ARTICOLI SCIENTIFICI

• Gori, M.; Petri, S.; Riberto, M.; Setti, W. IReach: New Multisensory Technology for Early Intervention in Infants with Visual Impairments. Front. Psychol. 2025, 16, 1–5, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1607528.
• Gori, M., Amadeo, M. B., & Bremner, A. J. (2026). The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1-13.
• Tonelli, A.; Mazzola, C.; Sciutti, A.; Gori, M. The Influence of Blindness on Auditory Context Dependency. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 2025, 154, 1729–1739, doi:10.1037/xge0001734.

• Petri, S., Riberto, M., Setti, W., Campus, C., Vitali, H., Signorini, S., Tinelli, F., Serafino, M., Strazzer, S., Giammari, G., Cocchi, E., & Gori, M. (2025). Impact of Congenital Visual Impairment on Early‐Life Exploration: Behavioral Analysis of Temporal and Motor Parameters During a Reach‐to‐Grasp Playful Task. Developmental Science, 28(5), e70067. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70067
• Amadeo, M. B., Cuppini, C., Tonelli, A., Tammurello, C., Setti, W., Campus, C., Signorini, S., Cocchi, E., Bonino, M., Tinelli, F., Camicione, P., Serafino, M., & Gori, M. (2026). Space Impacts Temporal Processing via a Visual-Dependent Spatially Organized Neural Architecture. The Journal of Neuroscience, 46(1), e1444242025.
• Tonelli, A., Senna, I., Amadeo, M. B., Setti, W., Domenici, N., Signorini, S., Cocchi, E., Giammari, G., Strazzer, S., Tinelli, F., Camicione, P., Serafino, M., & Gori, M. (2026). The Development of Audio‐Tactile Spatial Integration: Unraveling Vision’s Contribution. Developmental Science, 29(1), e70094.
• Casado-Palacios, M. Tonelli, A. Campus, C. Gori, M. Cross-Modal Interactions and Movement-Related Tactile Gating: The Role of Vision. Brain Sci. 2025, 15, doi:10.3390/brainsci15030288.
• Gori, M., Vitali, H., Bremner, A. J., Tonelli, A., Amadeo, M. B., Setti, W., ... & Campus, C. (2025). Vision drives the neural construction of a two-stage hierarchy of spatial processing in infancy. Iscience, 28(11).
• Calafatello, G., Zanchi, S., Balzarotti, N., Bremner, A. J., Parmiggiani, A., Orciari, L., & Gori, M. (2025). Testing Perceptual Development with Moving Stimuli: A New Multisensory Tool for Young Children. 2025 IEEE Medical Measurements & Applications (MeMeA), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/MeMeA65319.2025.11066292
• Coelho, L. A., Ramirez, D. E. A., Basta, S., Guarischi, M., Gonzalez, C. L. R., & Gori, M. (2025). The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: Evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals. Biology of Sex Differences, 16(1), 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-025-00747-y
• Coelho, L. A., Vitale, A., Tammurello, C., Campus, C., Gonzalez, C. L. R., & Gori, M. (2025). The Visual and Haptic Contributions to Hand and Foot Representation. In H. Kajimoto, P. Lopes, C. Pacchierotti, C. Basdogan, M. Gori, B. Lemaire-Semail, & M. Marchal (Eds), Haptics: Understanding Touch Technology and Systems Applications and Interaction (Vol. 14768, pp. 185–193). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70058-3_15
• Petri, S., Riberto, M., Setti, W., Merello, A., Crepaldi, M., Maviglia, A., Orciari, L., Parmiggiani, A., & Gori, M. (2025). How to Rehabilitate Body and Space Perception without Sight? iReach: The Innovative Multisensory Wearable Device for Visually Impaired Infants and Children. 2025 IEEE Medical Measurements & Applications (MeMeA), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1109/MeMeA65319.2025.11067963
• Petri, S., Vitali, H., Campus, C., Riberto, M., & Gori, M. (2025). Exploring neurodevelopment through oscillatory and aperiodic EEG activity: Methodological and clinical consideration. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 19, 1641840. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1641840
• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Giorgetti, L., Famà, F., Mattioli, P., Arnaldi, D., & Gori, M. (2025). Investigating the impact of the years of blindness on sleep rhythms, dream patterns, and spatial abilities: The BLINDREAM protocol. PLOS One, 20(7), e0327521. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327521
• Zanchi, S., Cappagli, G., Gori, M., & Cuturi, L. F. (2025). Development of the Ability to Integrate Egocentric and Allocentric Coordinates in a Blindfolded Navigation Task. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2025.2560865
• Zanchi, S., & Gori, M. (2026). Multisensory Spatial Navigation in Sighted and Blind Adults and Children. In E. Pissaloux & R. Velazquez (Eds), Mobility of Visually Impaired People (pp. 183–209). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91550-5_6
• Tammurello, C., Coelho, L., Amadeo, M. B., Campus, C., Setti, W., & Gori, M. (2024). Visual experience is required to develop a flexible sense of position. Journal of Vision, 24(10), 417-417. Tammurello, C., Coelho, L. A., Amadeo, M. B., Setti, W., Campus, C., & Gori, M. (2024, June). Children-Friendly Auditory Version of the Somatic Rubber Hand Illusion to Study the Interaction between Proprioception and Audition during Development. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Morelli, F., Varesio, C., Pasca, L., Sammartano, A., Gori, M. Blindness affects the developmental trajectory of the sleeping brain. NeuroImage. 

