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Aldo Genovesio
Curriculum Vitae

Part I – General Information

Full Name Aldo Genovesio
Date of Birth 14/01/1971
Place of Birth Torino
Citizenship Italian
Work Phone Number 0649910754
E-mail aldo.genovesio@uniroma1.it
Spoken Languages English, Italian

Part II – Education

Type Year Institution Notes (Degree, Experience)
University graduation 1996 University of Turin Degree in Psychology (score of 110/110 cum laude with the distinction of printing and the mention of honor)
Post-graduate studies 2003-2007 National Institutes of Health Postdoc and after Research fellow with Steve Wise
PhD 2002 Sapienza University of Rome PhD in Neurohysiology
Pre-doctorate training 1994-1995 Department of Physiology of Turin, Turin University Thesis with Prof. Fabrizio Benedetti


Part III – Appointments

IIIA – Academic Appointments

Start End Institution Position
2009 2016 Sapienza University of Rome Researcher
2016 present Sapienza University of Rome Associate Professor

2024 present CNR (Institute of Biochemistry and cell Biology) Association to the CNR (associato con incarichi di collaborazione)

Part IV – Teaching experience

Year Institution Lecture/Course
2018-present Sapienza University of Rome Physiology at “tecnici di laboratorio”.
2017-present Sapienza University of Rome Physiology at “Tecnica della riabilitazione psichiatrica.
2011-presente Sapienza University of Rome Physiology at “Medicina corso di laurea B”.
2017-present Sapienza University of Rome Physiology at “Tecniche di Radiologia Medica per Immagini e Radioterapia”.
2009-2010 Sapienza University of Rome Physiology at “Odontoiatria”
2009-2016 Sapienza University of Rome (Polo Pontino) Physiology at “Infermieristica(latina)”.
2013-2015 Sapienza University of Rome Physiology at “Scuola di Specializzazione in Neuropsichiatria”.
2010-2011 Sapienza University of Rome (Polo Pontino) Physiology at “Medicina corso di laurea E (Latina)”.

PhD Program
Member of the teaching board of the “Dottorato in Neuroscienze del Comportamento”.
Teaching classes in the PhD program on the prefrontal cortex.

Organizational role in Teaching and academic roles
• 2010-2011: Coordinator of “Fisiologia di Medicina e Chirurgia, corso E”, Latina.
• 2011-2013: Coordinator of “Corso integrato di Basi anatomo-fisiologiche del corpo umano, infermieristica”. Sapienza University of Rome, Polo Pontino, Latina.
• 2017-current. Coordinator of “Corso integrato di Basi anatomo-fisiologiche del corpo umano, Tecnica della riabilitazione psichiatrica”, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma.
• 2022-2023: Member of the commissions for the evaluation of the grants Fellowship SEAL or SAPIExcellence 2022 and Fellowship ADD SAPIExcellence 2023.
Role in Academic Collegial Bodies
2021-2023: Member of the “Giunta di Facoltà” di Farmacia e Medicina, Sapienza University of Rome.
2023 elected for 2023-2026. Member of the “Giunta di Facoltà” di Farmacia e Medicina, Sapienza University of Rome.


Qualification as full Professor (Abilitazione a prima fascia)
2017: Abilitazione a Professore Ordinario di Fisiologia (BIO-09).
2023: abilitazione a Professore Ordinario del settore 11-E1.

Current: In a report generated by IRIS - CINECA (01/09/2023) I passed the simulation as commissario for BIO-09.

Tutoring experience
In the past years I have been the tutor of PhD students and University students for their thesis in Neurobiology, Psychology, and Mathematics.
The Phd students are: Rossella Falcone, Rossella Cirillo, Lorenzo Ferrucci, Stefano Sacchetti, Francesco Ceccarelli, Valeria Fascianelli, Sara Bevacqua, Giulia Arena, Leyla Elyasizad, Fabrizio Londei.

The University students that I followed for their thesis are: Fabrizio Londei, Giulia Navarra, Mauro Ciriello, Irene Caprara, Sara Mohammad Abdellatif, Milena Cervelloni, Rosaria Pellegrino, Giulia Arena, Sara Frioni, Silvia Pannisco, Katia Serpi, Rosaria Pellegrino, Pietro Caggiano, Simone Di Plinio.

