Scuola superiore sant'anna
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Alberto Mazzoni
- Istituto di BioRobotica
- alberto.mazzoni@santannapisa.it
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2017 - now working as Assistant Professor and Head of the Computational Neuroengineering Lab @ The BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
2014 - 2017 working as Post-doc Researcher @ The BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in the Translational Neural Engineering group with Prof. Silvestro Micera and in the Human Machine Nexus laboratory with Dr. Calogero Oddo
2009-2013 Working in the Neural Coding group of Prof. Stefano Panzeri @ Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
2007-2009 Post-doc researcher in the Computational Neuroscience group of the Institute for Scientific Interchange of Torino - collaborating with Prof. Nicolas Brunel, CNRS Paris, France.
2007 - PhD in Neurobiology at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) of Trieste in the lab of prof. Vincent Torre
2003 - Visiting student at the Neurobiology Department of University of California, San Diego in the lab of prof. William Kristan.
2002 - Degree in Theoretical Physics at University of Pisa with prof. Leone Fronzoni
1978 - Born in Firenze, Italy.
Contributo su Rivista
- Micheli, Federico; Vissani, Matteo; Pecchioli, Guido; Terenzi, Federica; Ramat, Silvia; Mazzoni, Alberto
Impulsivity Markers in Parkinsonian Subthalamic Single-Unit Activity
6 MOVEMENT DISORDERS (2021)
Issue nr. : 1 - Cesini, I.; Spigler, G.; Prasanna, S.; D'abbraccio, J.; De Luca, D.; Dell'agnello, F.; Crea, S.; Vitiello, N.; Mazzoni, A.; Oddo, C. M.
Assessment of intuitiveness and comfort of wearable haptic feedback strategies for assisting level and stair walking
1-15 ELECTRONICS (2020)
Volume nr. : 9
Issue nr. : 1 - Rongala, Udaya B.; Mazzoni, Alberto; Spanne, Anton; Jörntell, Henrik; Oddo, Calogero M.
Cuneate spiking neural network learning to classify naturalistic texture stimuli under varying sensing conditions
273-287 NEURAL NETWORKS (2020)
Volume nr. : 123
Issue nr. : 1 - Dedola, Francesca; Severino, Francesco Paolo Ulloa; Meneghetti, Nicolo; Lemaire, Theo; Cafarelli, Andrea; Ricotti, Leonardo; Menciassi, Arianna; Cutrone, Annarita; Mazzoni, Alberto; Micera, Silvestro
Ultrasound Stimulations Induce Prolonged Depolarization and Fast Action Potentials in Leech Neurons
23-32 IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY (2020)
Volume nr. : 1
Issue nr. : 1 - Meneghetti, N.; Dedola, F.; Gavryusev, V.; Sancataldo, G.; Turrini, L.; de Vito, G.; Tiso, N.; Vanzi, F.; Carpaneto, J.; Cutrone, A.; Saverio Pavone, F.; Micera, S.; Mazzoni, A.
Direct activation of zebrafish neurons by ultrasonic stimulation revealed by whole CNS calcium imaging
14 JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING (2020)
Volume nr. : 17
Issue nr. : 1 - Romeni, S.; Valle, G.; Mazzoni, A.; Micera, S.
Tutorial: a computational framework for the design and optimization of peripheral neural interfaces
3129-3153 NATURE PROTOCOLS (2020)
Volume nr. : 15
Issue nr. : 1 - Canessa, A.; Palmisano, C.; Isaias, I. U.; Mazzoni, A.
