Andrea Leo

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 whether spontaneous brain activity in the somatomotor cortex is influenced by visual hand stimuli and their inferred use, finding stronger correlations with natural hand images than other stimuli.

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

This study maps cortical and subcortical hemodynamic changes during human sleep slow waves using EEG-fMRI recordings, showing regional BOLD signal fluctuations linked to slow wave propagation and functional connectivity.

The paper investigates how object shape is encoded in the visual cortex by analyzing orthogonal and shared representations using fMRI data.

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

This study identifies emotionotopy in the human right temporo-parietal cortex, showing gradients that encode emotional polarity, complexity, and intensity.

The paper shows that low-level visual features, shape, and category are processed in overlapping spatial locations early in time, suggesting parallel computations in visual processing.

The paper shows that visual experience during wakefulness affects slow wave activity in the occipital cortex during sleep, with internal visual imagery modulating these changes.

The paper studies foreground-background segmentation during natural image viewing using fMRI data from seven visual areas, finding foreground enhancement in all regions and background suppression in V4 and LOC.