Francesco Mannella

Senior Researcher | Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies | CNR Italy

Francesco Mannella | Senior Researcher Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR Italy

Highlighted publications

2024Mannella F. and Pezzulo G. (2024), "Transitive inference as probabilistic preference learning", Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Springer. [DOI]
2023Mannella F. and Tummolini L. (2023), "Kick-starting concept formation with intrinsically motivated learning: The grounding by competence acquisition hypothesis", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Vol. 378(1870) Royal Society Publishing. [DOI] [URL]
2021Mannella F., Maggiore F., Baltieri M. and Pezzulo G. (2021), "Active inference through whiskers", Neural Networks. Vol. 144, pp. 428 – 437. Elsevier Ltd. [DOI] [URL]
2015Mannella F. and Baldassarre G. (2015), "Selection of cortical dynamics for motor behaviour by the basal ganglia", Biological Cybernetics. Vol. 109(6), pp. 575 – 595. Springer Verlag. [DOI] [URL]
2013Mannella F., Gurney K. and Baldassarre G. (2013), "The nucleus accumbens as a nexus between values and goals in goal-directed behavior: A review and a new hypothesis", Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. (OCT) [DOI] [URL]

All publications

2025Brucklacher M., Pezzulo G., Mannella F., Galati G. and Pennartz C.M.A. (2025), "Learning to segment self-generated from externally caused optic flow through sensorimotor mismatch circuits", Neural Networks. Vol. 181, 106716. Elsevier Ltd. [DOI]
2024Borghi A.M., De Livio C., Gervasi A.M., Mannella F., Nolfi S. and Tummolini L. (2024), "Language as a cognitive and social tool at the time of large language models", Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. Vol. 8(3), pp. 179 – 198. Springer. [DOI]
Borghi A.M., Mazzuca C., Gervasi A.M., Mannella F. and Tummolini L. (2024), "Grounded cognition can be multimodal all the way down", Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Vol. 39(7), pp. 838 – 842. Taylor & Francis. [DOI]
Mannella F. and Pezzulo G. (2024), "Transitive inference as probabilistic preference learning", Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Springer. [DOI]
Pezzulo G., D'Amato L., Mannella F., Priorelli M., Van de Maele T., Stoianov I.P. and Friston K. (2024), "Neural representation in active inference: Using generative models to interact with—and understand—the lived world", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Vol. 1534(1), pp. 45 – 68. Wiley. [DOI]
Priorelli M., Maggiore F., Maselli A., Donnarumma F., Maisto D., Mannella F., Stoianov I.P. and Pezzulo G. (2024), "Modeling motor control in continuous-time active inference: A survey", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. Vol. 16(2), pp. 485 – 500. IEEE. [DOI]
2023Mannella F. and Tummolini L. (2023), "Kick-starting concept formation with intrinsically motivated learning: The grounding by competence acquisition hypothesis", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Vol. 378(1870) Royal Society Publishing. [DOI] [URL]
2021Mannella F., Maggiore F., Baltieri M. and Pezzulo G. (2021), "Active inference through whiskers", Neural Networks. Vol. 144, pp. 428 – 437. Elsevier Ltd. [DOI] [URL]
2019Caligiore D., Mannella F. and Baldassarre G. (2019), "Different dopaminergic dysfunctions underlying Parkinsonian Akinesia and tremor", Frontiers in Neuroscience. Vol. 13(MAY) Frontiers Media S.A.. [DOI] [URL]
2018Mannella F., Santucci V.G., Somogyi E., Jacquey L., O’regan K.J. and Baldassarre G. (2018), "Know your body through intrinsic goals", Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Vol. 12 Frontiers Media S.A.. [DOI] [URL]
Zappacosta S., Mannella F., Mirolli M. and Baldassarre G. (2018), "General differential Hebbian learning: Capturing temporal relations between events in neural networks and the brain", PLoS Computational Biology. Vol. 14(8) Public Library of Science. [DOI] [URL]
2017Caligiore D., Mannella F., Arbib M.A. and Baldassarre G. (2017), "Dysfunctions of the basal ganglia-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical system produce motor tics in Tourette syndrome", PLoS Computational Biology. Vol. 13(3) Public Library of Science. [DOI] [URL]
2016Mannella F., Mirolli M. and Baldassarre G. (2016), "Goal-directed behavior and instrumental devaluation: A neural system-level computational model", Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Vol. 10(OCT) Frontiers Media S.A.. [DOI] [URL]
2015Fiore V.G., Mannella F., Mirolli M., Latagliata E.C., Valzania A., Cabib S., Dolan R.J., Puglisi-Allegra S. and Baldassarre G. (2015), "Corticolimbic catecholamines in stress: a computational model of the appraisal of controllability", Brain Structure and Function. Vol. 220(3), pp. 1339 – 1353. Springer Verlag. [DOI] [URL]
Mannella F. and Baldassarre G. (2015), "Selection of cortical dynamics for motor behaviour by the basal ganglia", Biological Cybernetics. Vol. 109(6), pp. 575 – 595. Springer Verlag. [DOI] [URL]
2014Fiore V.G., Sperati V., Mannella F., Mirolli M., Gurney K., Friston K., Dolan R.J. and Baldassarre G. (2014), "Keep focussing: Striatal dopamine multiple functions resolved in a single mechanism tested in a simulated humanoid robot", Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 5(FEB) [DOI] [URL]
2013Baldassarre G., Mannella F., Fiore V.G., Redgrave P., Gurney K. and Mirolli M. (2013), "Intrinsically motivated action-outcome learning and goal-based action recall: A system-level bio-constrained computational model", Neural Networks. Vol. 41, pp. 168 – 187. [DOI] [URL]
Mannella F., Gurney K. and Baldassarre G. (2013), "The nucleus accumbens as a nexus between values and goals in goal-directed behavior: A review and a new hypothesis", Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. (OCT) [DOI] [URL]