Awarded the Ernest Solvay Prize
I am honoured to have received the Ernest Solvay Prize from the Medical Foundation Queen Elisabeth for our recent publication:
Experience rewires the brain. My work investigates how.
I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in how life experiences — such as sensory deprivation, bilingualism, and sign language — shape the way we represent and organise concepts in the mind. My research combines behavioural experiments and neuroimaging approaches to explore the flexibility and resilience of conceptual representation across populations.
Recent Posts
New paper published in Nature Communications
Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans – Mattioni et al. (2025)
My First Steps into Sign Language Research — and an Inspiring Workshop in Leipzig
On Nov 6th and 7th, I had the pleasure of attending the “Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain” workshop at the Max Planck Institute in Lei...
Happy to present my research at Brains United
9-10 Sept 2025 -Brains United is a joint meeting of the KU Leuven Brain Institute and the UCLouvain Institute of Neuroscience