Ilaria Sani
Function: Professeure assistante
Group name: Attentive brains and Behaviors Lab
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Department of Basic Neurosciences
Domains: Attention and Cognition
Keywords: Animal models, attention, multimodal-MRI, Neglect patients, virtual reality, Vision
Research activities
We are intrigued by the human and animal capability of understanding and navigating extremely complex situations and by the devastating consequences that brain diseases bring.
As a system and cognitive neuroscience Lab, we want to understand how the brain takes on this challenge, we want to study the behavior at its full capacity, and we want to commit our investigations to ultimately improve wellbeing.
We combine cutting-edge tools (such as virtual reality), multiple neuroscientific techniques (multimodal-MRI, lesion studies, single neuron recordings), and different model systems (healthy humans, patients with dysregulated attention systems and animal models) to dissect the complexity of the brain and of behavior.
Latest publications
The missing link among the functions of the temporo-parietal junction: Comment on "Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as "match/mismatch" hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function" by Doricchi et al.
The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node.
Contact
Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Ilaria.Sani@unige.ch