Date: February 2012
Title of Thesis: Acoustic cues for body size: how size-related features are used and perceived
Supervisor: Evan Balaban (McGill University)
External Examiner(s): Angelo Farina (University of Parma), Giuseppe Longorbardi (University of Trieste)
Internal Examiners: Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Antonello Mallamaci
Last known affiliation: Valle Ca Zuliani Soc Agricola srl, Monfalcone (GO), Italy
Email: l.sebastianutto@gmail.com

Date: February 2012
Title of Thesis: Newspeak - Emergent Linguistic Properties Of Stimulus-Response Associations
Supervisor: Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Evan Balaban, Anna Borghi
Internal Examiners: Alessandro Laio, Giorgia Silani
Last known affiliation: Brain and Language Lab, Georgetown
Email: gazbland@gmail.com

Date: February 2012
Title of Thesis: The Origin of Memory for Language
Supervisor: Jacques Mehler
External Examiner(s): John Morton, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Marcela Pena
Internal Examiners: Enrico Cherubini, Anna Menini, Davide Zoccolan
Last known affiliation:
Email: silviabenavides@gmail.com

Date: November 2011
Title of Thesis: Dynamic coupling between whisking, barrel cortex, and hippocampus during texture discrimination: A role for slow rhythms
Supervisor: Mathew Diamond
External Examiner(s): Francesco Battaglia (SILS - Center for Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam), Demian Battaglia (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen)
Internal Examiners: Enrico Querubini, Giosue' Baggio, Davide Zoccolan
Last known affiliation: post doc fellow, Tactile Perception and Learning Lab
Email: grion@sissa.it

Date: November 2011
Title of Thesis: More equal than others: the neural basis of unfairness and inequality perception in the Ultimatum Game
Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s):Alan Sanfey (Univ. Arizona and Donders Institute, Nijmegen) and Stefano Cappa (San Raffaele, Milan)
Internal Examiners:Raffaella Rumiati, Mathew Diamond and Giorgia Silani
Last known affiliation:post-doc at the University of Minnesota, department of Economics
Email:claudia.civai@gmail.com

Date: October 2011
Title of Thesis: Parietal lobe contribution to spatial processing: evidence from brain tumour patients
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Roberto Caminiti (Universita' La Sapienza, Rome) and Vincent Walsh (UCL, London)
Internal Examiners: Mathew Diamond, Raffella Rumiati, Tim Shallice, Antonino Vallesi
Last known affiliation:
Email: buiatti@sissa.it

Date: March 2012
Title of Thesis: Investigation of latching processes in the human brain
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Richard Cooper (Birkbeck University of London) and Carlo Reverberi (Universita di Milano Bicocca)
Internal Examiners: Mathew Diamond, Raffella Rumiati, Tim Shallice, Giosue' Baggio
Last known affiliation:
Email:

Date: December 2010
Title of Thesis: Experience-dependent modulation in the perception of ambiguous objects
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s):Prof Shlomo Bentin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof Nathalie Sebanz (Donders Institute, Nijmegen)
Internal Examiners:Tim Shallice, Mathew Diamond, Raffaella Rumiati
Last known affiliation:Postdoc at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Email:daelli@sissa.it

Date: December 2010
Title of Thesis: The case of communicative intransitive gestures: Further developments on a dual mechanism for motor control of action in imitation
Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s):Prof Shlomo Bentin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Prof Nathalie Sebanz (Donders Institute, Nijmegen)
Internal Examiners:Tim Shallice, Mathew Diamond, Raffaella Rumiati
Last known affiliation:Faculty of Psychology - University of Lisbon
Email:carmo@fp.ul.pt

Date: December 2010
Title of Thesis: The Tie between Action and Language Is in Our Imagination
Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Alfonso Caramazza (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US and Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), Universita' di Trento, Trento, Italy)
Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cogntion and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Internal Examiners: Tim Shallice, Alessandro Treves, Raffaella Rumiati
Last known affiliation: Harvard University, USA
Email: liuba.papeo@gmail.com

Date: December 2010
Title of Thesis: Categories, Words and Rules in Language Acquisition
Supervisor: Prof. Jacques Mehler
External Examiner(s): Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland), Thierry Nazzi (Universite Paris Descartes)
Internal Examiners: Prof. Mathew Diamond, Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
Last known affiliation:
Email: Harvard University, Department of Psychology

