Antonio Criscuolo

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Born in Salerno (southern Italy), raised in the sun and blue of the Amalfi coast.

I am an enthusiastic and ambitious researcher. My curiosity has motivated a
constant search of opportunities to enrich my cultural and scientific background. 
Interested in cognitive and auditory neuroscience
and body-brain electrophysiology methods.

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Research

We think of the brain as a predictive organ which tries and minimize processing costs via generating expectations. For instance, when you are exposed to music and speech, your brain predicts the when and what of next sound events. These predictions are the result of neural computations happening at different temporal and spatial scales and the complex interaction between bottom-up and top-down modulatory signals.
In my research, I specifically focus on oscillatory signals in the brain and try to understand how neural waves encode and predict temporal regularities in the sensory environment, thus allowing us to detect, product and synchronize with external rhythms.
Our studies further explore the functional link between biological rhythms (i.e. respiratory and cardiac activity) and endogenous neural activity.

  • Rhythm and timing cognition
  • Temporal Predictions
  • Sensorimotor processes
  • Motor-auditory coupling
  • Neural oscillations
  • Body physiological signals
  • Body-Brain interactions

Methods

  • EEG;
  • MEG;
  • Behavioral measures;
  • Brain stimulation;
  • Matlab, Fieldtrip, SPSS.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

  • 2024-current: Postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands);
  • 2022: Visiting Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt am Main, Germany);
  • 2020-2024: PhD candidate at Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands);
  • 2018-2019: Visiting Researcher at University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom);
  • 2017-2019: Research Master in Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands);
  • 2017: Visiting Researcher at Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark);
  • 2014-2017: Bachelor of Science in Sciences and Psychological techniques at University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy).

Selected Publications

  • Criscuolo A, Czepiel A, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. (2025) A body-brain (dis)equilibrium regulating transitions from health to pathology. Physics of Life. 54: 94-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2025.07.003
  • Criscuolo A*, Schwartze M, Kotz SA. (2022) Cognition through the lens of a body–brain dynamic system. Trends in Neuroscience. 45 (9), 667-677. DOI: 1016/j.tins.2022.06.004
  • Criscuolo A*, Schwartze M, Schwarz J, Strecker K, Hesse S & Kotz SA. (2025) L-Dopa and STN-DBS modulate E/I balance and the neural encoding of rhythmic auditory stimulation in Parkinson. medRxiv.
  • Criscuolo A*, Schwartze M, Nozaradan S, Kotz SA. (2025) Basal ganglia and cerebellar lesions causally impact the neural encoding of temporal regularities. Imaging Neuroscience. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00492

For more details, please send an email to a.criscuolo@maastrichtuniversity.nl