Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Ph.D.
I’m a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working in Jack Gallant’s lab. I’m interested in how our brains build and represent meaning from the world around us. My current research focuses on how these representations differ between people.
To study these questions, I build computational models to predict brain activity when we watch movies, listen to stories, or interact with each other. Then I break these models apart, and see if I can learn something interesting about the brain.
Before coming to Berkeley, I received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth, working with Ida Gobbini and Jim Haxby. At Darmouth, I studied how our brains represent the identity of our friends and colleagues. I used psychophysics and fMRI to study familiar face perception.
News
| Oct 07, 2024 | I gave a talk at SFN in Chicago on my work on individual differences in lexical-semantic representations. |
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| Jun 20, 2024 | We released a set of tutorials on the Voxelwise Encoding Model framework. Check the preprint and the associated website. |
| Jul 19, 2023 | We have a new preprint on model connectivity, a powerful and more interpretable alternative to functional connectivity. |
| Nov 03, 2021 | My PhD work on face perception with Ida Gobbini and Jim Haxby is now published in PNAS |
| Sep 13, 2021 | We gave a Keynote+Tutorial at CCN2021 on Voxelwise Modeling. The recording is available on youtube. |