Matteo Feurra
- Associate Professor:Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience
- Matteo Feurra has been at HSE University since 2014.
Education and Degrees
- 2009
PhD
University of Florence
Thesis Title: Face Recognition - 2004
Degree in Psychology
University of Florence 2004 Laurea in Psicologia Sperimentale (five-year combined BSc and MSc in Experimental Psychology), University of Florence.
2009 PhD in Psychological Sciences. Department of Psychology, University of Florence. Supervisors: Prof. Nicoletta Berardi and Maria Pia Viggiano.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
Visiting PhD student at Institute of Cognitive Neuoscience, University College London.
Courses (2022/2023)
- Advanced Neuroimaging (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Mago-Lego; 4 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- Advanced Neuroimaging (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2020/2021)
- Advanced Neuroimaging (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
- Advanced Neuroimaging (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Introduction to Neuroimaging Techniques (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
2013-2014 Guest Associate Chief Editor, журнал "Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation".
2018-2019 Guest Associate Editor of Neural Plasticity: "Physiological and Pathological Brain Oscillations: From Basic Principles to Therapeutic Approaches."
Grants
2017 Co-investigator for a Russian Science Foundation grant (contract number: 17-11-01273): Oscillations in Working Memory: coordinator (18Ml Rubles)
2011 Young Italian Researchers Grant, Italian Ministry of Health. Principal Ivestigator of “Memory Enhancement by Advanced Non Invasive Brain Stimulation: A project on neuro-rehabilitation of patients with memory diseases” (352.000 euros). Project Code: GR-2009-1591481.
Conferences
- 2016Third annual conference Communication, Computation, and Cognitive Processes (СССР3) (Moscow). Presentation: The BDNF val66met polymorphism affects the level of processing effect of memory: A deep and shallow rTMS study
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEMORY (ICOM6) (Budapest). Presentation: Frequency-specific insight into short-term memory capacity
- SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (Chicago). Presentation: State-dependent impact of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation of the motor mirror system
- 20151st Moscow Conference with International Participation “TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION: FROM CURRENT STATE-OF-ART TO FUTURE HORIZONS” (Moscow). Presentation: STATE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM
- Summer Neurolinguistic School "Language and Brain Pathology". Presentation: Neuromodulation Treatment in Aphasia
Publications49
- Article Vlasov A., Kuzmina L., Petraikin A., Feurra M. Non-invasive Brain Stimulation with a Monophasic TMS Pulse: A Pilot Study of BDNF (rs6265) and COMT (rs4680) Gene Polymorphisms // Brain Stimulation. 2023. Vol. 16. No. 1. P. 278. doi
- Article Ksenia Panidi, Alicia Nunez Vorobiova, Matteo Feurra, Vasily Klucharev. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex plays causal role in probability weighting during risky choice // Scientific Reports. 2022. Vol. 12. No. 1. Article 16115. doi
- Article Rossi S., Santarnecchi E., Feurra M. Noninvasive brain stimulation and brain oscillations // Handbook of Clinical Neurology. 2022. Vol. 184. P. 239-247. doi
- Article Bolgina T., Vidya Somashekarappa, Cappa S. F., Cherkasova Z., Feurra M., Malyutina S., Sapuntsova A., Shtyrov Y., Dragoy O. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates action naming over the left but not right inferior frontal gyrus // Brain Structure and Function. 2022. Vol. 227. No. 8. P. 2797-2808. doi
- Article Vlasov A., Feurra M., Djurdjevic V. Single gene polymorphisms as a predictor of noninvasive brain stimulation effectiveness (commentary on Pellegrini et al, 2021) // European Journal of Neuroscience. 2022. Vol. 55. No. 3. P. 892-894. doi
- Article Rossi A., Feurra M., Rossi S., Santarnecchi E., Ginanneschi F. Impact of β-range-induced oscillatory activity on human input–output relationship of the corticospinal pathway // Neurological Research. 2021. Vol. 43. No. 6. P. 496-502. doi
- Article Pozdniakov I., Vorobyova A., Galli G., Rossi S., Feurra M. Online and offline effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation of the primary motor cortex // Scientific Reports. 2021. Vol. 11. No. 1. P. 1-10. doi
- Article Vlasov A., Kilmukhametov F., Feurra M. The immersive 3D objects’ library for applying non-invasive brain stimulation in research on the motor control and the mirror neurons system: a call for collaboration // Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine. 2021. Vol. 19. P. 125-127.
