Research Areas

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Neurophysiology

The main focus of our research concerns the motor system and its role in cognitive functions.

A specific theme is how individuals recognize actions made by other individuals.

The experimental approach consists of single and multiple neuron recording.

-::- Leonardo Fogassi

-::- Vittorio Gallese

-::- Giacomo Rizzolatti

-::- Pierfrancesco Ferrari

-::- Maria Alessandra Umiltà

• Ingestive actions and communicative gestures in pre-motor cortex (Area 5);

• Coding of action goals and means in pre-motor cortex;

• Somatotopic and functional organization of posterial parietal cortex;

• Mirror properties of posterial parietal cortex;

• Somatotopic and functional organization of STS region;

• Mirror and motor properties of STS region;

• Auditory properties of pre-motor and posterial parietal neurons.