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Personal information

Name: Aldo Genovesio
Data of birth 14/01/1971
Phone Number: +39 06 49910753
Address: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, ITALY
Email: aldo.genovesio@uniroma1.it


Education/training
2003-2007: Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. S.P. Wise at the Section on Neurophysiology, Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland (USA).
1998-2002: PhD in Neurophysiology at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
1997: Collaboration with the group supervised by Prof. D. Parisi at the “Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche” (Rome), Division of Neural Systems and Artificial Life.
1996: Master Degree in Psychology (with a specialization in Experimental Psychology) at the University of Turin (score of 110/110 cum laude with the distinction of printing and the mention of honor).

Positions
2017: Abilitazione a professore ordinario (BIO09)
2016- present: Associate Professor Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Rome Medical School, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2009: Assistant Professor Physiology (also called Researcher in Italy) at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Rome Medical School, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2008: Research fellow with Dr. S.P. Wise at National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland (USA).

Honors
• 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.

Publications
Ferrucci L, Nougaret S, Genovesio A *(2019) Macaque monkeys learn by observation in the ghost display condition in the object-in-place task with differential reward to the observer. Sci Rep 9.
Fascianelli V, Tsujimoto S, Marcos E, Genovesio A* (2019) Autocorrelation Structure in the Macaque Dorsolateral, But not Orbital or Polar, Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Response-Coding Strength in a Visually Cued Strategy Task. Cereb Cortex 29:230–241.
Cirillo R, Fascianelli V, Ferrucci L, Genovesio A*(2018) Neural Intrinsic Timescales in the Macaque Dorsal Premotor Cortex Predict the Strength of Spatial Response Coding. iScience 10:203–210.
Nougaret S, Genovesio A*(2018) Learning the meaning of new stimuli increases the cross-correlated activity of prefrontal neurons. Sci Rep. 8.
Marcos E, Nougaret S, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2018) Outcome Modulation Across Tasks in the Primate Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Neuroscience 371:96–105.
Cirillo R, Ferrucci L, Marcos E, Ferraina S, Genovesio A* (2018) Coding of Self and Other's Future Choices in Dorsal Premotor Cortex during Social Interaction. Cell Rep 24:1679–1686.
Falcone R, Cirillo R, Ferraina S, Genovesio A* (2017) Neural activity in macaque medial frontal cortex represents others’ choices. Sci Rep 7.
Marcos E, Genovesio A* (2017) Interference between space and time estimations: From behavior to neurons. Front Neurosci 11.
Marcos E, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2017) Independent coding of absolute duration and distance magnitudes in the prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol 117:195–203.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A (2017) Firing Variability of Frontal Pole Neurons during a Cued Strategy Task. J Cogn Neurosci 29:25–36.
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 36:1223–1236
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.
Genovesio A, Seitz LK, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2016) Context-Dependent Duration Signals in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex 26:3345–3356.
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. Front Neural Circuits 10.
Marcos E, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2016) Event- and time-dependent decline of outcome information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Sci Rep 6.
Stoianov I, Genovesio A, Pezzulo G (2016) Prefrontal Goal Codes Emerge as Latent States in Probabilistic Value Learning. J Cogn Neurosci 28:140–157
Genovesio A*, Cirillo R, Tsujimoto S, Mohammad Abdellatif S, Wise SP (2015) Automatic comparison of stimulus durations in the primate prefrontal cortex: the neural basis of across-task interference. J Neurophysiol 114:48–56.
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 Psychopharmacol 28:881–887.
Genovesio A*, Ferraina S (2014) The influence of recent decisions on future goal selection. Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 369:20130477–20130477.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S (2014) From duration and distance comparisons to goal encoding in prefrontal cortex. Experimental Medicine and Biology vol. 829: 167-186.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Navarra G, Falcone R, Wise SP (2014) Autonomous Encoding of Irrelevant Goals and Outcomes by Prefrontal Cortex Neurons. J Neurosci 34:1970–1978.
Genovesio A*, Wise SP, Passingham RE (2014) Prefrontal-parietal function: From foraging to foresight. Trends Cogn Sci 18:72–81.
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 Chapouthier G, ed. PLoS One 8:e59961.
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 8.
Brunamonti E, Falcone R, Genovesio A, Costa S, Ferraina S (2012) Gaze orientation interferes with mental numerical representation. Cogn Process 13:375–379.
Falcone R, Brunamonti E, Ferraina S, Genovesio A* (2012) Monkeys monitor human goals in a nonmatch-to-goal interactive task. PLoS One 7.
Falcone R, Brunamonti E, Genovesio A* (2012) Vicarious learning from human models in monkeys. PLoS One 7.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2012) Encoding Goals but Not Abstract Magnitude in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron 74:656–662.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2012) Neuronal Activity during a Cued Strategy Task: Comparison of Dorsolateral, Orbital, and Polar Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurosci 32:11017–11031.
Brunamonti E, Genovesio A, Carbè K, Ferraina S (2011) Gaze modulates non-propositional reasoning: Further evidence for spatial representation of reasoning premises. Neuroscience 173:110–115.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2011) Prefrontal Cortex Activity during the Discrimination of Relative Distance. J Neurosci 31:3968–3980.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2011) Comparison of Strategy Signals in the Dorsolateral and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurosci 31:4583–4592.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A (2011) Appreciating the differences: Response to Burgess. Trends Cogn Sci 15:243.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2011) Frontal pole cortex: Encoding ends at the end of the endbrain. Trends Cogn Sci 15:169–176.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2010) Evaluating self-generated decisions in frontal pole cortex of monkeys. Nat Neurosci 13:120–126.
Ferraina S, Brunamonti E, Giusti MA, Costa S, Genovesio A, Caminiti R (2009) Reaching in Depth: Hand Position Dominates over Binocular Eye Position in the Rostral Superior Parietal Lobule. J Neurosci 29:11461–11470.
Ferraina S, Battaglia-Mayer A, Genovesio A, Archambault P, Caminiti R (2009) Parietal encoding of action in depth. Neuropsychologia 47:1409–1420.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2009) Feature- and Order-Based Timing Representations in the Frontal Cortex. Neuron 63:254–266.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2009) Monkey Orbitofrontal Cortex Encodes Response Choices Near Feedback Time. J Neurosci 29:2569–2574.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2008) Encoding problem-solving strategies in prefrontal cortex: Activity during strategic errors. Eur J Neurosci 27:984–990.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2008) Transient neuronal correlations underlying goal selection and maintenance in prefrontal cortex. Cereb Cortex 18:2748–2761.
Genovesio A, Brunamonti E, Giusti MA, Ferraina S (2007) Postsaccadic Activities in the Posterior Parietal Cortex of Primates Are Influenced by both Eye Movement Vectors and Eye Position. J Neurosci 27:3268–3273.
Genovesio A, Mitz AR (2007) MatOFF: A tool for analyzing behaviorally complex neurophysiological experiments. J Neurosci Methods 165:38–48.
Genovesio A (2006) Neuronal Activity Related to Elapsed Time in Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurophysiol 95:3281–3285.
Genovesio A, Brasted PJ, Wise SP (2006) Representation of Future and Previous Spatial Goals by Separate Neural Populations in Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurosci 26:7305–7316.
Genovesio A, Brasted PJ, Mitz AR, Wise SP (2005) Prefrontal cortex activity related to abstract response strategies. Neuron 47:307–320.
Genovesio A (2004) 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.
Marconi B, Genovesio A, Giannetti S, Molinari M, Caminiti R (2003) Callosal connections of dorso-lateral premotor cortex. Eur J Neurosci 18:775–788.
Battaglia-Mayer A (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.
Ferraina S, Battaglia-Mayer a, Genovesio a, Marconi B, Onorati P, Caminiti R (2001) Early coding of visuomanual coordination during reaching in parietal area PEc. J Neurophysiol 85:462–467.
Marconi B, Genovesio A, Battaglia-Mayer A, Ferraina S, Squatrito S, Molinari M, Lacquaniti F, Caminiti R (2001) Eye-Hand Coordination during Reaching. I. Anatomical Relationships between Parietal and Frontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex 11:513–527.
Battaglia-Mayer A, Ferraina S, Mitsuda T, Marconi B, Genovesio A, Onorati P, Lacquaniti F, Caminiti R (2000) Early coding of reaching in the parietooccipital cortex. J Neurophysiol 83:2374–2391.
Caminiti R, Genovesio A, Marconi B, Mayer AB, Onorati P, Ferraina S, Mitsuda T, Giannetti S, Squatrito S, Maioli MG, Molinari M (1999) Early coding of reaching: Frontal and parietal association connections of parieto-occipital cortex. Eur J Neurosci 11:3339–3345.