I have been the tutor of several Post-docs including: Erica Cerasti, Rossella Falcone, Rossella Cirillo, Encarni Marcos, Valentina Mione, Simon Nougaret, Danilo Benozzo, Lorenzo Ferrucci, Francesco Ceccarelli.




Third Mission (terza missione)
2014: Presentation in collaboration with Mauro Donato in a library caffè in Rome for the large public: Caffè Scienza - Il tempo percepito e il tempo relativistico (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRfcIc1kLoU9
2024: Organizer of Neuroscienze al liceo (Neuroscience for high school) with Prof. Emiliano Brunamonti in the Liceo Classico Ugo Foscolo of Albano (RM). It includes a series of six presentations on Neuroscience and activities of orientation to the choice of the University.
Link: https://web.uniroma1.it/dff/it/neuroscienziati-al-liceo.
2024: Participation to the Sapienza program Next Generation for presentations to high school students on “A quale professione posso aspirare?” in liceo Classico Virgilio of Rome and Istituto Bramante.
2024: Member of the Sapienza Third Mission Project: Decifrare la Contemporaneità: Modelli di collaborazione per una lettura critica della complessità del presente (29000 euro).


Part V - Society memberships, Awards and Honors

Society memberships

Year Title
current SINS (Società italiana di neuroscienze)
current SFN (Society for Neuroscience)
current SIF (Società italiana di Fisiologia)

Awards and Honors
2014 ERC Consolidator HUMO
2010 FIRB Futuro in Ricerca
2016 Direct Call to Prof. Associato (Chiamata diretta a Prof. Associato)
2017 Elected member of the governing board of the SINS (Società italiana di Neuroscienze)
2006 Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) from NIMH (National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
1997 Premio Optime (riconoscimento al merito di studio) from “Unione Industriale” of Turin.

Part VI - Funding Information [grants as PI-principal investigator or I-investigator]

Year Title Program Grant value
2023 Metastable dynamics of the frontal cortex: Hidden Markov Models analysis during learning and spontaneous activity. Ateneo 2023 (PI) 10.602

2021-current In2PrimateBrains (Intra- and Inter-Areal Communication in Primate Brain Networks). The Project started in 2021. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019(PI) 261.499 euro
2019 Performing actions in a changing environment (PACE). PRIN 2017 (PI). 138.128 euro
2017 Metacognition in the macaque prefrontal cortex. Ateneo H2020 (PI). 26.600 euro
2015 Dipendenza della codifica del tempo dal contesto nella corteccia prefrontale del macaco. Finanziamento di Ateneo (PI). 4.000 euro
2014 HUMO. ERC consolidator (PI). 1.028.750 euro
2013 Rappresentazioni comuni a tempo e spazio a livello di singoli neuroni nella corteccia prefrontale del macaco Finanziamento di Ateneo (PI). 4.000 euro
2012 Monitoraggio dei goal realizzati nel polo frontale (area 10) in un task interattivo. Finanziamento di Ateneo (PI). 5.500 euro
2010 Valutazione delle proprie decisioni nella corteccia del polo frontale del primate. FARI (PI). 7.500 euro
2010 L’ho già fatto una risposta dal polo frontale. FIRB (PI). 415.000 euro
2009 A study of the temporal evolution of the motor intentionality in the frontal lobe. PRIN member of the PRIN unit coordinated by Roberto Caminiti. 135.632 euro
2009 La codifica dei goal dell'azione nella corteccia frontale Finanziamento di Ateneo Federato (PI). 27.618 euro
2002 Role of the parietal cortex in the egocentric encoding of the extrapersonal space. Grant MURST giovani ricercatori (PI). 6.500 euro

Funding as Participant to Sapienza’s Projects

2020: Member of the project by Fabrizio Doricchi with title: Specializzazione emisferica e codifica predittiva (predictive coding) (10.000 euro).

2019: Member of the project by Alexandra Battaglia Mayer with title: Neural bases of inter-individual motor and attentional interactions) (10.000 euro).

