Leonardo Bonetti
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Leonardo Bonetti
PhD
Junior Research Fellow
Investigating the brain mechanisms underlying encoding and recognition of temporal patterns
I am a Junior Research Fellow at the Center for Eudaimonia and Human Fluorishing, mainly interested in the whole-brain mechanisms underlying encoding and recognition of temporal patterns. Previously, I have completed a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, an MSc in cognitive applied psychology and an MSc in classical guitar at University of Bologna.
Time is a central constituent of the physical world and several pieces of information available in the environment becomes meaningful only when sequentially arranged over time. Thus, the main aim of my research is to understand and mathematically model how the healthy brain processes temporal patterns and information evolving over time. To do so, I use state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques such as magnetoencephalogray (MEG) and (functional) magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in connection with sequences of stimuli arranged over time and presented either via auditory or visual channel.
While my current research focuses on healthy individuals at different stages of their life, a primary future step that I wish to undertake consists of applying our paradigms and analysis methods to clinical populations such as patients affected by dementia.
Recent publications
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Brain recognition of previously learned versus novel temporal sequences: a differential simultaneous processing.
Journal article
Bonetti L. et al, (2022), Cereb Cortex
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Dissociated brain functional connectivity of fast versus slow frequencies underlying individual differences in fluid intelligence: a DTI and MEG study.
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Bruzzone SEP. et al, (2022), Sci Rep, 12
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An ALE meta-analytic review of top-down and bottom-up processing of music in the brain
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Pando-Naude V. et al, (2021), Scientific Reports, 11
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Rapid encoding of musical tones discovered in whole-brain connectivity.
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Bonetti L. et al, (2021), Neuroimage, 245
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Brain predictive coding processes are associated to COMT gene Val158Met polymorphism
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Bonetti L. et al, (2021), NeuroImage, 233, 117954 - 117954