Date: October 2010
Title of Thesis: Struggling for Structure. Cognitive origins of grammatical diversity and their implications for the Human Faculty of Language
Supervisor: Prof. Marina Nespor
External Examiner(s): Luigi Rizzi (universita' di Siena), Nuria Sebastian Galles, Laila Craighero (Universita' di Ferrara)
Internal Examiners: Prof. Alessandro Treves
Last known affiliation: SISSA
Email: langus@sissa.it

Date: July 2010
Title of Thesis: NEUROCOGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF THE EMOTIONAL CONTROL OF IMITATION
Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Prof. Giorgio Coricelli, Prof. Marcel Brass (Substitute Dr. Antonio Vallesi)
Internal Examiners: Prof. Enrico Cherubini, Raffaella Rumiati, Stefano Canali
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at the Faculty of Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy
Email: alessandro.grecucci@unitn.it

Date: January 2010
Title of Thesis: Efficient storage of informative spatial representations in memory
Supervisor: Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Prof. Kate Jefferey (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Research Department. London, UK) and Prof. Edmund T Rolls (Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK)
Internal Examiners: Davide Zoccolan and Enrico Cherubini
Last known affiliation: Postdoc with Sid Wiener at College de France, Paris
Email: erika.cerasti@gmail.com

Date: January 2010
Title of Thesis: Attractors, memory and perception
Supervisor: Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Edmund T Rolls Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK) and Albert Compte (Institut d'Investigacions BiomEdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain)
Internal Examiners: Davide Zoccolan and Enrico Cherubini
Last known affiliation: SISSA, Tactile Perception and Learning Lab
Email: akrami@sissa.it

Date: January 2010
Title of Thesis: From logic to probability: an investigation into the origins of probabilistic reasoning
Supervisor: Luca Bonatti
External Examiner(s): Prof. Susan Carey (Harvard University, USA) and Prof. Gyorgy Gergely (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
Internal Examiners: Jacques Mehler and Alessandro Treves
Last known affiliation: MTA PKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Developmental Psychology, Budapest, Hungary
Email: teglas@mtapi.hu

Date: January 2010
Title of Thesis: Refractoriness within the semantic system: investigations on the access and the content of semantic memory
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Prof. Gabriele Miceli (Universita' Degli Studi Di Trento, Italy) and Prof. Matthew Lambon Ralph (The University Of Manchester, UK)
Internal Examiners: Raffaella Rumiati and Alessandro Treves
Last known affiliation: Human Sciences Department, University of Udine, now at Neurosurgery Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S.Maria della MIsericordia, Udine
Email: fabio.campanella@uniud.it

Date: December 2009
Title of Thesis: Discovering words and rules from speech input: an investigation into early morphosyntactic acquisition mechanisms
Supervisor: Luca Bonatti
External Examiner(s): Prof. Nuria Sebastian Galles (Universitat Fabra Pompeu, Barcellona, Spain) and Prof. Anne Christophe (ENS, Paris, France)
Internal Examiners: Jacques Mehler and Tim Shallice
Last known affiliation: Stage PostDoc, Fondation Fyssen, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, CNRS, Paris, France
Email: Erika.Marchetto@ens.fr

Date: November 2009
Title of Thesis: Sounds in noise: behavioral and neural studies of illusory continuity and discontinuity
Supervisor: Evan Balaban
External Examiner(s): Christofer Petkov (Newcastle University, UK), Daniel Pressnitzer (Ecole normale supŽrieure , France)
Last known affiliation: Postdoc, Behavioural neuroscience lab, Champalimaud Neuroscience Program at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal
Email: vinnik.ekaterina@gmail.com

Date: November 2009
Title of Thesis: Hippocampal representation of Touch and Sound Guided behavior
Supervisor: Mathew Diamond
External Examiner(s): Rodrigo Quiroga, Stefano Panzeri
Last known affiliation: Postdoc, Metabolism and behaviour lab, Champalimaud Neuroscience Program at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal
Email: itskov@sissa.it

Date: July 2009
Title of Thesis: The Effects of Categorical Learning on Auditory Perceptual Space
Supervisor: Evan Balaban
External Examiner(s): Giuseppe Longobardi
Last known affiliation: Postdoc, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Email: v.caruso@duke.edu