* Corresponding author

Other Publications
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).
Editorial activities
2017: Editor for the topic in frontiers in Neuroscience: “Prefrontal cortex and executive functions”.

Selected Invited talks from 2013
• 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, August 29-31, Lyon, 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 November 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) summer school, 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) May 26-28, Paris, France.
• 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”, Milan, Italy.

Selected Research support from 2009
• 2015: Grant of the Sapienza University for the project with title: 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.
• 2012: Grant of the Sapienza University for the project with title : “Monitoraggio dei goal realizzati nel Polo Frontale (area 10) in un task interattivo Nonmatch-to-Goal”.
• 2011: Grant Fari for the Project: “Valutazione delle proprie decisioni nella corteccia del polo frontale del primate”;
• 2010: FIRB 2010 (Futuro in ricerca 2010) for the Project “L’ho già fatto? Una risposta dal polo frontale”. September 22 2011. web:http://attiministeriali.miur.it/media/179761/elenco_progetti_finanziati_futoroinricerca_9%2011%202011.pdf
• 2009-2010: Member of the Project PRIN (Research Project of National interest). Title of the Project: A study of the temporal evolution of the motor intentionality in the frontal lobe. Coordinator: Roberto Caminiti. In collaboration with Prof. Giuseppe Luppino and Prof. Leonardo Fogassi of the University of Parma. Project number: 2008J7FNR_001;
• 2009: Coordinator of the Project “Progetto coordinato dell'Ateneo Federato 2009”. Title of the Project: Encoding of goal of actions in the frontal cortex. In collaboration with other faculty members. Protocol P288/09;

Teaching experience
2013-2015 Teaching Neurophysiology at the Child Neuropsychiatry.
2011-present: Teaching Physiology at the second and third year of the Medical School
2009-2017: Teaching Physiology at the Nursing school
2009-2010: Teaching Physiology at School of Dentistry.
2009-present: Member of the committee of the PhD in Neurophysiology of the “La Sapienza”.
2018-present Teaching Physiology at the laboratory technicians
2017-present Teaching Physiology at the technicians of radiology
2017-present Teaching Physiology at the technicians of the neuropsychiatric rehabilitation.