Neurosensory
systems are presented by the essential elements of their complexity. The
fascinating travel through hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste aims at
giving both the holistic elements of perception and psychophysics and the
neural correlates. This is in turn finalized to bioengineering tasks such as
the functional evaluation of senses and the design of aids, implants, or even
bioinspired devices. The material and its organization were refined through
decades of teaching of the homonymous course at the Politecnico di Milano. The
book may provide an introduction to the specific neurosensory systems and, more
generally, to neuroscience and cognition. So, it might be of interest not only
to biomedical engineering and other technical areas but also to disciplines in
the vast field of neuroscience.
INDICE
Barbieri Riccardo
Riccardo
Barbieri is Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, and Research
Affiliate at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Within his academic activity
at the Politecnico, Prof. Barbieri has been teaching the master level course
Bioengineering of Neurosensory Systems since 2015. His broad research interests
are in the development of signal processing algorithms for the analysis of biological
systems, computational modeling of neural information encoding, and statistical
modeling to characterize cardiovascular control dynamics. He is author of more
than 200 peer-reviewed publications in these fields since 1994.
Baselli Giuseppe
Giuseppe Baselli is Full Professor at the Politecnico di
Milano. He has been in the field of Biomedical Signal and Image processing and
modeling since his MSc in Electrical Engineering in 1983. He has been the head
of the Biomedical Engineering Program and of the Bioengineering Department. He had been teaching Bioengineering of Neurosensory Systems
for more than a decade. Currently, one of his major interests is in the field
or neuroimaging.
Grandori Ferdinando
Ferdinando
Grandori is Researcher and then Head of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering
(Italian CNR), has taught courses at the Politecnico di Milano and is
recognized for his role in shaping techniques for newborn hearing screening and
in spreading internationally hearing screening protocols. Research interests:
Evoked Potentials, Magnetic Stimulation, Psychoacoustics and mechanoreceptors. He
has published over 200 research papers and gave about 400 presentations at
international meetings (80 were Keynote Lectures in 25 countries).
Paglialonga Alessia
Alessia
Paglialonga is Senior Researcher at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR),
Adjunct Professor at Politecnico di Milano, and Visiting Scientist at Toronto
Metropolitan University. She has been lecturer in the course Bioengineering of
Neurosensory Systems for more than ten years. Her research interests are in the
area of hearing technologies, health modeling and prediction, AI, eHealth
design and evaluation.