Gian Domenico Iannetti

This study shows that perceptual decisions in natural scenes are influenced by background context, with texture entropy and edge density as key features, supported by psychophysics, AR, DNNs, and EEG.

The paper shows that spontaneous bursts from the locus coeruleus (LC) in rats produce ECoG responses similar to those from sensory stimuli, suggesting LC drives transient brain state changes.

The paper identifies replicable fMRI correlates of pain sensitivity across multiple pain types and develops a machine learning model to predict pain sensitivity and intervention outcomes.

This paper explains the origin of body-part centric receptive fields using reinforcement learning and shows how they form a short-term model of the near-body environment.

This paper introduces ESI, a non-invasive method to map spinal cord electrical activity, revealing distinct spatiotemporal responses and attention modulation effects.

The paper shows that task-specific information is widespread in the human brain and scales with consciousness levels, challenging traditional analytical approaches.

The paper examines thermosensitive spots on the skin, finding inconsistency in their sensory responses and locations across time, challenging the labelled line theory of sensory specificity.

This study investigates how auditory stimuli affect motor reactivity and neural activity in rhesus monkeys, revealing a cortico-motor mechanism linked to saliency detection.

The paper introduces a non-contact cooling stimulator to study cold sensation without mechanical contact, finding cold detection thresholds in humans.

This paper challenges the effectiveness of multi-voxel fMRI decoders for identifying mental states across individuals, showing they are often redundant and perform similarly to simpler methods.

This study identifies opioid-dependent inhibition of neurotransmitter release as the primary mechanism of analgesia in NaV1.7 null mutants in mice and humans.

This study shows that neural entrainment occurs at ultra-low frequencies (0.1 Hz) for thermal pain stimuli but not for auditory stimuli, linking it to pain sensitivity.

This study uses functional MRI to show that S1 representations of the CRPS-affected hand are preserved, challenging the idea that reorganization underlies the condition.

This study uses fMRI to investigate within-finger maps of nociceptive and tactile input in the human parietal cortex, finding a nociceptive map in hIP1 but not tactile maps.

This study investigates how different event-related potential (ERP) components habituate with repeated somatosensory stimuli, showing similar decay patterns for both lateralised and vertex waves.