Tag: body ownership

NPSY.Lab-VR meeting – October 26th, 2023 at 2:30 PM

Dear all, you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR meeting, taking place on Thursday, October 26th at 2:30 PM in Meeting Room 1.16 on the second floor of Palazzo Zorzi.  The meeting will follow the journal club format and will address a new systematic review by Lisi and collaborators investigating the influence of…

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…

NPSY.Lab-VR Meeting – March 15th 2021

Dear all, you are invited to the next NPSY-Lab-VR meeting that will take place on Monday March 15th at 5 P.M. The meeting will follow the Journal Club format and the topic will be: Virtual body ownership and its consequences…

NPSY.Lab-VR Meeting – March 1st 2021

Dear all, you are invited to the next NPSY.Lab-VR Meeting that will take place next Monday, March 1st, at 4:30 PM. It will be a seminar held by Gerardo Salvato and entitled “Hot and cold: the relationship between body temperature and body ownership”. Everyone is welcome! We kindly ask…

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…

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…

MeeTo 2018

At the MeeTo conference, held in Turin, Italy, from the 25th to the 27th May, 2018, Valentina Pacella presented “The role of white matter disconnections in anosognosia for hemiplegia”, while Michele Scandola presented “Moving in space in a wheelchair the…

Next Seminar: “Moving in space in a wheelchair: the embodiment of one’s own wheelchair and its effects on navigational space representation in people with spinal cord injury”

The seminar will be held in May, the 15th, at the 9:00, at the T02 Laboratory of psychology for adult age, at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Verona. The speaker will be Michele Scandola, Ph.D. Anyone and everyone are welcome to…

“Our” recently graduated physiotherapists

Our students successfully defended their theses: all of them graduated with honors! Congratulations to (in alphabetical order): Edoardo Bongiovanni Giulia Caffini Gianluca Dalla Chiusa Ilaria Dus Annica Stanzial Good luck for the future!

Conferenza Internazionale sulle lesioni midollari

Il 29 Novembre, ala Fondazione “Santa Lucia” a Roma, si terrà la conferenza dal titolo “Rappresentazione cerebrale di Corpo, Movimento e Spazio dopo lesioni del midollo spinale. Implicazioni cliniche e riabilitative”, che rappresenterà la seconda conferenza che illustrerà lo stato…