Davide Cortinovis

Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience

Davide Cortinovis

Hello!

I am a researcher in visual neuroscience. I did my PhD at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento, in the Object Vision Group led by Stefania Bracci. In my PhD thesis, I investigated the topographic organization of object categories and dimensions in visual cortex and in artificial neural networks.

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News

  1. 27 Aug 2026 Final preprint from my PhD available! We investigate how visual cortex represents images of food.
  2. 8 May 2026 My work on food selectivity in visual cortex received the Best Poster Award at the CAOs Workshop!
  3. 20 Apr 2026 I defended my thesis and earned my PhD!
  4. 13 Apr 2026 A preprint based on one study from my PhD thesis is now available.
  5. 21 Dec 2025 I published the main paper of my PhD thesis in Nature Communications: Investigating action topography in visual cortex and deep artificial neural networks!!

Publications

Encoding models uncover fine-grained feature selectivity for bodies, hands and tools
Cortinovis, D., Hebart, M., & Bracci, S.
bioRxiv, 2026

Investigating action topography in visual cortex and deep artificial neural networks
Cortinovis, D., Truong, N., Op de Beeck, H., & Bracci, S.
Nature Communications, 2025

Tool Representations in Human Visual Cortex
Cortinovis, D., Peelen, M.V., & Bracci, S.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2025

Posters & Talks

  1. August 2025 Comparing Object Selectivity in Visual Cortex and Topographic Deep Artifcial Neural Networks CCN 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands Cortinovis, D., Hebart, M., & Bracci, S. (2025). Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
  2. May 2025 Object dimensions underlying food selectivity in visual cortex VSS 2025, St Pete Beach, Florida, US Cortinovis, D., Orlandi, G., van Campenhout, L., & Bracci, S. (2025). Journal of Vision, 25(9), 1910-1910.
  3. May 2025 The Effect of Scene Clutter on Visual Representations VSS 2025, St Pete Beach, Florida, US Bracci, S., Cortinovis, D., & Garnuto, E. (2025). Journal of Vision, 25(9), 2061-2061.
  4. June 2024 Action-related topographic organization of category-selectivity in visual cortex and in artificial neural networks OHBM 2024, Seoul, South Korea
  5. May 2023 The role of action-related properties in shaping the object space in the biological and artificial brain Journal of Vision, 23(9), 4868-4868 Cortinovis, D., de Beeck, H. O., & Bracci, S. (2023).
  6. 2021 The organization of body-parts representations in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Perception, 50(1_SUPPL), 123-123 Cortinovis, D., de Beeck, H. O., & Bracci, S. (2021).