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New PhD student will be investigating the multimodal cortical mechanisms involved in vocal behaviour.
09.02.2018 |
Davide Ligato obtained his Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering with his thesis 'Offset Analgesia: inhibitory pain modulation elicited by thermal shock in humans' under the supervision of professor Lars Arendt-Nielsen, at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Aalborg University. He then continued to work at SMI as a researcher for more than two years, specializing in the field of pain. In particular, he succeeded to demonstrate that analgesia is mediated by the peripheral as well as by the central mechanisms. Moreover, he discovered that a new pain biomarker that used only thermal stimuli to elicit analgesia has similar results when using electrical stimuli. His discovery paved the way for new series of studies regarding novel techniques to elicit analgesia in humans, with the possibility of translation into animals.
After initiating this new path, Davide searched other challenges and has now started at a PhD Fellow at MIB under the supervision of professor Peter Vuust and assistant professor Boris Kleber. The project will focus on the vocal motor control and proposes an original set of studies to address this understudied subject. These are aimed at scrutinizing the multisensory cortical mechanisms involved in controlling and monitoring vocal behaviour, their modifications related to individual experience/learning and emotion-action interactions in the vocal control.