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Blogposts & Press
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VERBA VOLANT, SCRIPTA MANENT, ARS PERMANENT - Brain&Art SIG
Announcing the new OHBM SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT ACTION SIG
Promoting FAMILY-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES DURING OHBM 2020 ANNUAL MEETING
Supporting the ADVANCEMENT OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY AT OHBM
Publications
Borghesani, V., Battistella, G., Mandelli, M., Miller, Z., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2020) Regional and hemispheric susceptibility of the temporal lobe to FTLD-TDP type C pathology NeuroImage:Clinical [pre-print]
Borghesani, V., Hinkley, L.B., Ranasinghe, K., Thompson, M., Shwe, W., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Henry, M., Houde, J.F., Miller, Z., Nagarajan, S.S., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2020) Taking the sub-lexical route: the spatiotemporal dynamics of reading in semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Brain [pre-print]
Borghesani, V.*, Riello, M.*, Gesierich, B., Brentari, V., Monti, A., & Gorno-Tempini, M. (2019) The Neural Representations of Movement across Semantic Categories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Borghesani, V., Narvid, J., Battistella, G., Shwe, W., Watson, C., Binney, R., Sturm, V., Miller, Z., Mandelli, M.L., Miller, B., Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) "Looks familiar, but I do not know who she is”: The role of the anterior right temporal lobe in famous face recognition. Cortex
Borghesani, V., Buiatti, M., Eger, E., & Piazza, M. (2018). Conceptual and Perceptual Dimensions of Word Meaning Are Recovered Rapidly and in Parallel during Reading. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 1-14. [PDF]
Borghesani, V., de Hevia, M. D., Viarouge, A., Chagas, P. P., Eger, E., & Piazza, M. (2018). Processing number and length in the parietal cortex: Sharing resources, not a common code. Cortex. [PDF]
Borghesani, V., Pedregosa, F., Buiatti, M., Amadon, A., Eger, E., & Piazza, M. (2016). Word meaning in the ventral visual path: a perceptual to conceptual gradient of semantic coding. NeuroImage, 143, 128-140. [PDF]
Other Published Work:
Tzovara, A. Amarreh, I., Borghesani, V., etc… (2021) Embracing diversity and inclusion in academia: Insights from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping , NeuroImage [pre-print]
The Open Brain Consent working group (2021) The Open Brain Consent: a template for informing research participants and obtaining consent to share brain imaging data, Human Brain Mapping [pre-print]
Caso, F., Agosta, F., Magnani, G., Cardamone, R., Borghesani, V., Miller, Z., ... & Seeley, W. W. (2020). Temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia in C9orf72 repeat expansion carriers: two case studies. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1-10.
Pasquini, L., .... Borghesani, V., … & Seeley, W.W. (2019) State and trait characteristics of anterior insula time-varying functional connectivity. NeuroImage
Battistella, G., Borghesani, V., … & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) Task-free functional language networks: reliability, reproducibility and clinical application. Journal of Neuroscience
Vonk*, J., Borghesani*, V., … & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) Verbal semantics and the left dorsolateral anterior temporal lobe: a longitudinal case of bilateral temporal degeneration. Aphasiology
Borghesani, V., Monti, A., Fortis, P., & Miceli, G. (2019 ) Reduplicative paramnesia for places: A comprehensive review of the literature and a new case report. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Battistella, G., Henry, M., Gesierich, B., Wilson, S.M., Borghesani, V., Shwe, W., Miller, Z., Deleon, J., Bruce, M., Jovicich, J., Papinutto, N., Seeley, W.W. , Dronkers, N., Mandelli, M.L., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) Differential intrinsic functional connectivity changes in three language networks in Semantic Primary Progressive Aphasia. NeuroImage Clinical
Borghesani, V., & Piazza, M. (2017). The neuro-cognitive representations of symbols: the case of concrete words. Neuropsychologia, 105, 4-17. [PDF]
Borghesani*, V., de Hevia*, L., Viarouge*, A., Pinheiro Chagas, P., Eger, E., & Piazza, M. (2016). Comparing magnitudes across dimensions: a univariate and multivariate approach. International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (pp. 1-4). [PDF]
Borghesani, V., Pedregosa, F., Eger, E., Buiatti, M., & Piazza, M. (2014). A perceptual-to-conceptual gradient of word coding along the ventral path. International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (pp. 1-4). [PDF]
Under Review
Borghesani, V., Dale, C., Hinkley, L.B., Lukic, S.., Lauricella, M., Shwe, W., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Houde, J.F., Miller, Z., Gorno-Tempini, M.L, .& Nagarajan, S.S., (under review) Neural dynamics of semantic categorization in semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. [pre-print]
Borghesani, V., Wang, C., Miller, C., Mandelli, M., Miller, Z., Fox, C., Gorno-Tempini, M.L. & Watson, C. (under review) The resilience of the developing reading system: multi-modal evidence of incident and recovery after a pediatric stroke. [pre-print]
Vigano, S., Borghesani, V., & Piazza, M. (under review) Imaging the Human Brain Solving the Symbol-Grounding Problem
Lukic, S., Borghesani, V., Shwe, W., Weis, L., Neuhaus, J., Jessica, Miller, Z., Miller, L. B., Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (under review) Dissociating Grammatical Categories in Temporal and Perisylvian networks: Evidence from Neurodegenerative Disease. [abstract at AoA]
In Preparation
Borghesani, V., Lukic, S., Licata, A., Bogley, R., Weis, E., Welch, A., Hinkley, L.B.N., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Miller, B., Miller, Z., Houde, J.F., Nagarajan, S.S., Dronkers, N., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (in prep) Auditory verb generation performance dissociates variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia.