2021: Member of the project by Alexandra Battaglia Mayer with title: Neural dynamics across action execution in different contexts and action observation (10.000 euro).

2022: Member of the project proposed by Andrea Mele with title: High-throughput multiscale imaging of fixed and live biological samples (669.800 euro).

Supervisor of young students’ Sapienza Projects

2018: Supervisor of the project by Valeria Fascianelli with title: Ferrucci Neural correlates of rule switching in orbital prefrontal cortex. (1000 euro).

2021: Supervisor of the project by Lorenzo Ferrucci with title: Monitoring of self and others' choices in the macaque frontal pole cortex (2.796 euro).

2022: Supervisor of the project by Lorenzo Ferrucci with title: Neural correlates of individual and observational learning in the macaques' frontal pole (2.796 euro).


Part VII – Research Activities

Keywords
Non-human primates
Prefrontal cortex
Frontal Pole
Parietal cortex
Executive functions
Interval timing
Timescales
Transitive inference
Eye-hand coordination
Neuroanatomy of the cerebral cortex



Part VIII
Language Skills: native level Italian proficiency and proficient in English
Brief Description of my research topics
My lab focuses on investigating at the level of the cell physiology the role of the frontal cortex in various domains of cognition such timing, problem solving strategies, goal, retrospective and prospective memory, decision making, social interaction, magnitudes in the spatial and timing domain that can be summarized in 7 main lines of research:
1) Frontal Pole Cortex: I have published several papers on the Frontal Pole cortex, exploring the representation of behavioral responses analyzing single-neuron activities, correlations, and neural variability. To my knowledge, these are the only ever published neurophysiological studies on this important cortical area because of the difficulty of having access to this area surgically. This area is believed to play a role in supporting unique cognitive abilities of non-human and human primates. There is a homology of the human Frontal Pole cortex only with non-human primates. Our current work continues to study this area in relation to social cognition and fast learning. The last paper published is online in Plos Biology.
2) Social cognition: My interest has expanded to exploring the neural correlates of social interaction and the role of prefrontal and premotor areas in this process. My goal is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the ability to distinguish self from others, predict and monitor others' goals, and investigate how these mechanisms are compromised in conditions such as autism spectrum disorders. We have identified neural correlates of predicting others' behavior in various frontal areas, with the anterior medial prefrontal cortex showing the greatest separation in neural representations between self and others.
3) Interval timing: My laboratory examines the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in encoding stimulus duration and the comparison between durations. We also study the relationship between time and space and the overlap in neural codes between these two magnitudes.
4) Decision making and learning: My research examines decision-making processes from the decision itself to the conversion of that decision into a motor plan in several discrimination and learning tasks. We also study decision making under free-choice conditions to understand the neural activities that influence the selection of one option over another.
5) Timescales: Our recent work has characterized the timescales of intrinsic fluctuations in spiking activity of neurons in different cortical and subcortical areas, and explored how these timescales are predictive of later involvement in spatial memory functions and can define a hierarchy of brain areas.
6) Large scale brain connectivity analysis: Recently we have opened a new line of research using a computational approach to connectivity in mice: In a new line of research, I have started to study the functional connectivity in mice looking for motifs of assemblies of neurons activated in coordinate way, such loops of assemblies of neurons between areas. We have submitted a manuscript and a second is in preparation on all brain connectivity, to investigate the connectivity of the zona incerta, a crucial are that can alleviate Parkinson's symptoms through its electrical stimulation.
7) Mechanisms of interareal communication, examined in terms of functional connectivity and motifs of connectivity. See Londei et al. (2024). Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223028389. We are finalizing a manuscript on the analysis of the functional connectivity examining the exchange of coded neural information addressing more than 50 areas of the mouse.

