Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Nome: Aldo Genovesio

Data di nascita 14/01/1971

Numero telefonico: +39 06 49910753

Indirizzo: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, ITALY

Email: aldo.genovesio@uniroma1.it

Formazione

2003-2007: Post-dottorato con il Dr. S.P. Wise alla sezione di Neurophysiology, Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland (USA).
1998-2002: Studente di dottorato in Neurofisiologia dell Università di Roma La Sapienza .
1997: Collaborazione con il gruppo del Prof. D. Parisi al Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Rome), Sezione dei sistemi neurali e vita artificiale.
1996: Laurea in Psicologia (con indirizzo in Psicologia Sperimentale) all Università di Torino ((110/110 con lode, dignita di stampa e menzione d onore).
1994-1995: Collaborazione con Il Prof Benedetti with Prof. F. Benedetti allla Facoltà di Medicina di Torino.
Posizioni ricoperte
2016- Professore Associato per chiamata diretta Fisiologia (BIO-09) - Università di Roma La Sapienza .
2009-present: Ricercatore Fisiologia (BIO-09) - Università di Roma La Sapienza .
2008: Postdottorato con S.P. Wise at National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland (USA).

Premi
2014: ERC consolidator
2006: National Institutes of Health Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE).
1996: Winner of the Premio Optime- riconoscimento al merito di studio , conferred by the Industrial Union of Turin on the basis of academic results.

