Tag: SCI-Research Group

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…

Anticipation of wheelchair and rollerblade actions in spinal cord injured people, rollerbladers, and physiotherapists.

Authors: Scandola M, Aglioti SM, Avesani R, Bertagnoni G, Marangoni A, Moro V. Abstract Embodied Cognition Theories (ECT) postulate that higher-order cognition is heavily influenced by sensorimotor signals. We explored the active role of somatosensory afferents and motor efferents in modulating the perception of actions…

Fourth annual meeting of the International Group for Research into Spinal Cord Injury (SCI-Research Group)

Il quarto incontro annuale del Gruppo Internazionale per la Ricerca sulle Lesioni al Midollo Spinale (SCI-Research group – https://sites.hss.univr.it/npsy-labvr/spinal-cord-injury-research-center/) si terrà il 12 novembre, alle 15:00 nell’Aula Laboratorio di Scienze Umane, Palazzo Zorzi Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 17, at the University…

Third annual meeting of the SCI-Research Group

This year the meeting has been hold in Verona, at the Human Sciences Department of the University of Verona. The meeting started with an introduction by Valentina Moro, concerning the concluded and starting projects of the platform. Later Michele Scandola…

The SCI-Research Group in the “L’informatore”

In the “L’Informatore”, the ufficial magazine of G.A.L.M., the Group of Animation for patients with Spinal Cord Injury of Verona, reported in an article the first meeting of the SCI-Research Group members.