Alessandra Federici

The paper shows newborns can synchronize non-nutritive sucking to auditory temporal structures within days of birth, even with weak predictability.

This study shows that early sensory input gates phonetic attunement, with visual speech supporting phonetic encoding in the absence of early auditory input.

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

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.

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.

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.

This paper reviews and meta-analyzes biological motion perception in autism, finding moderate deficits with high heterogeneity, suggesting spatio-temporal factors and secondary processing roles are key.

This study finds altered beta-band oscillations and connectivity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during detail-oriented visual processing, suggesting aberrant feedback connectivity in the visual system.