Giorno: 21 Giugno 2022

Body, action, and space representations in people affected by spinal cord injuries

Author: Michele Scandola A spinal cord injury causes extensive neuroplastic modifications in our brain, from the sensory–motor structures, to all the brain because of the strict interdependences of brain structures within neural networks. These modifications have—often subtle—effects on cognitive aspects,…

Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction

Authors: Emmanuele Tidoni, Henning Holle, Michele Scandola, Igor Schindler, Loron Hill, Emily S. Cross Do people ascribe intentions to humanoid robots as they would to humans or non-human-like animated objects? In six experiments, we compared people’s ability to extract non-mentalistic…

Disconnections in personal neglect

Authors: Sara Bertagnoli, Valentina Pacella, Elena Rossato, Paul M. Jenkinson, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Michele Scandola, Valentina Moro Personal neglect is a disorder in the perception and representation of the body that causes the patients to behave as if the contralesional side…

What the study of spinal cord injured patients can tell us about the significance of the body in cognition

Authors: Valentina Moro, Michele Scandola, Salvatore Maria Aglioti Although in the last three decades philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have produced numerous studies on human cognition, the debate concerning its nature is still heated and current views on the subject are…

NPSY-Lab.VR at OHBM 2022

Another NPSY-Lab.VR work entitled “White matter disconnections and grey matter lesions in Personal Neglect” (M. Scandola, S. Bertagnoli V. Pacella, E. Rossato, P.M. Jenkinson, A. Fotopoulou, V. Moro) was presented at the virtual session of the Annual meeting of the…