Turning the cortically blind brain to see: from neural computations to system dynamics generating visual awareness in humans and monkeys

Project Information

LIGHTUP

Grant agreement ID: 772953

DOI

10.3030/772953

Project closed

EC signature date 13 July 2018

Start date 1 August 2018

End date 31 July 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 994 212,00

EU contribution

€ 1 994 212,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Investigation of Brain Activation Patterns Related to the Feminization or Masculinization of Body and Face Images across Genders

Author(s): Carlo Ceruti, Alessandro Cicerale, Matteo Diano, Mattia Sibona, Caterina Guiot, Giovanna Motta, Chiara Crespi, Anna Gualerzi, Fabio Lanfranco, Mauro Bergui, Federico D’Agata
Published in: Tomography, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 2093-2106, ISSN 2379-139X
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Grapho Publications
DOI: 10.3390/tomography8040176

Connectional gradients underlie functional transitions in monkey pre-supplementary motor area

Author(s): Davide Albertini, Marzio Gerbella, Marco Lanzilotto, Alessandro Livi, Monica Maranesi, Carolina Giulia Ferroni, Luca Bonini
Published in: Progress in Neurobiology, Issue 184, 2020, Page(s) 101699, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2019.101699

A subcortical network for implicit visuo-spatial attention: Implications for Parkinson's Disease

Author(s): Matteo Esposito, Marco Tamietto, Giuliano Carlo Geminiani, Alessia Celeghin
Published in: Cortex, Issue 141, 2022, Page(s) 421-435, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.05.003

Conscious awareness is necessary to assess trust and mimic facial expressions, while pupils impact trust unconsciously

Author(s): E. Prochazkova, D. Venneker, R. de Zwart, M. Tamietto, M. E. Kret
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 377, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0183

Rehabilitating homonymous visual field deficits: white matter markers of recovery—stage 2 registered report

Author(s): Hanna E Willis, Bradley Caron, Matthew R Cavanaugh, Lucy Starling, Sara Ajina, Franco Pestilli, Marco Tamietto, Krystel R Huxlin, Kate E Watkins, Holly Bridge
Published in: Brain Communications, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2632-1297
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae323

Imageability effect on the functional brain activity during a naming to definition task

Author(s): Francesca Garbarini, Fabrizio Calzavarini, Matteo Diano, Monica Biggio, Carola Barbero, Daniele P. Radicioni, Giuliano Geminiani, Katiuscia Sacco, Diego Marconi
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 137, 2020, Page(s) 107275, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107275

Stable readout of observed actions from format-dependent activity of monkey’s anterior intraparietal neurons

Author(s): Marco Lanzilotto, Monica Maranesi, Alessandro Livi, Carolina Giulia Ferroni, Guy A. Orban, Luca Bonini
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/28, 2020, Page(s) 16596-16605, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2007018117

Functional neuroanatomy of racial categorization from visual perception: A meta-analytic study

Author(s): Arianna Bagnis, Alessia Celeghin, Matteo Diano, Carlos Andres Mendez, Giuliana Spadaro, Cristina Onesta Mosso, Alessio Avenanti, Marco Tamietto
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 217, 2020, Page(s) 116939, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116939

Hedonic and autonomic responses in promoting affective touch

Author(s): Alessandro Mazza, Monia Cariola, Francesca Capiotto, Matteo Diano, Selene Schintu, Lorenzo Pia, Olga Dal Monte
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37471-9

Largely shared neural codes for biological and nonbiological observed movements but not for executed actions in monkey premotor areas

Author(s): Davide Albertini, Marco Lanzilotto, Monica Maranesi, Luca Bonini
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 126, 2022, Page(s) 906-912, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00296.2021

From Observed Action Identity to Social Affordances

Author(s): G.A. Orban, M. Lanzilotto, L. Bonini
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.02.012

A deep neural network model of the primate superior colliculus for emotion recognition

Author(s): Carlos Andrés Méndez, Alessia Celeghin, Matteo Diano, Davide Orsenigo, Brian Ocak, Marco Tamietto
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 377, 2024, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0512

