Ricerc@Sapienza

Topics: i) voluntary action and bodily sensations in healthy humans and brain damaged  and spinal cord injured patients ii) normal and abnormal functioning of social interactions, empathy and personality; ii) neural basis of corporeal awareness in healthy and brain damaged patients; iv) lie and deception in social contexts; v) sensorimotor processing in expert brains including elite athletes and musicians; vi) art and the brain.

Techniques: transcranial magnetic stimulation, somatosensory evoked potentials, laser evoked potentials, eye tracking recording, thermography and autonomic recording responses, immersive virtual reality; fMRI.