Other Publications
Original Scientific Papers
Vato A., Semprini M., Maggiolini E., Szymanski F.D., Fadiga L., Panzeri S. & Mussa-Ivaldi F.A., Shaping the dynamics of a bidirectional neural interface, Plos Computational Biology, in press
Baranauskas G., Maggiolini E., Vato A., Angotzi G., Bonfanti A., Zambra G., Spinelli A., & Fadiga L., Origins of 1/f2 scaling in the power spectrum of intracortical local field potential, J Neurophysiol 107: 3. 984-994, 2012
Bonfanti A., Zambra G., Baranauskas G., Angotzi G.N., Maggiolini E., Semprini M., Vato A., Fadiga L., Spinelli A.S. & Lacaita A.L. , A wireless microsystem with digital data compression for neural spike recording, Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 88,no. 8, pp. 1672–1675, 2011
Baranauskas G., Maggiolini E., Castagnola E., Ansaldo A., Mazzoni A., Angotzi G.N., Vato A., Ricci D., Panzeri S. & Fadiga L., Carbon nanotube composite coating of neural microelectrodes preferentially improves the multiunit signal-to-noise ratio. J Neural Eng 8: 6, 2011
Mussa-Ivaldi F.A., Alford S.T., Chiappalone M., Fadiga L., Karniel A., Kositsky M., Maggiolini E., Panzeri S., Sanguineti V., Semprini M. & Vato A. , New perspectives on the dialogue between brains and machines, Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 4,no. 1, pp. 44–52, 2010
Chiappalone M, Vato A, Berdondini L, Koudeka-Hep M, Martinoia S. Network dynamics and synchronous activity in cultured cortical neurons. International Journal of Neural Systems, 17, 2: 87-103, 2007
Chiappalone M, Bove M, Vato A, Tedesco M and Martinoia S. Dissociated cortical networks show spontaneously correlated activity patterns during in vitro development.Brain Research, 1093(1):41-53, 2006.
Chiappalone M, Novellino A, Vajda I, Vato A, Martinoia S, and van Pelt J. Burst detection algorithms for the analysis of spatio-temporal patterns in cortical networks of neurons. Neurocomputing, 65-66: 653-662, 2005
Vato A, Bonzano L, Chiappalone M, Cicero S, Morabito F, Novellino A, and Stillo G. Spike Manager: a new tool for spontaneous and evoked neuronal networks activity characterization. Neurocomputing 58-60: 1153-1161, 2004
Stillo G, Bonzano L, Chiappalone M, Vato A, Davide FA, and Martinoia S. Burst on Hurst algorithm for detecting activity patterns in networks of cortical neurons. International Journal of Information Technology 1: 236-239, 2004.
Novellino A, Chiappalone M, Vato A, Bove M, Tedesco M, and Martinoia S. Behaviors from an electrically stimulated spinal cord neuronal network cultured on microelectrode arrays. Neurocomputing 52-54C: 661-669, 2003.
Chiappalone M, Vato A, Tedesco M, Marcoli M, Davide FA, and Martinoia S. Networks of neurons coupled to microelectrode arrays: a neuronal sensory system for pharmacological applications. Biosens Bioelectron 18: 627-634, 2003.
Book chapters and thesis
Bonzano L, Vato A, Chiappalone M and Martinoia S. Modulation of electrophysiological activity in neural networks: towards a bioartificial living system. In: Handbook of Neural Engineering, edited by Matin Akay, Wiley/IEEE Press, 2007, p.29-40
Martinoia S, Chiappalone M, Vato A. Bioartificial neuronal networks: coupling networks of biological neuron to microtransducer arrays. In: Smart adaptive system on silicon, edited by Valle M, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004, p. 285-302.
Vato A. "Connecting neurons to artificial devices: a new tool for investigating the neural code" (PhD thesis). Genoa, University of Genoa, 2004.
Conference Proceedings and abstracts
Szymanski F.D. , Semprini M., Mussa-Ivaldi F. A. , Fadiga L. , Panzeri S. & Vato A. (2011) Dynamic Brain-Machine Interface: a novel paradigm for bidirectional interaction between brains and dynamical systems. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011: 4592-4595 Aug
Maggiolini E., Castagnola E., Ansaldo A., Vato A., Fadiga L. & Ricci D. 2011, 'Carbon nanotubes coatings: a new strategy to improve the quality of chronic neuro-implants over time?', European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting E-MRS 2011, Nice, France, May 9 -13, 2011.
Szymanski F., Semprini M., Mussa-Ivaldi F.A., Fadiga L., Panzeri S. & Vato A. 2011, 'Dynamic Brain Machine Interface: A Novel Paradigm for Bidirectional Interaction between Brains and Dynamical Systems', 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, MA, USA, Aug 30 - Sept 3, 2011.
Bonfanti A., Zambra G., Baranauskas G., Angotzi G.N., Maggiolini E., Semprini M., Vato A., Spinelli A.S. & Lacaita A.L. 2010, 'A Wireless Microsystem With Digital Data Compression For Neural Spike Recording', 36th International Conference on Micro and Nano Engineering, Genoa, Italy, September 19-22, 2010.
Semprini M., Maggiolini E., Panzeri S., Mussa-Ivaldi F.A., Fadiga L. & Vato A. 2010, 'A Parametric Study of Information Transfer between Stimulating and Recording Electrodes in a Closed Loop Brain Machine Interface', Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensambles, Santorini, Greece, June 17-20, 2010.
