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Federica Sigismondi serves as a Research Fellow at the Interdepartmental Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC) of the University of Trento, Italy, where she investigates neural mechanisms of spatial cognition and object processing in blindness using fMRI methodologies.
Her research centers on Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, specifically examining how blindness reshapes spatial navigation systems (grid cells, cognitive maps) and object shape representation in the occipitotemporal cortex. She employs multimodal fMRI approaches to compare neural adaptations between sighted and early blind populations, revealing cross-modal plasticity in non-visual spatial processing.
Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on blindness-induced neural reorganization, showing preserved object shape encoding despite visual deprivation (2023) and altered grid-like coding patterns during navigation (2024). This work bridges cognitive neuroscience with rehabilitation science, highlighting the brain's adaptive capacity through non-visual sensory inputs.
She operates within CIMEC's interdisciplinary framework at the University of Trento, collaborating with researchers like Roberto Bottini and Yangwen Xu on high-impact studies published in Nature Communications and PLOS Biology.
