Davide Cortinovis
Davide Cortinovis

PhD Student in Cognitive Neuroscience

CIMeC, University of Trento

I am a PhD student in the Object Vision Group at the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento. I investigate the topographic organization of object categories and dimensions in visual cortex and in artificial neural networks.

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Interests
  • Visual neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging
  • Computational modelling
Education

  • PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

    University of Trento

  • MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience

    University of Trento

  • BSc in Pyshcology

    University of Bergamo

News

  1. 21 Dec 2025 I published the main paper of my PhD thesis on Nature Communications: Investigating action topography in visual cortex and deep artificial neural networks!!
  2. 12 Aug 2025 CCN in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: I presented a poster on comparing object selectivity in visual cortex and topographic deep neural networks.
  3. 17 May 2025 VSS in St Pete Beach, Florida, US: I gave a talk on object dimensions underlying food selectivity in visual cortex.
  4. 22–27 Jun 2024 OHBM in Seoul, South Korea: I gave a talk on action-related topographic organization of category-selectivity in visual cortex and in artificial neural networks.

Publications

  1. 1 Cortinovis, D., Truong, N., Op de Beeck, H., & Bracci, S. (2025). Investigating action topography in visual cortex and deep artificial neural networks. Nature Communications. [Paper]
  2. 2 Cortinovis, D., Peelen, M.V., & Bracci, S. (2025). Tool Representations in Human Visual Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [Paper]

Conference abstracts

  1. 1 Cortinovis, D., Hebart, M., & Bracci, S. (2025). Comparing Object Selectivity in Visual Cortex and Topographic Deep Artifcial Neural Networks. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. [Abstract]
  2. 2 Cortinovis, D., Orlandi, G., van Campenhout, L., & Bracci, S. (2025). Object dimensions underlying food selectivity in visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 25(9), 1910-1910. [Abstract]
  3. 3 Bracci, S., Cortinovis, D., & Garnuto, E. (2025). The Effect of Scene Clutter on Visual Representations. Journal of Vision, 25(9), 2061-2061. [Abstract]
  4. 4 Cortinovis, D., de Beeck, H. O., & Bracci, S. (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. [Abstract]
  5. 5 Cortinovis, D., de Beeck, H. O., & Bracci, S. (2021). The organization of body-parts representations in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Perception, 50(1_SUPPL), 123-123.

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