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

Hosted talks

19/12/2024

Dr. Davide Folloni

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - New York City, USA
"Physiology and Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation of Subcortical-Frontal Circuits Involved in Learning, Decision-Making, and Affect"

04/12/2024

Prof. Giorgia Committeri

Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti – Pescara, Italy
"Navigating spaces: the evolution of declarative memory through the exploitation of spatial codes"