Bruno Duarte Gomes

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

My primary area of research is in brain decoding using machine learning and deep learning, particularly in the context of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and cognitive processes in healthy individuals. My research also includes studying human and non-human primates visual system using psychophysics, visual evoked potentials and cortical extracellular recordings.

Education:
Ph.D., Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Federal University of Para
M.Sc., Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Federal University of Para
B.Sc., Biological Sciences, Federal University of Para

Artificial Intelligence Computational Biology Data Mining & Machine Learning Neural Networks Neuroscience

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidade Federal do Pará

MIT

Work details

Associate Professor

Universidade Federal do Pará

July 2009

Instituto de Ciências Biológicas

Research Scientist Affiliate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

March 2017 - March 2017

Desimone Laboratory

Over the past ten years, Bruno was primarily involved in studying the human visual system using psychophysics and event related potentials (ERP) to understand contrast perception and color discrimination. His focus in VEP was mainly on recording from the primary visual cortex and retina. However, these techniques can cover just part of the history and some limitations are evident when working with humans due to a much less invasive approach. In order to understand neural fundamentals underlying vision and thus highlight basic principles that could be later on applied clinically, there is need to perform cortical recordings in non-human primates. One of the most widely studied visual phenomena is attention. Because of the several cortical and sub-cortical areas involved in visual attention, a more general but not less in-depth comprehension about the visual process and communication among cortical areas is required. The elucidation of the functional wiring taking place in cortical areas during visual tasks that demand attention might provide a background to future non-invasive approaches in humans. The understanding of that minor part of the visual attention circuit is the goal of his research in the Desimone lab.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

July 10, 2025

Neuroprotective effects of essential oils in animal models of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review

Adrielle do Espírito Santos Macedo, Thayná Moraes Ferreira, Lane Viana Krejcová, Fernando Allan de Farias Rocha, Joyce Kelly R. da Silva, Laís Resque Russo Pedrosa, Bruno Duarte Gomes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19643 PubMed 40656940

Academic Editor on

October 29, 2015

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor serum levels in genetically isolated populations: gender-specific association with anxiety disorder subtypes but not with anxiety levels or Val66Met polymorphism

Davide Carlino, Ruggiero Francavilla, Gabriele Baj, Karolina Kulak, Pio d’Adamo, Sheila Ulivi, Stefania Cappellani, Paolo Gasparini, Enrico Tongiorgi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1252 PubMed 26539329

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March 3, 2015

Towards an easier creation of three-dimensional data for embedding into scholarly 3D PDF (Portable Document Format) files

Axel Newe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.794 PubMed 25780759