Emiliano Ricciardi

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 investigates brain dynamics during natural vision and audition by analyzing information flow between brain regions in sighted, blind, and deaf participants, revealing how distributed processing supports perception.

The paper identifies two distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep based on thalamic involvement and synchronization mechanisms using EEG-fMRI data.

This study examines how immersive NREM dreaming affects perceived sleep depth despite declining sleep pressure.

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

This study shows that intrinsic cortical hierarchies constrain experience-dependent plasticity in sensory-deprived humans, preserving functional gradients while allowing adaptive reorganization.

This study uses MEG to show that auditory cortex hemispheres specialize in processing local sound features versus summary statistics, with right hemisphere involvement in both and left hemisphere engagement in summary statistics for long sounds.

This paper demonstrates using EEG to measure neural tracking of continuous, unpredictable tactile events, showing reliable TRF after 3 minutes and digit lateralization.

The paper compares statistical models to distinguish lexical and syntactic processing in EEG data from language comprehension.

This study examines how face masks affect neural tracking of speech by comparing auditory and visual obstacles in three conditions: no-mask, virtual mask, and real mask.

This study examines neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants, finding resilience in early auditory processing but vulnerability in higher-level speech processing.

This study uses EEG-fMRI to examine age-related changes in cortical and thalamic activity during slow waves in children, showing posterior-to-anterior shifts and thalamic maturation.

The paper examines the relationship between subjective and objective measures of cognitive load in call center workers, finding that personality traits influence subjective perception but not objective physiological responses.

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.

The paper shows that congenitally blind individuals maintain connectivity between visual and sensorimotor cortices, with eye movements driving visual cortex activity and sensorimotor activity, despite lacking visual experience and oculomotor control.

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 shows that early visual cortex tracks speech envelope without visual input, with effects modulated by noise and semantic content.

This study shows that short-term monocular deprivation alters neural responses to visual and audio-visual events in an eye-specific manner, with increased excitability in the deprived eye and enhanced audio-visual responses in the undeprived eye.

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.

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.

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 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.