Gait-related frequency modulation of beta oscillatory activity in the subthalamic nucleus of parkinsonian patients
1743-1752 BRAIN STIMULATION (2020)
Volume nr. : 13
Issue nr. : 1 - Mazzoni, Alberto; Oddo, Calogero M.; Valle, Giacomo; Camboni, Domenico; Strauss, Ivo; Barbaro, Massimo; Barabino, Gianluca; Puddu, Roberto; Carboni, Caterina; Bisoni, Lorenzo; Carpaneto, Jacopo; Vecchio, Fabrizio; Petrini, Francesco M.; Romeni, Simone; Czimmermann, Tamas; Massari, Luca; di Iorio, Riccardo; Miraglia, Francesca; Granata, Giuseppe; Pani, Danilo; Stieglitz, Thomas; Raffo, Luigi; Rossini, Paolo M.; Micera, Silvestro
Morphological Neural Computation Restores Discrimination of Naturalistic Textures in Trans-radial Amputees
14 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2020)
Volume nr. : 10
Issue nr. : 1 - Cracchiolo, Marina; Valle, Giacomo; Petrini, Francesco Maria; Strauss, Ivo; Granata, Giuseppe; Stieglitz, Thomas; Rossini, Paolo Maria; Raspopovic, Stanisa; Mazzoni, Alberto; Micera, Silvestro
Decoding of grasping tasks from intraneural recordings in trans-radial amputee
16 JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING (2020)
Issue nr. : 1 - Palmisano, Chiara; Brandt, Gregor; Vissani, Matteo; Pozzi, Nicoló G.; Canessa, Andrea; Brumberg, Joachim; Marotta, Giorgio; Volkmann, Jens; Mazzoni, Alberto; Pezzoli, Gianni; Frigo, Carlo A.; Isaias, Ioannis U.
Gait Initiation in Parkinson’s Disease: Impact of Dopamine Depletion and Initial Stance Condition
9 FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (2020)
Volume nr. : 8
Issue nr. : 1 - Vissani, Matteo; Isaias, Ioannis Ugo; Mazzoni, Alberto
Deep brain stimulation: a review of the open neural engineering challenges
23 JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING (2020)
Issue nr. : 1 - Esposito, Davide; Lanotte, Francesco; Mugnai, Chiara; Massari, Luca; Camboni, Domenico; Mazzoni, Alberto; Oddo, Calogero Maria
A Neuromorphic Model to Match the Spiking Activity of Merkel Mechanoreceptors With Biomimetic Tactile Sensors for Bioengineering Applications
97-105 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL ROBOTICS AND BIONICS (2019)
Volume nr. : 1
Issue nr. : 1 - D’Anna, Edoardo; Valle, Giacomo; Mazzoni, Alberto; Strauss, Ivo; Iberite, Francesco; Patton, Jérémy; Petrini, Francesco M.; Raspopovic, Stanisa; Granata, Giuseppe; Di Iorio, Riccardo; Controzzi, Marco; Cipriani, Christian; Stieglitz, Thomas; Rossini, Paolo M.; Micera, Silvestro
A closed-loop hand prosthesis with simultaneous intraneural tactile and position feedback
14 SCIENCE ROBOTICS (2019)
Volume nr. : 4
Issue nr. : 1 - Petrini, F. M.; Mazzoni, A.; Rigosa, J.; Giambattistelli, F.; Granata, G.; Barra, B.; Pampaloni, A.; Guglielmelli, E.; Zollo, L.; Capogrosso, M.; Micera, S.; Raspopovic, S.
Microneurography as a tool to develop decoding algorithms for peripheral neuro-controlled hand prostheses
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ONLINE (2019)
Volume nr. : 18
Issue nr. : 1 - Gunasekaran, H.; Spigler, G.; Mazzoni, A.; Cataldo, E.; Oddo, C. M.
Convergence of regular spiking and intrinsically bursting Izhikevich neuron models as a function of discretization time with Euler method
237-247 NEUROCOMPUTING (2019)
Volume nr. : 350
Issue nr. : 1 - Cracchiolo, Marina; F Sacramento, Joana; Mazzoni, Alberto; Panarese, Alessandro; Carpaneto, Jacopo; V Conde, Silvia; Micera, Silvestro
High frequency shift in Carotid Sinus Nerve and Sympathetic Nerve activity in Type 2 Diabetic Rat Model
4 INTERNATIONAL IEEE/EMBS CONFERENCE ON NEURAL ENGINEERING (2019)
Issue nr. : 1 - Enander, J. M. D.; Spanne, A.; Mazzoni, A.; Bengtsson, F.; Oddo, C. M.; Jorntell, H.
Ubiquitous neocortical decoding of tactile input patterns
17 FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE (2019)
Volume nr. : 13
Issue nr. : 1 - Cracchiolo, Marina; F Sacramento, Joana; Mazzoni, Alberto; Panarese, Alessandro; Carpaneto, Jacopo; V Conde, Silvia; Micera, Silvestro
Decoding Neural Metabolic Markers From the Carotid Sinus Nerve in a Type 2 Diabetes Model
2034-2043 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING (2019)
Volume nr. : 27
Issue nr. : 1 - Rongala, U. B.; Mazzoni, A.; Chiurazzi, M.; Camboni, D.; Milazzo, M.; Massari, L.; Ciuti, G.; Roccella, S.; Dario, P.; Oddo, C. M.
