Research Description
Gabriele Gratton's interests are in cognitive neuroscience, specifically in the basic organization (spatial, temporal, and functional) of elementary cognitive processes such as those involved in sensory and working memory, attention, motor preparation, and strategy selection. Gratton has been focusing on the application of functional brain imaging methods to the study of these processes in normal adult subjects using optical, electrophysiological and hemodynamic techniques.
Education
Ph.D. from University of Illinois; M.D. from University of Rome
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Recent Publications
Kałamała, P., Clements, G. M., Gyurkovics, M., Chen, T., Low, K. A., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2026). How to Improve the Reliability of Aperiodic Parameter Estimates in M/EEG: A Method Comparison. Psychophysiology, 63(3), Article e70272. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70272
Marchini, C., Abdelkarim, D., Chai, Y., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Sutton, B. P. (2026). Ultrafast fMRI Detects Age-Related Changes in Harmonics of Cardiac Pulsations in the Brain at 7 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.70429
Clements, G. M., Camacho, P., Bowie, D. C., Low, K. A., Sutton, B. P., Gratton, G., & Fabiani, M. (2025). Effects of Aging, Estimated Fitness, and Cerebrovascular Status on White Matter Microstructural Health. Human Brain Mapping, 46(5), Article e70168. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70168
Kałamała, P., Ware, N., Fabiani, M., Michie, P., Hunter, M., Wade, A., Simpson, F., Mellow, M. L., Low, K., Keage, H. A. D., Gratton, G., Smith, A. E., & Karayanidis, F. (2025). Cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic health are associated with distinct cognitive domains in cognitively healthy older adults. Scientific reports, 15(1), Article 42849. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-26105-x
Moore, M., Iordan, A. D., Katsumi, Y., Fabiani, M., Gratton, G., & Dolcos, F. (2025). Trimodal brain imaging: A novel approach for simultaneous investigation of human brain function. Biological Psychology, 194, Article 108967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108967