The work of our group consists of developing, leveraging, and combining forefront behavioral and neurophysiological techniques to investigate the primate brain under conditions that are ethologically relevant and, as much as possible, unconstrained.
Understanding the brain during natural behavior is crucial for achieving ecologically valid insights into neural circuit functions and dysfunctions in neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases.
To reach these goals, alongside state-of-the-art neurophysiological methods, we employ advanced techniques that enable the simultaneous wireless recording of multiple neurons, while video-monitoring the animals’ spontaneous behavior in both individual and social settings using multi-camera systems.
Lab News & Media
During the award ceremony for the first Outstanding Research Awards of the University of Parma, Prof. Luca Bonini received the Outstanding Researcher Award for the Life Sciences macro-area. The award
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Our lab participated in the 21st National Congress of the Italian Society for Neuroscience (SINS 2025) in Pisa, presenting several contributions across different sessions: Davide Albertini presente
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New Publication in Science Our latest research, "Neuroethology of Natural Actions in Freely Moving Monkeys," has been published in Science (Vol. 387, No. 6730). Read the Full Article Check
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Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research — Cognitive Neurology Laboratory, Tübingen, Germany
"Exploring social attention in the Common Marmoset: from behavioral training to neurophysiology"
07/10/2025
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, USA
"The Cognitive-Emotional Brain"
28/08/2025
Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, South Korea
"Soft, implantable, wireless platform for advanced neural engineering"