Date: May 2009
Title of Thesis: FRONTOSTRIATAL CIRCUITS AND SELECTION OF TASK-RELEVANT INFORMATION
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s):
Last known affiliation: Azienda Ospedaliero-Universtaria Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy
Email: crescent@sissa.it

Date: April 2008
Title of Thesis: Perceptual Learning in Speech Processing: Comprehending Spectrally-Rotated Speech
Supervisor: Evan Balaban
External Examiner(s): Stuart Rosen from UCL, London and Giuseppe Longobardi from University of Trieste
Last known affiliation: Research Associate, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Mancester
Email: Mahan.Azadpour@manchester.ac.uk

Date: February 2008
Title of Thesis: Learning two languages simultaneously: mechanisms recruited for dealing with a mixed linguistic input
Supervisor: Jacques Mehler
External Examiner(s): Lila Gleitman, Penn State University and Nuria Sebestian-Galles, Universitat de Barcelona
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at the Hungarian Academy of Science
Email: agneskovacs@mtapi.hu

Date: January 2008
Title of Thesis: On the representation of Semantic and Motor knowledge. Evidence from brain damaged subjects
Supervisor: Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Giuseppe Sartori and Rick Cooper
Last known affiliation: Research Fellow, IRCCS E.Medea, Polo FVG, Udine
Email: negrigio at sissa dot it

Date: November 2007
Title of Thesis: Processing of vocal pitch information in children with cochlear implants and neurocognitive speech studies in newborns and adults
Supervisor: Evan Balaban
External Examiner(s): Colette McKay and Benedikt Grothe
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Email: Damir.Kovacic@med.kuleuven.be

Date: September 2007
Title of Thesis: From the Richness of the Signal to the Poverty of the Stimulus: Mechanism of Early Language Acquisition
Supervisor: Jacques Mehler
External Examiner(s): Janet Werker, Csaba Pleh and Ghislaine Dehaene Lambertz
Last known affiliation: Research scientist at CNRS, Universite' Paris Descartes, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (Paris, France)
Email: judit.gervain@parisdescartes.fr

Date: September 2007
Title of Thesis: Neuronal Activity in Rat Barrel Cortex Underlying Texture Discrimination
Supervisor: Mathew Diamond
External Examiner(s): Ehud Ahissar and Merav Ahissar
Last known affiliation: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
Email: moritz.vonheimendahl@bccn-berlin.de

Date: September 2007
Title of Thesis: Static and dynamic properties of semantic memory networks
Supervisor: Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Moshe Abeles (Bar Ilan University) , Laurenz Wiskott (Bernstein Centre, Berlin) and Francesco P Battaglia (University of Amsterdam)
Last known affiliation: Postdoc with Edvard and May-Britt Moser at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway
Email: Emilio.kropff@ntnu.no

Date: March 2007
Title of Thesis: Neural basis and functional architecture of inductive reasoning: neuropsychological evidence
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): John Duncan and Paolo Nichelli
Last known affiliation: Lecturer Universita' Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Email: carlo.reverberi@unimib.it

Date: February 2007
Title of Thesis: The monitoring role of right lateral prefrontal cortex: evidence for variable foreperiod and source memory tasks
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Jennifer Coull and Carlo Miniussi
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at Rotman Research Institute-Baycrest, Toronto, On, Canada ; currently researcher at SISSA
Email: Antonino.vallesi@sissa.it

Date: November 2006
Title of Thesis: Prosodic constraints on statistical strategies in segmenting fluent speech
Supervisor: Jacques Mehler
External Examiner(s): Richard Aslin, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester and Anne Christophe, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris
Last known affiliation: University of Rochester
Email: mshukla@bcs.rochester.edu

Date: September 2006
Title of Thesis: Executive Function and Attention profiles of children with ADHD and/or Reading Disorder: developmental neuropsychology and genetic contributions
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Cristine Temple and Patrizia Bisiachi
Last known affiliation: Lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, University Milano-Bicocca
Email: gianmarco.marzocchi@unimib.it

