Fabiano Baroni
My research deals with the neuronal correlates of phenomenal consciousness.
More precisely, I investigate neuronal markers of visual presentation and visual awareness by combining the analysis of different, albeit related, experimental protocols, such as masked and unmasked presentations of similar images. My work aims to providing a more precise functional characterization of the neuronal correlates of consciousness than what could be achieved by the analysis of a single experimental paradigm alone.
To this end, I use intracranial recordings from epilepsy subjects who are undergoing pre-surgical monitoring for clinical purposes, and kindly accepted to donate their time and efforts to basic, non-clinical research. These recordings detect neuronal activity at a superior spatial and temporal resolution, which is not affordable by non-invasive methods in healthy volunteers.
Most of my previous work has been in the field of computational neuroscience, and in the analysis of electrophysiological and imaging data from simpler organisms such as insects, crustaceans and worms, and has been inspired mostly by dynamical system theoretic approaches.
I was trained as an electronic engineer and earned a PhD in computational neuroscience from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid under the mentorship of Pablo Varona. Then, I was a post-doc with David Grayden and Anthony Burkitt at the University of Melbourne.
My other long-term interests include meditation and yoga, mostly because they feel good. But I also believe that the integration of the scientific approach with the vast body of empirical knowledge and introspective methods from ancient traditions has the potential to yield great benefits to both the scientific and medical communities.
Selected Publications:
Full List:
F. Baroni, P. Varona (2010) Spike timing-dependent plasticity is affected by the interplay of intrinsic and network oscillations. Journal of Physiology – Paris 104(1-2):91-8. PDF
F. Baroni, P. Varona. (2007) Subthreshold oscillations and neuronal input-output relationships. Neurocomputing 70(10-12): 1611-1614. PDF
S. Ramaswamy, F. Baroni, P. Varona, G. G. de Polavieja (2007) Time-scales in the interplay between calcium and voltage dynamics. Neurocomputing 70(10-12): 1949-1953. PDF
F. Baroni, J.J. Torres, P. Varona (2005). Interacting Slow and Fast Dynamics in Precise Spiking-Bursting Neurons. Lect. Notes Comput Sc. 3561, 106-115. PDF
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