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Ignacio Polti

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Ignacio Polti

Postdoktor
Kavliinstitutt for nevrovitenskap
Fakultet for medisin og helsevitenskap

ignacio.polti@ntnu.no
73413205 3.404 Fred Kavli-bygget, del 1 Øya, Trondheim
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Om Forskning Publikasjoner Formidling

Om

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, working in the lab of Nobel laureates May-Britt and Edvard Moser.

Research

The brain’s ability to represent magnitudes such as durations is critical for living organisms to successfully interact with the environment. Time can be considered one of the most prominent dimensions that humans use to describe in an abstract way their interactions with the environment.

My research seeks to understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms of time perception using a cross-species approach in humans and rodents, with an emphasis in the role that brain structures such as the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex play in it.

In humans I study sensorimotor timing, i.e., the act of coordinating the timing of motor actions in response to specific sensory events, such as intercepting/avoiding a moving target (e.g., catching a rugby ball) or producing sequences of timed actions (e.g., playing the piano). Specifically, I research how humans flexibly adapt to the statistical properties of a given context to improve the precision of their timed motor actions.

In rodents I study episodic timing, i.e, the estimation of durations from the memory of past events (e.g., how long ago did you have lunch?). In this domain, I research how the process of event segmentation influences the perception of time.

These topics are studied under the computational framework of predictive processing, using a wide range of neuroimaging methods and carefully designed behavioral tasks.

Education

  • PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • MSc in Cognitive Science | École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
  • MSc in Psychology | Universidad de Buenos Aires

Kompetanseord

  • Bayesian computational modelling
  • Eyetracking
  • High-density extracellular electrophysiology
  • M/EEG
  • Machine Learning
  • Matlab
  • Psychophysics
  • Python
  • R
  • fMRI

Forskning

  • Moser group | Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
  • Doeller group | Max Planck Institute for Human, Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Entorhinal-hippocampal codes for time

Using multi-site high-density neurophysiological recordings in rodents, we shall ask how experiences influence the activity of time-coding LEC neurons. We will aim to determine if changes in LEC neural dynamics predict biases in time perception.

Mapping of temporal regularities in sensorimotor cognitive maps

Using fMRI recordings in humans, we ask whether the hippocampal formation contributes to the processing of temporal information for human sensorimotor timing behavior.

Publikasjoner

  • Kronologisk
  • Etter kategori
  • Alle publikasjoner i Nasjonalt vitenarkiv (NVA)

2025

  • Kanter, Benjamin Richard; Lykken, Christine Marie; Polti, Ignacio; Moser, May Britt; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2025) Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Science
    Vitenskapelig artikkel

2023

  • Azizi, Leila; Polti, Ignacio; Wassenhove, Virginie van. (2023) Spontaneous alpha brain dynamics track the episodic “when”. Journal of Neuroscience
    Vitenskapelig artikkel

2022

  • Polti, Ignacio; Nau, Matthias; Kaplan, Raphael; Wassenhove, Virginie van; Doeller, Christian Fritz Andreas. (2022) Rapid encoding of task regularities in the human hippocampus guides sensorimotor timing. eLIFE
    Vitenskapelig artikkel

2020

  • Bellmund, Jacob Lukas Sarid; Polti, Ignacio; Doeller, Christian Fritz Andreas. (2020) Sequence Memory in the Hippocampal–Entorhinal Region. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
    Vitenskapelig artikkel

2018

  • Polti, Ignacio; Martin, Benoit; Wassenhove, Virginie van. (2018) The effect of attention and working memory on the estimation of elapsed time. Scientific Reports
    Vitenskapelig artikkel

Tidsskriftspublikasjoner

  • Kanter, Benjamin Richard; Lykken, Christine Marie; Polti, Ignacio; Moser, May Britt; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2025) Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex. Science
    Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Azizi, Leila; Polti, Ignacio; Wassenhove, Virginie van. (2023) Spontaneous alpha brain dynamics track the episodic “when”. Journal of Neuroscience
    Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Polti, Ignacio; Nau, Matthias; Kaplan, Raphael; Wassenhove, Virginie van; Doeller, Christian Fritz Andreas. (2022) Rapid encoding of task regularities in the human hippocampus guides sensorimotor timing. eLIFE
    Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Bellmund, Jacob Lukas Sarid; Polti, Ignacio; Doeller, Christian Fritz Andreas. (2020) Sequence Memory in the Hippocampal–Entorhinal Region. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
    Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Polti, Ignacio; Martin, Benoit; Wassenhove, Virginie van. (2018) The effect of attention and working memory on the estimation of elapsed time. Scientific Reports
    Vitenskapelig artikkel

Formidling

#34 The Journal of Neuroscience Spotlight: Spontaneous Alpha Brain Dynamics Track the Episodic “When”

Podcast interview from "Neuro Current", the SfN Journals podcast. The Journal of Neuroscience decided to highlight our 2023 research article for receiving the highest marks for both, methodological merit and significance.

With constructive feedback our brain learns the perfect timing

Press release from the Max Planck Institute explaining our research findings in human sensorimotor timing (text in English).

Derfor går tida raskere når du har det travelt

Interview given to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology media team explaining our research findings in human time perception (text in Norwegian).

La experiencia de estudiar bajo cero y con dos premios Nobel de Medicina

Interview given to the Argentine newspaper "La Nación" describing cognitive neuroscience research I carried out in Norway (text in Spanish).

Neurospin: un recorrido por la catedral del cerebro

Interview given to the Argentine newspaper "La Nación" describing cognitive neuroscience research carried out in France (text in Spanish).

2022

  • Poster
    Becu, Marcia Constance Noemi; Bonnevie, Tora; Polti, Ignacio; Jarholm, Jonas Alexander; Grøntvedt, Gøril Rolfseng; Bråthen, Geir. (2022) Entorhinal grid-like representation in early Alzheimer's disease: association with biomarkers concentration and genetic risk. Society for Neuroscience 2022 2022-11-12 - 2022-11-12

2018

  • Poster
    Polti, Ignacio; Nau, Matthias; Kaplan, R; Wassenhove, Virginie van; Doeller, Christian. (2018) The role of hexadirectional coding in spatiotemporal integration. Neuroscience 2018 , San Diego, California 2018-11-03 - 2018-11-07

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