Categoria: Neuroscience

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…

A fronto-insular-parietal network for the sense of body ownership

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…

Peripersonal Space from a multisensory perspective: the distinct effect
of the visual and tactile components of Visuo‑Tactile stimuli

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…

Bodily Illusions and Motor Imagery in Fibromyalgia

Authors: Michele Scandola, Giorgia Pietroni, Gabriella Landuzzi, Enrico Polati, Vittorio Schweiger and Valentina Moro Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterised by chronic, continuous, widespread pain, often associated with a sense of fatigue, non-restorative sleep and physical exhaustion. Due to the nature of…

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – January 11th 2022

Dear all, You are all invited to the first NPSY.Lab-VR meeting of 2022, which will take place on Tuesday, January 11th at 3.00 PM (CET). The seminar will be held by Giuseppe Riva and Daniele Di Lernia of Università Cattolica…