• Bollini, A., Cocchi, E., Salvagno, V., Gori, M. The Causal Role of Vision in the Development of Spatial Coordinates: Evidence From Visually Impaired Children. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

• Gori, M., Tonelli, A., Nava, E. Editorial: women in sensory neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

• Gori, M., Sciutti, A., Torrazza, D., Campus, C., Bollini, A. The effect of visuo-haptic exploration on the development of gemetric cross-sectioning ability. Journal of experimental Child Psychology.

• Esposito, D., Bollini, A., Gori, M. The Suite for the Assessment of Low-Level cues on Orientation (SALLO): The psychophysics of spatial orientation in virtual reality. Behavior Research Methods.

• Bertonati, G., Amadeo, MB., Campus, C., Gori, M. Task‐dependent spatial processing in the visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping. 

• Gori, M., Bertonati, G., Mazzoni, E., Freddi, E., Amadeo, M. B. The impact of COVID-19 on the everyday life of blind and sighted individuals. Frontiers in Psychology.

• Gori, M., Bertonati, G., Campus, C., & Amadeo, M. B. Multisensory representations of space and time in sensory cortices. Human Brain Mapping.

• Zanchi, S., Cuturi, L. F., Sandini, G., & Gori, M. Interindividual differences influence multisensory processing during spatial navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

• Domenici, N., Tonelli, A., & Gori, M. The development of adaptation aftereffects in the vibrotactile domain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

• Tonelli, A., Lunghi, C., & Gori, M. Moderate physical activity alters the estimation of time, but not space. Frontiers in psychology.

• Aggius-Vella, E., Gori, M., Campus, C., Petri, S., & Tinelli. Motor Influence in Developing Auditory Spatial Cognition in Hemiplegic Children with and without Visual Field Disorder. Children.

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., De Giorgis, V., Signorini, S., & Gori, M. The vision of dreams: from ontogeny to dream engineering in blindness. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

• Setti, W., Cuturi, L. F., Cocchi, E., & Gori, M. Spatial Memory and Blindness: The Role of Visual Loss on the Exploration and Memorization of Spatialized Sounds. Frontiers in Psychology.

• Setti, W., Cuturi, L.F., Alonso-Martinez Engel, I., Picinali, L., Gori, M., The influence of early visual deprivation on audio-spatial working memory. Neuropsychology.

• Zanchi, S., Cuturi, L.F., Sandini, G., Gori, M. Evaluation of a Motion Platform Combined with an Acoustic Virtual Reality Tool: a Spatial Orientation Test in Sighted and Visually Impaired People. EMBC.

• Gori, M., Campus, C., Signorini, S., Rivara, E., Bremner, A.J., Multisensory spatial perception in blind infants. Current Biology.

• Esposito, D., Bollini, A., Gori, M., Early Blindness Limits the Head-Trunk Coordination Development for Horizontal Reorientation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 

• Bollini, A., Campus, C., Gori, M., The development of allocentric spatial frame in the auditory system. Journal of experimental child psychology.

• Bollini, A., Esposito, D., Campus, C., Gori, M. Different mechanisms of magnitude and spatial representation for tactile and auditory modalities. Experimental Brain Research.

