Martina Bracco

I am a Marie Curie Skłodowska fellow at the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), both in the FrontLab and in the MOV’it team.

The focus of my research is to study how motor skill learning shapes brain connectivity in the healthy brain.

Here I am working on a project [Cerebellar Rhythmic Entrainment with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A new approach for the study of cerebellar connections with the cortex] which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement [No 897941].

With my project, I aim at studying connectivity between the cerebellum and the cortex, both at the rest and during motor learning. Specifically, I aim at characterizing the temporal dynamics, i.e., local oscillations and inter-regional synchrony, subtending the interactions between the cerebellum and the frontal cortices, and how they relate to inter-regional structural connectivity.

To this aim, in my work, I use various methods to measure brain connectivity. My main expertise lies in the coupling of non-invasive cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG), but I also work with magnetoencephalography (MEG), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).