Tactile decoding of edge orientation with artificial cuneate neurons in dynamic conditions
10 FRONTIERS IN NEUROROBOTICS (2019)
Volume nr. : 13
Issue nr. : 1 - Romeo, Rocco A.; Rongala, Udaya B.; Mazzoni, Alberto; Camboni, Domenico; Carrozza, Maria Chiara; Guglielmelli, Eugenio; Zollo, Loredana; Oddo, Calogero M.
Identification of slippage on naturalistic surfaces via Wavelet Transform of tactile signals
1260-1268 IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL (2019)
Volume nr. : 19
Issue nr. : 1 - Saponati, M.; Garcia-Ojalvo, J.; Cataldo, E.; Mazzoni, A.
Integrate-and-fire network model of activity propagation from thalamus to cortex
BIOSYSTEMS (2019)
Volume nr. : 183
Issue nr. : 1 - Vissani, Matteo; Cordella, Roberto; Micera, Silvestro; Eleopra, Roberto; Romito, Luigi; Mazzoni, Alberto
Spatio-temporal structure of single neuron subthalamic activity identifies DBS target for anesthetized Tourette Syndrome patients
14 JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING (2019)
Issue nr. : 1 - Rongala, Udaya B.; Spanne, Anton; Mazzoni, Alberto; Bengtsson, Fredrik; Oddo, Calogero M.; Jörntell, Henrik
Intracellular dynamics in cuneate nucleus neurons support self-stabilizing learning of generalizable tactile representations
25 FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE (2018)
Volume nr. : 12
Issue nr. : 1 - Sorgini, Francesca; Massari, Luca; D’Abbraccio, Jessica; Palermo, Eduardo; Menciassi, Arianna; Petrovic, Petar B.; Mazzoni, Alberto; Carrozza, Maria Chiara; Newell, Fiona N.; Oddo, Calogero M.
Neuromorphic vibrotactile stimulation of fingertips for encoding object stiffness in telepresence sensory substitution and augmentation applications
18 SENSORS (2018)
Volume nr. : 18
Issue nr. : 1 - Valle, Giacomo; Mazzoni, Alberto; Iberite, Francesco; D’Anna, Edoardo; Strauss, Ivo; Granata, Giuseppe; Controzzi, Marco; Clemente, Francesco; Rognini, Giulio; Cipriani, Christian; Stieglitz, Thomas; Petrini, Francesco Maria; Rossini, Paolo Maria; Micera, Silvestro
Biomimetic Intraneural Sensory Feedback Enhances Sensation Naturalness, Tactile Sensitivity, and Manual Dexterity in a Bidirectional Prosthesis
37-45.e7 NEURON (2018)
Volume nr. : 100
Issue nr. : 1 - Genna, C; Oddo, Cm; Mazzoni, A; Wahlbom, A; Micera, S; Jörntell, H
Bilateral tactile input patterns decoded at comparable levels but different time scales in neocortical neurons
38 THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE (2018)
Issue nr. : 1 - Mazzoni, A.; Rosa, M.; Carpaneto, J.; Romito, L. M.; Priori, A.; Micera, S.
