Sensorimotor Experiences and Mental Representations
What We Do
Perception and representation: how we see and interpret, how do we make sense and represent the external world.
Research activities within this topic exploit advanced tools in cognitive neuroscience to characterize the neural correlates of perception and content-specific mental representations, semantic processing and knowledge organization, action representation
ONGOING PROJECTS
Abstract concept representation
Action representation and motor control
The representation of static naturalistic stimuli at resting
Neuroscience and Art
High-res imaging of brain activity (during perceptual stimulation)
Who We Are
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What We Publish
Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate- based meta-analytic study
Arioli M, Cattaneo Z, Ricciardi E, Canessa N. Hum Brain Mapp. 2021 doi: 10.1002/hbm.25570U-Limb: A multi-modal, multi-center database on arm motion control in healthy and post-stroke conditions
Averta G, Barontini F, Catrambone V, Haddadin S, Handjaras G, Held JPO, Hu T, Jakubowitz E, Kanzler CM, Kühn J, Lambercy O, Leo A, Obermeier A, Ricciardi E, Schwarz A, Valenza G, Bicchi A, Bianchi M. Gigascience. 2021 Jun 18;10(6):giab043. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab043.Shape coding in occipito-temporal cortex relies on object silhouette, curvature, and medial axis
Papale P, Leo A, Handjaras G, Cecchetti L, Pietrini P, Ricciardi E. J Neurophysiol. 2020 Dec 1;124(6):1560-1570. doi: 10.1152/jn.00212.2020. Epub 2020 Oct 14.The sensory-deprived brain as a unique tool to understand brain development and function
Ricciardi E, Bottari D, Ptito M, Roeder B, Pietrini P. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108:78-82. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.10.017. Epub 2019 Oct 28, Jan 2020.See the whole Special Issue 'Rethinking the sensory-deprived brain: hints from the Blind Brain Workshop 2018' on Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Common spatiotemporal processing of visual features shapes object representation.
Papale P, Betta M, Handjaras G, Malfatti G, Rampinini AC, Cecchetti L, Pietrini P, Ricciardi E, Turella L, Leo A. Scientific Reports, 9(1),7601, 2019.How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge
Handjaras G, Ricciardi E (co-first author), Leo A, Lenci A, Cecchetti L, Cosottini M, Marotta G, Pietrini P. Neuroimage, 135:232-242, 2016See also Handjaras G, Leo A, Cecchetti L, Papale P, Lenci A, Marotta G, Pietrini P, Ricciardi E. Modality-independent encoding of individual concepts in the left parietal cortex. Neuropsychologia. 105:39-49, 2017 - doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.05.001
A synergy-based hand control is encoded in human motor cortical areas
Leo A, Handjaras G, Bianchi M, Marino H, Gabiccini M, Guidi A, Scilingo EP, Pietrini P, Bicchi A, Santello M, Ricciardi E. Elife, 2016 Feb 16;5 pii: e13420. doi: 10.7554/eLife.13420Our collaborations
Corrado Sinigaglia - University of Milan, Italy
Tomaso Vecchi - University of Pavia, Italy
Zaira Cattaneo - University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Olivier Collignon - Institute of Psychology, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Marco Santello - Arizona State University, AZ-USA
Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa, Italy
Maurice Ptito, Université de Montrèal, Canada
Francesca Garbarini - University of Turin, Italy
Simone Rossi and Domenico Prattichizzo - University of Siena, Italy
Viviana Betti - University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy
Luca Turella - University of Trento, Italy
Silvestro Micera and Alberto Mazzoni - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Michele Emdin - Fondazione Toscana 'G. Monasterio'/SSSA-Pisa, Italy
Giovanna Marotta and Alessandro Lenci - University of Pisa, Italy
What We Develop
fMRI encoding/decoding algorithms
Modelling approaches
Our Recent Talks and Presentations
Emiliano Ricciardi - Invited Lecture: “Una visione neuroscientifica della Disprassia: ipotesi e interpretazioni da studi di neuroscienze” – Convegno Nazionale Scientifico Associazione Italiana Disprassie dell’Età Evolutiva, Rome (Italy), October 11, 2021
Emiliano Ricciardi - Invited Lecture entitled “Multivariate approaches in neuroimaging: from supramodal to cognitive and motor representations” - Symposium on “New technologies for rehabilitatition” organized by ETH Zurich, Volterra (Italy), September 9, 2021
Emiliano Ricciardi - Invited Lecture entitled ''One, No One and One Hundred Thousand: from brain activation to information content' at the 'Symposium by the International Organization of Pyschophysiology, 2020' - International Society of Neuroregulation and Research 28th Annual Conference, July 31, 2020
Francesca Setti, Adrian Onicas and Francesca Simonelli - Poster presentation at Virtual Annual Meeting of the Human Brain Mapping Organization 2020 - June 2020
Emiliano Ricciardi - Invited Seminar: “Rethinking the sensory deprived brain”, University of Bologna, Cesena, April 7, 2020
Emiliano Ricciardi - Oral presentation: “Dalla deprivazione sensoriale alla riabilitazione: cosa abbiamo imparato dal cervello dei ciechi congeniti? in “Simposio S16: Il mondo della disabilità visiva: stato dell’arte e nuove frontiere di ricerca”, XXV Congresso AIP Sezione Sperimentale Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano 18-20 Settembre 2019
Emiliano Ricciardi - Keynote Lecture: ‘Uno, nessuno e centomila’ voxels: from brain activation to information content. XXVI Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Turin Italy, November 16th, 2018
Emiliano Ricciardi - Invited Lecture – Blind Brain Workshop: ‘on the Sensory Deprived Brain’ – Lucca, Italy, October 11-13, 2018