• Campus, C., Signorini, S., Vitali, H., De Giorgi, V., Papali, G., Morelli, F., Gori, M., Sensitive period for the plasticity of alpha activity in humans. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 

• Gori, M., Campus, C., Cappagli, G., Late development of audio-visual integration in the vertical plane. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences

• Martolini, C., Cappagli, G., Signorini, S., Gori, M. Effects of Increasing Stimulated Area in Spatiotemporally Congruent Unisensory and Multisensory Conditions. Brain Sciences.

• Domenici, N., Tonelli, A., Gori, Adaptation to high-frequency vibrotactile stimulations fails to affect the clock in young children. Current Research in Behavioral Science. 

• Bertonati, G., Amadeo, M.B., Campus, C., Gori, M., Auditory speed processing in sighted and blind individuals. Plos One. 

• Cuturi, L.F., Cappagli G., Tonelli, A., Cocchi E., Gori, M., Perceiving size through sound in sighted and visually impaired children. Cognitive Development.

• Setti, W., Cuturi, L.F., Sandini, G., Gori, M., Changes in audio-spatial working memory abilities during childhood: the role of spatial and phonological development. Plos One.

• Senna, I., Cuturi, L. F., Gori, M., Ernst, M. O., & Cappagli, G. Spatial and Temporal Perception in Sensory Deprivation. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

• Esposito, D., Bollini,A.,  Gori, M., The link between blindness onset and audiospatial processing: tesing audiomotor cues in acoustic virtual reality. IEEE

• Gori, M., Volpei, G., Cappagli, G., Volta, E., Cuturi L.F., Embodied multisensory training for learning in primary school children. IEEE.

• Gori, M., Crepaldi, M., Orciari, L., Campus, C., Merello, A., Dellepiane, D., Parmiggiani, A., RoMAT: Robot for Multisensory Analysis and Testing of visual-tactile perceptual functions. IEEE.

TALKS

• Gori, M. Early Cortical Sensory Responses. SIPF.

• Gori, M. Multisensory Development. Sensory Neuroscience - European Summer School.

• Gori, M. The role of vision in perceptual space representation. Seminar "The Sense".

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Gori, M. Brain activity development in visually impaired children during waking and sleep stages. VISION.

• Amadeo, M.B., Tonelli, A., Tammurello, C., Setti, W. Campus, C., Gori, M. Spatial constrains influence audio-tactile temporal binding only in case of visual experience. AIP. 

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Gori, M. The development of cortical activity during waking and sleep stages in children with and without visual impairment. SINC. 

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Gori, M. The development of cortical activity during waking and sleep stages in children with and without visual impairment. IMRF.

• Tonelli, A., Gori, M. Development of audiotactile integration in sighted and blind children. AIP.

• Domenici, N., Tonelli, A., Gori, M. Saccadic compression of space and time in children with and without reading impairment. ECVP.

• Setti, W., Tata, F., Sabatini, S.P., & Gori, M. Audio drawing and working memory in blindness: design, development and validation of a multi-sensory system. EMBC. 

• Amadeo M.B., Campus C., Gori M. Low-level supramodal activation of sensory cortices during complex spatial and temporal tasks. IMRF.

• Bollini, A., Gori, M. How vision shapes the development of allocentric spatial frame. IMRF.

• Bertonati G., Amadeo M.B., Campus C., Gori M. Organizzazione dominio-specifica dei processi multisensoriali a livello corticale. AIP.  

• Gori, M. Multisensory integration development for rehabilitation. ICON. 

• Bollini, A., Gori,M. The role of vision in calibrating the development of the spatial competence. AIP.  

• Gori, M., Cuturi, L.F., Zanchi, S. The role of vision on space rapresentation and locomotion. INAV.

• Gori, M. Multisensory technology for visually impaired children and adults. VR4VIP.

• Gori, M. Multisensory development and technology for children. AVRA.

• Gori, M., Cuturi, L.F., Cappagli, G. Multisensory and sensory-motor processing: perception of magnitude and number line from developmental inputs to math applications. ESCOP.

• Bertonati, G., Amadeo, M. B., Campus, C., Gori, M. Multisensory cortical representations of space and time. ECVP. 

• Gori, M., Vitali, H., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Papalia, G., Morelli, F., Campus, C. How the lack of vision affects the development of alpha activity in the earliest stages of life . ECVP.

• Cappagli, G., Cuturi, L.F., Signorini, S., Cocchi, E., Gori, M. Sense of positive and negative numbers in visually impaired children. ECVP.

• Gori, M. Exploiting Research Experience. Multitouch EU project meeting.

