2024-06-09 - 2024-06-15
Elisa Frasnelli
University of Trento
In this lecture I will introduce myself and my career pathway, from physics to neuroscience, showing the importance of an interdisciplinary and international dimension in science. I will then present some of the research projects I have been part of, with a focus on lateralization, i.e., the different functional specialization of the left and the right sides of the brain, a feature that is shared by several species from insects to humans. I will approach this subject both from a theoretical point of view, using mathematical models, and from an empirical point of view, going through the different studies that have allowed answering many questions about the mechanisms, the function, the development, and the evolution of this intriguing feature of the nervous system.
