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…
Categoria: Neuroscience
Peripersonal Space from a multisensory perspective: the distinct effect
of the visual and tactile components of Visuo‑Tactile stimuli
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
Seminario “Neuroscienze e società: Il cervello politico”
Gesture errors in left and right hemisphere damaged patients: A behavioural and anatomical study
Authors Michele Scandola, Valeria Gobbetto, Sara Bertagnoli, Cristina Bulgarelli, Loredana Canzano, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Valentina Moro Abstract Erroneous gesture execution is at the core of motor cognition difficulties in apraxia. While a taxonomy of errors may provide important information about…
Cognitive Training Improves Disconnected Limbs’ Mental Representation and Peripersonal Space after Spinal Cord Injury
Authors Valentina Moro, Michela Corbella, Silvio Ionta, Federico Ferrari and Michele Scandola Abstract Paraplegia following spinal cord injury (SCI) affects the mental representation and peripersonal space of the paralysed body parts (i.e., lower limbs). Physical rehabilitation programs can improve these…