Prof. Valentina Moro will held a seminar concerning cerebral plasticity and learning to read at the “Istituto Comprensivo Roncalli”, the 9th of October, 2015. Free entry, mandatory registration (info@neuroscienzerosa.it) Download the flier
Categoria: Neuroscience
Next Seminar: Come l’educazione cambia il cervello
Prof. Valentina Moro, the 9th of October, 2015 at the “Istituto Comprensivo Roncalli” will participate to a conversation concerning the plasticity of brain structures and how its shaped by education. Free entry with mandatory registration (info@neuroscienzerosa.it). Download the flier
Error-based training and emergent awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia
Authors Moro V, Scandola M, Bulgarelli C, Avesani R, Fotopoulou A. Abstract Residual forms of awareness have recently been demonstrated in subjects affected by anosognosia for hemiplegia, but their potential effects in recovery of awareness remain to date unexplored. Emergent awareness refers…
Anosognosia for apraxia: Experimental evidence for defective awareness of one’s own bucco-facial gestures
Authors Canzano L, Scandola M, Pernigo S, Aglioti SM, Moro V. Abstract Anosognosia is a multifaceted, neuro-psychiatric syndrome characterized by defective awareness of a variety of perceptuo-motor, cognitive or emotional deficits. The syndrome is also characterized by modularity, i.e. deficits…
Rubber hand illusion induced by touching the face ipsilaterally to a deprived hand: evidence for plastic ‘somatotopic’ remapping in tetraplegics
Authors Michele Scandola, Emmanuele Tidoni, Renato Avesani, Giovanni Brunelli,Salvatore M. Aglioti and Valentina Moro Abstract Background: Studies in animals and humans indicate that the interruption of body-brain connections following spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to plastic cerebral reorganization. Objective: To explore whether…
Alterations of the peripersonal space around the feet in paraplegics
This poster was presentated at the CAOs 2014 conference, held Rovereto (TN), Italy, 8th – 11th of May. Authors: Scandola M., Brunell G., Avesani R., Bonente C., Aglioti S.M., Moro V. Abstract: Cross-modal congruency paradigms (CMCP) are widely used to…
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…
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