Date: July 2006
Title of Thesis: Psychophysical and brain stimulation studies of visual recognition of actions
Supervisor: R. Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Prof. Umberto Castiello, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Universita di Padova and Prof. Vittorio Gallese, Universita' di Parma
Last known affiliation: Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK.
Email: Gorana.Pobric@manchester.ac.uk

Date: February 2006
Title of Thesis: Insights into molecular features, dynamics and Ca2+-dependent exocytosis of astrocytic vesicles
Supervisor: G. Carmignoto, L. Domenici
External Examiner(s): Philip G. Haydon, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
Last known affiliation: Diaprtimento di Scienze Biomediche Sperimentali, Universita di Padova
Email:

Date: October 2005
Title of Thesis: The Recognition of Words in Pure Alexia and Hemianopic Alexia: a Neuropsychological Study of 6 Patients
Supervisor: Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Claudio Luzzatti, Psychology Department, Bicocca University, Milan; John C. Marshall, Neuropsychology Unit, University Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Last known affiliation: Neuropsychologist at Istituto neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano
Email: rosazza at sissa dot it

Date: September 2005
Title of Thesis: Pattern retrieval in isocortical recurrent networks
Supervisor: A. Treves
External Examiner(s): H. Sompolinsky, The Racah Institute of Physics; N. Brunel, CNRS - Universite Rene Descartes, Paris
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, then senior postdoc at NORDITA Stockholm; currently group leader, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway
Email: Yasser@nordita.org

Date: July 2005
Title of Thesis: Developmental and activity-dependent cortical regulation of TrkB ligands: BDNF and NT4/5
Supervisor: L. Domenici
External Examiner(s): Elena Cattaneo, University of Milan; Y. Bozzi, Istituto di Neuroscienze Pisa
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at Neurobiology Department, Duke University
Email: padhu at neuro.duke dot edu

Date: June 2005
Title of Thesis: Short-Term Modulation of Recall from Long-Term Memory: Phonological Priming of Tip-of-the-Tongues
Supervisor: Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Prof. Trevor Harley, University of Dundee; Prof. Costanza Papagno, University of Milan-Bicocca
Last known affiliation: Lecturer at Bradford University, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Email: v.lesk@bradford.ac.uk

Date: June 2005
Title of Thesis: To do or not to do: visuomotor processes underlying response conflict
Supervisor: Piero Paolo Battaglini
External Examiner(s): Rob Ellis, Carlo Umilta'
Last known affiliation: Department of Physiology and Pathology, BRAIN, University of Trieste, Italy
Email: lucia_carriero at libero.it

Date: April 2005
Title of Thesis: Texture Coding in Rat Whisker Barrel System
Supervisor: Mathew E. Diamond
External Examiner(s): Michael Brecht, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Last known affiliation: SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Email: ehsan@unsw.edu.au

Date: December 2004
Title of Thesis: Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms involved in Mental Rotation
Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Prof Lawrence M. Parsons, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; Prof Luigi Trojano, Dip. di Psicologia, Seconda Universita di Napoli
Last known affiliation: PostDoc at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany now researcher at IRCCS E.Medea, Polo FVG, Udine
Email: barbara.tomasino@gmail.com

Date: December 2004
Title of Thesis: Cholinergic modulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity
Supervisor: Prof. L. Domenici
External Examiner(s): Giancarlo Pepeu, Department of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Florence; Enrico Tongiorgi, BRAIN centre for Neuroscience, University of Trieste
Last known affiliation: Postdoc at INMED (Institut de Neurobiologie de la Mediterranee, Universite de La Mediterranee; Marseille France
Email: kuczewski@inmed.univ-mrs.fr

Date: December 2004
Title of Thesis: Decision making in the human saccadic eye movement system: effects of expectancy, conflict and motivation
Supervisor: Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi, University of Verona
External Examiner(s): Roger Hugh Stephen Carpenter, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge, Maria Concetta Morrone, Istituto di Neurofisiologia del CNR, Pisa
Last known affiliation: Independent researcher at the DyVA - Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranee, Marseille
Email: Anna.Montagnini at ncm.cnrs-mrs.fr

Date: December 2004
Title of Thesis: Spatial cognition based on geometry and landmarks in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus)
Supervisor: Giorgio Vallortigara, University of Trieste
External Examiner(s): Prof. Toshiya Matsushima, University of Nagoya, Japan; Dott. Lucia Regolin, University of Padova
Last known affiliation: Postdoc with Shane O'Mara, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Email:

Date: November 2004
Title of Thesis: Cognitive and neural bases of action imitation: A two-route model
Supervisor: Prof. Raffaella Rumiati
External Examiner(s): Prof. Dr. Georg Goldenberg, Neuropsychological Department, Muenchen, Germany; Dr Laila Craighero, Istituto di Fisiologia, Via Fossato di Mortara, Universita di Ferrara, Italy
Last known affiliation: Lecturer at the faculty of Motor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
Email: alessia.tessari@unibo.it

Date: September 2004
Title of Thesis: The frontal lobes and the sequencing of temporal events
Supervisor: Prof. Timothy Shallice
External Examiner(s): Angela Sirigu, University of Lyon
Last known affiliation: Neurologist at IRCCS E.Medea, Polo FVG, Udine
Email:

Date: February 2003
Title of Thesis: Influence of sensory experience, nerve growth factor and acetylcholine in the regulation of GFAP in the mouse visual cortex
Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Domenici
External Examiner(s): Magdalena Gotz, Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
Last known affiliation: PostDoc with Mark Tuszynski, Center for Neural Repair, University of California, San Diego
Email:

Date: November 2002
Title of Thesis: Cortical networks for sensorimotor and visuomotor processes in the human brain
Supervisor: Prof. Piero Paolo Battaglini
External Examiner(s): Prof. Steven L. Bressler, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Last known affiliation: Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranee, CNRS-Universite de la Mediterranee, 31 chemin Joseph Aiguier, Marseille cedex, France
Email: andrea.brovelli at incm.cnrs-mrs.fr

Date: October 2001
Title of Thesis: TRKB Signaling Controls the Developmental Expression of NMDAR Subunits in Rat and Mouse Visual Cortex
Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Domenici
External Examiner(s): Eero Castren, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki
Last known affiliation: LayLine Genomics ltd
Email: e.margotti at laylinegenomics.com

Date: October 2001
Title of Thesis: Population coding of continuous+discrete stimuli: experimental evidence and theoretical modelling
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Daniel J. Amit La Sapienza University, Roma Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Last known affiliation: previously Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Kings' College London, UK, currently pop singer in London
Email: vale at mth.kcl.ac.uk

Date: October 2001
Title of Thesis: Learning dependent modifications in the cortical representation of the vibrissae in adult rats
Supervisor: Mathew E. Diamond
External Examiner(s):Daniel Shulz, CNRS UPR 2191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France;
Last known affiliation: previously:Postdoc with Dan Feldman at University of California, San Diego; Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany; currently: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Email: celikel@usc.edu

Date: July 2001
Title of Thesis: When panthers are really pink and diamonds are black. Living things and "mass" kinds knowledge in Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis: New evidence for a theoretical redefinition of category specific effects
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Prof. Stefano Cappa, Dept. of Psychology, S. Raffaele University, Milano
Last known affiliation: previsouly: Post-Doc with Carlo Semenza, Dept. of Psychology, laboratory of Neuropsychology, University of Trieste; then PostDoc with Tim Shallice, SISSA
Email:

Date: March 2001
Title of Thesis: Modulation of Cortical Synaptic Plasticity by the Cholinergic System and Nerve-Growth Factor
Supervisor: Prof. L. Domenici
External Examiner(s): Antonio Malgaroli, Universite Vita-Salute San Raffaele
Last known affiliation: PostDoctoral Fellow with Derry C. Roopenian, The Jackson Laboratory, Maine, USA
Email:

Date: January 2001
Title of Thesis: Plasticity of the functional connectivity between barrel-columns in the rat somatosensory cortex
Supervisor: Mathew E. Diamond
External Examiner(s): Ehud Ahissar, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Last known affiliation: Research Scientist, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh
Email: ierchova@staffmail.ed.ac.uk

Date: December 2000
Title of Thesis: Role of area V6a in the parieto-frontal network
Supervisor: Prof. P. Paolo Battaglini
External Examiner(s): Prof. Claudio Galletti, Istituto di Fisiologia Generale ed Umana, Universita' degli Studi di Bologna
Last known affiliation: Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia and former mayor of Opatija, Croatia
Email: amirmuzur at yahoo.com

