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Overview

Stefano Ferraina is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a substantial body of work in cognitive neuroscience alongside contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, statistics and probability, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

Stefano Ferraina has published extensively, with 62 publications categorized under neuroscience. They have contributed heavily to cognitive neuroscience, producing 61 works in this subfield. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cortex, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Neuroscience, and Cell Reports.

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • "Neuronal dynamics of signal selective motor plan cancellation in the macaque dorsal premotor cortex," 2020, Cortex
  • "Different Contribution of the Monkey Prefrontal and Premotor Dorsal Cortex in Decision Making During a Transitive Inference Task," 2022, Neuroscience
  • "Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions," 2020, Cell Reports
  • "Neuronal population dynamics during motor plan cancellation in nonhuman primates," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Neuronal Activity in the Premotor Cortex of Monkeys Reflects Both Cue Salience and Motivation for Action Generation and Inhibition," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Pierpaolo Pani, Emiliano Brunamonti, Giampiero Bardella, Surabhi Ramawat, and Franco Giarrocco. These collaborations contribute to a range of interdisciplinary studies related to motor control, neural signaling, and decision-making processes in primates.

Best Publications

  • Cortical Networks for Visual Reaching: Physiological and Anatomical Organization of Frontal and Parietal Lobe Arm Regions

    Paul B. Johnson;Stefano Ferraina;Luigi Bianchi;Roberto Caminiti

  • Making arm movements within different parts of space: the premotor and motor cortical representation of a coordinate system for reaching to visual targets

    R Caminiti;PB Johnson;C Galli;S Ferraina

  • Representing Spatial Information for Limb Movement: Role of Area 5 in the Monkey

    F. Lacquaniti;E. Guigon;L. Bianchi;S. Ferraina

  • The Sources of Visual Information to the Primate Frontal Lobe: A Novel Role for the Superior Parietal Lobule

    Roberto Caminiti;Stefano Ferraina;Paul B. Johnson

  • Parieto-frontal coding of reaching: an integrated framework

    Yves Burnod;Pierre Baraduc;Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Emmanuel Guigon

  • Eye–Hand Coordination during Reaching. I. Anatomical Relationships between Parietal and Frontal Cortex

    Barbara Marconi;Aldo Genovesio;Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Stefano Ferraina

  • Eye–Hand Coordination during Reaching. II. An Analysis of the Relationships between Visuomanual Signals in Parietal Cortex and Parieto-frontal Association Projections

    Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Stefano Ferraina;Aldo Genovesio;Barbara Marconi

  • Early Coding of Reaching in the Parietooccipital Cortex

    Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Stefano Ferraina;Takashi Mitsuda;Barbara Marconi

  • Comparison of Cortico-Cortical and Cortico-Collicular Signals for the Generation of Saccadic Eye Movements

    Stefano Ferraina;Martin Paré;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Visuomotor transformations: early cortical mechanisms of reaching

    Roberto Caminiti;Stefano Ferraina;Alexandra Battaglia Mayer

  • Neural correlates of cognitive control of reaching movements in the dorsal premotor cortex of rhesus monkeys

    G. Mirabella;P. Pani;S. Ferraina

  • Visuomotor transformations underlying arm movements toward visual targets: a neural network model of cerebral cortical operations.

    Y Burnod;P Grandguillaume;I Otto;S Ferraina

  • Signal transformations from cerebral cortex to superior colliculus for the generation of saccades.

    Robert H Wurtz;Marc A Sommer;Martin Paré;Stefano Ferraina

  • Cortical networks for visual reaching

    P. B. Johnson;S. Ferraina;R. Caminiti

  • COMBINATION OF HAND AND GAZE SIGNALS DURING REACHING : ACTIVITY IN PARIETAL AREA 7M OF THE MONKEY

    S. Ferraina;P. B. Johnson;M. R. Garasto;A. Battaglia-Mayer

  • Visual Control of Hand-reaching Movement: Activity in Parietal Area 7m

    Ferraina S;Garasto Mr;Battaglia-Mayer A;Ferraresi P

  • Early coding of reaching: frontal and parietal association connections of parieto-occipital cortex

    Roberto Caminiti;Aldo Genovesio;Barbara Marconi;Alexandra Battaglia Mayer

  • Integration of Retinal Disparity and Fixation-Distance Related Signals Toward an Egocentric Coding of Distance in the Posterior Parietal Cortex of Primates

    Aldo Genovesio;Stefano Ferraina

  • Neural variability in premotor cortex is modulated by trial history and predicts behavioral performance.

    Encarni Marcos;Pierpaolo Pani;Emiliano Brunamonti;Gustavo Deco;Gustavo Deco

  • Early coding of visuomanual coordination during reaching in parietal area PEc

    Stefano Ferraina;Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Aldo Genovesio;Barbara Marconi

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Caminiti
Roberto Caminiti Italian Institute of Technology
Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer
Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer Sapienza University of Rome
Francesco Lacquaniti
Francesco Lacquaniti University of Rome Tor Vergata
Martin Paré
Martin Paré Queen's University
Robert H. Wurtz
Robert H. Wurtz National Institutes of Health
Maria Leggio
Maria Leggio Sapienza University of Rome
Eugenio Scarnati
Eugenio Scarnati University of L'Aquila
Vincenzo Esposito
Vincenzo Esposito Sapienza University of Rome
Tim Shallice
Tim Shallice University College London

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