FRANCESCA GARBARINI
Associate Professor
& Research Group Coordinator
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Francesca Garbarini’s research work is characterized by the adoption of a neuropsychological approach to investigate the underpinnings of body representation and motor awareness both in brain-damaged and healthy subjects, exploiting behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. Moreover, she was recently awarded an ERC grant to study bodily self-awareness in fetuses, newborns, and infants, with the aim of describing the development of body representations across the life span, employing both behavioral and neurophysiological measures.
Contact: francesca.garbarini@unito.it
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CARLOTTA FOSSATARO
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
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Carlotta Fossataro’s research studies are aimed at investigating the correlates of body representation both employing experimental manipulations in healthy subjects and measuring paradoxical behaviors of brain-damaged patients, at the behavioral and neurophysiological level.
Contact: carlotta.fossataro@unito.it
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VALENTINA BRUNO
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
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Valentina Bruno’s PhD project focuses on describing the behavioral and neurophysiological counterparts of motor awareness, employing experimental paradigms and neuroimaging techniques in healthy subjects and brain-damaged patients.
Contact: valentina.bruno@unito.it
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ALICE ROSSI SEBASTIANO
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
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Alice Rossi Sebastiano’s PhD project is aimed to investigate how the healthy and pathological brain weights sensory information to compute a coherent body representation, both at the behavioral and neurophysiological level.
Contact: alice.rossisebastian@unito.it
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MATTIA GALIGANI
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
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Mattia Galigani’s PhD project addresses the neurofunctional mechanisms underpinning self/other discrimination, identifying behavioral and neurophysiological signatures of self-body recognition.
Contact: mattia.galigani@unito.it
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KAROL POLES
PhD Student
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Karol Poles’s PhD project addresses the development of the bodily self representation in foetuses and newborns.
Contact: karol.poles@unito.it
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NICOLETTA SCANFERLATO
PhD Student
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Nicoletta Scanferlato’s PhD project is founded by Luigi Lavazza Spa and addresses the psychophysiological correlates of coffee consumption.
Contact: nicoletta.scanferlato@unito.it
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NICOLO' CASTELLANI
PhD Student at IMT Lucca
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Nicolò Castellani's PhD project is jointly supervised by MANIBUSLab and MOMILab. His project aims to investigate the neurofunctional mechanism subserving the perception of naturalistic somatosensory stimulation and the interaction between the somatosensory and other sensory systems (i.e. visual and auditory ones), exploiting different experimental techniques such as fMRI and EEG.
Contact: nicolo.castellani@imtlucca.it
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MARCELLA ROMEO
PhD Student at IMT Lucca
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Marcella Romeo's PhD project is jointly supervised by MANIBUSLab and MOMILab. Her project aims to study the interplay between bodily and motor representation in action perception and recognition in normal, pathological and developmental populations.
Contact: marcella.romeo@imtlucca.it
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FRANCESCA GENOVESE

Research Assistant
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Francesca's project aims to study the neurophysiological correlates of bodily self-representation in neurological and psychiatric populations.
Contact: f.genovese@unito.it


STEFANO GUALTIERO

Research Assistant
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Stefano's project aims to study the effect of practising sports in a naturalistic environment on the cognitive workload during stressful tasks.
Contact: stefano.gualtiero@unito.it


GIORGIO CHIESA

Research Assistant
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The main objective of Giorgio's project is to create tools that facilitate the investigation and study of self-representation of the body in newborns and foetuses.
Contact: giorgio.chiesa@unito.it


Students
Barbara Italia
Tommaso Berbenni
Samantha Ferrari
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Previous members
Antonino Errante Post Doctoral Fellow
Irene Ronga Post Doctoral Fellow
Prof. Marco Neppi-Modona Associate Professor