Luca Baroni

This paper improves visual prosthetics by incorporating orientation selectivity with retinotopy to better match natural neural responses in the visual cortex.

This study shows that optogenetic stimulation activates cortical neurons in a morphology-dependent manner, with lateral spread influenced by neuronal layer and stimulation intensity.

The paper uses CNNs to analyze contextual modulation in visual cortex by synthesizing surround patterns, finding that pattern completion enhances responses while disruption suppresses them, consistent across mice and macaques.