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Marco Zorzi is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and specializes in the field of Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work spans related subfields including Statistics and Probability, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics of their research cover cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, reading and literacy development, functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, mathematics education and teaching techniques, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Marco Zorzi has contributed to numerous papers published in venues such as Scientific Reports, arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain, and Research in Developmental Disabilities. Notable recent publications include:

  • Post-stroke deficit prediction from lesion and indirect structural and functional disconnection, 2020, Brain
  • The secret life of predictive brains: what's spontaneous activity for?, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Recovery of neural dynamics criticality in personalized whole-brain models of stroke, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Visual sense of number vs. sense of magnitude in humans and machines, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Learning to Read and Dyslexia: From Theory to Intervention Through Personalized Computational Models, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science

Their frequent co-authors include Alberto Testolin, Michele De Filippo De Grazia, Maurizio Corbetta, Francesco Sella, and Zaira Romeo.

Marco Zorzi has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Handbook of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia (2022).

Best Publications

  • Developmental trajectory of number acuity reveals a severe impairment in developmental dyscalculia

    Manuela Piazza;Andrea Facoetti;Anna Noemi Trussardi;Ilaria Berteletti

  • Brain damage: neglect disrupts the mental number line.

    Marco Zorzi;Marco Zorzi;Konstantinos Priftis;Carlo Umiltà

  • Nested incremental modeling in the development of computational theories: The CDP+ model of reading aloud.

    Conrad Perry;Johannes C. Ziegler;Marco Zorzi

  • Two routes or one in reading aloud? A connectionist dual-process model.

    Marco Zorzi;George Houghton;Brian Butterworth

  • Beyond single syllables: large-scale modeling of reading aloud with the Connectionist Dual Process (CDP++) model.

    Conrad Perry;Johannes C. Ziegler;Marco Zorzi

  • Extra-large letter spacing improves reading in dyslexia

    Marco Zorzi;Chiara Barbiero;Andrea Facoetti;Isabella Lonciari

  • When time is space: evidence for a mental time line.

    Mario Bonato;Marco Zorzi;Carlo Umiltà

  • Emergence of a 'visual number sense' in hierarchical generative models

    Ivilin Stoianov;Marco Zorzi

  • Numerical Estimation in Preschoolers.

    Ilaria Berteletti;Daniela Lucangeli;Manuela Piazza;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Multisensory spatial attention deficits are predictive of phonological decoding skills in developmental dyslexia

    Andrea Facoetti;Anna Noemi Trussardi;Milena Ruffino;Maria Luisa Lorusso

  • Are numbers special? The comparison systems of the human brain investigated by fMRI.

    Roi Cohen Kadosh;Avishai Henik;Orly Rubinsten;Harald Mohr

  • The relationship between visuo-spatial attention and nonword reading in developmental dyslexia

    Andrea Facoetti;Marco Zorzi;Laurie Cestnick;Maria Luisa Lorusso

  • NORMAL AND IMPAIRED SPELLING IN A CONNECTIONIST DUAL-ROUTE ARCHITECTURE

    George Houghton;Marco Zorzi

  • The Mental Representation of Numerical Fractions : Real or Integer?

    Mario Bonato;S Fabbri;Carlo Arrigo Umilta;Marco Zorzi

  • Post-stroke deficit prediction from lesion and indirect structural and functional disconnection

    Alessandro Salvalaggio;Michele De Filippo De Grazia;Marco Zorzi;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten;Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

  • Modelling reading development through phonological decoding and self-teaching: implications for dyslexia

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Conrad Perry;Marco Zorzi

  • A computational model of the Simon effect

    Marco Zorzi;Carlo Umiltá

  • The role of long-term-memory and short-term-memory links in the Simon effect

    Mariaelena Tagliabue;Marco Zorzi;Carlo Umiltà;Francesca Bassignani

  • The spatial representation of numerical and non-numerical sequences: evidence from neglect.

    Marco Zorzi;Konstantinos Priftis;Francesca Meneghello;Roberto Marenzi

  • Temporal order judgment reveals how number magnitude affects visuospatial attention.

    Marco Casarotti;Marika Michielin;Marco Zorzi;Carlo Umiltà

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Umiltà
Carlo Umiltà University of Padua
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
Andrea Facoetti
Andrea Facoetti University of Padua
Andrea Zanella
Andrea Zanella University of Padua
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Ramesh R. Rao
Ramesh R. Rao University of California, San Diego
Michele Rossi
Michele Rossi University of Padua
Michele Zorzi
Michele Zorzi University of Padua
Roberto Dell'Acqua
Roberto Dell'Acqua University of Padua
Patrizia Bisiacchi
Patrizia Bisiacchi University of Padua

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