Publications

Here is a selection of my publications. For a full and updated list, see Google Scholar.

2026

• Distinct roles of anterior cingulate and subcortical regions supporting effort evaluation versus preparation
  Nanne Kukkonen, Senne Braem, Joshua Eayrs, Mengqiao Chai, Stefania Mattioni, Susanne Tabitha Steendam, C. Nico Boehler, Jan R. Wiersema, Wim Notebaert, Ruth Krebs.
  psyArXiv.

2025

• Representation of emotional expressions across the face and voice brain networks
  Stefania Mattioni,Federica Falagiarda, Rémi Gau, Mohamed Rezk, Ceren Battal, Alice Van Audenhaege, and Olivier Collignon.
  bioRxiv.

• Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans
  Stefania Mattioni, Mohamed Rezk, Xiaoqing Gao, Junghyun Nam, Zhong-Xu Liu, Remi Gau, Valerie Goffaux, Andrea I Costantino, Hans Op de Beeck, Terri Lewis, Daphne Maurer, Olivier Collignon.
  Nature Communications.

• Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates Jonas Simoens, Senne Braem, Peter Verbeke, Haopeng Chen, Stefania Mattioni, Mengqiao Chai, … & Tom Verguts.
  bioRxiv.

• Neural and computational evidence for a predictive learning account of the testing effect
  Haopeng Chen, Pieter Verbeke, Stefania Mattioni, Cristian Buc Calderon, Tom Verguts.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Phonological representations of auditory and visual speech in the occipito-temporal cortex and beyond
  Alice Van Audenhaege, Stefania Mattioni, Filippo Cerpelloni, Remi Gau, Arnaud Szmalec, Olivier Collignon.
  Journal of Neuroscience.

2024

• Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans
  Stefania Mattioni, Mohamed Rezk, Xiaoqing Gao, Junghyun Nam, Zhong-Xu Liu, Remi Gau, Valerie Goffaux, Andrea I Costantino, Hans Op de Beeck, Terri Lewis, Daphne Maurer, Olivier Collignon.
  bioRxiv.

• Exploring brain representations through the lens of similarity structures
  Stefania Mattioni.
  Nature Reviews Psychology.

2022

• Generalization and Idiosyncrasy: Two Sides of the Same Brain
  Stefania Mattioni,Ceren Battal.
  The Journal of Neuroscience.

• Impact of blindness onset on the representation of sound categories in occipital and temporal cortices
  Stefania Mattioni, Mohamed Rezk, Ceren Battal, Jyothirmayi Vadlamudi, Olivier Collignon.
  ELife.

• Structural and functional network-level reorganization in the coding of auditory motion directions and sound source locations in the absence of vision
  Ceren Battal, Ane Gurtubay-Antolin, Mohamed Rezk, Stefania Mattioni, Giorgia Bertonati, Valeria Occelli, Roberto Bottini, Stefano Targher, Chiara Maffei, Jorge Jovicich, Olivier Collignon.
  Journal of Neuroscience.

2021

• Direct structural connections between auditory and visual motion-selective regions in humans
  Ane Gurtubay-Antolin, Ceren Battal, Chiara Maffei, Mohamed Rezk, Stefania Mattioni, Jorge Jovicich, Olivier Collignon.
  Journal of Neuroscience.

2020

• Shared representation of visual and auditory motion directions in the human middle-temporal cortex
  Mohamed Rezk, Stephanie Cattoir, Ceren Battal, Valeria Occelli, Stefania Mattioni, Olivier Collignon.
  Current Biology.

• Categorical representation from sound and sight in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind
  Stefania Mattioni, Mohamed Rezk, Ceren Battal, Roberto Bottini, Karen E. Cuculiza Mendoza, Nikolaas N. Oosterhof, Olivier Collignon.
  ELife.
  Here (starting at minute 19:00) is an online talk on this paper, from eLife’s COVID-19 seminar series ‘Keeping communications open with online research talks.’

2019

• Representation of auditory motion directions and sound source locations in the human planum temporale
  Ceren Battal, Mohamed Rezk, Stefania Mattioni, Jyothirmayi Vadlamudi, Olivier Collignon.
  Journal of Neuroscience.

2018

• Neuronal populations in the occipital cortex of the blind synchronize to the temporal dynamics of speech
  Markus Johannes Van Ackeren, Francesca M Barbero, Stefania Mattioni, Roberto Bottini, Olivier Collignon.
  ELife.

2016

• Early blindness alters the spatial organization of verbal working memory
  Roberto Bottini, Stefania Mattioni, Olivier Collignon.
  Cortex.

2015

• Perceptual and conceptual distortions of implicit hand maps
  Matthew R Longo, Stefania Mattioni, Nataşa Ganea.
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

2014

• The effects of verbal cueing on implicit hand maps
  Stefania Mattioni, Matthew R Longo.
  Acta Psychologica.