Publications

Habitat heterogeneity and dispersal network structure as drivers of metacommunity dynamics

February 06, 2026

arXiv:2602.06640 (2026)

Authors: Davide Bernardi, Alice Doimo, Giorgio Nicoletti, Prajwal Padmanabha, Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis, Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan

Decoding behavior with minimal and interpretable agent models

January 20, 2026

bioRxiv 2026.01.20.700580 (2026)

Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Antonio Celani

Information-directed sampling for bandits: a primer

December 23, 2025

arXiv:2512.20096 (2025)

Authors: Annika Hirling, Giorgio Nicoletti, Antonio Celani

Stochastic processes with multiple temporal scales: timescale separation and information

December 18, 2025

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2025 (12), 124004

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Balancing information and dissipation with partially observed fluctuating signals

December 04, 2025

arXiv:2512.04877 (2025)

Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Ivan Di Terlizzi, Daniel M. Busiello

Fast nonlinear integration drives accurate encoding of input information in large multiscale systems

November 18, 2025

Communications Physics 8, 437 (2025)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Plasticity-induced multistability on fast and slow timescales enables optimal information encoding and spontaneous sequence discrimination

September 17, 2025

arXiv:2509.13867 (2025)

Authors: Giacomo Barzon, Daniel M. Busiello, Giorgio Nicoletti

Optimal information gain at the onset of habituation to repeated stimuli

July 28, 2025

eLife 13:RP99767 (2025)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Matteo Bruzzone, Samir Suweis, Marco Dal Maschio, Daniel M. Busiello

The somatosensory barrel cortex controls the spindle thalamocortical oscillation by frequency locking

July 11, 2025

bioRxiv 2025.07.09.662963 (2025)

Authors: Ramon Guevara, Mattia Tambaro, Marta Maschietto, Alessandro Leparulo, Claudia Checchetto, Giorgio Nicoletti, Benedetta Mariani, Samir Suweis, Stefano Vassanelli

Finite size scaling of survival statistics in metapopulation models

June 20, 2025

Physical Review E 111, 064415 (2025)

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Authors: Alice Doimo, Giorgio Nicoletti, Davide Bernardi, Prajwal Padmanabha

A novel metric for species vulnerability and coexistence in spatially-extended ecosystems

March 14, 2025

arXiv:2503.10288 (2025)

Authors: Davide Bernardi, Giorgio Nicoletti, Prajwal Padmanabha, Samir Suweis, Sandro Azaele, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

Excitation-Inhibition balance controls information encoding in neural populations

February 14, 2025

Physical Review Letters 134, 068403 (2025)

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Authors: Giacomo Barzon, Daniel M. Busiello, Giorgio Nicoletti

Information interference driven by environmental activity

December 13, 2024

Physical Review Research 6, 043275 (2024)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities

October 22, 2024

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (44) e2410932121 (2024)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Prajwal Padmanabha, Davide Bernardi, Samir Suweis, Sandro Azaele, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

Information propagation in Gaussian processes on multilayer networks

October 14, 2024

Journal of Physics: Complexity 5 045004 (2024)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Tuning transduction from hidden observables to optimize information harvesting

October 07, 2024

Physical Review Letters 133, 158401 (2024)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Unveiling gene perturbation effects through Gene Regulatory Networks inference from single-cell transcriptomic data

May 10, 2024

bioRxiv 2024.05.10.593314 (2024)

Authors: Clelia Corridori, Merrit Romeike, Giorgio Nicoletti, Christa Buecker, Samir Suweis, Sandro Azaele, Graziano Martello

Information propagation in multilayer systems with higher-order interactions across timescales

April 08, 2024

Physical Review X 14 (2) 021007 (2024)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain

November 22, 2023

Science Advances 9 (47), eadj3524 (2023)

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Authors: Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Giacomo Barzon, Maía Clemencia Ortíz Barajas, Mohinish Shukla, Ramon Guevara, Samir Suweis, Judit Gervain

Emergent encoding of dispersal network topologies in spatial metapopulation models

November 06, 2023

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (46) e2311548120 (2023)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Prajwal Padmanabha, Sandro Azaele, Samir Suweis, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan

A network-based method for extracting the organization of brain-wide circuits from reconstructed connectome datasets

May 21, 2023

bioRxiv 2023.05.21.541471 (2023)

Authors: Karan Manjunatha, Matteo Bruzzone, Giorgio Nicoletti, Samir Suweis, Marco Dal Maschio

The emergence of scale-free fires in Australia

March 17, 2023

iScience 26 (3) 106181 (2023)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Leonardo Saravia, Ferdinando Momo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

Mutual information in changing environments: Nonlinear interactions, out-of-equilibrium systems, and continuously-varying diffusivities

July 29, 2022

Physical Review E 106, 014153 (2022)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Information-driven transitions in projections of underdamped dynamics

July 18, 2022

Physical Review E 106, 014118 (2022)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Amos Maritan, Daniel M. Busiello

Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model

July 05, 2022

Journal of Physics: Complexity 3 025010 (2022)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Giacomo Barzon, Benedetta Mariani, Marco Formentin, Samir Suweis

Disentangling the critical signatures of neural activity

June 24, 2022

Scientific Reports 12, 10770 (2022)

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Authors: Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Marta Bisio, Marta Maschietto, Stefano Vassanelli, Samir Suweis

Mutual information disentangles interactions from changing environments

November 22, 2021

Physical Review Letters 127, 228301 (2021)

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Daniel M. Busiello

Neuronal Avalanches Across the Rat Somatosensory Barrel Cortex and the Effect of Single Whisker Stimulation

August 30, 2021

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 15:709677

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Authors: Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Marta Bisio, Marta Maschietto, Roberto Oboe, Alessandro Leparulo, Samir Suweis, Stefano Vassanelli

Scaling and criticality in a phenomenological renormalization group

May 07, 2020

Physical Review Research 2, 023144

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Authors: Giorgio Nicoletti, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan