Brain Awareness Week 2013

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research, founded by the Dana Foundation. The NPSY-Lab.VR will partecipate at the BAW 2013 in Rome, organized by the prof. Aglioti’s SCNLab, with…

Massive somatic deafferentation and motor deefferentation of the lower part of the body impair its visual recognition: a psychophysical study of patients with spinal cord injury.

Authors Pernigo S, Moro V, Avesani R, Miatello C, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM. Abstract Embodied cognition theories postulate that perceiving and understanding the body states of other individuals are underpinned by the neural structures activated during first-hand experience of the same states. This suggests that…