audio-visual responses in the undeprived eye.

This study distinguishes neural coding for local and summary representations of sound textures using EEG and computational models.

This study shows that auditory statistics processing and visual experience interact only in late development, with congenitally blind individuals showing normal auditory processing but late-onset blind individuals showing impaired local feature processing.

The study investigates whether the Size-Weight Illusion is affected by congenital visual deprivation, finding it remains intact in individuals with a history of visual deprivation.

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