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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”,…
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”…
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…
Authors: Valentina Moro, Valentina Pacella, Michele Scandola, Sahba Besharati, Elena Rossato, Paul M Jenkinson, Akaterini Fotopoulou Neuropsychological disturbances in the sense of limb ownership provide unique opportunities to study the neurocognitive basis of body ownership. Previous small sample studies that…
Authors: Maddalena Beccherle · Stefania Facchetti · Francesca Villani · Marzia Zanini · Michele Scandola Peripersonal Space (PPS) is defined as the space close to the body where all interactions between the individual and the environment take place. Behavioural experiments…