Part VIII – Selected Publications


In the last 10 years
Nougaret S, Ferrucci L, Ceccarelli F, Sacchetti S, Fascianelli V, Benozzo D, Genovesio A*(2014). Neurons in the monkey frontopolar cortex encode learning stage and goal during a fast learning task. PLoS Biol. 22:e3002500.. IF:9.8.
Arena G, Londei F, Ceccarelli F, Ferrucci L, Borra E, Genovesio A*. (2024) Disentangling the identity of the zona incerta: a review of the known connections and latest implications. Ageing Res Rev. 93:102140. IF:13.1.
Londei F, Arena G. Ferrucci L, Russo E, Ceccarelli F, Genovesio A*. (2023) Connecting the dots in the zona incerta: a study of neural assemblies and motifs of inter-area coordination in mice. IScience. 27:108761. IF:5.8.
Ceccarelli F, Ferrucci L, Londei F, Ramawat S, Brunamonti E, Genovesio A*. (2023) Static and dynamic coding in distinct cell types during associative learning in the prefrontal cortex. Nat Commun. 14:8325. IF:16.6.
Falcone R, Cirillo R, Ceccarelli F, Genovesio A* (2022) Neural representation of others during action observation in posterior medial prefrontal cortex. Cerebral cortex. 32: 4512-4523. IF:4.861.
Ferrucci L, Nougaret S, Ceccarelli F, Sacchetti S, Fascianelli V, Benozzo D, Genovesio A* (2022) Social monitoring of actions in the macaque frontopolar cortex. Progress in Neurobiology, 218:102339. IF:6.44.
Ferrucci L, Nougaret S, Falcone R, Cirillo R, Ceccarelli F, Genovesio A* (2022) Dedicated Representation of Others in the Macaque Frontal Cortex: From Action Monitoring and Prediction to Outcome Evaluation. Cerebral Cortex. 32: 891–907. IF:5.357
Ramawat S, Mione V, Di Bello F, Bardella G, Genovesio A, Pani P, Ferraina S, Brunamonti E (2022) Different Contribution of the Monkey Prefrontal and Premotor Dorsal Cortex in Decision Making During a Transitive Inference Task. Neuroscience. 485: 147-162. IF: 3.59.
Nougaret S, Fascianelli V, Ravel S, Genovesio A*. (2021) Intrinsic timescales across the basal ganglia. Sci Rep. 11:21395. IF:4.996.
Ferrucci L, Genovesio A*, Marcos E (2021) The importance of urgency in decision making based on dynamic information. PLOS Comput. Biol. 17:e1009455. IF:4.475.
Benozzo D, La Camera G, Genovesio A* (2021) Slower prefrontal metastable dynamics during deliberation predicts error trials in a distance discrimination task. Cell Rep. 35, 108934. IF:9.42.
Messinger A, Cirillo R, Wise SP, Genovesio A* (2021) Separable neuronal contributions to covertly attended locations and movement goals in macaque frontal cortex. Sci. Adv. 7: 1-15. IF:14.13.
Sacchetti S., Ceccarelli F., Ferrucci L., Benozzo D, Brunamonti E., Nougaret S, Genovesio A (2021) Macaque monkeys learn and perform a non-match-to-goal task using an automated home cage training procedure. Sci Rep. 11:1-12. IF:4.38.
Cueva CJ, Saez A, Marcos E, Genovesio A, Jazayeri M, Romo R, Salzman CD, Shadlen MN, Fusi, S (2020) Low-dimensional dynamics for working memory and time encoding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 117: 23021–23032. IF:11.205.
Fascianelli V, Ferrucci L, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio* A (2020) Neural correlates of strategy switching in the macaque orbital prefrontal cortex. J. Neurosci. 40: 3025–3034. IF:6.16.
Mione V, Brunamonti E, Pani P, Genovesio A, Ferraina S, (2020). Dorsal Premotor Cortex Neurons Signal the Level of Choice Difficulty during Logical Decisions. Cell Rep. 32, 107961. IF:9.42.
Mione V, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2019) Neural Correlations Underlying Self-Generated Decision in the Frontal Pole Cortex during a Cued Strategy Task. Neuroscience 404:519-528. IF:3.24.
