Mattia F. Pagnotta

Ciao, I'm Mattia. I am a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive neuroscience, and I work with Mark D'Esposito in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) at the University of California, Berkeley.

My research investigates the neural dynamics underlying cognitive control in the human brain. I use a combination of electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG), intracranial EEG, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to characterize how coordinated brain activity supports high-level cognitive processes like attention and working memory. This multimodal approach enables to assess the role of specific brain areas in cognitive control, as well as the involvement of distributed functional networks.

My long-term interest is to advance our understanding of how these brain networks flexibly reorganize to achieve current behavioral goals, giving rise to different types of cognition and behavior. Insights on how these dynamic neural patterns implement cognition will allow us to develop novel diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions to treat different types of neurological disorders.