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Overview

Daniela Montaldi is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with specialized interests spanning cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, nephrology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics related to memory and neural mechanisms, memory processes and influences, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neural dynamics and brain function, dementia and cognitive impairment research, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniela Montaldi include Alex Kafkas, Andrew R. Mayes, Darya Frank, Gemma Stringer, and Iracema Leroi. Their publication history is marked by contributions in several key venues, notably bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Cerebral Cortex, and Clinical Kidney Journal.

Significant recent papers published by Montaldi are:

  • Pattern Separation Underpins Expectation-Modulated Memory, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Thalamic-Medial Temporal Lobe Connectivity Underpins Familiarity Memory, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Cognitive impairment in patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease: the Salford kidney cohort study, 2020, Clinical Kidney Journal
  • Mid to late-life scores of depression in the cognitively healthy are associated with cognitive status and Alzheimer's disease pathology at death, 2020, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Information content best characterises the hemispheric selectivity of the inferior parietal lobe: a meta-analysis, 2020, Scientific Reports

Montaldi has contributed extensively to the fields of cognitive neuroscience and memory research through 36 publications in neuroscience overall and 13 in medicine. Within subfields, the focus includes cognitive neuroscience with 29 contributions, cellular and molecular neuroscience with 5, psychiatry and mental health with 4, nephrology with 2, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging with 2 publications.

Best Publications

  • Associative memory and the medial temporal lobes

    Andrew Mayes;Daniela Montaldi;Ellen Migo

  • Face processing impairments after encephalitis: amygdala damage and recognition of fear.

    Paul Broks;Paul Broks;Andrew W. Young;Elizabeth J. Maratos;Peter J. Coffey

  • The neural system that mediates familiarity memory.

    Daniela Montaldi;Tom J. Spencer;Neil Roberts;Andrew R. Mayes

  • A disproportionate role for the fornix and mammillary bodies in recall versus recognition memory

    Dimitris Tsivilis;Seralynne Denise Vann;Christine Denby;Neil Roberts

  • The role of recollection and familiarity in the functional differentiation of the medial temporal lobes.

    Daniela Montaldi;Andrew R. Mayes

  • Associative recognition in a patient with selective hippocampal lesions and relatively normal item recognition.

    Andrew R. Mayes;J. S. Holdstock;C. L. Isaac;D. Montaldi

  • Are mild head injuries as mild as we think? Neurobehavioral concomitants of chronic post-concussion syndrome

    Annette Sterr;Katherine A Herron;Chantal Hayward;Daniela Montaldi

  • Impaired recollection but spared familiarity in patients with extended hippocampal system damage revealed by 3 convergent methods

    Seralynne Denise Vann;Dimitris Tsivilis;Christine E. Denby;Joel R. Quamme

  • How do memory systems detect and respond to novelty

    Alexandros Kafkas;Daniela Montaldi

  • Induced gamma band responses: an early marker of memory encoding and retrieval.

    Thomas Gruber;Dimitris Tsivilis;Daniela Montaldi;Matthias M. Müller

  • Measuring recollection and familiarity: Improving the remember/know procedure

    Ellen M. Migo;Andrew R. Mayes;Daniela Montaldi

  • Measurements of regional cerebral blood flow and cognitive performance in Alzheimer's disease.

    D Montaldi;D N Brooks;J H McColl;D Wyper

  • Recognition memory strength is predicted by pupillary responses at encoding while fixation patterns distinguish recollection from familiarity

    Alexandros Kafkas;Daniela Montaldi

  • Memory for single items, word pairs, and temporal order of different kinds in a patient with selective hippocampal lesions

    A. R. Mayes;C. L. Isaac;J. S. Holdstock;N. M. Hunkin

  • Dissociation Between Recall and Recognition Memory Performance in an Amnesic Patient with Hippocampal Damage Following Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

    Christine Bastin;Martial Van der Linden;Annik Charnallet;Christine Denby

  • Familiarity and recollection produce distinct eye movement, pupil and medial temporal lobe responses when memory strength is matched.

    Alexandros Kafkas;Daniela Montaldi

  • Two separate, but interacting, neural systems for familiarity and novelty detection: A dual-route mechanism

    Alexandros Kafkas;Daniela Montaldi

  • Longitudinal changes in cognitive function and regional cerebral function in Alzheimer's disease: A SPECT blood flow study

    D.R.P. Brown;R. Hunter;D.J. Wyper;J. Patterson

  • Decision-making and trait impulsivity in bipolar disorder are associated with reduced prefrontal regulation of striatal reward valuation.

    Liam Mason;Noreen O’Sullivan;Daniela Montaldi;Richard P. Bentall

  • The contribution of familiarity to recognition memory is a function of test format when using similar foils

    Ellen Migo;Daniela Montaldi;Kenneth A. Norman;Joel Quamme

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew R. Mayes
Andrew R. Mayes University of Manchester
Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts University of Edinburgh
Anna Barnes
Anna Barnes University College London
Qiyong Gong
Qiyong Gong Sichuan University
John Patrick Aggleton
John Patrick Aggleton Cardiff University
Clare E. Mackay
Clare E. Mackay University of Oxford
Seralynne Denise Vann
Seralynne Denise Vann Cardiff University
Laura M. Parkes
Laura M. Parkes University of Manchester
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Christine Bastin
Christine Bastin University of Liège

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