• Gori, M. Interaction between senses during the child development and the creation of new rehabilitation devices. Invited talk at the Univerity of Uthrect.

• Gori, M. Multisensory integration development for rehabilitation. Invited talk at the CNS.

• Gori, M. Sensory rehabilitation in visually impaired children and multisensory developmental processing. Invited talk at the Univerity of Leeds.

• Gori,M., Casado Palacios, M. Visual, audio and haptic integration and interaction for rehabilitation. WorldHaptics IEEE.

• Gori, M. The multisensory child development and rehabilitative technology. ICSC.

• Gori, M. Science and technology to understand developmental multisensory processing. NeuroWide Multisensory Series.

• Gori, M., Campus, C., Signorini, S., Bremner, A. Multisensory spatial perception in visually impaired infants. BRNET Workoshop UK. 

• Gori, M., Campus, C., Signorini, S., Rivara, E., Bremner, A. J. The ontogeny of spatial perception in sighted and blind infants. VSS.

• Gori, M., Amadeo, M.B., Campus, C., Cappagli, G., Martolini, C. Multisensory development in typical and blind children and adults: cortical plasticity and rehabilitation technology. NER 21IEEE.  

• Gori, M. Multisensory processing in blind infants and rehabilitative technology. ATC MultiTouch EU project.

• Gori, M., Volpe, G., Cappagli, G., Volta, E., Cuturi, L.F. Embodied multisensory training for learning in primary school children. ICDL IEEE.

• Gori, M. Multisensory integration development for rehabilitation. CNS invited talk.

• Gori, M., Crepaldi, M., Orciari, L., Campus, C. RoMAT: Robot for Multisensory Analysis and Testing of visual-tactile perceptual functions. EMBC.

• Esposito, D., Bollini, A., Gori, M. Audio-motor Contribution To The Audio-spatial Calibration Of The Horizontal Plane. ICSC.

• Esposito, D., Bollini, A., Gori, M. The link between blindness onset and audiospatial processing: testing audiomotor cues in acoustic virtual reality. EMBC.

• Bollini, A., Gori, M. Come i deficit visivi alterano lo sviluppo della cognizione spaziale. AIP.

POSTERS

• Setti, W., Vitali, H., Campus, C., Picinali, L., Gori M., Audio-Corsi: a novel system to evaluate audio-spatial memory skills. EMBC.

• Bollini, A., Vitali, H., Crepaldi, M., Parmiggiani, A., Campus, C., Lorini, C., Gori, M. Dr-MUSIC: An Effective Device for Investigating Multisensory Mechanisms during Development with EEG recordings. EMBC. 

• Calafatello, G., Tonelli, A., Zanchi, S., Amadeo, M.B., Tammurello, C., Setti, W., Gori, M. Auditory spatial localization in children: accuracy and precision along the azimuthal and elevation planes. IMRF. 

• Petri, S., Setti, W., Campus, C., Vitali, H., Mascherpa, E., Signorini, S., Tinelli, F., Strazzer, S., Giammari, G., Cocchi, E., Gori, M. Reaching and Grasping time in infants: the effect of an early visual impairment. IMRF.

• Coelho, L, Tammurello, C., Campus, C., Gonzalez, Claudia L.R., Gori, M. Carolina Tammurello, Claudio Campus, Claudia L.R. Gonzalez, Gori, M. Distorted reality? Exploring visual and haptic feedback in body representation. IMRF.

• Petri, S., Setti, W., Campus, C., Vitali, H., Mascherpa, E., Signorini, S., Tinelli, F., Strazzer, S., Giammari, G., Cocchi, E., Gori, M., The effect of an early visual impairment on the ability to reach objects and crossing the body midline in the peri-personal space. CVRS. 

• Tammurello, C., Amadeo, M.B., Coelho, L., Campus, C., Setti, W., Gori, M. Somatic Rubber Hand Illusion: The Mechanisms Underpinning Proprioceptive Drift in Primary School Children. BRNet. 

• Coelho, L., Tammurello, C.,  Campus, C., Gonzalez Claudia L.R., Gori, M. Beyond Vision: Exploring Haptic Body Representations in Blindness and Sightedness. BRNet. 

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., De Giorgis, V., Signorini, S., Papalia, G., Fasce, M., Morelli, F., Gori, M. Nap modulation of cross-sensory audio-tactile skills in visually impaired and sighed infants: an EEG study. e-Sleep. 