Date: October 2000
Title of Thesis: BDNF is Regulated by Visual Experience and Controls Synaptic Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex
Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Domenici
External Examiner(s): Prof. Mikandra Sur, MIT
Last known affiliation: previously: PostDoc with Prof. Maffei, Pisa; then PostDoc with Mriganka Sur, at the Picower Institute, MIT
Email: tropea at mit.edu

Date: May 2000
Title of Thesis: Influence of sensory experience and sensory learning on the functional organization of the adult rat barrel cortex
Supervisor: Mathew E. Diamond
External Examiner(s): Ford F. Ebner, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Last known affiliation: previously PostDoc with Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi, Verona; currently assistant professor at L'Aquila and at La Sapienza, Roma
Email: giovanni.mirabella@uniroma1.it

Date: November 1998
Title of Thesis: Recurrent networks in the brain and spatial memory: dynamics and storage capacity
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Dr. Misha Tsodyks, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
Last known affiliation: previously Human Frontier postdoctoral fellow in Tucson, AZ; then research fellow at the CNRS unit of Prof Berthoz, Paris, France; currently assistant professor at the SILS, University of Amsterdam
Email: fpbattaglia@gmail.com

Date: November 1998
Title of Thesis: A theoretical model of neocortical association areas as large autoassociators
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Prof. Nestor Parga, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid
Last known affiliation: previsouly postdoc in Loughborough, UK and Liege, Belgium; then in Leicester, UK
Email:

Date: November 1997
Title of Thesis: Semantic memory impairments: models and experimental investigations
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Shallice
External Examiner(s): Prof. John Hodges, MRC, Cambridge
Last known affiliation: Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychology, University of Florence
Email: grotto at psico.unifi.it

Date: December 1996
Title of Thesis: Quantitative methods for analyzing information processing in the mammalian cortex
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Treves
External Examiner(s): Prof. William Bialek, NEC, Princeton;
Last known affiliation: previously Marie Curie postdoc in Oxford, then MRC research fellow in Newcastle, then lecturer in Neuroscience at UMIST Manchester, UK, currently senior scientist at IIT Genova
Email: stefano.panzeri@iit.it

Date: October 2008
Title of Thesis: Damaged Access and spared mental representation of the body: A single case study
Supervisor: Prof. Rumiati
Last known affiliation: PhD student in gender studies at the Humboldt University Berlin
Email: gufiak.emily@gmail.com

Date: May 2007
Title of Thesis: The Contribution of visual surface
features in object representation:
evidences from priming and neuropsychological studies
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Shallice
Last known affiliation: Professional neuropsychologist in Trieste
Email: silvia.pontin@cooperativalybra.it

Date: May 2006
Title of Thesis: Associative memory and after effects
Supervisor: Alessandro Treves
Last known affiliation: ST Electronics, Agrate, Monza
Email: fedemen@yahoo.it

Date: April 2005
Title of Thesis: Syllabic structures and consonantal
patterns in speech segmentation
Supervisor: J. Mehler
Last known affiliation:
Email:

Date: April 2004
Title of Thesis: Perception and learning of
tactile vibration features
Supervisor: Mathew E. Diamond
Last known affiliation: Visoka elektrotehnicka skola
Faculty for electroengineering, Varazdin
Email: jurica.hizak@zg.htnet.hr

Date: April 1998
Title of Thesis: Simulations and quantitative
methods for analyzing information processing
in neocortical circuits
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Treves
Last known affiliation: Senior Manager @ Price Waterhouse Coopers
Email:

Date: May 2009
Field: Neuroscienza
University: Trieste

Date: October 2009
Field: Fisica
University: Bologna

Date: October 2007
Field: Fisica
University: Pisa

Date: September 2004
Field: Fisica
University: Pavia

Date: September 2002
Field: Il Ragionamento Deduttivo Naturale
University: Universite de Trieste

Date: July 2000
Field: Psicologia
University: Padua

Date: December 1998
Field: Fisica
University: Padua

Date: July 1998
Field: Psicologia
University: Trieste

Date: April 1998
Field: Fisica
University: Torino

Date: July 1997
Field: Fisica
University: Torino

Date: December 1996
Field: Ingegneria
University: Bologna