Marcos E, Tsujimoto S, Mattia M, Genovesio A* (2019) A Network Activity Reconfiguration Underlies the Transition from Goal to Action. Cell Rep. 27:2909-2920.e4. IF:7.81.
Nougaret S, Ferrucci L, Genovesio A* (2019) Role of the social actor during social interaction and learning in human-monkey paradigms. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 102:242-250. IF 8.00.
Ferrucci L, Nougaret S, Brunamonti E, Genovesio A* (2019) Effects of reward size and context on learning in macaque monkeys. Behav Brain Res 372:111983. IF:2.77.
Marcos E, Londei F, Genovesio A* (2019) Hidden Markov Models Predict the Future Choice Better Than a PSTH-Based Method. Neural Comput. 9:1874-1890. IF:2.26.
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. IF:4.01.
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. IF:5.43.
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. IF:4.45.
Nougaret S, Genovesio A*(2018) Learning the meaning of new stimuli increases the cross-correlated activity of prefrontal neurons. Sci Rep. 8. IF:4.01.
Marcos E, Nougaret S, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2018) Outcome Modulation Across Tasks in the Primate Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. Neuroscience 371:96–105. IF:3.24.
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. IF 7.81.
Falcone R, Cirillo R, Ferraina S, Genovesio A* (2017) Neural activity in macaque medial frontal cortex represents others’ choices. Sci Rep 7. IF:4.12.
Marcos E, Genovesio A* (2017) Interference between space and time estimations: From behavior to neurons. Front Neurosci 11. IF:3.87.
Marcos E, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2017) Independent coding of absolute duration and distance magnitudes in the prefrontal cortex. J Neurophysiol 117:195–203. IF:2.50.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A (2017) Firing Variability of Frontal Pole Neurons during a Cued Strategy Task. J Cogn Neurosci 29:25–36. IF:3.46.
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. IF:5.98.
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. IF:3.10.
Genovesio A*, Seitz LK, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2016) Context-Dependent Duration Signals in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Cereb Cortex 26:3345–3356. IF:6.55.
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. IF:3.00.
Marcos E, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A* (2016) Event- and time-dependent decline of outcome information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Sci Rep 6. IF:4.25.
Stoianov I, Genovesio A, Pezzulo G (2016) Prefrontal Goal Codes Emerge as Latent States in Probabilistic Value Learning. J Cogn Neurosci 28:140–157. IF:3.10.
Falcone R, Brunamonti E, Ferraina S, Genovesio A* (2016) Neural Encoding of Self and Another Agent's Goal in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex: Human-Monkey Interactions. Cereb Cortex 26:4613-4622. IF:6.55.
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. IF:2.65.
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. IF:3.89.
Genovesio A*, Ferraina S (2014) The influence of recent decisions on future goal selection. Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 369:20130477–20130477. IF:7.05.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S (2014) From duration and distance comparisons to goal encoding in prefrontal cortex. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology vol. 829: 167-186. IF:1.95.
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. IF:6.34.
Genovesio A*, Wise SP, Passingham RE (2014) Prefrontal-parietal function: From foraging to foresight. Trends Cogn Sci 18:72–81. IF:21.96.