Borghesani*, V., Wang*, G., Mandelli, M., Cavesarzi, E., Battistella, G., etc… & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (in prep) Functional and morphological correlates of developmental dyslexia: a multimodal investigation of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex.
Kyan, Y., Borghesani, V., Montembeault, M., … , Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (in prep). Right Temporal Degeneration and Conceptual Loss of Emotions: Semantic-variant Frontotemporal Dementia?
Book Chapter
Borghesani, V., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) Afasia primaria progressiva. In Afasiologia. Eds. Monti A., & Gilardone, M. FrancoAngeli.
Lukic, S., Borghesani, V, Gorno-Tempini, M.L., Battistella, G. (under review) Voxel-based brain-behavior mapping in neurodegenerative diseases. (to appear in Lesion-to-symptom mapping: Principles and tools, Edited by Dorian Pustina and Daniel Mirman)
Borghesani, V., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (in prep) Frontotemporal dementia: a unique window on the functional role of the temporal lobes. (to appear in The Temporal Lobe – Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Elsevier), Edited by Gabriele Miceli and Paolo Bartolomeo)
Posters & Talks
Borghesani, V., Lukic, S., Hinkley, L.B.N., Licata, A., Bogley, R., Weis, E., Welch, A., Mizuiri, D., Miller, B., Miller, Z., Houde, J.F., Nagarajan, S.S., Dronkers, N., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2020) Language networks reorganization in neurodegenerative disorders: behavioral, structural, and functional evidence from semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. NeuroMatch 3.0 [youtubevideo]
Borghesani, V., Lukic, S., Licata, A., Bogley, R., Weis, E., Welch, A., Hinkley, L.B.N., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Miller, B., Miller, Z., Houde, J.F., Nagarajan, S.S., Dronkers, N., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2020) Auditory verb generation performance dissociates variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia SNL, Society for the Neurobiology of Language [pdf] [youtubevideo]
Borghesani, V., Dale , C., Lukic , S., Hinkley, L., Lauricella , M., Shwe , W., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Miller, Z., Miller, B., Houde, J., Gorno-Tempini, M-L., & Nagarajan, S. (2020) The neural dynamics of semantic categorization in semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. OHBM, Organization for Human Brain Mapping [pdf]
Borghesani, V., Battistella, G., Mandelli, M., Rabinovici, G., Grinberg, L., Seeley, W., Miller, Z., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) Parcellation of the anterior temporal lobes in semantic variant PPA caused by TDP-43-C pathology OHBM, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Borghesani, V., Hinkley, L.B., Dale, C.L., Ranasinghe, K., Thompson, M., Lauricella, W., Shwe, W., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Houde, J.F., Miller, Z., Nagarajan, S.S., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2019) The semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia: a window into the spatiotemporal dynamics of language. Symposium: Neural bases of speech production
Borghesani, V., Hinkley, L.B., Ranasinghe, K., Thompson, M., Shwe, W., Mizuiri, D., Honma, S., Houde, J.F., Miller, Z., Nagarajan, S.S., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2018) Taking the sub-lexical route: the spatiotemporal dynamics of reading in semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. SfN, Society of Neuroscience
Borghesani, V., (2017) Helping the quest for language in the brain. Science Hack Day - San Francisco
Borghesani, V., de Hevia*, L., Viarouge*, A., Pinheiro Chagas, P., Eger, E., & Piazza, M. (2016).Comparing magnitudes across dimensions: a univariate and multivariate approach. PRNI, International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging
Borghesani, V., de Hevia*, L., Viarouge*, A., Pinheiro Chagas, P., Eger, E., & Piazza, M. (2016). Few: Many = Short: Long? Coding Of Magnitude Across Different Quantitative Dimensions. CAOS, Concepts, Actions, Objects
Borghesani, V., Eger, E., Buiatti, M., & Piazza, M. (2015) Perceptual and conceptual semantic dimensions: where and when? SNL, Society for the neurobiology of language
Borghesani, V., Eger, E., Buiatti, M., & Piazza, M. (2015) Can you see what I mean? Perceptual and conceptual semantics during words reading. SfN, Society of Neuroscience
Borghesani, V., Pedregosa, F., Eger, E., Buiatti, M., & Piazza, M. (2014) A perceptual-to-conceptual gradient of word coding along the ventral path. PRNI, International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging [selected for oral presentation]
Borghesani, V., Pedregosa, F., Eger, E., Buiatti, M., & Piazza, M. (2014) Word reading in the ventral stream: A perceptual to conceptual gradient of information coding. CAOS, Concepts, Actions, Objects [selected for oral presentation and winner of the best poster award]
Theses
PhD thesis: Thesis committee: Christophe Pallier (advisor), Manuela Piazza (advisor), James Haxby (reviewer), Rik Vandenberghe (reviewer), Laurent Cohen (examiner), Marius Peelen (examiner). “The Neuro-Cognitive Representation of Word Meaning Resolved in Space and Time. [PDF]
Master thesis: a single case study on the neuropsychological substrate of reduplicative paramnesia (supervisor dott.ssa Alessia Monti PhD). In Italian: “Analisi neuropsicologica della paramnesia reduplicativa per i luoghi: stato dell’arte e studio di un caso”. [PDF]
Bachelor thesis: a tDCS study investigating the role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in cognitive dissonance (supervisor Prof. G. di Pellegrino MD, PhD). In Italian: “Il ruolo della corteccia dorsolaterale prefrontale nella dissonanza cognitiva”. [PDF]