Giulio Matteucci
@giulio_matt
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Postdoctoral resercher in Sami El-Boustani's Laboratory @unige_en | previously PhD student in Davide Zoccolan's Laboratory @Sissaschool | Header from @GDunnArt
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined February 2019
Mice dorsal cortex hosts overlapping visual and tactile sensory maps, forming an abstract representation of peripersonal space that enables spontaneous generalization of spatial task rules. Co-led this study with @GtnMaelle in @elboustanilab! More details down here... 🧠👇
If you can see it, you can feel it! Thrilled to share our new @NatureComms paper on how mice generalize spatial rules between vision & touch, led by brilliant co-first authors @giulio_matt & @GtnMaelle. More details in this thread 🧵 (1/7) https://t.co/CvmDQqokiF
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A new piece of the puzzle of how sound and visual perception interact, by @davide_zoccolan lab👂🏻👁️
Our study about how task-irrelevant sounds alter visual perception has just been published on Plos Computational Biology: https://t.co/LblbmKzp7Q You can read this previous thread for a short summary of our findings (SPOILER: sounds compress visual perceptual space!)
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our new study on remote touch Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - https://t.co/t0ZMXFandG via @neurosciencenew with #ZHengqiChen @lauracrucianel1
#lorenzoJamone @eli_versace
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I am glad to share the news of a publication based on my previous postdoc project about high-throughput synaptic connectivity mapping at mouse visual cortex ( https://t.co/xinzPQDjFT)! I am grateful for the opportunity of participating in this great team effort!
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Nature Neuroscience - Using two-photon optogenetics, electrical recordings and sparse signal reconstruction, the authors demonstrate in vivo synaptic connectivity mapping in the mouse visual cortex.
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The El-Boustani lab at @UNIGE_en is recruiting! We are looking for PhD students and Postdocs to study synaptic plasticity underlying sensorimotor learning in mice using brain-wide mapping, dendritic imaging and more. More details at https://t.co/90DirIgSMO. Please RT
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The New England Journal of Medicine (@NEJM) today published a peer-reviewed original paper with the results of a landmark clinical trial of our PRIMA brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant.
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Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices in the eye, writes @anne_churchland. https://t.co/cjfuOND6Gv
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Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience—with rigor and collaboration.
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ALS took Nick’s arm mobility. Now, he can control a robotic arm with his Neuralink device to feed himself. “Life with my BCI has been and continues to be so surreal and so rewarding. Can’t wait to see what comes next!”
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@E11BIO is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves. We discovered
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We believe what we see, but we also see what we believe. This is why we see illusions - our prior knowledge of the sensory world tricks us into seeing things that aren't there. How does this happen in the brain? In this study... https://t.co/gx6aLyfZzk
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Nature Neuroscience - Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by...
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Excited to share our new work on the large-scale organization of the tree shrew visual system, led by @FrankLanfranchi with @joe_wekselblatt & Daniel Wagenaar! We trace the evolutionary roots of the primate ventral visual pathway—revealing surprises like face cells in a
The primate visual system is a marvel of nature, inspiring the convnet. But how did it evolve? Do all highly visual mammals possess a ‘ventral stream’—a hierarchy of brain areas with increasing selectivity for complex forms? In our new study, we tackled these questions using
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For those of us raised on science fiction, having AI become part of everyday life feels like the breakthrough we’ve been expecting. Yet some critics insist that no matter what these models do, they're not truly intelligent—just clever simulacra.
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Maps are indispensable in neuroscience. Even when constructed with relatively crude methods, they can reveal clear specialization of brain areas. Here’s a nice example from 1902 (Grunbaum & Sherrington).
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Our first steps into sensory processing is now online! Work spearheaded by @RNeuroscience and @Prime5222 We were lucky to receive guidance from @davide_zoccolan on the analytical methods. The work was funded by @forskningsradet @NTNUhelse @MSCActions
Tactile responses in the mouse perirhinal cortex show invariance to physical features of the stimulus https://t.co/iCnYXuCrQD
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"What chess taught me about neuroscience" by @RetinaGeek
https://t.co/rqogxRCgnP A thoughtful essay on the interplay between data accumulation and theory in neuroscience, and how hopes of a grand theory of the brain may never pan out.
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🚨 Finally out in Nature Machine Intelligence!! "Visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models" https://t.co/GB5k6IV4Jg
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Nature Machine Intelligence - Doerig, Kietzmann and colleagues show that the brain’s response to visual scenes can be modelled using language-based AI representations. By linking brain...
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Very fascinating result by @petrznam and collaborators! It may mirror the topographic correspondence we observed between visual and tactile spatial maps in mouse associative areas👇🏻
Topographic alignment of auditory inputs to the visual cortex (in mice) https://t.co/Bh1MYC63TT by @petrznam et al.; more information in the Bluesky thread https://t.co/ChBlVuXLI1
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🔦 New @TrendsNeuro spotlight on our recent @NatureComms paper! How do brains generalise spatial information across sensory modalities? Our study identifies a region in the dorsal cortex of mice enabling them to transfer spatial knowledge between vision and touch!🖐🏻👀
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Cross-modal generalization enables animals to adapt to changing environments. In a recent paper, Guyoton, Matteucci, et al. demonstrated that a dorsal cortical region enables visuo-tactile generali...
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