Publications by authors named "Gabriele Di Antonio"
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- Age-related changes in the brain impact sleep quality, particularly through alterations in slow-wave sleep properties, though the exact reasons for these changes remain unclear.
- The study modifies an existing brain model to simulate slow-wave sleep, starting with a connectome representative of younger brains and progressively reducing inter-hemispheric connections.
- The model successfully replicates key observations, such as shorter and more variable slow waves, and suggests that reduced synchrony between brain regions contributes to the decrease in amplitude of these waves.
A general mathematical description of how the brain sequentially encodes knowledge remains elusive. We propose a linear solution for serial learning tasks, based on the concept of mixed selectivity in high-dimensional neural state spaces. In our framework, neural representations of items in a sequence are projected along a "geometric" mental line learned through classical conditioning.
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