Valeria Della‐Maggiore

Distinct cellular processes drive motor skill learning in the human brain

This study uses diffusion MRI and a new model to identify distinct cellular processes underlying motor skill learning in the human brain.

The human hippocampus is involved in implicit motor learning

This study investigates the role of the hippocampus in procedural motor learning by comparing visuomotor adaptation with and without explicit components, finding persistent structural changes in the hippocampus during implicit learning.

Sleep consolidation potentiates skill maintenance

This study investigates the role of sleep in motor skill maintenance through experiments showing sleep enhances memory retention when training occurs before bedtime.

Visuomotor adaptation modulates the clustering of sleep spindles into trains

This paper shows that visuomotor adaptation increases sleep spindle clustering into trains, which correlates with memory retention and spindle-SO coupling.

Competition between parallel sensorimotor learning systems

The paper investigates how implicit and explicit learning systems compete during sensorimotor adaptation, showing that shared error signals can lead to competition and reduced learning in one system when the other is enhanced.

Local coupling between sleep spindles and slow oscillations supports the stabilization of motor memories

This paper investigates the role of sleep spindle-slow oscillation coupling in motor memory consolidation and finds that coupled spindles predict long-term memory retention.

The origins of anterograde interference in visuomotor adaptation

This study investigates anterograde interference in visuomotor adaptation, finding two distinct mechanisms affecting performance over time.

Improving spatial normalization of brain diffusion MRI to measure longitudinal changes of tissue microstructure in the cortex and white matter.

This paper compares normalization pipelines for diffusion MRI to improve longitudinal measurement of tissue microstructure in brain gray and white matter.