Matteo Diano

This paper uses higher-order topology to analyze brain activity during naturalistic emotion tasks, finding that it captures fine-grained affective structure while pairwise connectivity captures broad arousal.

The paper examines how preserved cortical hierarchy in blindsight-positive patients explains their ability to detect stimuli without awareness after V1 damage.

The paper evaluates higher-order interaction metrics in brain connectivity using fMRI data, finding topological metrics link brain function to behavior better than pairwise models.

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

This study investigates gender-specific brain activation patterns when viewing paintings of male and female bodies, revealing distinct neural responses in brain regions associated with emotion, touch, and reward.