Raffaele Tucciarelli

Shaping the developing homunculus: the roles of deprivation and compensatory behaviour in sensory remapping

This study investigates neuroplasticity in children and adults with congenital limb differences, showing early global remapping in the somatosensory cortex driven by deprivation and compensatory behavior.

Does ipsilateral remapping following hand loss impact motor control of the intact hand?

The paper investigates whether brain remapping after hand loss affects motor control of the intact hand, finding increased neural activity in amputees but no behavioral improvement.

Reconstructing neural representations of tactile space

The paper reconstructs tactile space from fMRI data and finds that primary somatosensory and motor cortices encode tactile space with perceptual distortions.

The representational space of observed actions

The paper examines the neural representation of observed actions using fMRI and finds that lateral occipitotemporal cortex and left posterior inferior parietal lobe capture the semantic dissimilarity structure of actions.