Authors Moro V. Abstract The dissociation between implicit and explicit forms of awareness has been described in various neurological diseases. The way in which these forms of awareness integrate in order to permit the necessary unitary experience of self remains…
Categoria: Neuropsychology
World Autism Awareness Day
The NPsy-Lab.VR is happy to inform about the World Autism Awareness Day, that will be held in Rome, April 2nd – 6th, 2014.
Rovereto Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects 2014
Also for this year the CAOs 2014 will be held in Rovereto (Trento, Italy). It’ll last between the 8th and the 11th of May, the organiser are Alfonso Caramazza, Melvyn Goodale, Brad Mahon, Alex Martin, and Marius Peelen. Invited speakers: Irving Biederman, University of Southern…
Scientific Conference – Joint meeting of the FESN (Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology) and the GNP (German Society of Neuropsychology) from September 12-14, 2013 in Berlin, Germany
The FENS meetings are the most important conferences concerning Neuropsychology in Europe. This year one of the major topics of lectures and symposia will be the integration of experimental approaches and clinical application in Neuropsychology. The director of the NPSY-Lab.VR,…
Summer school – The Visceral Mind: A hands-on course in the neuroanatomy of cognition
The NPSY-Lab.VR will be present at the summer school “The Visceral Mind”, a summer school concerning neuroanatomy, functional neuroanatomy, DTI, TMS and genetics. Michele Scandola was selected to participate to this summer school, with a strict selection of 40 candidates…
Summer school – Embodied Inter-subjectivity : the 1st person and the 2nd person perspective
The NPSY-Lab.VR will be present at the Aegina Summer School about embodiment. This Summer School is built upon the success of a previous summer school on the “The Sense of Body” that was organized in Italy in 2008 (please see…
Cognitive stimulation in a-MCI: an experimental study.
Authors Moro V, Condoleo MT, Sala F, Pernigo S, Moretto G, Gambina G. Abstract Nowadays, preventing the effects of mental decline is an international priority, but there is little research into cognitive training in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We present the results of a program aimed at teaching memory…
Scientific Conference – “La complessità in riabilitazione”
Scientific conference organized by SIMFER Veneto, “Sacro Cuore – Don Calabria” Hospital and University of Verona with the purpose to discuss the complexity of rehabilitation, starting from the rehabilitiation of visual perception to motor rehabilitation. Our group will be present…
Massive somatic deafferentation and motor deefferentation of the lower part of the body impair its visual recognition: a psychophysical study of patients with spinal cord injury.
Authors Pernigo S, Moro V, Avesani R, Miatello C, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM. Abstract Embodied cognition theories postulate that perceiving and understanding the body states of other individuals are underpinned by the neural structures activated during first-hand experience of the same states. This suggests that…
Visual body recognition in a prosopagnosic patient.
Authors Moro V, Pernigo S, Avesani R, Bulgarelli C, Urgesi C, Candidi M, Aglioti SM. Abstract Conspicuous deficits in face recognition characterize prosopagnosia. Information on whether agnosic deficits may extend to non-facial body parts is lacking. Here we report the neuropsychological description of FM, a patient…