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Giacomo Barzon

University of PaduaORCID 0000-0002-9981-1027Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 6 Assay:electronic health records· 3 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1

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Towards a scalable effective connectivity estimation in fMRI

Benedetta Mariani, Luca Taffarello, Giorgia Baron, Giacomo Barzon, Federico Calesella, Matthieu Gilson, STEFANO DE MARCHI, Alessandro Chiuso, Antonino Vallesi, Samir Suweis, Marco Zorzi, Alessandra Bertoldo, Michele Allegra

This paper introduces a scalable method for estimating effective connectivity in fMRI data, showing it matches advanced DCM results and outperforms functional connectivity for connectome fingerprinting.

bioRxiv · Oct 28, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Control of cortical population activity with patterned microstimulation

Giacomo Barzon, Anandita De, Isaac Morán, Conner Carnahan, Luca Mazzucato, Roozbeh Kiani

This paper introduces REACH-Ctrl, a data-driven method for real-time control of cortical population activity using microstimulation and multi-electrode recordings, achieving high accuracy in macaque prefrontal cortex.

bioRxiv · Mar 4, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Structural Connectome Dimension Shapes Brain Dynamics in Health and Disease

Giacomo Barzon, Michele Allegra, Mohammad Hadi Aarabi, Lorenzo Pini, Manlio De Domenico, Maurizio Corbetta, Samir Simon Suweis

This study estimates the dimension of structural connectomes to understand their influence on brain dynamics in health and disease, finding it correlates with cognitive performance and lesion effects.

Network Neuroscience · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

EEG microstate transition cost correlates with task demands

Giacomo Barzon, Ettore Ambrosini, Antonino Vallesi, Samir Simon Suweis

This paper introduces a framework to quantify cognitive effort using EEG microstates and optimal transport theory, validated on Stroop task data showing increased transition costs with task demands.

PLoS Computational Biology · Oct 10, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain

Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Giacomo Barzon, Maria Clemencia Ortiz-Barajas, Mohinish Shukla, Ramon Guevara Erra, Samir Simon Suweis, Judit Gervain

This study shows that newborns' brain activity shows increased long-range temporal correlations after speech stimulation, particularly for the language they heard prenatally.

Science Advances · Nov 22, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model

Giacomo Barzon, Giorgio Nicoletti, Benedetta Mariani, Marco Formentin, Samir Simon Suweis

This paper shows that brain network structure and criticality drive collective oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model.

Journal of Physics Complexity · Jun 1, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience