The work of our group consists in developing, leveraging and combining forefront behavioral and neurophysiological techniques for an ethologically relevant and, as much as possible, unconstrained investigation of primate brain.
Understanding the brain during natural behavior is crucial to achieve ecologically valid discoveries about neural circuit functions and disfunctions in neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases.
To achieve these goals, in addition to state-of-the-art neurophysiological methods, we employ state-of-the art techniques for recording several neurons simultaneously with wireless technologies, while video monitoring the animals’ free behavior in both individual and social settings with multi-camera systems.
Lab News & Media
Our lab participated in the 21st National Congress of the Italian Society for Neuroscience (SINS 2025) in Pisa, presenting several contributions across different sessions: Davide Albertini presente
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New Publication in Science Our latest research, "Neuroethology of Natural Actions in Freely Moving Monkeys," has been published in Science (Vol. 387, No. 6730). Read the Full Article Check
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On October 1, 2023, two new PRIN projects were launched: "VIVA - Visual Awareness Without Visual Cortex: From Primate Neurophysiology to Patients," with Luca Bonini as the unit coordinator, "RESONACT
Read More >15/10/2025
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research — Cognitive Neurology Laboratory, Tübingen, Germany
"Exploring social attention in the Common Marmoset: from behavioral training to neurophysiology"
07/10/2025
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, USA
"The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"
28/08/2025
Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, South Korea
"Soft, implantable, wireless platform for advanced neural engineering"
