Tag: body awareness

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – March 11st, 2024 at 2:30 PM

Dear all, We are happy to invite you to the NPSY.Lab-VR meeting scheduled for Monday, March 11st, at 2:30 PM. The lab meeting will follow the Journal Club format. The talk will be held by Sara Bertagnoli who will present a preprint by…

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – January 17th, 2023 at 4:00 PM

Dear all,you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting that will take place on Tuesday, January 17th 2023 at 4:00 PM (CET). The seminar, held by Michele Scandola, will follow the Journal Club format and address two recent articles: a…

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…

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…

Next Seminar: “Studies on ownership and disownership”

Next seminar: “Studies on ownership and disownership” by Francesca Santoni. The seminar will be held the 19/09/2019 at the Laboratorio of Psicologia, Palazzo Zorzi Lato Vipacco, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Verona.…

Embodying their own wheelchair modifies extrapersonal space perception in people with spinal cord injury.

Authors: Scandola M, Togni R, Tieri G, Avesani R, Brambilla M, Aglioti SM, Moro V Abstract Despite the many links between body representation, acting and perceiving the environment, no research has to date explored whether specific tool embodiment in conditions of sensorimotor deprivation influences extrapersonal space…

Neurocognitive benefits of physiotherapy for spinal cord injury

Authors: Scandola M, Dodoni L, Lazzeri G, Arcangeli CA, Avesani R, Moro V, Ionta S. Abstract Spinal cord injury (SCI) interrupts the brain-body input-output exchange and modifies the mental representation of disconnected body parts, with decreased reliance on sensorimotor aspects of body representation and increased weighting…

Next Seminar: “Error Awareness in Space”

The seminar “Error Awareness in Space” will be held at the University of Verona, Dept. of Human Sciences, September the 20th. The presenter will be Michele Scandola.

Presentation at the Spatial Cognition 2018, Tuebingen

Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, organization, and utilization of knowledge about spatial objects and environments, be it real, virtual, or abstract, human or machine. Spatial Cognition comprises research in different scientific fields insofar as they are concerned with…