Matteo Maran
Main Focus
I'm a cognitive neuroscientist in training, interested in how our brain analyses incoming linguistic information and combines it into complex and rich representations.
Curriculum Vitae
2017 - Present: PhD student
MPI CBS
Supervisors: Prof Dr Angela D. Friederici and Dr Emiliano Zaccarella
2013 - 2015: Master's Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology (with honors)
University of Padova
Thesis supervisor: Prof Antonino Vallesi and Dr Giorgio Fuggetta
Thesis: The role of the posterior parietal cortex in a visual short-term memory task: a combined
EEG-tDCS study
2010 - 2013: Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology (with honors)
University of Padova
Thesis supervisor: Prof Konstantinos Priftis
Thesis: Three disorders following frontal brain damage: imitation behaviour, utilization
behaviour and environmental dependency syndrome
Internships
2016 - 2017: One-year internship at MEG and Neurophysiology Lab, San Camillo Hospital, Venice
Supervisor: Dr Giorgio Arcara
2016: Six-month internship at University of Glasgow
Supervisor: Dr Peter Uhlhaas
2015: Six-month internship at University of Leicester
Supervisor: Dr Giorgio Fuggetta
2012 - 2013: Internship in a non-profit organization working with children with Autism Spectrum
Disorder
Scientific committee
Member of the organizing committee of the Leipzig Lectures on Language, Max Planck Institute for
Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig (2021)