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Alberto Mazzoni

Senior Post Doc

IIT@UNITN / Neural Computation


Bio

1978 - Born in Firenze, Italy.

2002 - Degree in Theoretical Physics  at University of Pisa with prof. Leone Fronzoni

2003 - Visiting student at the Neurobiology Department of University of California, San Diego in the lab of prof. William Kristan.

2007 - PhD in Neurobiology at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) of Trieste in the lab of prof. Vincent Torre

2007-2009 Post-doc researcher in the Computational Neuroscience group of the Institute for Scientific Interchange of Torino - collaborating with Prof. Nicolas Brunel, CNRS Paris, France.

2009 - now Working in the Neural Coding group of Prof. Stefano Panzeri @ Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Other Publications


 

Sensory coding and information processing in the cortex

 

Papers

Alberto Mazzoni, Nicolas Brunel, Stefano Cavallari, Nikos K Logothetis, Stefano Panzeri - Cortical dynamics during naturalistic sensory stimulations - Journal of Physiology Paris (2011)

Robin A.A. Ince, Alberto Mazzoni, Andreas Bartels, Nikos K Logothetis, Stefano Panzeri - A novel test to determine the significance of neural selectivity to single and multiple potentially correlated stimulus features - Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2011)

Cesare Magri, Alberto Mazzoni, Nikos K Logothetis, Stefano Panzeri - Optimal Band Seperation of Extracellular Field Potentials - Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2011)

Robin A.A. Ince, Alberto Mazzoni, Rasmus S. Petersen, Stefano Panzeri – Open source tools for the information theoretic analysis of neural data - Frontiers in Neuroscience 4 (1) : (2010)

Alberto Mazzoni, Kevin Whittingstall, Nicolas Brunel, Nikos K Logothetis, Stefano Panzeri – Understanding the relationships between spike rate and delta/gamma frequency bands of LFPs and EEGs using a local cortical network model – Neuroimage 52 (3) : (2010)

Alberto Mazzoni, Stefano Panzeri, Nikos Logothetis, Nicolas Brunel - Encoding of Naturalistic Stimuli by Local Field Potential Spectra in Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons PloS Comp. Biol. 4 (12): (2008)

 

Conference proceedings

Alberto Mazzoni; Christoph Kayser; Yusuke Murayama; Juan Martinez; Rodrigo Quian Quiroga; Nikos K. Logothetis; Stefano Panzeri  Local field potential phase and spike timing convey information about different visual features in primary visual cortex - BMC Neuroscience 12(Suppl 1):P248 (2011)

Francesca Barbieri; Alberto Mazzoni;Nikos K. Logothetis;Stefano Panzeri; Nicolas Brunel - The dynamics of local field potential in monkey primary visual cortex under naturalistic stimulation is well captured by a model network of excitatory and inhibitory integrate-and-fire neurons - Annual meeting of the society for neuroscience (2011)

Alberto Mazzoni; Christoph Kayser; Yusuke Murayama; Juan Martinez; Rodrigo Quian Quiroga; Nikos K. Logothetis; Stefano Panzeri - Primary visual cortex encodes complementary information about naturalistic movies at different temporal scales - AREADNE (2011)

Alberto Mazzoni, Nicolas Brunel, Christoph Kayser, Cesare Magri, Nikos Logothetis, Stefano Panzeri – Information content and robustness of various types of codes in integrate and fire networks presented with naturalistic stimuli BMC Neuroscience 10:95 (2009)

Alberto Mazzoni, Stefano Panzeri, Nicolas Brunel - How gamma-band oscillatory activity participates in encoding of naturalistic stimuli in random networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons BMC Neuroscience 9:115 (2008)

 




Brain Machine Interfaces

Papers


Gytis Baranauskas, Emma Maggiolini, Elisa Castagnola, Alberto Ansaldo, Alberto Mazzoni, Gian Nicola Angotzi, Alessandro Vato, Davide Ricci, Stefano Panzeri, Luciano Fadigai - Carbon nanotube composite coating of neural microelectrodes preferentially improves the multiunit signal-to-noise ratio Journal of Neural Engineering 8 066013 (2011)

 

Opinion dynamics in social networks

Papers


Floriana Gargiulo, Alberto Mazzoni - Can Extremism Guarantee Pluralism? J. Artif. Soc. and Soc. Sim. 11(4):9 (2008)


Invertebrates spontaneous activity and behavior

Papers


Elizabeth Garcia Perez*, Alberto Mazzoni*, Vincent Torre - Spontaneous electrical activity and behaviour in the leech Hirudo medicinalis. Front. Integr. Neurosci. 1:8. doi:10.3389 (2007)


Alberto Mazzoni
, Frederic Broccard, Elizabeth Garcia Perez, Paolo Bonifazi, Maria Elisabetta Ruaro, Vincent Torre -  On the Dynamics of the Spontaneous Activity in Neuronal Networks, PLoS ONE 2(5): e439. (2007)


Elizabeth Garcia Perez*, Alberto Mazzoni*, Vincent Torre - Statistics of decision making in the leech, J. Neurosci., 25: 2597-2608. (2005)


Alberto Mazzoni*,
Elizabeth Garcia Perez*, Vincent Torre - Quantitative characterization and classification of the leech behaviour, J. Neurophysiol. 93: 580-593. (2005)

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