- Article Petrovskaya A., Kirillov B., Asmolova A., Galli G., Feurra M., Medvedeva A. Examining the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on human episodic memory with machine learning // Plos One. 2020. Vol. 15. No. 12. P. 1-15. doi
- Article Galli G., Vadillo M. A., Sirota M., Feurra M., Medvedeva A. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on episodic memory // Brain Stimulation. 2019. Vol. 12. No. 2. P. 231-241. doi
- Chapter Ulanov M., Shtyrov Y., Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Iskra E., Soloukhina O., Buivolova O., Somashekarappa V., Nikolaeva A. Y., Prokofyev A. O., Pavlova A., Feurra M., Pulvermüller F., Stroganova T. Intensive language-action therapy combined with anodal tDCS leads to verb generation improvements in non-fluent post-stroke aphasia, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Neurobiology of Speech and Language / Ed. by Y. Shtyrov, O. Shcherbakova. Saint Petersburg: Scifiya-print, 2019. P. 63-64.
- Article Guerra A., Feurra M., Pellegrino G., Brittain J. Investigating and Modulating Physiological and Pathological Brain Oscillations: The Role of Oscillatory Activity in Neural Plasticity // NEURAL PLASTICITY. 2019. Vol. 2019. P. 1-3. doi
- Article Feurra M., Blagoveshchensky E., Nikulin V., Nazarova M., Pozdeeva D., Yurevich M. State-Dependent Effects of Transcranial Oscillatory Currents on the Motor System during Action Observation // Scientific Reports. 2019. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 12858-1-12869-11. doi
- Article Feurra M., Pozdniakov I., Gorina E. Transcranial alternating current stimulation of the primary motor cortex: intensity effects // Brain Stimulation. 2019. Vol. 12. No. 2. P. 492-492. doi
- Article Vorobiova Alicia Nunez, Pozdniakov I., Feurra M. Transcranial direct current stimulation effects on memory consolidation: timing matters. // eNeuro. 2019. Vol. 6. No. 3. P. 1-5. doi
- Chapter Ulanov M., Shtyrov Y., Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Pavlova A., Iskra E., Soloukhina O., Buivolova O., Somashekarappa V., Prokofyev A. O., Feurra M., Pulvermüller F., Stroganova T. Combined CIAT-tDCS Therapy in Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia Improves Neural Speech Processing: Neurophysiological and Behavioral Outcomes, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2018. P. 17-17.
