Claudio Galletti - Neurophysiology and Neuroanatomy of the Visuo-Motor System

CLAUDIO GALLETTI

LAST NAME: Galletti
FIRST NAME: Claudio

BIRTHPLACE AND DATE: Bologna, Italy, March 30, 1948
FAMILY: Married with Elvira Fiorini. One female child born in July 31, 1976

ADDRESS:
Dipartimento di Fisiologia umana e generale
Università di Bologna
Piazza di Porta San Donato 2
40126 Bologna Italy

GRADUATED IN: Biological Sciences
ON: July 15, 1971
AT: University of Bologna, Italy

CAREER:
1971-1983: Assistant Professor in Physiology at the Institute of Human Physiology of the University of Bologna
1983-1986: Associate Professor in Physiology at the Institute of Human Physiology of the University of Bologna
1986-today: Full Professor in Physiology at the Department of Human and General Physiology of the University of Bologna

PRESENT POSITION:
Full Professor in Physiology at the Department of Human and General Physiology of the University of Bologna

RESEARCH FIELDS:
Neurophysiology and Neuroanatomy of the Visual System

AFFILIATIONS:
European Brain and Behaviour Society, International Neuropsychological Symposium, Società Italiana di Fisiologia, Società italiana di Neuroscienze, American Society for Neuroscience

AWARDS:
'Golden Brain Award 1997', awarded by Minerva Foundation (Berkeley, California, USA) "for his pioneering discoveries of the function of the visual brain"

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Pitzalis, S., Galletti, C., Huang, R.S., Patria, F., Committeri, G., Galati, G., Fattori, P., Sereno, M.I. (2006) Wide-field retinotopy defines human cortical visual area V6.
J Neurosci, 26, 7962-7973.

Breveglieri, R., Galletti, C., Gamberini, M., Passarelli, L., Fattori, P. (2006) Somatosensory cells in area PEc of macaque posterior parietal cortex.
J Neurosci, 26, 3679-3684.

Luppino, G., Ben Hamed, S., Gamberini, M., Matelli, M., Galletti, C. (2005) Occipital (V6) and parietal (V6A) areas in the anterior wall of the parieto-occipital sulcus of the macaque: a cytoarchitectonic study.
Eur J Neurosci, 2005 Jun,21(11),3056-76.

Kutz, D.F., Marzocchi, N., Fattori, P., Cavalcanti, S., Galletti, C. (2005) Real-time supervisor system based on trinary logic to control experiments with behaving animals and humans. J Neurophysiol, 93, 3674-3686.

Galletti, C., Gamberini, M., Kutz, D.F., Baldinotti, I., Fattori, P. (2005) The relationship between V6 and PO in macaque extrastriate cortex.
Eur J Neurosci, 21, 959-970.

Fattori, P., Kutz, D.F., Breveglieri, R., Marzocchi, N., Galletti, C. (2005) Spatial tuning of reaching activity in the medial parieto-occipital cortex (area V6A) of macaque monkey.
Eur J Neurosci, 22, 956-972.

Galletti, C., Fattori, P., Gamberini, M., Kutz, D.F. (2004) The most direct visual pathway to the frontal cortex.
Cortex, 40, 216-217.

Fattori, P., Breveglieri, R., Amoroso, K., Galletti, C. (2004) Evidence for both reaching and grasping activity in the medial parieto-occipital cortex of the macaque.
Eur J Neurosci, 20, 2457-2466.

Kutz, D.F., Fattori, P., Gamberini, M., Breveglieri, R., Galletti, C. (2003) Early- and late-responding cells to saccadic eye movements in the cortical area V6A of macaque monkey.
Exp Brain Res, 149, 83-95.

Galletti, C., Kutz, D.F., Gamberini, M., Breveglieri, R., Fattori, P. (2003) Role of the medial parieto-occipital cortex in the control of reaching and grasping movements.
Exp Brain Res, 153, 158-170.

Galletti, C., Fattori, P. (2003) Neuronal mechanisms for detection of motion in the field of view.
Neuropsychologia, 41, 1717-1727.

Galletti C., Kutz D.F., Gamberini M., Breveglieri R., Fattori P. (2003) Role of the medial parieto-occipital cortex in the control of reaching and grasping movements.
(Review) Exp Brain Res, 153, 158-70.

Galletti C., Fattori P. (2002) Posterior parietal networks encoding visual space. In: The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Spatial Neglect, (Karnath H.O., Milner A.D. and Vallar G. Eds.).
Oxford University Press, pp. 59-69. Oxford, New York.

Battaglini P.P., Muzur A., Galletti C., Skrap M., Brovelli A., Fattori P. (2002) Effects of lesions to area V6A in monkeys.
Exp Brain Res, 144: 419-422.

Fattori P., Gamberini M., Kutz D.F., Galletti C. (2001) Arm-reaching neurons in the parietal area V6A of the macaque.
Eur. J. Neurosci. 13, 2309-2313.

Galletti C., Gamberini M., Kutz D.F., Fattori P., Luppino G., Matelli M. (2001) The cortical connections of area V6: an occipito-parietal network processing visual information Eur. J. Neurosci. 13, 1572-1588.

Galletti C., Fattori P., Gamberini M., Kutz D.F. (1999) The cortical visual area V6: brain location and visual topography.
Eur. J. Neurosci. 11: 3922-3936.

Galletti C., Fattori P., Kutz D.F., Gamberini M. (1999) Brain location and visual topography of cortical area V6A in the macaque monkey.
Eur. J. Neurosci., 11: 575-582.

Matelli M., Govoni P., Galletti C., Kutz D.F, Luppino G. (1998) Superior area 6 afferents from the superior parietal lobule in the macaque monkey.
J. Comp. Neurol., 402: 327-352.

Galletti C., Fattori P., Kutz D.F, Battaglini P.P (1997) Arm movement-related neurons in the visual area V6A of the macaque superior parietal lobule.
Eur. J. Neurosci., 9: 410-414.

Galletti C., Fattori P., Battaglini P.P, Shipp S., Zeki S. (1996) Functional demarcation of a border between areas V6 and V6A in the superior parietal gyrus of the macaque monkey.
Eur. J. Neurosci., 8: 30-52.

Galletti C., Battaglini P.P., Fattori P. (1995) Eye-position influence on the parieto-occipital area PO (V6) of macaque monkey.
Eur. J. Neurosci., 7: 2486-2501.

Galletti C., Battaglini P.P., Fattori P. (1993) Parietal neurons encoding spatial locations in craniotopic coordinates.
Exp. Brain Res., 96: 221-229.

Galletti C., Battaglini P.P., Fattori P. (1991) Functional properties of neurons in the anterior bank of the parieto-occipital sulcus of the macaque monkey. 
Eur. J. Neurosci., 3: 452- 461.

Galletti C., Battaglini P.P., Fattori P. (1990) 'Real-motion' cells in area V3A of macaque visual cortex.
Exp. Brain Res., 82: 67-76.

Galletti C., Battaglini P.P. (1989) Gaze-dependent visual neurons in area V3A of monkey prestriate cortex.
J. Neurosci 9: 1112-1125.

Galletti C., Battaglini P.P., Aicardi G. (1988) 'Real-motion' cells in visual area V2 of behaving macaque monkeys.
Exp. Brain Res., 69: 279-288.

Galletti C., Squatrito S., Battaglini P.P, Maioli M.G. (1984) "Real-motion" cells in the primary visual cortex of macaque monkeys.
Brain Research, 301: 95-110.