Only one article has been published with my PhD tutor Roberto Caminiti in the last 10 years and only a minority of articles have been published with other members of the Department indicating my scientific independence.

Before the last 10 years
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. IF:3.53.
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. IF:3.53.
Brunamonti E, Falcone R, Genovesio A, Costa S, Ferraina S (2012) Gaze orientation interferes with mental numerical representation. Cogn Process 13:375–379. IF.1.75.
Falcone R, Brunamonti E, Ferraina S, Genovesio A* (2012) Monkeys monitor human goals in a nonmatch-to-goal interactive task. PLoS One 7. IF:3.73.
Falcone R, Brunamonti E, Genovesio A* (2012) Vicarious learning from human models in monkeys. PLoS One 7. IF:3.73.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2012) Encoding Goals but Not Abstract Magnitude in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron 74:656–662. IF:15.76.
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. IF:6.90.
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. IF 3.38.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2011) Prefrontal Cortex Activity during the Discrimination of Relative Distance. J Neurosci 31:3968–3980. IF:7.11.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2011) Comparison of Strategy Signals in the Dorsolateral and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurosci 31:4583–4592. IF:7.11.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A (2011) Appreciating the differences: Response to Burgess. Trends Cogn Sci 15:243. IF:12.58.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2011) Frontal pole cortex: Encoding ends at the end of the endbrain. Trends Cogn Sci 15:169–176. IF:12.58.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2010) Evaluating self-generated decisions in frontal pole cortex of monkeys. Nat Neurosci 13:120–126. IF:14.19.
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. IF:7.17.
Ferraina S, Battaglia-Mayer A, Genovesio A, Archambault P, Caminiti R (2009) Parietal encoding of action in depth. Neuropsychologia 47:1409–1420. IF.4.34.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2009) Feature- and Order-Based Timing Representations in the Frontal Cortex. Neuron 63:254–266. IF:13.26.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2009) Monkey Orbitofrontal Cortex Encodes Response Choices Near Feedback Time. J Neurosci 29:2569–2574. IF:7.17.
Genovesio A*, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2008) Encoding problem-solving strategies in prefrontal cortex: Activity during strategic errors. Eur J Neurosci 27:984–990. IF.3.38.
Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A, Wise SP (2008) Transient neuronal correlations underlying goal selection and maintenance in prefrontal cortex. Cereb Cortex 18:2748–2761. IF:5.90.
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. IF:7.49.
Genovesio A, Mitz AR (2007) MatOFF: A tool for analyzing behaviorally complex neurophysiological experiments. J Neurosci Methods 165:38–48. IF:1.88.
Genovesio A, Tsujimoto S, Wise SP (2006) Neuronal Activity Related to Elapsed Time in Prefrontal Cortex. J Neurophysiol 95:3281–3285. IF:3.65.
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. IF:7.45.
Genovesio A, Brasted PJ, Mitz AR, Wise SP (2005) Prefrontal cortex activity related to abstract response strategies. Neuron 47:307–320. IF:14.30.
Genovesio A, Ferraina S (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. IF.3.59.
Marconi B, Genovesio A, Giannetti S, Molinari M, Caminiti R (2003) Callosal connections of dorso-lateral premotor cortex. Eur J Neurosci 18:775–788. IF:3.87.
Battaglia-Mayer A, Ferraina S, Genovesio A, Marconi B, Squatrito S, Molinari M, Lacquaniti F, Caminiti R. (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. IF.6.57.
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. IF:3.51.
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. IF.6.57.
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. IF 3.85.
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. IF:3.89.

Manuscripts under revision

Fascianelli V, Battista, A., Stefanini F, Tsujimoto S, Genovesio A*, Fusi S. Neural representational geometries correlate with behavioral differences in monkeys and recurrent neural networks. bioRxiv 2022.10.05.511024. Under Review in Nature Comunications.
Di Bello, F. Falcone R. Genovesio A*. Simultaneous Encoding of 'Hot' and 'Cold' Information During Social Interactions in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex through Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Oscillations. Accepted in principle. iScience 2024.

Manuscripts stored in BioRxiv

The Increasing Authorship trend in Neuroscience: A scientometric analysis across 11 countries. Paul A. Segreti, M., Pierpaolo P., P, Brunamonti E., Genovesio, A*. bioRxiv 2024.01.24.577031. (This manuscript points to the importance of correcting for the number of authors for a fair evaluation of researchers especially in a country as Italy).

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Selected Invited talks including talks for organized symposia.

