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Max Garagnani

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Max Garagnani

Contact details

E-mail address: max.garagnani@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 225)
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

I am interested in investigating the neuronal mechanisms underlying human cognition, in particular, language, attention, memory and action planning. In my work, I make joint use of two complementary approaches: (1) I formalise and implement computational models of the cortex, and use them to make predictions about the spatio-temporal patterns of activation expected to occur in the brain during specific sensory stimulation; and (2) I then test the validity of such predictions (and generality of the models) by means of experimental techniques -- in particular, magneto-encephalography (MEG). I hold a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Durham (UK) and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge (UK) (additional publications and info. available here).

CBU publications

  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2011) Disembodying memory: Why are memory cells typically found in prefrontal cortex?, Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 160 #
  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2011) Investigating Cognitive Representations with brain-like networks and MEG/EEG, Clinical Neurophysiology, 122(Suppl 1), S12, S4.4 #
  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2011) Sensorimotor Circuits for Language, Memory and Action in the Human Brain: A Neuroanatomically Grounded Computational Model, Workshops at the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11) #
  • GARAGNANI, M., PULVERMULLER, F. (2011) From sounds to words: A neurocomputational model of adaptation, inhibition and memory processes in auditory change detection, NeuroImage 54, 170-181 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., PULVERMULLER, F. (2011) Erratum to: From Sounds to Words: a neurocomputational model of adaptation, inhibition and memory processes in auditory change detection, NeuroImage #
  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2010) Short- and Long-Term Memory contributions to Auditory Change Detection: a neurocomputational model, Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 123 (D23) #
  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2010) "What makes a Novel sound Novel? Short- and Long-term memory contributions to Auditory Change Detection", Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tomsk, Russia, 22-26/06, p. 40 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2010) "Language and Attention Interactions: integrating theory with MEG/EEG experiments", MEG UK Annual Conference, Cardiff, 20-21 Jan. 2010 #
  • MOHR, B., Ludlow, A., Whitmore, A., GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2010) Reduced auditory mismatch negativity to loudness discrimination in children with autism spectrum disorders, Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, p64 (B14) #
  • GARAGNANI, M. (2009) Understanding language and attention: brain-based model and neurophysiological experiments, Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Explaining Attention and Language interactions: magnetic MMN validation of neurocomputational predictions, Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Budapest (Hungary), April 2009, Abstract A-0079, P79, DOI: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.05.133 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Effects of attention on what is known and what is not: MEG evidence for functionally discrete memory circuits, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(10), doi:10.3389/neuro.09.010.2009 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Brain-based modeling and neurophysiological investigations of attention-language interactions, British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) Annual Meeting, London, UCL, September 2009, Abstract #59 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Brain-based modelling and neurophysiological investigations of language and attention interactions, Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC 2009), October 2009, p75, Chicago, 2009 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Separating the short and long-term memory components of the MMN response: a neurobiologically grounded computational model, Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Budapest (Hungary), April 2009, Abstract A-0131, P 106 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2009) Recruitment and consolidation of cell assemblies for words by way of Hebbian learning and competition in a multi-layer neural network, Cognitive Computation, 1(2), 160-176 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., SHEBANI, V., Boulenger, M, GARAGNANI, M., HAUK, O., SHTYROV, Y., PATTERSON, K. (2009) Somatotopic Motor Systems Are Critical For Catgory-Specific Semantic Processes, Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC 2009), October 2009, p92, Chicago, 2009 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Neurocomputational and neurophysiological studies of brain interactions of language and attention., Experimental Psychology Society Meeting - April 2008, p52 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Neurocomputational and neurophysiological investigations of brain interactions of language and attention, 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 08), 4-6 September 2008, Cambridge, #
  • GARAGNANI, M., SHTYROV, Y., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) Brain interactions of Language and Attention, 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, p2174 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2008) A neuroanatomically grounded Hebbian-learning model of attention–language interactions in the human brain, European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(2), 492-513 #
  • GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Early and late brain reflections of what makes sense: attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex., Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, p.87 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) A neuronal model of the language cortex, Neurocomputing , 70(10-12), 1914-1919 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Explaining the effects of attention on lexical processes using a single Hebbian neuronal model of the language cortex., 39th Annual General Meeting of the European Brain & Behaviour Society - Trieste, Italy, Sept. 2007. p.13. #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Early and late brain reflections of what makes sense: attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex., Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Society Annual Meeting, Edinburgh - July 2007. p.122 #
  • SHTYROV, Y., GARAGNANI, M., Kujala, T., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2007) Brain interactions of language and attention: MEG, EEG, fMRI and neurocomputational studies, 37th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 864.4 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) A neuronal model of the language cortex, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 98 #
  • GARAGNANI, M., Wennekers, T. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) A neuronal model of the language cortex, 15th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting #
  • Wennekers, T., GARAGNANI, M. & PULVERMULLER, F. (2006) Language models based on hebbian cell assemblies, Journal of Physiology, Paris, 100(1-3),16-30 #