Pietro Pietrini

This study shows that blindness changes occipital cortex dynamics to resemble frontal cortex, enhancing top-down connectivity and linking faster dynamics to stronger frontal influence.

This study analyzes dream content using a multimodal dataset to show how individual traits and external events shape dream experiences.

The paper examines cortical structure in relation to empathy and psychopathy in incarcerated men, finding specific associations between cortical metrics and psychopathy factors.

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.

This study distinguishes neural coding for local and summary representations of sound textures using EEG and computational models.

This study shows that auditory statistics processing and visual experience interact only in late development, with congenitally blind individuals showing normal auditory processing but late-onset blind individuals showing impaired local feature processing.

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

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 emotion suppression failures are linked to increased sleep-like brain activity in specific regions and are influenced by prior sleep duration.

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.

This study compares wPLI and wSMI metrics for detecting brain functional interactions, finding they capture distinct types of linear and nonlinear interdependencies in EEG data.

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 identifies two types of low-frequency oscillations in human REM sleep and links them to distinct functional roles and generation mechanisms.

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.

The paper identifies a genetic variant near CXCR4 associated with increased risk for PSP and PD, showing dysregulation of CXCR4 and microglia-related genes in neurodegenerative diseases.