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Complex Networks - Neuroscience Researcher @ ISI Foundation

Turin, Italy
Joined March 2013
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🧠🎬 What can different views of brain activity tell us about how emotion unfolds? Across 14 films (~2.5h), we compared regional activity, pairwise connectivity & higher-order topology with 50 continuously rated affective features. Our preprint is out👇 shorturl.at/AfmGv
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6/ Huge thanks to the entire team for a fantastic collaboration across affective neuroscience, neuroimaging & network science. Special kudos to Lorenzo Zaffina for getting this project off the ground and driving its development with such substantial work!!!
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7/ Bonus point I forgot to include! 😅 Our results do not point to a single localized “core” of emotion. Instead, affective information is distributed across interacting cortical–subcortical systems — in line with recent work moving beyond strictly localized accounts of emotion.
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1/ 🚨 Just out in @NatureNeuro! 🧠 We profiled >6,000 features of brain dynamics across humans + monkeys, mice, fish and worms 🧑🐒🐒🐁🐟🪱 to find a shared neural endpoint of anaesthesia: spatiotemporal isolation of local activity 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-0…
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The first paper from my PhD is out in @NatureNeuro! Aging and Alzheimer's disease both reshape how the brain communicates. But not in the same way: aging vs AD related alterations follow two distinct axes of brain organization Paper → nature.com/articles/s41593-0… 🧵⬇️
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I’m hiring a postdoc in Dublin's DII! Can explicit topology/higher-order structure make LLMs reason better about sci/tech innovation? join us for TOPO-LLM: TDA + higher-order networks + transformers, with access to MareNostrum 5. Apply by 9 Sept: jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS062
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A new study by CETI Scientists analyzed thousands of hunting attempts and found that sperm whales flexibly switch prey-capture tactics within a single dive — adapting their approach in real time based on how their hunt unfolds. Read the pre-print here: bit.ly/45cW2Lz
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Excited to see this out! 🐳 One of the coolest projects I’ve had the chance to work on with @ProjectCETI and an amazing team. Looking forward to everything that’s next!
1/9 How does a sperm whale hunt in darkness, hundreds of metres beneath the surface? Our new preprint reveals a two-level strategy: persistent search across whole dives, paired with rapid switching between distinct prey-capture tactics. Link in🧵
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🧠 Happy to share that our work is now out in @NatureComms! A great collaboration bringing together past and present members of @NPLab_ to compare higher-order models of brain function, from information theory to topology. 📄 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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🧵 More about the study in the original preprint thread: nitter.cf/andreasantor0/status/1…
🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis? Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present @NPLab_ members: 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Interactions in ecosystems often involve more than pairs of species. Our new @CommsPhys Perspective, explores how #hypergraphs can bridge non-equilibrium dynamics & conservation, from coexistence and extinction to restoration and rewilding. 🔗rdcu.be/fnjV6
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🧠 New paper in @NatMentHealth ! In Parkinson's Disease, we show that patients at risk of cognitive decline have a distinct brain fingerprint, and that patient-specific networks associate with clinical outcomes and neurochemical substrate. Paper 👇
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