People

Under this section, you'll find all research personnel in the Cognitive Neuroscience group at SISSA, with a brief description of who they are and what they do. Where available, links are also provided to the personal/lab websites.

Faculty Members are full and associate professors in the group, i.e., tenured group leaders who can directly supervise students, recruit staff in their labs, and manage funds. They provide the bulk of the teaching offer in the PhD.

Senior Postdocs are non-tenured, but independent researchers who are recruited in the group to widen our research portfolio with their own investigations. They’re encouraged to liaise with (some of) the PI’s labs; but are expected to maintain independence. They typically don't supervise students independently, and don’t manage research funds directly (unless they have their own external funds, of course). They typically contribute to the teaching offer in the PhD.

Postdocs are non-tenured, research positions to work in one of the PI’s labs. They can be funded internally or through external grants. They don't supervise students independently, and don’t manage research funds directly. If they’re happy to do so, they can contribute to the teaching offer in the PhD.

Students include PhD in our own program; Master in one of the programs that we run in collaboration with partners institutions; and subsidised graduate and postgraduate fellows who run short-term visits to the group, typically in the view of joining our PhD program.


Sara obtained a Ph.D. from University of Udine in 2014 with a thesis on the linguistic assessment of patients with aphasia. After a postdoc at University of Nova Gorica (SLO), she joined LIMBO lab in 2017. Sara tries to understand how patterns of a meter can enhance our ability to keep poetry in long-term memory.

Language, reading, and learning

Research in Davide’s lab investigates language, reading, and learning, through behavioural experiments, eye tracking, electrophysiology and brain imaging. Learn more on Davide's lab website.

Contact: davide.crepaldi@sissa.it

Visual Neuroscience

Davide Zoccolan’s Visual Neuroscience Lab investigates the neuronal processing of visual information, using a combination of psychophysics and multi-unit neuronal recordings in rodents, as well as computational modeling and machine learning. Learn more on the lab website.

Contact: zoccolan@sissa.it

Tactile Perception and Learning

Research in Diamond’s Tactile Perception and Learning Lab (TPLL) is aimed at understanding the neuronal basis of our subjective sensory experiences, through behavioural experiments, electrophysiology, and recently optogenetics. Learn more on the lab website.

Contact: diamond@sissa.it

Francesca's main interest concerns the role of cognitive and communicative pressures in shaping language structures.

Theoretical and computational neuroscience

Research in limbo - Liminar Investigations in Memory and Brain Organization - ideally self-organizes around any issue, the hippocampus, Potts models and drifting into language. Learn more on the lab website.

Contact: ale@sissa.it

joined Time Perception Lab in 2017, before as pre-doc student and later as a PhD student. I am working under the supervision of Professor Domenica Bueti. I am interested in how the brain represents temporal sequences.

Shrikanth Kulashekhar is a post-doctoral research fellow in Domenica Bueti's Time Perception Lab. He is interested understanding the neuronal mechanisms that govern the processing of temporal information in the brain using fMRI and EEG.

Francesca is a first year Ph.D. student in LIMBO group. She focuses on theoretical aspects of the dynamics underlying spatial and episodic memory. She got a B.Sc. in Biotechnology in Padova, an M.Sc. in Neuroscience within the project NEURASMUS between Gottingen and Bordeaux, and an M.Sc. in Physics of Complex Systems in Palma de Mallorca.

 

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