- Article Fusco G., Scandola M., Feurra M., Pavone E. F., Rossi S., Aglioti S. M. Midfrontal theta transcranial alternating current stimulation modulates behavioural adjustment after error execution // European Journal of Neuroscience. 2018. Vol. 48. No. 10. P. 3159-3170. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Zelenkova V., Buivolova O., Oosterhuis E. J., Zmanovsky N., Feurra M. Modulating the interhemispheric balance in healthy participants with transcranial direct current stimulation: No significant effects on word or sentence processing // Brain and Language. 2018. Vol. 186. P. 60-66. doi
- Article Lanina A., Feurra M., Gorbunova E. S. No effect of the right posterior parietal cortex tDCS in dual-target visual search // Frontiers in Psychology. 2018. Vol. 9. P. 1-9. doi
- Chapter Martín-Luengo B., Vorobyova A., Feurra M., Myachykov A., Shtyrov Y. Selective Social Context-Dependent Role of the Left Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Communication Exchanges, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2018. Ch. 2. P. 16-16. (in press)
- Article Vorobyova A., Shpektor A., Feurra M. Continuous theta-burst stimulation of medial prefrontal cortex enhances schema-linked encoding // Brain Stimulation. 2017. Vol. 10. No. 2. P. 503. doi
- Article Galli G., Feurra M., Pavone E. F., Sirota M., Rossi S. Dynamic changes in prefrontal cortex involvement during verbal episodic memory formation // Biological Psychology. 2017. P. 36-44. doi
- Article Shpektor A., Nazarova M., Feurra M. Effects of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on the Primary Motor Cortex by Online Combined Approach with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation // Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2017. No. 127. P. 1-7. doi
- Article Zelenkova V., Malyutina S., Feurra M. Effects of tDCS over Broca's area coupled with linguistic training are not specific to language // Brain Stimulation. 2017. Vol. 2. P. 450. doi
- Article Vukovic N., Feurra M., Shpektor A., Myachykov A., Shtyrov Y. Primary motor cortex functionally contributes to language comprehension: An online rTMS study. // Neuropsychologia. 2017. P. 222-229. doi
- Article Yaple Z., Martinez-Saito M., Feurra M., Shestakova A., Klucharev V. Transcranial alternating current stimulation modulates risky decision making in a frequency controlled experiment // eNeuro. 2017. P. 1-10. doi
- Article Feurra M., Galli G., Pavone E. F., Rossi A., Rossi S. Frequency-specific insight into short-term memory capacity // Journal of Neurophysiology. 2016. P. 153-158. doi
- Article Cioncoloni D., Rosignoli D., Feurra M., Rossi S., Bonifazi M., Rossi A., Mazzocchio R. Role of brain hemispheric dominance in anticipatory postural control strategies // Experimental brain research. 2016. P. 1997-2005. doi
- Article Shpektor A., David B., Feurra M. Commentary: Duration-dependent effects of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism on anodal tDCS induced motor cortex plasticity in older adults: a group and individual perspective // Frontiers In Ageing Neuroscience. 2015. No. 7. P. 183-183.
- Article Cioncoloni D., Galli G., Mazzocchio R., Feurra M., Giovannelli F., Santarnecchi E., Bonifazi M., Rossi A., Rossi S. Differential effects of acute cortisol administration on deep and shallow episodic memory traces: a study on healthy males // Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2014. Vol. 114. P. 186-192.
- Article Caliandro P., Padua L., Rossi A., Rossini P. M., Stalberg E., Feurra M., Ulivelli M., Bartalini S., Giannini F., Rossi S. Jitter of corticospinal neurons during repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Method and possible clinical implications. // Brain Stimulation. 2014. Vol. 7. No. 4. P. 580-586.
- Article Santarnecchi E., Feurra M., Barneschi F., Acampa M., Bianco G., Cioncoloni D., Rossi A., Rossi S. Time Course of Corticospinal Excitability and Autonomic Function Interplay during and Following Monopolar tDCS // Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2014. Vol. 5. P. 86.
- Article Santarnecchi E., Polizzotto N., Godone M., Giovannelli F., Feurra M., Matzen L., Rossi A., Rossi S. Frequency-dependent enhancement of fluid intelligence induced by transcranial oscillatory potentials. // Current Biology. 2013. Vol. 23. No. 15. P. 1449-1453.
- Article Santarnecchi E., Feurra M., Galli G., Rossi A., Rossi S. Overclock your brain for gaming? Ethical, social and health care risks // Brain Stimulation. 2013. Vol. 6. No. 5. P. 713-714.
- Article Feurra M., Pasqualetti P., Bianco G., Santarnecchi E., Rossi A., Rossi S. State-dependent effects of transcranial oscillatory currents on the motor system: what you think matters. // Journal of Neuroscience. 2013. Vol. 33. No. 44. P. 17483-17489.
