Publications by Michele Bevilacqua

Pathway-dependent Brain Stimulation Responses Indicate Motion Processing Integrity After Stroke

Elena Beanato, Michele Bevilacqua, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet, Pauline Menoud, Fabienne Windel, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Homonymous hemianopia (HH), a common visual impairment resulting from occipital lobe lesions, affects a significant number of stroke survivors. Intensive perceptual training can foster recovery, possibly by enhancing surviving visual pathways. This study e ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2025

MEP and TEP features variability: is it just the brain-state?

Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Michele Bevilacqua, Claudia Bigoni, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior

Objective. The literature investigating the effects of alpha oscillations on corticospinal excitability is divergent. We believe inconsistency in the findings may arise, among others, from the electroencephalography (EEG) processing for brain-state determi ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Probing and modulating inter-areal coupling in the cortical visual motion processing pathway with non-invasive brain stimulation

Michele Bevilacqua

In the last few years, stroke ranked as the second most common cause of death and is the third most significant condition affecting disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Being the most prevalent and quality of life impacting post-stroke symptom ...

EPFL2024

Single session cross-frequency bifocal tACS modulates visual motion network activity in young healthy population and stroke patients

Michele Bevilacqua, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Roberto Felipe Salamanca Giron, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet, Pauline Menoud, Fabienne Windel, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury

Objective: This study investigates the impact of single-session, cross-frequency (Alpha-Gamma) bifocal transcranial alternating current stimulation (cf-tACS) to the cortical visual motion network on inter-areal coupling between the primary visual cortex (V ...

2024

Pathway and directional specificity of Hebbian plasticity in the cortical visual motion processing network

Michele Bevilacqua, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Estelle Emeline Raffin

Cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation (ccPAS), which repeatedly pairs single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over two distant brain regions, is thought to modulate synaptic plasticity. We explored its spatial selectivity (pathway an ...

2023

On Error-Related Potentials During Sensorimotor-Based Brain-Computer Interface: Explorations With a Pseudo-Online Brain-Controlled Speller

Michele Bevilacqua

Objective: Brain-computer interface (BCI) spelling is a promising communication solution for people in paralysis. Currently, BCIs suffer from imperfect decoding accuracy which calls for methods to handle spelling mistakes. Detecting error-related potential ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Design and validation of a foldable and photovoltaic wide-field epiretinal prosthesis

Kevin Sivula, Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Samuel Charles Antoine Gilliéron, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Michele Bevilacqua, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto

Retinal prostheses have been developed to fight blindness in people affected by outer retinal layer dystrophies. To date, few hundred patients have received a retinal implant. Inspired by intraocular lenses, we have designed a foldable and photovoltaic wid ...

Nature Research2018