AIP Sperimentale 2025, 31° Congresso annuale

Session

Keynote 1: Viviana Betti

Sep 11, 2025, 2:30 PM

Conveners

Keynote 1: Viviana Betti

• Federica Bencivenga (Université de Montréal)

999. The Spontaneous Brain: Mapping the Intrinsic Foundations of Behaviour and its Dynamic Changes.

Viviana Betti (Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy; IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italy)

9/11/25, 2:30 PM

When the brain lies at rest, in the absence of external input or tasks, spontaneous (intrinsic) brain connectivity is thought to represent a prior of relevant stimuli or behaviours. How does it apply to the hand, e.g., the main means of interaction with the external environment? Large patches of the cerebral cortex are dedicated to representing the human hand; these regions exhibit patterns of...