Alfonso Caramazza

Spatial organization of neural responses to physical and agentive movement dynamics is reflected in intrinsic functional connectivity

The paper examines how neural responses to physical and agentive movement dynamics are organized in functional connectivity.

Dissociation between physical reasoning and tool use in individuals with left hemisphere brain damage

The paper investigates whether physical reasoning and tool use can dissociate in individuals with left-hemisphere brain damage, finding individual-level dissociations in task performance.

Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals

The paper investigates how congenitally blind and sighted individuals process nouns and verbs using fMRI, finding that the blind visual cortex, specifically V5/MT, responds to concrete nouns and verbs based on their physical properties.

The role of agentive and physical forces in the neural representation of motion events

This study investigates how the brain represents motion events based on agentive versus physical forces using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis, finding shared and distinct neural representations in different brain regions.

Dissociating Goal from Outcome During Action Observation

The paper identifies brain regions that represent action goals independently of outcomes using fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis.

Preserved recognition of basic visual features despite lack of awareness of shape: evidence from a case of neglect

This study examines a case of neglect where shape awareness is impaired but basic visual features like color and location are preserved, suggesting distinct roles for spatial attention in object recognition.

A shared neural code for the physics of actions and object events

This study identifies a shared neural code across brain regions for both action and object events, showing that these regions encode event structure and physics regardless of animacy.

Preference for animate domain sounds in the fusiform gyrus of blind individuals is modulated by shape-action mapping

The paper shows that blind individuals' fusiform gyrus responds to human facial expression sounds, linking shape and action, but not to speech or animal sounds.

Shape-centered representations of bounded regions of space mediate the transformation of retinotopic representations into conscious perception of objects

The paper describes a visual disorder where a patient perceives bounded shapes as rotated or mirrored, suggesting shape-centered representations mediate object perception from retinotopic inputs.

The contribution of object size, manipulability, and stability on neural responses to inanimate objects

The paper examines how neural responses to inanimate objects are organized by size and motor-relevance, finding that manipulability and stability explain responses in different brain regions.

Typical lipreading and audiovisual speech perception without motor simulation

The paper shows that individuals with lip paralysis can have typical lipreading and audiovisual speech perception without covert motor simulation.

Two Forms of Knowledge Representations in the Human Brain

The paper investigates how color knowledge is represented in the brain, finding that both sensory-derived and cognitively-derived systems exist, with a specific region supporting color knowledge in both blind and sighted individuals.

Lateral occipitotemporal cortex encodes perceptual components of social actions rather than abstract representations of sociality

This study uses fMRI and RSA to show that lateral occipitotemporal cortex encodes perceptual components of social actions, not abstract representations of sociality.

Individuation of parts of a single object and multiple distinct objects relies on a common neural mechanism in inferior intraparietal sulcus

The paper shows that the inferior intraparietal sulcus uses a common neural mechanism for individuating both connected object parts and distinct objects, independent of their connectivity.

Distinct profiles of temporal and frontoparietal cortex in representing actions across vision and language

The paper identifies distinct functional profiles in temporal and frontoparietal cortex for representing actions across vision and language using fMRI-based MVPA.

Large-scale organization of the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands

The paper investigates the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands, finding an intact network despite lacking the corresponding motor experience.

Limitations of compensatory plasticity: the organization of the primary sensorimotor cortex in foot-using bilateral upper limb dysplasics

The paper investigates brain plasticity in individuals born without hands, finding that primary sensorimotor cortex shows limited reorganization based on compensatory foot use, while association cortex exhibits functional reorganization.

How do blind people represent rainbows? Disentangling components of conceptual representations.

The paper investigates how blind individuals represent abstract concepts like 'rainbow' and 'freedom' by analyzing brain activation patterns in different regions of the anterior temporal lobe.

Multivariate Pattern Connectivity

This paper introduces and applies multivariate pattern connectivity (MVPC) to study brain region interactions by analyzing fine-grained response patterns, revealing new connections not detected by univariate methods.

Measuring and Modeling Nonlinear Interactions Between Brain Regions with fMRI

This study introduces a framework using neural networks to model nonlinear interactions between brain regions in fMRI data, showing improved accuracy and revealing task-dependent functional subdivisions.

Multimodal representations of person identity individuated with fMRI

This study shows that the posterior superior temporal sulcus encodes person identity information invariantly across visual and auditory modalities.