Dr. Mattia Rosso, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Music in the Brain, has been awarded 10,000€ by the Nordic Mensa for his project “Fine-tuning the brain: investigating the association between intelligence and frequency-resolved functional connectivity”.

Mattia’s research combines cognitive neuroscience, signal processing, and neuroimaging methods development to investigate how brain dynamics support perception, action, and human interaction. Across his research trajectory at MIB, he has developed and applied advanced analytical frameworks for EEG and MEG, with a particular focus on multivariate source separation and frequency-resolved functional connectivity. More recently, he developed the FREQ-NESS framework, a methodological approach for understanding the functional organization of the brain in a system of large-scale brain networks operating at specific frequencies.

Through this Nordic Mensa-funded project, Mattia extends this line of work to examine how frequency-resolved brain network organization relates to individual differences in intelligence.