• 2006: The neurophysiology of strategies and goal selection. Neurobiology Interest Group, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, invited talk.
• 2006: Representation of strategy and goals in the prefrontal cortex in the Symposium: Functional architectures and neuronal computations in the prefrontal cortex. 3rd computational and systems neuroscience conference (Cosyne), the Canyons, Utah, USA.
• 2007: Representation of relative duration in Prefrontal cortex, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, invited talk.
• 2009: Representation of strategies and goals in prefrontal cortex in the symposium: “The parietal and frontal cortex: a distributed network for cognitive-motor functions”.13° National conference of SINS (Italian Society for Neuroscience), Milan, 2009.
• 2013: Representation of the goal for the action in the prefrontal cortex in a human-monkey social interactive task. Focus in Child Neuropsychiatry Conference. July 18/19, Sicily, Italy, 2013.
• 2013: Goal encoding and monitoring in Monkey Prefrontal cortex. Teaching at the BCBT 2013 (Cognition, Brain and Technology) summer school (Barcellona). September 10, 2013.
• 2013: Neuronal activity of prefrontal cortex during social interactions in monkeys. Invited talk in the symposium “Social modulation in monkeys and humans: behavior, neural activity and pathology. SONA meeting, Rabat Morocco, 2013.
• 2013: Time and Space in Prefrontal Cortex. Institutes of Neurosciences de la Timone. March 26, Invited talk.
• 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, 2014.
• 2014: Organizer of a symposium at FENS 2014 - 9th FENS Forum of Neuroscience: “Control of goal-related actions and behavioural decision processing in the prefrontal cortex”, Milan, 2014.
• 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, Lucca, 2015.
• 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 (Cognition, Brain and Technology) summer school, Barcellona, September 8, 2015.
• 2016: Neural activity related to the prediction of others’ action in the medial frontal cortex of primates in a human-monkey interactive task. Symposium at the Society for Social Neuroscience, San Diego, USA, November 11, 2016.
• 2016: Role of Prefrontal cortex in representing another agent’s goals. 5th workshop on the Computational properties of the Prefrontal Cortex. Lyon, France, August 29-31, 2016.
• 2017: Organizer of the Symposium: Action Representation and social prediction in the monkey frontal cortex ate the Italian Society for Neuroscience (SINS), Ischia, Italy, October 1, 2017.
• 2019: Representation of others actions in the Frontal Pole. NIMH, Bethesda, USA, September 18, invited talk.
• 2020: Organizer of the Symposium of the FENS meeting: “Neural mechanisms underlying social interaction in human and non-human primates”. July 13, 2020.
• 2021: Neural correlates of social interaction in the frontal Pole of macaque monkeys. Tenth International Symposium on Biology of decision making (SBDM), May 12, 2021.
• 2022: From Goal to action in prefrontal cortex. Workshop on Comparative neurobiology of higher cognitive functions, Erice, Sicily, Italy. September 9-14, 2022,
• 2022: Social Cognition and Prefrontal Cortex. Workshop in Rome on non-human primates, 2-6 May 2022, Rome, Italy.
• 2023: The role of the macaque frontal pole cortex in exploration and evaluation of self and others’ choices. Keynote speaker at the Primate Neurobiology meeting Neurobiology, 26-28 April 2023 Germany.
• 2023: The role of the macaque frontal pole cortex in exploration and evaluation of self and others’ choices. Invited talk to the Italian Institute of Technology, October 25, 2023, Rome, Italy.
• 2024: accepted workshop proposal: Abstraction of information in the primate brain. Cosyne meeting, Portugal.
• 2024: Invited talk at the workshop: “Dialogs on Neuronal Networks: Theoretical and Biological Perspectives” ate the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, January 30, 2004, Roma, Italy. Link: https://sites.google.com/view/talking-neuro?pli=1.
• 2024: The role of the Macaque frontal pole cortex in exploration and evaluation of self and others' choices, February 7, 2024, CNR, Rome, Italy. Link: http://www.ibbc.cnr.it/event/the-role-of-the-macaque-frontal-pole-cortex-in-exploration-and-evaluation-of-self-and-others-choices/