Pubblicazioni Peer-reviewed
1. Marcos E., Tsujimoto S., Genovesio A. (2017) Independent coding of absolute duration and distance magnitudes in the prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol. 117, 195-203. Corresponding author.
2. Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A. (2017) Firing Variability of Frontal Pole Neurons during a Cued Strategy Task. J Cogn Neurosci. 29, 25-36.
3. Marcos E., Genovesio A. (2016) Determining Monkey Free Choice Long before the Choice Is Made: The Principal Role of Prefrontal Neurons Involved in Both Decision and Motor Processes. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 10, 75. Corresponding author.
4. Marcos E., Tsujimoto S., Genovesio A. (2016) Event- and time-dependent decline of outcome information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Sci Rep. 6:25622. Corresponding author.
5. Stoianov I., Genovesio A., Pezzulo G. (2016) Prefrontal Goal Codes Emerge as Latent States in Probabilistic Value Learning. J Cogn Neurosci. 28, 140-57.
6. Brunamonti E., Mione V., Di Bello F., Pani P., Genovesio A. Ferraina S. (2016) Neuronal Modulation in the Prefrontal Cortex in a Transitive Inference Task: Evidence of Neuronal Correlates of Mental Schema Management. J Neurosci. 36, 1223-36.
7. Falcone R., Brunamonti E., Ferraina S., Genovesio A. (2016) Neural Encoding of Self and Another Agent's Goal in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex: Human-Monkey Interactions. Cereb Cortex. 26, 4613-4622. Corresponding author.
8. Genovesio A., Seitz L.K., Tsujimoto S., Wise SP. (2016) Context-Dependent Duration Signals in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 26, 3345-56 Corresponding author.
9. Brunamonti E., Genovesio A., Pani P., Caminiti R., Ferraina S. (2016) Reaching-related Neurons in Superior Parietal Area 5: Influence of the Target Visibility. J Cogn Neurosci. 28,1828-1837.
10. Genovesio A., Cirillo R., Tsujimoto S., Mohammad Abdellatif S., Wise S.P. (2015) Automatic comparison of stimulus durations in the primate prefrontal cortex: the neural basis of across-task interference. J Neurophysiol. 114, 48-56. Corresponding author.
11. Genovesio A., Tsujimoto, S., Navarra G., Falcone R., Wise S.P., Passingham R.E. (2014). Autonomous Encoding of Irrelevant Goals and Outcomes by Prefrontal Cortex Neurons. J. Neurosci. 34, 1970-1978 Corresponding author.
12. Genovesio A., Tsujimoto S. (2014) From duration and distance comparisons to goal encoding in prefrontal cortex. Experimental Medicine and Biology vol. 829, 167-186. Corresponding author.
13. Brunamonti E., Mione V., Di Bello F., De Luna P, Genovesio A., Ferraina S. (2014). The NMDAr Antagonist Ketamine Interferes with Manipulation of Information for Transitive Inference Reasoning in Non-human Primates. J. Psycopharmacol 28, 881-887.
14. Genovesio A., Ferraina S. The influence of recent decisions on future goal selection. (2014). Trans R. Soc. Lond B Biol. Sci. 369(1655). Corresponding author.
15. Genovesio A., Wise S.P., Passingham .RE. (2014). Prefrontal-parietal function: from foraging to foresight. Trends Cogn Sci. 18, 72-81 Cover article. Corresponding author.
16. Falcone R, Bevacqua S, Cerasti E, Brunamonti E, Cervelloni M, Genovesio A. (2013). Transfer of the Nonmatch-to-Goal rule in Monkeys across Cognitive Domains. PLoS One. 2013 8:e84100. Corresponding author.
17. Bevacqua S., Cerasti E., Falcone R., Cervelloni M., Brunamonti E., Ferraina S., Genovesio A. (2013). Macaque monkeys can learn token values from human models through vicarious reward. PLoS ONE, 8(3):e59961. Corresponding author.
18. Falcone, R., Brunamonti, E., Ferraina, S., Genovesio, A. (2012) Monkeys Monitor Human Goals in a Nonmatch-to-Goal Interactive Task. PLoS ONE, 7: e32209. Corresponding author.
19. Genovesio, A., Tsujimoto, S., Wise, S.P. (2012). Encoding goals but not abstract magnitude in the primate prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 74, 656-662. Corresponding author.
20. Falcone, R., Brunamonti, E., Genovesio, A. Vicarious learning from human models in monkeys. PLoS ONE, 7: e40283 (2012). Featured in the Italian National Geographic. Corresponding author.
21. Brunamonti, E., Falcone, S., Genovesio A., Costa S., Ferraina S. (2012). Gaze orientation interferes with mental numerical representation. Cognitive Processes, 13, 357-359.
22. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. (2012). Neuronal activity during a cued strategy task: Comparison of dorsolateral, orbital and polar prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 11017-11031.
23. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A. (2011). Appreciating the differences: Response to Burgess. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15, 243.
24. Genovesio A., Tsujimoto, S., Wise, S.P. (2011). Prefrontal cortex activity during the discrimination of relative distance. J Neurosci. 31, 3968-3980. Corresponding author.
25. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. (2011). Comparison of strategy signals in the dorsolateral and orbital prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 31, 4583-4592.
26. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. (2011). The Frontal Pole Cortex: Encoding Ends at the End of the Endbrain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15, 169-176. Cover article.
27. Brunamonti, E., Genovesio, A., Carbè, K., Ferraina, S. (2010). Gaze modulates non-propositional reasoning: further evidence for spatial representation of reasoning premises. Neuroscience. 173, 110-115.
28. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. (2010). Evaluating self-generated decisions in frontal pole cortex of monkeys. Nat Neurosci. 13, 120-126.
29. Genovesio, A., Tsujimoto, S., Wise, S.P. (2009). Feature- and order-based timing representations in frontal cortex. Neuron. 63, 254-266. Cover article. Corresponding author.
30. Ferraina, S., Brunamonti, E., Giusti, M., Costa, S., Genovesio, A., Caminiti, R. (2009). Reaching in depth: hand position and binocular eye position modulate reaching related activity in posterior parietal cortex. J Neurosci. 29, 11461-11470. Cover article.
31. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. (2009). Monkey orbitofrontal cortex encodes response choices near the time feedback time. J Neurosci. 29, 2569-2574
32. Ferraina, S., Battaglia-Mayer, A., Genovesio, A., Archambault, P., Caminiti, R. (2009). Parietal encoding of action in depth. Neuropsychologia. 47, 1409-20.
33. Genovesio, A., Tsujimoto, S., Wise, S.P. (2008). Encoding problem-solving strategies in prefrontal cortex: activity during strategic errors. Eur J Neurosci. 27, 984-990. Corresponding author.
34. Tsujimoto, S., Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. (2008). Transient Neuronal Correlations Underlying Goal Selection and Maintenance in Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 18, 2747-61.
35. Genovesio, A. and Mitz, A.R. (2007). MatOff: A tool for analyzing behaviorally-complex neurophysiological experiments. J Neurosci Meth. 165, 38-48.
36. Genovesio, A., Brunamonti, E., Giusti, M., Ferraina, S. (2007). Post-saccadic activities in the posterior parietal cortex of primates are influenced by both eye movement vectors and eye position. J Neurosci. 27, 3268-3273.
37. Genovesio, A., Brasted, P.G., Wise, S.P. (2006). Representation of future and previous goals by separate neural populations in prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 26, 7305-7316. Featured article.
38. Genovesio, A., Tsujimoto, S., Wise, S.P. (2006). Neural activity related to elapsed time in prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol. 95, 3281-3285.
39. Genovesio A., Brasted, P.G., Mitz, A.R., Wise, S.P. (2005). Prefrontal cortex activity related to abstract response strategies. Neuron. 47, 307-320. Cover article.
40. Genovesio, A. and Ferraina, S. Integration of retinal disparity and fixation-distance related signals toward an egocentric coding of distance in the posterior parietal cortex of primates. J Neurophysiol. 91, 2670-2684 (2004). Cover article.
41. Marconi, B., Genovesio, A., Giannetti, S., Molinari, M., Caminiti, R. (2003). Callosal connections of dorso-lateral premotor cortex, Eur J Neurosci. 18, 775-788. Cover article.
42. Battaglia-Mayer, A., Ferraina, S., Genovesio, A., Marconi, B., Squatrito, S., Molinari, M., Lacquaniti, F., Caminiti, R. (2001). Eye-hand coordination during reaching. II. An analysis of the relationships between visuomanual signals in parietal cortex and parieto-frontal association projections. Cereb Cortex. 11, 528-544.
43. Marconi, B., Genovesio, A., Battaglia-Mayer, A., Ferraina, S., Molinari, M., Caminiti, R. (2001). Eye-hand coordination during reaching. I. Anatomical relationship between parietal and frontal cortex. Cereb Cortex. 11, 513-527. Cover article.
44. Ferraina, S., Battaglia-Mayer, A., Genovesio, A., Marconi, B., Onorati, P. (2001). Early coding of visuomanual coordination during reaching in parietal area Pec. J. Neurophysiol. 85, 462-467.
45. Battaglia-Mayer, A., Ferraina, S., Mitsuda, T., Marconi, B., Genovesio, A., Onorati, P., Lacquaniti, F., Caminiti, R. (2000). Early coding of reaching in the parieto-occipital cortex. J Neurophysiol. 83, 2374-2391 (2000). Cover article.
46. Caminiti, R., Genovesio, A., Marconi, B., Battaglia-Mayer, A., Onorati, P., Ferraina, S., Mitsuda, T., Giannetti, S., Squatrito, S., Maioli, M.G., Molinari, M. (1999). Early coding of reaching: frontal and parietal association connections of parieto-occipital cortex. Eur J Neurosci. 11, 3339- 3345.

