Monica Toba

Biography & Research

Monica Toba is a neuropsychologist with a PhD in neuroscience obtained at the Paris 6 University. SInce 2014, she has been an associate professor (Maître de Conférences HDR) of neuroscience at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens). Her research focuses on the executive and visuospatial attention, especially in the framework of unilateral spatial neglect that typically affects left-sided events after right hemisphere damage with an impact on complex cognitive activities. Currently, her studies combine neuropsychological, neuroimaging and computational approaches in order to define models of brain interactions between different nodes of the attention network based on stroke patients data.