Categoria: Paper

Effects of the social context on the neurophysiological correlates of observed error monitoring

Authors: Maria Pyasik, Maddalena Beccherle, Federica Faraoni, Rachele Pezzetta,Valentina Moro Abstract: Monitoring the motor performance of others, including the correctness of their actions, is crucial for the human behavior. However, while performance (and error) monitoring of the own actions has…

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…

The ‘healthy side’ of anosognosia for hemiplegia: Increased sense of agency for the unimpaired limb or motor compensation?

Authors: Gianna Cocchini, Michele Scandola, Valeria Gobbetto, Maria Cristina Cioffi, Angela Bartolo, James Moore, and Valentina Moro Objectives Anosognosic patients show a lack of awareness for their hemiplegia coupled with a distorted sense of agency for the actions performed by…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Role of White Matter Disconnection in the Symptoms Relating to the Anarchic Hand Syndrome: A Single Case Study

Authors Valentina Pacella, Giuseppe Kenneth Ricciardi , Silvia Bonadiman, Elisabetta Verzini, Federica Faraoni, Michele Scandola & Valentina Moro Abstract The anarchic hand syndrome refers to an inability to control the movements of one’s own hand, which acts as if it…