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…
Dear all, you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting that will take place next Tuesday, July 5th 2022 at 3:30 PM (CEST). The seminar, entitled “Il caregiving system e i risvolti positivi del caregiving dalla prospettiva dei caregiver informali”,…
Author: Michele Scandola A spinal cord injury causes extensive neuroplastic modifications in our brain, from the sensory–motor structures, to all the brain because of the strict interdependences of brain structures within neural networks. These modifications have—often subtle—effects on cognitive aspects,…
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…