Research Topics

Santa Lucia - Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Sapienza University of Rome

Neural Basis of the Empathic Processes of Other's Pain

Neural Basis of the Empathic Processes of Other's Pain
This line of research aims to assess the hypothesis that there might exist a specific processing…

Behavioral and Lesion Studies of Corporeal Awareness

Behavioral and Lesion Studies of Corporeal Awareness
This line of research explores the neural underpinnings of body perception and corporeal awareness in healthy…

It takes two to Tango: kinematics, autonomic and neural bases of social interactions

It takes two to Tango: kinematics, autonomic and neural bases of social interactions
How do we coordinate with others in space and time to achieve a goal that we…

Shared Attention and Social Communication

Shared Attention and Social Communication
This line of research investigates, at the behavioral and neural level, how visuo-spatial attention is influenced…

Virtual Reality and Brain Control of Artificial Agents

Virtual Reality and Brain Control of Artificial Agents
This research line aims to understand the behavioral and brain reactions of people immersed in virtual…

Neural Underpinnings of Expertise

Neural Underpinnings of Expertise
Mechanisms and neural underppinings of motor cognition in expert brains. This line of Research assesses the…

Existential Neuroscience

Existential Neuroscience
This research line investigates the: cognitive and emotional processes underlying awareness of one's own or other's…

Interoception and brain-body interactions

Interoception and brain-body interactions
This line of research aims at investigating how interoceptive signals (e.g., cardiac, respiratory and gastric signals)…

Social and Intimate Virtual Touch

Social and Intimate Virtual Touch
Studies indicate that seeing other people being touched or painfully stimulated activates similar brain areas as…

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