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., De Giorgis, V., Signorini, S., Morelli, F., Varesio, C., Gori, M. Sleep Architecture Development in Blind and Sighted Children. World Sleep Congress. 

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., De Giorgis, V., Signorini, S., Morelli, F., Fasce, M., Gori, M. Sensorimotor brain oscillations in human toddlers. FENS.

• Tammurello, C., Amadeo, M.B., Campus, C., Setti, W., Tonelli, A., Gori, M. Listen to your fake hand: the effect of sound on the somatic rubber hand illusion. IMRF.

• Tonelli, A., Mazzola, C., Sciutti, A., Gori, M. The influence of visual experience on context dependency in hearing distance estimation. IMRF.

• Tonelli, A., Amadeo, M.B., Setti, W., Gori, M. Audiotactile ventriloquist effect in sighted and blind children. ESCOP. 

• Domenici, N., Inuggi, A., Tonelli, A., Gori, M. PsySuite: performing multimodal portable psychophysics within the Android environment. IMRF. 

• Amadeo M.B., Escelsior A., Amore M., Serafini G., Pereira B, Gori M. Emotion recognition with face masks in deaf people. AIP. 

• Bertonati G., Amadeo M.B., Campus C., Gori M. ERP components of multisensory spatial representation in the visual cortex. FENS. 

• Esposito D., Bollini, A., Gori, M. Naturalistic spatial precision correlates with the left-right discrimination threshold if head and trunk are not aligned. IMRF. 

• Lunghi C., Tonelli A., Gori M. Moderate physical activity alters the estimation of time, but not space. VSS. 

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Morelli, F., Papalia, G., Fasce, M., Gori, M. The development of alpha activity in infants/children: a possible tool for sensorimotor integration. ECVP. 

• Bertonati, G., Amadeo, M.B., Campus, C., Gori, M.  Auditory speed processing in sighted and blind individuals. VSS.

• Bertonati, G., Amadeo, M.B., Campus, C., Gori, M.  Task-specific cortical organization of multisensory spatial representation. SFN.

• Vitali, H., Campus, C., Signorini, S., De Giorgis, V., Morelli, F., Papalia, G., Fasce, M., Gori, M. EEG spectral activity and its association with sensory-motor coordination in blind and sighted children. SFN.

• Zanchi, S., Cuturi, L. F., Sandini G., Gori, M. Evaluation of a motion platform combined with an acoustic virtual reality tool: a spatial orientation test in sighted and visually impaired people. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). 

SYMPOSIUM

• Amadeo M.B., Gori, M. The development of audiotactile and visuotactile integration for human body representations from infancy to adolescence. IMRF.

• Gori, M. Integration and Interaction Between Sensory Modalities in Children and Adults With and Without Sensory Impairments. AIP.

• Bremner, Andrew J., Campus, C., Tonelli, A., Signorini, S., Gori, M. Orienting responses to tactile and auditory stimuli on the hands in sighted and blind infants. IMRF Symposium Organization. 

• Setti, W., Cuturi, L. F., Gori, M.  Memory and sounds: the effect of early visual deprivation on mnestic skills in blind kids. IMRF Symposium Organization. 

• Gori, M., Amadeo, M.B., Bertonati, G., Pavani, F., Campus, C. Hearing the visual rhythm and seeing the audio space: early cortical sensory responses in typical but not in blind and deaf individuals. IMRF Symposium Organization. 

• Bollini, A., Gori, M. The development of a multisensory sense of space. ICSC Symposium Organization. 

• Giraud, F., Gori, M., Collignon, O., Vatav, R.  Multimodal Augmentation of Haptic Touch Input. WorldHaptics IEEE. 

• Murray, M. M., Streir-Amit, E., Gori, M., Senna, I. Multisensory development in typical and blind individuals: cortical organization and technology. NER 21 IEEE Symposium Organization. 

• Gori, M., Casado Palacios, M. Haptics: different perspectives. Organization of Activity Training Network (11 talks). 

AWARDS

• Gori, M. 20 Scienziate Italiane che hanno rivoluzionato il mondo della ricerca (wired). 

• Gori, M. Cuore Digitale. 

• Vitali, H. Young Technician Communications Challenge (AITN - SINC). 

• Vitali, H. New Investigation Award for Poster presentation (WSS).

• Esposito, D. Best Paper Award.

• Gori, M. Finalist of the Engineering and Technology for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021. 

• Gori, M. Honors: Expertscape Expert in Disabled Persons: top 1% of scholars writing about Disabled Persons over the past 10 years.