- Article Innocenti I., Cappa S., Feurra M., Giovannelli F., Santarnecchi E., Bianco G., Cincotta M., Rossi S. TMS interference with primacy and recency mechanisms reveals bimodal episodic encoding in the human brain // Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2013. Vol. 25. No. 1. P. 109-116.
- Article Ragazzoni A., Pirulli C., Veniero D., Feurra M., Cincotta M., Giovannelli F., Chiaramonti R., Lino M., Rossi S., Miniussi C. Vegetative versus minimally conscious states: a study using TMS-EEG, sensory and event-related potentials. // Plos One. 2013. Vol. 8. No. 2
- Article Bianco G., Feurra M., Fadiga L., Rossi A., Rossi S. Bi-hemispheric effects on corticospinal excitability induced by repeated sessions of imagery versus observation of actions. // Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 2012. Vol. 30. No. 6. P. 481-489.
- Article Feurra M., Galli G., Rossi S. Transcranial alternating current stimulation affects decision making // Frontiers in System Neuroscience. 2012. Vol. 6. P. 39.
- Article Feurra M., Bianco G., Polizzotto N., Innocenti I., Rossi A., Rossi S. Cortico-Cortical Connectivity between Right Parietal and Bilateral Primary Motor Cortices during Imagined and Observed Actions: A Combined TMS/tDCS Study // Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 2011. Vol. 5. P. 10.
- Article Feurra M., Paulus W., Walsh V., Kanai R. Frequency specific modulation of human somatosensory cortex. // Frontiers in Psychology. 2011. No. 2. P. 13.
- Article Feurra M., Bianco G., Santarnecchi E., Del Testa M., Rossi A., Rossi S. Frequency-dependent tuning of the human motor system induced by transcranial oscillatory potentials. // Journal of Neuroscience. 2011. Vol. 31. No. 34. P. 12165-12170.
- Article Rossi S., Innocenti I., Polizzotto N., Feurra M., De Capua A., Ulivelli M., Bartalini S., Cappa S. Temporal dynamics of memory trace formation in the human prefrontal cortex. // Cerebral Cortex. 2011. Vol. 21. No. 2. P. 368-373.
- Article Innocenti I., Giovannelli F., Cincotta M., Feurra M., Polizzotto N., Bianco G., Cappa S., Rossi S. Event-related rTMS at encoding affects differently deep and shallow memory traces. // Neuroimage. 2010. Vol. 53. No. 1. P. 325-330.
- Article Giovannelli F., Silingardi D., Borgheresi A., Feurra M., Amati G., Pizzorusso T., Viggiano M. P., Zaccara G., Berardi N., Cincotta M. Involvement of the parietal cortex in perceptual learning (Eureka effect): an interference approach using rTMS. // Neuropsychologia. 2010. Vol. 48. No. 6. P. 1807-1812.
- Article Feurra M., Fuggetta G., Rossi S., Walsh V. The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in episodic encoding of faces: An interference study by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. // Cognitive Neuroscience. 2010. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 118-125.
- Article Papeo L., Longo M., Feurra M., Haggard P. The role of the right temporoparietal junction in intersensory conflict: detection or resolution? // Experimental brain research. 2010. Vol. 206. No. 2. P. 129-139.
- Article Viggiano M. P., Giovannelli F., Borgheresi A., Feurra M., Berardi N., Pizzorusso T. Disruption of the prefrontal cortex function by rTMS produces a category-specific enhancement of the reaction times during visual object identification. // Neuropsychologia. 2008. Vol. 46. No. 11. P. 2725-2731.
- Article Galli G., Feurra M., Viggiano M. P. "Did you see him in the newspaper?" Electrophysiological correlates of context and valence in face processing. // Brain Research. 2006. Vol. 1119. No. 1. P. 190-202.
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We welcome aboard Matteo Feurra, who joined HSE in September 2014 as Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Feurra spoke to The HSE LooK about his research and work plans.
'I Felt Welcomed and This Is Important'
We welcome aboard Matteo Feurra, who joined HSE in September 2014 as Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Feurra spoke to The HSE LooK about his research and work plans.