Subthalamic neural activity patterns anticipate economic risk decisions in gambling
39 ENEURO (2018)
Issue nr. : 1 - Valle, G; Petrini, F M; Strauss, I; Iberite, F; D'Anna, E; Granata, G; Controzzi, M; Cipriani, C; Stieglitz, T; Rossini, P M; Mazzoni, A; Raspopovic, S; Micera, S
Comparison of linear frequency and amplitude modulation for intraneural sensory feedback in bidirectional hand prostheses
13 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2018)
Volume nr. : 8
Issue nr. : 1 - Oddo, Calogero M; Mazzoni, Alberto; Spanne, Anton; Enander, Jonas M D; Mogensen, Hannes; Bengtsson, Fredrik; Camboni, Domenico; Micera, Silvestro; Jörntell, Henrik
Artificial spatiotemporal touch inputs reveal complementary decoding in neocortical neurons
17 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2017)
Volume nr. : 8
Issue nr. : 1 - Rongala, Udaya Bhaskar; Mazzoni, Alberto; Oddo, Calogero Maria
Neuromorphic Artificial Touch for Categorization of Naturalistic Textures
819-829 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS (2017)
Volume nr. : 28
Issue nr. : 1 - Stellino, Flavio; Mazzoni, Alberto; Storace, Marco
Phase analysis method for burst onset prediction
13 PHYSICAL REVIEW. E (2017)
Volume nr. : 95
Issue nr. : 1 - Sorgini, Francesca; Mazzoni, Alberto; Massari, Luca; Caliã², Renato; Galassi, Carmen; Kukreja, Sunil L.; Sinibaldi, Edoardo; Carrozza, Maria Chiara; Oddo, Calogero Maria
Encapsulation of piezoelectric transducers for sensory augmentation and substitution with wearable haptic devices
18 MICROMACHINES (2017)
Volume nr. : 8
Issue nr. : 1 - Tropea, Peppino; Mazzoni, Alberto; Micera, Silvestro; Corbo, Massimo
Giuliano Vanghetti and the innovation of "cineplastic operations"
7 NEUROLOGY (2017)
Volume nr. : 89
Issue nr. : 1 - Barardi, Alessandro; Garcia-Ojalvo, Jordi; Mazzoni, Alberto
Transition between functional regimes in an integrate-and-fire network model of the thalamus
26 PLOS ONE (2016)
Volume nr. : 11
Issue nr. : 1 - Vannini, Eleonora; Restani, Laura; Pietrasanta, Marta; Panarese, Alessandro; Mazzoni, Alberto; Rossetto, Ornella; Middei, Silvia; Micera, Silvestro; Caleo, Matteo
Altered sensory processing and dendritic remodeling in hyperexcitable visual cortical networks
2919-2936 BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION (2016)
Volume nr. : 221
Issue nr. : 1 - Oddo, Calogero Maria; Raspopovic, Stanisa; Artoni, Fiorenzo; Mazzoni, Alberto; Spigler, Giacomo; Petrini, Francesco; Giambattistelli, Federica; Vecchio, Fabrizio; Miraglia, Francesca; Zollo, Loredana; Di Pino, Giovanni; Camboni, Domenico; Carrozza, Maria Chiara; Guglielmelli, Eugenio; Rossini, PAOLO MARIA; Faraguna, Ugo; Micera, Silvestro
Intraneural stimulation elicits discrimination of textural features by artificial fingertip in intact and amputee humans
25 ELIFE (2016)
Volume nr. : 5
Issue nr. : 1 - Mazzoni, Alberto; Lindén, Henrik; Cuntz, Hermann; Lansner, Anders; Panzeri, Stefano; Einevoll, Gaute T.
Computing the Local Field Potential (LFP) from Integrate-and-Fire Network Models
38 PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (2015)
Volume nr. : 11
Issue nr. : 1 - Zuo, Yanfang; Safaai, Houman; Notaro, Giuseppe; Mazzoni, Alberto; Panzeri, Stefano; Diamond, Mathew E
Complementary contributions of spike timing and spike rate to perceptual decisions in rat S1 and S2 cortex
357-63-363 CURRENT BIOLOGY (2015)
Volume nr. : 25
Issue nr. : 1 - Baroni, Fabiano; Mazzoni, Alberto
Heterogeneity of heterogeneities in neuronal networks
2 FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (2014)
Volume nr. : 8
Issue nr. : 1 - F. Barbieri;A. Mazzoni;N. K. Logothetis;S. Panzeri;N. Brunel
Stimulus Dependence of Local Field Potential Spectra: Experiment versus Theory
14589-14605 THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE (2014)
Volume nr. : 34
Issue nr. : 1 - S. Cavallari; S. Panzeri; A. Mazzoni
Comparison of the dynamics of neural interactions in integrate-and-fire networks with current-based and conductance-based synapses
32 FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS (2014)
Issue nr. : 1 - Magri, Cesare; Mazzoni, Alberto; Logothetis, Nikos K; Panzeri, Stefano
Optimal band separation of extracellular field potentials
