Ivilin Peev Stoianov

I am researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Padova.

My principle research interest include neurocomputational modeling and analysis of human cognition functions, including visual perception, sensorimotor processing, spatial navigation, goal-directed behavior, planning. Other approaches include statistical analysis of behavioral and neurophysiological data.

Research highlight:

• Stoianov, I., & Zorzi, M. (2012). Emergence of a “visual number sense” in hierarchical generative models. Nature Neuroscience (15) 194–6. doi:10.1038/nn.2996
• Stoianov, I., Genovesio, A., & Pezzulo, G. (2016). Prefrontal goal-codes emerge as latent states in probabilistic value learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (28), 140–157. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00886
• Testolin, A., Stoianov, I., & Zorzi, M. (2017). Letter perception emerges from unsupervised deep learning and recycling of natural image features. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 657–664. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0186-2
• Stoianov, I., Pennartz, C., Lansink, C., & Pezzulo, G. (2018). Model-based spatial navigation in the hippocampus-ventral striatum circuit: a computational analysis. Plos Computational Biology, 1–28.
• Jezzini, A., Caruana, F., Stoianov, I., Gallese, V., & Rizzolatti, G. (2012). Functional organization of the insula and inner perisylvian regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 10077–10082. doi:10.1073/pnas.1200143109