Semprini M., Szymanski F., Maggiolini E., Mussa-Ivaldi F.A., Fadiga L., Panzeri S. & Vato A. 2010, 'A study of how to optimally transfer information between stimulating and recording electrodes in a closed loop brain machine interface', Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA, November 13-17, 2010.
Vato A., Semprini M., Maggiolini E., Fadiga L., Panzeri S. & Mussa-Ivaldi F.A. 2010, 'Dynamic shaping: A new paradigm for bidirectional brain-machine interfaces', Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA, November 13-17, 2010.
Bonfanti A., Zambra G., Borghi T., Spinelli A.S., Angotzi G.N., Baranauskas G., Maggiolini E., Semprini M., Vato A., Oliynyk A., Torazza D., Budai R., Skrap M., Tomasino B. & Fadiga L. 2009, 'A compact 8-channel system for multi-unit recordings with an autoclavable headstage developed for human brain tumor boundary detection', Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA, October 17-21, 2009.
Baranauskas G., Bonfanti A., Zambra G., Angotzi G.N., Maggiolini E., Semprini M., Vato A. & Spinelli A.S. 2009, 'The design of high quality compact integrated multichannel systems for multi unit recording from small laboratory animals', Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA, October 17-21, 2009.
Semprini M., Maggiolini E., Bennicelli L. & Vato A. 2009, 'A parametric study of intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex in behaving rodents', Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA, October 17-21, 2009.
Vato A and Mussa-Ivaldi F.A. Training rodents to manipulate. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, (GA, USA), 2006.
Martinoia S, Chiappalone M, Massobrio P, Tedesco M and Vato A. Plastic changes in cortical networks coupled to Micro Electrode Arrays. 5th Forum of European Neuroscience, Vienna (Austria), 2006.
Kositsky M, Chiappalone M, Vato A, Rebesco J, Alford S.T. and Mussa-Ivaldi F.A. Training Brain Machine Interface systems by controlled plasticity. Society for Neuroscience, Washington (DC, USA), 2005.
Martinoia S, Vato A, Chiappalone M, Tedesco M, Berdondini L and Koudelka-Hep M. Clustered Microelectrode Arrays promote selective activity patterns in networks of cortical neurons.Society for Neuroscience, Washington (DC, USA), 2005.
Vato A, Berdondini L, Koudelka-Hep M, Chiappalone M, Tedesco M and Martinoia S. Spontaneous and evoked activity in cortical neuronal networks coupled to cluster microelectrode arrays. National Congress of the Italian Society of Neuroscience and Joint Italian-Swedish Neuroscience Meeting, Ischia -Naples, (Italy), 2005.
Kositsky M, Chiappalone M, Vato A, Rebesco JM, Alford ST, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA. Employing neural potentiation mechanisms within brain-machine interface system. Computational Neuroscience Meeting - CNS 2005, 2005.
Chiappalone M, Bove M, Vato A, Tedesco M, and Martinoia S. Modulation of rhythmic activity in networks of cortical neurons during development. 4th International Meeting on Substrate- Integrated Microelectrode Arrays - SIMEA 2004, Reutlingen (Germany), 2004.
Chiappalone M, Novellino A, Vato A, Martinoia S, Vajda I, and van Pelt J. Analysis of the bursting behavior in developing neural networks. 2nd International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions, Genova (Italy), 2004.
Martinoia S, Chiappalone M, Vato A, and Bove M. Analysis of activity patterns induced by electrical stimulation of cortical networks cultured on MicroElectrodeArrays. Third International Conference on Substrate-Integrated Microelectrodes - SIMEA 2003, Denton (TX, USA), 2003, p. 17.
Vato A, Bonzano L, Chiappalone M, Novellino A, Tedesco M, Bove M, and Martinoia S. Modulating Neural Networks Dynamics: Multi-Site Electrical Stimulation of In-Vitro Cortical Neurons Coupled to MEA Devices. The 1st International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering", Capri (Italy), March 20-22, 2003.
Verreschi G, novellino a, Vato A, and Martinoia S. Software tools for data analysis abd acquisition from multichannel system based on microelectrode arrays for electrophysiological measurements. The 8th national conference on Sensors and microsystems, Trento (Italy), February 12-14, 2003.
Novellino A, Chiappalone M, Vato A, Bove M, Martinoia S, and Grattarola M Electrical stimulation can induce changes in dynamics of a spinal cord neuronal network cultured on microelectrode arrays The 11th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting - CNS*2002, Chicago (IL, USA), July 21-25, 2002.
Vato A, Chiappalone M, Novellino A, Bove M, Martinoia S, and Grattarola M. Analysis of electrically stimulated spinal cord neuronal networks cultured on microelectrode arrays. The 4th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation, Como (Italy), 2002, p. 327-330.
Grattarola M, Chiappalone M, Davide F, Tedesco M, Rosso N, and Vato A. Burst analysis of chemically stimulated spinal cord neuronal networks cultured on microelectrode arrays The 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Istanbul (Turkey), October 25 - 28, 2001.
Chiappalone M, Grattarola M, Pisciotta M, Tedesco MT, Vato A, and Davide FA. Neuroengineering:Bioartificial Networks of real neurons. Electroactive Polymers And Biosystems: New Directions In Electroactive Polymer Materials For Biomimetic And Interactive Processes, Il Ciocco (LU), Italy, 2001, p.90-98.
