Maurizio Corbetta

University of Padua, Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine

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Maurizio Corbetta is a leading neuroscientist whose work bridges systems and cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on understanding brain organization, attention, and recovery after stroke. His research spans large-scale brain networks, functional connectivity, and the neural bases of spatial attention and motor control. A major contribution is his role in advancing large, multidisciplinary research initiatives to decode brain function, as highlighted in his 2017 paper (11 citations), which underscores his commitment to collaborative, big-science approaches. More recently, Corbetta has explored how visual information about the hand is integrated into somatomotor regions during rest, revealing a visual representation of the hand in spontaneous brain activity (2024, 6 citations; 2022, 3 citations). This work demonstrates that even in the absence of tasks, the brain’s resting-state networks reflect sensorimotor integration, linking perception and action. With a career marked by high-impact studies on attention networks and stroke recovery, Corbetta’s research has shaped our understanding of how the brain reorganizes after injury. His findings have implications for neurorehabilitation and brain-computer interfaces, making him a pivotal figure in translational neuroscience.