January 2011 – Present Research Fellow at Institute of Neuroscience (IoN), Newcastle University, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK.
2010-2012 Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Signal and Information Processing
2010-2012 Honorary Research Fellow at School of Psychology, Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK.
2008-2010 Research Fellow at School of Psychology, Birmingham University, Birmingham, UK.
2008 Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University of Chieti, Italy.
2008 Ph.D in “Functional Neuroimaging: from cells to systems” at the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB), University of Chieti, Italy (with honours).
2006-2007 Visiting Research Fellow, Aston University, Birmingham UK.
2001-2007 Research Fellow AFaR- CNR
2004 Master in "Bank, Insurance and Finance Management". Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome "La Sapienza”, Italy.
2001 Computer Science Degree - Faculty of Science, Mathematics, Physics and Natural of the University of Rome "La Sapienza”, Italy.
In Preparation
Porcaro C, Medaglia MT, Thai NJ, Seri S, Rotshtein P, Tecchio F. Contradictory reasoning: an EEG-fMRI study using the Aristotelian square of oppositions
Porcaro C, Medaglia MT, Meyer AS, Krott A. The effects of motor artifact removal on spatio-temporal brain activation patterns during overt speech production
Porcaro C, Coppola GL, Pierelli F, Tecchio F. Effective connectivity at low and high frequency in the hand somatosensory subcortical and primary cortical network.
Tecchio F, ZappasodiF,Tomasevic L, Salustri C, and Porcaro C. Primary motor area as main target of somatosensory direct projections.
Melgari JM, Zappasodi F, Porcaro C, Tomasevic L, Cassetta E, Rossini PM, Tecchio F. Movement induced de-coupling of primary sensory and motor areas in focal task-specific hand dystonia.
Giambattistelli F, Tomasevic L, Melgari JM, Porcaro C, Rossini PM, Tecchio F. Do different levels of motor pathway activation modify cerebral connectivity? A TMS/EEG study.
2011
Tombini M, Rigosa J, Zappasodi F, Porcaro C, Citi L, Carpaneto J, Rossini PM, Micera S. Combined Analysis of Cortical (EEG) and Nerve Stump Signals Improves Robotic Hand Control. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. “Awaiting Publication” (2011).
Porcaro C, Ostwald D, Hadjipapas A, Barnes GR, Bagshaw AP. The Relationship between the Visual Evoked Potential and the Gamma Band Investigated by Blind and Semi-Blind Methods. Neuroimage. 56 1059-71(2011). [IF 2009 – 5.739; NC=0]
Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Bagshaw AP. Voxel-wise information theoretic EEG-fMRI feature integration. NeuroImage. 55 1270-86 (2011).
2010
Porcaro C, Ostwald D, Bagshaw AP. Functional Source Separation improves the quality of single trial visual evoked potentials recorded during concurrent EEG-fMRI. NeuroImage. 50 112-23 (2010). [IF 2009 – 5.739]
Ostwald D, Porcaro C, Bagshaw AP. An information theoretic approach to EEG-fMRI integration of visually evoked responses. NeuroImage. 49 498-516 (2010). [IF 2009 – 5.739]
2009
Medaglia MT, Tecchio F, Seri S, Di Lorenzo G, Rossini PM., Porcaro C. Contradiction in Universal and Particular Reasoning. Hum Brain Mapp. 30 4187-4197 (2009). [IF 2008 – 5.395]
Porcaro C, Zappasodi F, Rossini PM, Tecchio F. Choice of multivariate autoregressive model order affecting real network functional connectivity estimate. Clin. Neurophysiol. 120 436-48 (2009). [IF 2008 – 2.972]
Porcaro C, Coppola G., Di Lorenzo G., Zappasodi F., Siracusano A., Pierelli F., Rossini PM, Tecchio F., Seri S. Hand somatosensory sub-cortical and cortical sources assessed by Functional Source Separation: an EEG study. Hum Brain Mapp. 30 660-74 (2009). [IF 2008 – 5.395]
2008
Tecchio F., Zappasodi F., Porcaro C., Barbati G., Assenza G., Salustri C., Rossini PM. High gamma band activity of primary hand cortical areas: a sensorimotor feedback efficiency index. Neuroimage. 40 256-64 (2008). [IF 2007 – 5.457]
Barbati G., Porcaro C., Hadjipapas A., Adjamian P. Pizzella V., Romani GL., Seri S., Tecchio F., Gareth BR. Functional Source Separation applied to induced visual gamma activity. Hum Brain Mapp. 29 131-41 (2008). [IF 2007 – 6.151]
Porcaro C, Barbati G, Zappasodi F, Rossini PM, Tecchio F. Hand sensory-motor cortical network assessed by Functional Source Separation. Hum Brain Mapp. 1 70-81 (2008). [IF 2007 – 6.151]
Tecchio F, Melgari JM, Zappasodi F, Porcaro C, Milazzo D, Cassetta E, Rossini PM. Sensorimotor integration in focal task-specific hand dystonia: a magnetoencephalographic assessment. Neuroscience. 154 563-71 (2008). [IF 2007 – 3.352]
2007
Tecchio F., Porcaro C., Barbati G., Zappasodi F. Functional Source Separation and hand cortical representation for BCI feature extraction. J Physiol. 580(Pt.3) 703-21 (2007). [IF 2006 – 4.407]
Tecchio F., Graziadio S., Barbati G., Sigismondi R., Zappasodi F., Porcaro C., Valente G., Balsi M., Rossini PM. Somatosensory dynamic gamma-band synchrony: a neural code of sensorimotor dexterity. Neuroimage 35 185-193 (2007). [IF 2006 – 5.559]
2006
Porcaro C., Zappasodi F., Barbati G., Salustri C., Pizzella V., Rossini PM., Tecchio F. Fetal auditory responses to external sounds and mother’s heart beat: detection improved by Independent Component Analysis. Brain Research, 1101 51-58 (2006). [IF 2005 – 2.296]
Tecchio F., Zappasodi F., Melgari JM., Porcaro C., Cassetta E., Rossini PM. Sensory-motor interaction in primary hand cortical areas: a MEG assessment. Neuroscience 141 533–542 (2006). [IF 2005 – 3.410]
Tecchio F., Porcaro C., Zappasodi F., Pesenti A., Ercolani M., Rossini PM. Cortical short-term fatigue effects assessed via rhythmic brain-muscle coherence. Exp Brain Res. 174 144-151 (2006). [IF 2005 – 2.118]
Barbati G., Sigismondi R., Zappasodi F., Porcaro C., Graziadio S., Valente G., Balsi M., Rossini PM., Tecchio F. Functional source separation from magnetoencephalographic signals. Hum Brain Mapp. 134 95-101 (2006). [IF 2005 – 4.317]
2005
Salustri C., Barbati G., Porcaro C. Fetal Magnetocardiographic Signals Extracted by ‘Signal Subspace’ Blind Source Separation. IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, 52 1140-2. (2005). [IF 2004 – 1.815]
2004
Barbati G., Porcaro C., Zappasodi F., Rossini P.M., Tecchio F. Optimization of an independent component analysis approach for artifact identification and removal in magnetoencephalographic signals. Clinical Neurophysiology. 115 1220-32 (2004). [IF 2003 – 2.485]