Categoria: Neuroscience

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – January 17th, 2023 at 4:00 PM

Dear all,you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting that will take place on Tuesday, January 17th 2023 at 4:00 PM (CET). The seminar, held by Michele Scandola, will follow the Journal Club format and address two recent articles: a…

Temporal judgments of actions
following unilateral brain damage

Authors: Valentina Pacella, M. Scandola, M. Bà, N. Smania, M. Beccherle, E. Rossato,D. Volpe & Valentina Moro Abstract: Sense of time is a complex construct, and its neural correlates remain to date in most part unknown.To complicate the frame, physical…

Electrophysiological correlates of action monitoring in brain-damaged patients: A systematic review

Authors: Maria Pyasik, Michele Scandola, Valentina Moro Action monitoring is crucial to the successful execution of an action and understanding the actions of others. It is often impaired due to brain lesions, in particular after stroke. This systematic review aims…

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – July 13th, 2022 at 3:00 PM

Dear all, you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting that will take place next Wednesday, July 13th 2022 at 3:00 PM (CEST). The seminar entitled “The analgesic power of pleasant touch” will be held by Martina Fusaro (IRCCS Santa…

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 meeting – June 21st, 2022 at 3.00 PM

Dear all, you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting that will take place next Tuesday, June 21st 2022 at 3:00 PM (CEST). The seminar, entitled “What he thinks she thinks (without you): perspective on allocentrism in disorders of self-awareness”,…

NPSY.Lab-VR Lab Day – June 10th 2022

Dear all,You are invited to NPSY.Lab-VR Lab Day that will focus on Body representation in social contexts and take place on June the 10th, 2022. The day will start at 10:30 and will last until 16.30 (CEST). It will include “journal club”…

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – April 5th 2022

Dear all,you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting that will take place on Tuesday, April 5th 2022 at 3:00 PM (CEST). The seminar, held by Maria Pyasik, will follow the Journal Club format and address a recent work by Di Lernia and…