Organization of Symposia or workshops and participation to scientific committees

• 2023: Co-organizer of the workshop at the SINS meeting in Turin with the title: “Neurobiology of social interactions: integration of ecological and neurophysiological approach”. September 14, 2023. Torino (accepted symposium).
• 2022: Co-Organizer of a workshop in Rome on non-human primates (part of the In2PrimateBrains training network). 2-6 May 2022, Rome, Italy. Funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation (programme under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant). On May 3, the workshop was opened as a CIVIS (Università civica europea) event.
• 2022: Co-Organizer of the workshop on “Comparative neurobiology of higher cognitive functions”. September 9-14, 2022, Erice, Sicily, Italy (link: https://centromajorana.it/compneurobiol2020/9).
• 2020: Organizer of the Symposium of the FENS meeting on: “Neural mechanisms underlying social interaction in human and non-human primates”. July 13, 2020.
• 2019: Member of the scientific committee of the 18th National Congress of the SINS, Perugia, Italy
• 2018: Member of the scientific committee of the PhD National Meeting of the SINS, Naples, Italy
• 2018: Co-organizer of the Workshop. “Advances in Brain Modulation”, Rome, Italy, February 12, 13, 2018.
• 2017: Organizer of the Symposium: “Action Representation and social prediction in the monkey frontal cortex” at the Italian Society for Neuroscience (SINS), Ischia, Italy. October 1, 2017.
• 2014: Organizer of the Symposium of the FENS meeting 2014 - 9th FENS Forum of Neuroscience on “Control of goal-related actions and behavioral decision processing in the prefrontal cortex”, Milan, Italy, 2014.
Coordination of a research group and scientific collaborations
The current research group hired with my Grants includes two postdocs: Lorenzo Ferrucci and Francesco Ceccarelli. The group also includes three PhD students: Giulia Arena, Fabrizio Londei, and Leyla Elyasizad (ITN PhD student) and a few undergraduates students.

Scientific collaborations

The laboratory has collaborations with national (Giovanni Pezzulo, Patrizia Fattori, Maurizio Mattia, Ivilin Stoianov, Elena Borra) and internationals scientists (Stefano Fusi, Satoshi Tsujimoto, and Giancarlo La Camera) including the members of the ITN grant consortium (e.g., Thomas Brochier, Demian Battaglia, Bjorg Kilavik, Michael Schmid, and Emmanuel Procyk), and with other scientists of the Department of Physiology of the Sapienza (Stefano Ferraina, Emiliano Brunamonti, Pier Paolo Pani). A part of the ITN project involves conducting common experiments in different cortical and subcortical areas using a variety of methods, including neurophysiological recording, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and optogenetics. The project is in collaboration with numerous research centers in France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, England, and Greece, including the Primate Center in Göttingen, CNRS in Lyon and Marseille, the University of Crete, and the University of Newcastle.

Scientific independence, coordination of a research group, and international collaborations.
My scientific independence is demonstrated by the number of articles I have published as the corresponding author, as well as the major individual grants I have received as PI, including FIRB, ERC consolidator, and PRIN 2019, for a total of 1,581,000 euros. In two cases, the grants were awarded to me individually (FIRB, ERC consolidator) and in one case, I was the PI of a unit within a larger group (PRIN 2019) and coordinator of the Sapienza group in a European ITN project. With these funds, I have been able to support my work in mt Department in multiple ways, including offering fellowships (assegni di ricerca e borse di studio) to members of my research group for the past ten years and currently. I have also ensured my research group operates with full financial and scientific independence, including providing necessary equipment and maintaining the laboratories and animal facilities.
Many past members of my laboratory, including Rossella Falcone (NIH, Bethesda, USA), Rossella Cirillo (University of Parma), Encarni Marcos (Instituto de Neruosciencias, Alicante), Valentina Mione (Oxford, UK), Valeria Fascianelli (Columbia University), Simon Nougaret (CNRS), and Danilo Benozzo (Università di Padova), have continued their careers in Italy or abroad and maintain an active collaboration with the laboratory as part of a larger scientific network.


Editorial activities

• 2017: Editor for the topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience: “Prefrontal cortex and executive functions” published with 19 articles (link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/5390/prefrontal-cortex-and-executive-functions/articles).
• 2019: Present: Editor for Scientific Reports for 26 submissions.
• Present: Editor for Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
• Present: Member of the Advisory board of Oxford Open Neuroscience.
• January 2024: Appointed as guest editor of “Social behaviour and interaction” Collection in Scientific Reports. (link: https://www.nature.com/collections/cgidgchjgi)

Role as reviewer of International Grants
2022: Reviewer for the Welcome Trust and for the France “agence nationale del la recherche” (ANR).
2021: Reviewer of a grant “Sir Henry Dale Fellowship” This grant provides support to postdoc that looks for scientific independence.