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  • SISSA News, November 13, 2023

Similar to primates: how rodents can see moving objects

Our new study, revealing the existence of truly integrative pattern cells in rat visual cortex, has been published in Science Advances.

  • SISSA News, June 7, 2022

Understanding autism spectrum disorders through vision: a new project at SISSA

Davide Zoccolan is among the seven investigators that have been awarded a grant by SFARI to establish Autism Rat Model Consortium.

  • SISSA News, December 7, 2021

Efficient coding: how the brain optimizes allocation of resources

Our new study (in collaboration with Eugenio Piasini and Vijay Balasubramanian from Penn) about rat perceptual sensitivity to texture statistics, has been published in eLife.

  • SISSA News, July 21, 2021

This is how the visual system shows us a more persistent world

An international collaboration elucidates the mechanisms that facilitate accurate identification of moving images. The findings have been published in Nature Communications

  • Hillary Sanctuary
  • EPFL News, July 9, 2021

Tailored optical stimulation for the blind

Our new study, led by our collaborator Silvestro Micera (about using machine learning approaches to optimize optic nerve stimulation for vision restoration), has been published in Patterns.

  • SISSA News, May 29, 2020

Vision: observing the world during childhood affects the rest of life.

Our new study on the causal involvement of temporal continuity in the development of V1 complex cells has been published on Science Advances.

  • SISSA News, November 27, 2019

Artificial intelligence: towards a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms.

Our new study (resulting from a collaboration with Alessandro Laio @ SISSA and Jakob Macke @ TUM) on the intrinsic dimension of data manifolds in deep networks has been published in the pre-proceedings of NeurIPS.

  • SISSA News, July 25, 2019

An ERC Proof of Concept Grant to Davide Zoccolan.

Davide Zoccolan has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant to design and build smart cameras for head and eye tracking.

  • SISSA News, March 11, 2019

Of mice, men and… computers: common foundations of biological and artificial vision

Our new study (about shape processing in rat visual cortex) has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

  • , March 19, 2018

Visual recognition: seeing the world through the eyes of rodents

 Our new study  (about the perceptual strategies deployed by rats in object recognition tasks) has been published in Current Biology.

  • SISSA News, February 8, 2018

How the brain constructs the world.

Our new study, led by our collaborator Mathew Diamond (about supramodal integration of visual and tactile information in rats), has been published in Neuron.

  • SISSA News, April 11, 2017

An innovative model for the study of vision.

Our new study (about the coding of visual objects in rat visual cortex) has been published in eLife.

  • SISSA News, November 19, 2015

New ebook on vision (Davide Zoccolan from SISSA is among the editors).

Publication of the ebook titled What can simple brains teach us about how vision works?, edited by D Zoccolan, DD Cox, A Benucci and RC Reid.

  • SISSA News, January 20, 2014

A European grant to study vision. Two million euro to Davide Zoccolan, a neuroscientist at SISSA.

Davide Zoccolan has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to study the development of visual object representations.

  • SISSA News, August 5, 2013

The code of objects. Shape and meaning: a study explores how the brain encodes visual objects

Our new study (about the coding of visual objects in monkey inferotemporal cortex) has been published in PLoS Computational Biology.

  • SISSA News, April 3, 2013

How rats see things: rodents recognize objects using sophisticated perceptive strategies

Our new study (revealing the complexity of rat visual object recognition strategy) has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

  • SISSA News, March 25, 2013

Two SISSA scientists win HFSP grant

The international team, of which Davide Zoccolan is a member, has been awarded an HFSP Program Grant to study the neuronal substrates of concept formation.

  • Chiara Sabelli
  • Nature Italy, January 20, 2022

How the brain finds patterns in images

  • David Haslacher, Khaled Nasr & Surjo Soekadar
  • Patterns, July 9, 2021

Advancing sensory neuroprosthetics using artificial brain networks

  • Colin J. Davis
  • Curr. Biol, March 22, 2021

Vision: what’s so special about words?

  • Shir Shalom & Adam Zaide
  • Neuron, February 7, 2018

Better than optimal

  • Simona Regina
  • RAI, November 21, 2023

Il cervello che vede - Radar (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

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  • Mariantonietta Firmani
  • Parallelo42 contemporary art, February 27, 2023

podcast Contemporaneamente (intervista a Davide Zoccolan e Marinella Senatore)

  • Daniela Picoi
  • RAI, December 14, 2021

Radar (intervista a Davide Zoccolan e Eugenio Piasini)

(andare al min 52:18)

  • Umberto Bosazzi
  • Telequattro, July 27, 2021

Trieste in diretta (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

(andare al min 30:52)

  • Cristina Serra
  • RAI, July 27, 2021

Radar (intervista a Davide Zoccolan e Simone Romeni)

(andare al min 19:40)

  • Daniela Picoi
  • RAI, January 16, 2020

Radar (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

(andare al min 16:33)

  • Elisabetta Zaccolo
  • , September 29, 2019

TGR Friuli Venezia Giulia (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

(andare al minuto 8:48)

  • Daniela Picoi
  • RAI, April 9, 2019

Radar (intervista a Giulio Matteucci)

(andare al min 21:00)

  • Daniele Morgera
  • RAI Radio 1, September 23, 2017

Inviato Speciale: Trieste citta’ delle scienza (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

(andare al min 15:00)

  • Miriam Monica
  • Radio Capodistria, March 23, 2016

Intervista a Davide Zoccolan

  • Umberto Bosazzi
  • Telequattro, January 27, 2014

Trieste in diretta (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

  • Walter Skerk
  • RAI, April 4, 2013

GR Friuli Venezia Giulia (intervista a Davide Zoccolan)

(andare al min 24:20)

  • Federica Cellini
  • RAI 2, November 17, 2011

I nuovi mille

  • Vesna Hocevar
  • TV Coper Capodistria, June 5, 2011

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