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Martin M. Monti, PhD

Medical Research Council Citizenship: Italy, US.
Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit Voice: +44 (0) 1223 273646
15 Chaucer Rd Fax: +44 (0) 1223 359062
Cambridge CB2 7EF E-mail: Martin.Monti@mrc-cbu.ac.uk
United Kingdom http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/martin.monti/home.html

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Impairments of Consciousness: Vegetative State, Minimally Conscious State, Coma
  • Language & Thought, Human Reasoning, Arithmetic Cognition
  • fMRI Methods & Statistical Analysis

Current Position

Post-Doctoral Fellow (Career Development Fellowship)

Education

Princeton University, Department of Psychology, Princeton NJ, USA Sep 2003 - June 2007

  • Ph.D., Psychology & Neurosciences, June 2007
    • Dissertation Topic: "Neural Basis of Human Reasoning"
    • Advisor: Daniel N. Osherson; Co-Advisor: James V. Haxby
  • M.A., Psychology & Neurosciences, December 2005
    • Specialty Paper: "Statistical Analysis of fMRI Time-Series: A Critical Evaluation of the GLM Approach"

Rice University, Department of Psychology, Houston TX, USA Aug 2002 - May 2003

  • First year graduate student, cognitive neuroscience program, moved to Princeton University upon completion of 1st year requirements

Universit´a L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy Sep 1998 - Jun 2002

  • Laurea, Discipline Economiche e Sociali (B.Sc. Economics), June 2002
    • Thesis Topic: "Emotion and interaction in economics: An experimental perspective"

Grants

FP7 ICT 2009 (co-applicant): Deployment of Brain-Computer Interfaces for the Detection of Consciousness in Non-Responsive Patients (EUR 3,932,864:00).

Awards & Fellowships

Teaching Award, for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2005/6), Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA)
MRC Career Development Fellowship (2007/10)
Mathey College Graduate Fellow (2006/7)
Princeton Graduate School Summer Fellowship (2004)
Princeton University Graduate Fellowship (2003/4)
Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughan Fellowship (2002/3)
Rice University Graduate Fellowship (2002/3)
Brain Travel Grant (2008)
Organization for Human Brain Mapping Travel Award (2008)

Publications

Monti, M.M. (under review) Statistical Analysis of fMRI Time-Series: A Critical Evaluation of the GLM Approach (Updated Version!).pdf_icon

Fernandez-Espejo, D., Bekinschtein, T., Monti, M.M., Pickard, J.D., Junque, C, Coleman, M.R., Owen, A.M. (in press) Diffusion weighted imaging distinguishes the vegetative state from the minimally conscious state, NeuroImage.
Monti, M.M., Laureys, S. & Owen, A.M. (2010). Diagnosing the Vegetative State, BMJ 341(c3765):292-296.pdf_icon [Dedicated BMJ front cover]
Monti, M.M., Vanhaudenhuyse A., Coleman M.R., Boly M., Pickard J., Tshibanda, J-F., Owen, A.M., Laureys, S. (2010) Willful modulation of brain activity in disorders of consciousness, New England Journal of Medicine 362:579-589 [EPub ahead of print]. (Correspondence, Supp Materials, NEJM Editorial by Dr Ropper)
Monti, M.M., & Owen, A.M. (2010). The behavior in the brain: using functional neuroimaging to assess residual cognition and awareness after severe brain injury, Journal of Psychophysiology 24(2).pdf_icon
Monti M.M., Owen A.M. (2010) Looking for consciousness, the aware mind in the motionless body, The Psychologist 23(6):478-481.pdf_icon
Hampshire A., Chamberlain S.R., Monti M.M., Duncan J., Owen A.M. (2010). The role of the right inferior frontal gyrus: inhibition and attentional control. Neuroimage 50(3):1313-9.pdf_icon
Monti, M.M., Parsons, L.M. & Osherson, D.N. (2009). The Boundaries of Language and Thought in Deductive Inference, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [EPub ahead of print] pdf_icon
Monti M.M., Coleman, M.R. & Owen, A.M. (2009). Executive Functions in the Absence of Behavior: Functional Imaging of the Minimally Conscious State, Progress in Brain Research 117, 249-260.pdf_icon
Monti, M.M., Coleman, M.R. & Owen, A.M. (2009). fMRI and the Vegetative State: Solving the behavioral dilemma? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1157, 81-89.pdf_icon
Coleman M.R., Bekinschtein T., Monti M.M., Owen A.M., Pickard J.D. (2009) A Multi-Modal Approach to the Assessment of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness, Progress in Brain Research 177:231-248.pdf_icon
Monti, M.M., Parsons, L.M., Martinez, M.J. & Osherson, D.N. (2007). Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Inference: A Language-Independent Distributed Network, NeuroImage 37, 1005-1016.pdf_icon
Monti M.M., Parsons, L.M., & Osherson, D.N. (2007). The Role of Language in Deductive Reasoning. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 126.1.
Monti, M.M. & Mura, G. (2007) Gli effetti delle emozioni nelle interazioni negoziali. In Diamantini D. & Oliverio N. (Eds.) Clienti, controparti e amici. Guerrini e associati: Milan, Italy, 51-75.
Parsons, L.M., Monti M.M. & Osherson, D.N. (2006). Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Reasoning. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 310.1.
Monti, M.M., Grant, S. & Osherson, D.N. (2005). A Note on Concave Utility Functions. Mind & Society, 4(1), 85 - 96.pdf_icon
Parsons, L.M., Monti M.M., Martinez, M.J. & Osherson, D.N. (2004). Brain Basis of Deduction: Effects of Argument Validity and Content. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 372.4.
Diamantini, D., Monti, M.M. & Pietroni, D. (2002). L'impatto delle emozioni nelle interazioni negoziali. In Bellelli, G. & Curci, A. (Eds.) Emozioni: Cultura, Comunicazione, Benessere. Progedit: Bari, Italy, 237 - 42.