Altre pubblicazioni
Genovesio, A., Wise, S.P. The neurophysiology of abstract response strategies. In Bunge S.A. and Wallis J.D., (Eds), Neuroscience of rule-guided Behavior. Oxford University Press (2007).
Attività editoriali
2017: Editore per il the topic in frontiers in Neuroscience: Prefrontal cortex and executive functions .

Presentazioni a conferenze e seminari ad invito degli ultimi due anni (2014-2016)
2016: Neural activity related to the prediction of others action in the medial frontal cortex of primates in a human-monkey interactive task. Society for Social Neuroscience November 11, San Diego, USA.
2016: Role of Prefrontal cortex in representing another agent s goals. 5th workshop on the Computational properties of the Prefrontal Cortex, Agosto29-31, Lione, France.
2015: From specificity in timing and spatial computations to goal and action generality in prefrontal cortex, XXIII Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia Novembre 19-21, 2015, Lucca, Italy.
2015: Role of prefrontal cortex in decision making: across-task interference effects in a duration discrimination task and prediction of others choices in a social interactive task. Teaching at the BCBT 2015. (Cognition, Brain and Technology) scuola estiva, Barcellona, Spain.
2014: Evolution of goal decision related activity in the dorsal prefrontal cortex of macaques
Fourth International Symposium on "Biology of Decision Making" (SBDM) Maggio 26-28, Parigi, Francia.
2014: Organization of a symposium FENS Forum 2014 - 9th FENS Forum of Neuroscience on Control of goal-related actions and behavioural decision processing in the prefrontal cortex , Milano, Italia.

Finanziamenti dal 2009
2015: Grant della Sapienza per il progetto: Dipendenza della codifica del tempo dal contesto nella corteccia prefrontale del macaco. Euro 4000.
2014: ERC consolidator (settore LS5 - Neurosciences and Neural Disorders) dal titolo: What is everybody doing? Social prediction, categorization, and monitoring in the Prefrontal Cortex of the Macaque adopting a new human-monkey (H-M) interactive paradigm . February 5 2015. Euro: 1028750
2012: Grant della Sapienza con il titolo: Monitoraggio dei goal realizzati nel Polo Frontale (area 10) in un task interattivo Nonmatch-to-Goal . Euro 5500.
2011: Grant Fari per il progetto: Valutazione delle proprie decisioni nella corteccia del polo frontale del primate ; Euro 7500.
2010: FIRB 2010 (Futuro in ricerca 2010) per il progetto L ho già fatto? Una risposta dal polo frontale . Euro 415000. September 22 2011. web:http://attiministeriali.miur.it/media/179761/elenco_progetti_finanziati_...
2009-2010: Membro del progetto PRIN (Research Project of National interest) dal titolo: A study of the temporal evolution of the motor intentionality in the frontal lobe. Coordinatore: Roberto Caminiti. In collaborazione con Giuseppe Luppino e Leonardo Fogassi dell Università di Parma. Numero progetto: 2008J7FNR_001; Euro 135.632.
2009: Coordinatore del Progetto coordinato dell'Ateneo Federato 2009 dal titolo: Encoding of goal of actions in the frontal cortex. In collaboration with other faculty members. Protocollo P288/09; Euro 9.018 per spese generali e Euro 18.600 per pagare un assegno di ricerca.

Insegnamenti
2013-2015 Insegnamento di Fisiologia alla scuola di Specializzazione di Neuropsichiatria Infantile
2011-presente: Insegnamento di Fisiologia al secondo e al terzo anno di Medicina Corso B.
2010: Insegnamento del corso Corteccia Prefrontale e processi cognitive nel dottorato in Neuroscienze.
2009-presente: Insegnamento di Fisiologia a Scienze Infermieristiche
2009-2010: Insegnamento di Fisiologia a Odontoiatria.
2009-presente: Membro del collegio dei docenti del dottorato in Neuroscienze della Sapienza .