Editorial: Explicit and Implicit Emotion Processing: Neural Basis, Perceptual and Cognitive Mechanisms

Author(s): Celeghin, A., Mazzoni, N., & Mattavelli, G.
Published in: Frontiers in psychology, 2020, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584469

Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys

Author(s): Francesca Lanzarini, Monica Maranesi, Elena Hilary Rondoni, Davide Albertini, Elena Ferretti, Marco Lanzilotto, Silvestro Micera, Alberto Mazzoni, Luca Bonini
Published in: Science, Issue 387, 2025, Page(s) 214-220, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adq6510

Voxel-Based Lesion–Symptom Mapping Localizes Residual Visual Function in Hemianopia

Author(s): Hanna E. Willis, Junaid Hameed, Lucy Starling, Carina Kaltenbach, Margaret Jane Moore, Amirah Khan, Rachel Maxwell, Marco Tamietto, Sara Ajina, Holly Bridge
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 45, 2025, Page(s) e1263242024, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1263-24.2024

Enhanced dynamic functional connectivity (whole-brain chronnectome) in chess experts

Author(s): Enrico Premi, Stefano Gazzina, Matteo Diano, Andrea Girelli, Vince D. Calhoun, Armin Iraji, Qiyong Gong, Kaiming Li, Franco Cauda, Roberto Gasparotti, Alessandro Padovani, Barbara Borroni, Mauro Magoni
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63984-8

GABA and Glutamate in hMT+ Link to Individual Differences in Residual Visual Function After Occipital Stroke

Author(s): Hanna E. Willis, I. Betina Ip, Archie Watt, Jon Campbell, Saad Jbabdi, William T. Clarke, Matthew R. Cavanaugh, Krystel R. Huxlin, Kate E. Watkins, Marco Tamietto, Holly Bridge
Published in: Stroke, Issue 54, 2024, Page(s) 2286-2295, ISSN 0039-2499
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd.
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.123.043269

Editorial: Limbic-Brainstem Roles in Perception, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior

Author(s): Hisao Nishijo, Robert Rafal, Marco Tamietto
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Issue 12, 2018, ISSN 1662-453X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00395

Emotion Recognition in Low-Spatial Frequencies Is Partly Preserved following Traumatic Brain Injury

Author(s): Alessia Celeghin, Valentina Galetto, Marco Tamietto, Marina Zettin
Published in: BioMed Research International, Issue 2019, 2019, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 2314-6133
Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
DOI: 10.1155/2019/9562935

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Author(s): Elisabetta Palagi, Alessia Celeghin, Marco Tamietto, Piotr Winkielman, Ivan Norscia
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 111, 2020, Page(s) 149-165, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.020

Towards a comparative science of emotion: Affect and consciousness in humans and animals

Author(s): Elizabeth S. Paul, Shlomi Sher, Marco Tamietto, Piotr Winkielman, Michael T. Mendl
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 108, 2020, Page(s) 749-770, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.014

Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness

Author(s): Matthias Michel, Diane Beck, Ned Block, Hal Blumenfeld, Richard Brown, David Carmel, Marisa Carrasco, Mazviita Chirimuuta, Marvin Chun, Axel Cleeremans, Stanislas Dehaene, Stephen M. Fleming, Chris Frith, Patrick Haggard, Biyu J. He, Cecilia Heyes, Melvyn A. Goodale, Liz Irvine, Mitsuo Kawato, Robert Kentridge, Jean-Remi King, Robert T. Knight, Sid Kouider, Victor Lamme, Dominique Lamy, Hakwan Lau
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 3/2, 2019, Page(s) 104-107, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0531-8

Classical paintings may trigger pain and pleasure in the gendered brain

Author(s): Beatrice de Gelder, Rebecca Watson, Minye Zhan, Matteo Diano, Marco Tamietto, Maarten J. Vaessen
Published in: Cortex, Issue 109, 2018, Page(s) 171-180, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.011