66-78-78 JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS (2012)
Volume nr. : 210
Issue nr. : 1 - Ince, Robin A A; Mazzoni, Alberto; Bartels, Andreas; Logothetis, Nikos K; Panzeri, Stefano
A novel test to determine the significance of neural selectivity to single and multiple potentially correlated stimulus features
49-65-65 JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS (2012)
Volume nr. : 210
Issue nr. : 1 - Gytis Baranauskas;Emma Maggiolini;Elisa Castagnola;Alberto Ansaldo;Alberto Mazzoni;Gian Nicola Angotzi;Alessandro Vato;Davide Ricci;Stefano Panzeri;Luciano Fadiga
Carbon nanotube composite coating of neural microelectrodes preferentially improves the multiunit signal-to-noise ratio
13 JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING (2011)
Volume nr. : 8
Issue nr. : 1 - Mazzoni, Alberto; Brunel, Nicolas; Cavallari, Stefano; Logothetis, Nikos K; Panzeri, Stefano
Cortical dynamics during naturalistic sensory stimulations: experiments and models
2-15-15 JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY (2011)
Volume nr. : 105
Issue nr. : 1 - Alberto Mazzoni;Kevin Whittingstall;Nicolas Brunel;Nikos K Logothetis;Stefano Panzeri
Understanding the relationships between spike rate and delta/gamma frequency bands of LFPs and EEGs using a local cortical network model
956-972 NEUROIMAGE (2010)
Volume nr. : 52
Issue nr. : 1 - Ince, Robin A A; Mazzoni, Alberto; Petersen, Rasmus S; Panzeri, Stefano
Open source tools for the information theoretic analysis of neural data
9 FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE (2010)
Volume nr. : 4
Issue nr. : 1 - Floriana, Gargiulo; Alberto, Mazzoni
Can extremism guarantee pluralism?
9 JASSS (2008)
Volume nr. : 11
Issue nr. : 1 - Alberto Mazzoni;Stefano Panzeri;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nicolas Brunel
Encoding of Naturalistic Stimuli by Local Field Potential Spectra in Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons
20 PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (2008)
Volume nr. : 4
Issue nr. : 1 - Alberto Mazzoni;Elizabeth Garcia-Perez;Frédéric D. Broccard;Paolo Bonifazi;Maria Elisabetta Ruaro;Vincent Torre
On the Dynamics of the Spontaneous Activity in Neuronal Networks
12 PLOS ONE (2007)
Volume nr. : 2
Issue nr. : 1 - Garcia-Perez, Elizabeth; Mazzoni, Alberto; Torre, Vincent
Spontaneous electrical activity and behavior in the leech hirudo medicinalis
8 FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE (2007)
Volume nr. : 1
Issue nr. : 1 - Garcia-Perez, E.; Mazzoni, A; Zoccolan, D.; Robinson, P.C.H.; Torre, V.
Statistics of Decision Making in the Leech
2597-2608 THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE (2005)
Volume nr. : 25
Issue nr. : 1 - Mazzoni, A.; Garcia-Perez E.; Zoccolan, D.; Graziosi S.; Torre, V.
Quantitative Characterization and Classification of Leech Behavior
580-593 JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY (2004)
Volume nr. : 93
Issue nr. : 1
An overview
Computational Neuroengineering Lab
Basal ganglia dysfunctions and behavioral disorders
Parkinson and pathological gambling
Learning from DBS implant microrecordings
Sensory processing in upper limb neuroprosthesis
we got the cover of the 1st Issue of the 100th volume of NEURON!
Texture discrimination on eLife
neuromorphic fingertip on IEEE TNNLS
Spiking neurons network models
Dynamic regimes in the thalamus on PLOS ONE
LFP modeling on PLOS COMP BIOL
Bioelectrical medicine
working in collaboration with GALVANI
Sensory information in cortical subcortical and peripheral neurons
A 2011 review on my earlier work
History of science
Science dissemination
Rai Uno - L’EVOLUZIONE DEI ROBOT IN UNA MOSTRA AL MUDEC DI MILANO: INTERVISTA AD ALBERTO MAZZONI, RICERCATORE DELL’ISTITUTO DI BIOROBOTICA DELLA SCUOLA SANT’ANNA
Rai 2 - Così la robotica può aiutare i medici contro il Covid-19: intervista ad Alberto Mazzoni, responsabile del Lab di Neuroingegneria computazionale dell’Istituto di BioRobotica del Sant’Anna di Pisa
rai 4 - Tra le leggi della robotica di Asimov e il saggio “La cibernetica” di Wiener, Alberto Mazzoni, ricercatore dell’Istituto di BioRobotica, spiega l’evoluzione storica dell’interazione uomo-macchina
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