Teaching Experience

Quantitative Methods Advisor for Undergraduate Research Sep 2005 - Jun 2007

Teaching Assistant (at Princeton University) Sep 2004 - Jun 2007

  • PSY259b - Introduction to Cognitive Neurosciences (Instr. S. Kastner).
  • PSY258 - Foundations of Neuroscience (Instr. M. Graziano).
  • PSY251 - Quantitative Methods (Instr. A. Conway).
  • PSY258 - Foundations of Neuroscience (Instr. M. Graziano).
  • PSY255 - Cognitive Psychology (Instr. D. Osherson).
  • PSY258 - Foundations of Neuroscience (Instr. B. Hoebel).

Teaching Assistant (at Rice University) Sep 2002 - Jan 2003

  • PSY308 - Psychology of Memory (Instr. M. Watkins).

Selected Presentations

Monti, M.M., Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Coleman, M.R., Boly, M., Owen, A.M., & Laureys, S. Using fMRI to diagnose disorders of consciousness in the absence of behavior. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, October 2009, Chicago, IL.
Parsons, L.M., Osherson D.N., Monti, M.M. (Presenting). Language and thought: Neural basis of arithmetic and linguistic inference. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, October 2009, Chicago, IL.
Monti, M.M., Coleman, M.R. & Owen, A.M. 'Brain Reading' with Real-Time fMRI: Communication via detection of brain states in the absence of motor response. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2008, Melbourne, AU.
Monti, M.M. Language, Logic and the Brain. Defining Thoughts: Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Notion of Thought. 5th - 7th June 2008, IBZ, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum.
Parsons, L.M., Monti, M.M. (Presenting) & Osherson, D.N. (2006). Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Reasoning. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, October 2006, Atlanta GA.
Monti, M.M. Neural Correlates of Deductive Inference, Cognitive Brown Bag Series, Psychology Department, University of British Columbia.
Monti, M.M. A Neural Similarity Approach to Cortical Representations in Deductive Reasoning, Center for Study of Brain Mind and Behavior (CSBMB), Princeton, 2006.
Monti, M.M. "Language and Thought", Princeton - Penn Graduate Student Symposium. November 2005.
Monti, M.M. Logic, Language and the Brain: A Language-Independent Distributed Network for Deductive Inference, Harvard University, Mind, Brain, Behavior (CBB) Graduate Conference on "The Nature of Thought". 12th-13th May, 2005.
Monti, M.M., Grant, S. & Osherson D.N. 'Wanna bet?' An Experimental Perspective on Rationality, Risk Aversion and Gambling Behavior, Cognitive Tea Series, Rice University.

Selected Poster Presentations

Monti, M.M., Parsons, L.M. & Osherson, D.N. The Effects of Content on Deduction: A Multi Voxel Pattern Analysis of Neural Similarity. Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, June 2007, Chicago, IL.
Monti, M.M., Parsons, L.M., Martinez, M.J. & Osherson, D.N. Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Reasoning. NIH/NIMH Pre-Doctoral Research Festival. Bethesda, MD.
Monti, M.M., Parsons, L.M. & Osherson, D.N. An fMRI Investigation of Deduction Based on Lexical Meaning. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, April 2006. San Francisco, CA.
Monti, M.M., Parsons, L.M., Martinez, M.J. & Osherson, D.N. Neural correlates of deductive inference: A language-independent distributed network. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting E180, April 2005. New York, NY.
Monti, M.M., Diamantini, D. & Pietroni, D. Facial Expressions and Strategic Behavior in Negotiation. Symposium: About Faces, a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Science of Face Perception, December 2003. Princeton, NJ.

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