The ultimate goals of my research activity are

THEORETICAL GOAL: understanding and describing bodily self-awareness to integrate theoretical models of motor control;

CLINICAL GOAL: providing insight for motor and cognitive rehabilitation strategies; 

TECHNICAL GOAL: expand the use of game-based technology for neuroscientific purposes.

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I employ different techniques, but the most compelling and fruitful is Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR), which induces the illusory sense of body ownership over a virtual body and its movements, and, in turn, it causes other beneficial effects on different functional levels.

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In addition, I exploit other brain imaging/stimulation techniques (e.g., fNIRS, TMS, EEG) physiological (e.g., skin conductance, EMG, heart rate, neuroendocrine measurements), behavioral (e.g., the rubber hand illusion) and subjective methods (e.g., cognitive/neuropsychological test and questionnaires).

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