Functional reorganization of population receptive fields in a hemispherectomy patient with blindsight

Author(s): Loraine Georgy, Bert Jans, Marco Tamietto, Alain Ptito
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 128, 2019, Page(s) 198-203, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.026

Functional neuroanatomy of blindsight revealed by activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

Author(s): Alessia Celeghin, Arianna Bagnis, Matteo Diano, Carlos Andrés Méndez, Tommaso Costa, Marco Tamietto
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 128, 2019, Page(s) 109-118, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.007

Toward an integrative science of social vision in intergroup bias

Author(s): Arianna Bagnis, Alessia Celeghin, Cristina Onesta Mosso, Marco Tamietto
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 102, 2019, Page(s) 318-326, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.04.020

Standing on the shoulders of a giant

Author(s): Marco Tamietto, Robert W. Kentridge
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 128, 2019, Page(s) 2-5, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.04.020

Definition: Blindsight

Author(s): James Danckert, Marco Tamietto, Yves Rossetti
Published in: Cortex, Issue 119, 2019, Page(s) 569-570, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.01.027

Increasing associative plasticity in temporo-occipital back-projections improves visual perception of emotions

Author(s): Sara Borgomaneri, Marco Zanon, Paolo Di Luzio, Antonio Cataneo, Giorgio Arcara, Vincenzo Romei, Marco Tamietto, Alessio Avenanti
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41058-3

Convolutional neural networks for vision neuroscience: significance, developments, and outstanding issues

Author(s): Alessia Celeghin, Alessio Borriero, Davide Orsenigo, Matteo Diano, Carlos Andrés Méndez Guerrero, Alan Perotti, Giovanni Petri, Marco Tamietto
Published in: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Issue 17, 2023, ISSN 1662-5188
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2023.1153572

Rehabilitating hemianopia: white matter markers of recovery

Author(s): Hannah E. Willis, Mathew R. Cavanaugh,Sara Ajina,Franco Pestilli, Marco Tamietto, Krystel R. Huxlin,Kate E. Watkins, Holly Bridge.
Published in: Brain Communications, 2021, ISSN 2632-1297
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Disentangling attentional and affective contribution to contagious yawning

Author(s): Elisabetta Palagi, Alessia Celeghin, Marco Tamietto, Piotr Winkielman, Ivan Norscia
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 132, 2024, Page(s) 892-893, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.050

Learning to fear novel stimuli by observing others in the social affordance framework

Author(s): M. Lanzilotto, O. Dal Monte, M. Diano, M. Panormita, S. Battaglia, A. Celeghin, L. Bonini, M. Tamietto
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Issue 169, 2025, Page(s) 106006, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106006

Local and system mechanisms for action execution and observation in parietal and premotor cortices

Author(s): Carolina G. Ferroni, Davide Albertini, Marco Lanzilotto, Alessandro Livi, Monica Maranesi, Luca Bonini
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 2819-2830.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.034

Changes in peri-calcarine cortical thickness in blindsight

Author(s): Georgy, L., J. D. Lewis, G. Bezgin, M. Diano, A. Celeghin, A. C. Evans, M. Tamietto, and A. Ptito
Published in: Neuropsychologia, 2020, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107463

A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas

Author(s): Francesca Setti, Giacomo Handjaras, Davide Bottari, Andrea Leo, Matteo Diano, Valentina Bruno, Carla Tinti, Luca Cecchetti, Francesca Garbarini, Pietro Pietrini, Emiliano Ricciardi
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 7, 2023, Page(s) 397-410, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature Publishing
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01507-3

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Connectivity dynamics of the Default Mode Network encode the stream of affect at multiple timescales

Author(s): Lettieri, Giada, Giacomo Handjaras, Francesca Setti, Elisa Morgana Cappello, Valentina Bruno, Matteo Diano, Andrea Leo, Emiliano Ricciardi, Pietro Pietrini, and Luca Cecchetti
Published in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2021, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.06.137851