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Main research lines and projects

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Manipulation of the bodily self in immersive virtual reality (IVR) and related benefits

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Studies about the motor intention

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The relationship between sense of body ownership and agency

Research

In this recent research line, the key method is immersive virtual reality (IVR): it allows to display a realistic virtual body (called avatar) from the first person perspective, giving the impression of owning it and its movements by simply looking at it...

The aim of this research line is to understand the contribution of the sense of body ownership to human conscious experience of voluntary action...

The main goal here was to understand the link between the two crucial components of the bodily self, sense of body ownership and sense of agency, starting from a neuropsychological approach...

Projects

National and international collaborative projects

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From virtual to reality!
Cortical and physiological activations during virtual training.

VRNeuroConnect. Unleashing the Potential of Uniting Virtual Reality, fNIRS, and Physiology

“BStrongBSmart” Morphological manipulations of the virtual body and physio-cognitive effects.

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Virtual physical training leads to acute cognitive and neural benefits on young and older adults.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship (cofinanced by Human+ Fellowship Programme)

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

KAKENHI for early-career scientists. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. PI: Burin Dalila. 19K20639. Tohoku University (Japan)...

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my-AHA

My Active and Healthy Ageing

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PADERO

Participatory Design in Robotics for Elderly Care in Germany & Japan

My Active and Healthy Ageing is a 4-year Horizon 2020 - European Union funded Project wich has been awarded a total budget of 4 million euro and started on January 2016....

The PADERO (Participatory Design in Robotics for Elderly Care in Germany & Japan) project aims to use participatory methods to communicate new approaches in nursing robotics in order to establish and generate innovative solution models for the challenges of demographic change in the field of nursing robotics among the general public...

Academic Activities

Guest Associate Editor for Special issue "Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology" Volume I and II
Supervision (editorial), Review, evaluation
Frontiers in Psychology; Frontiers in Neuroscience

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/56780/virtual-mixed-and-augmented-reality-in-cognitive-neuroscience-and-neuropsychology---volume-ii

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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience- Health 
Frontiers in Psychology- Neuropsychology 

Brain Sciences

Neuroimage

Scientific Report

Journal of Experimental Psychology

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Consciousness and Cognition

Psychological Research

General Physiology and Biophysics

European Journal of Neuroscience

Physiology & Behavior

iScience

Review, evaluation, Peer review

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Member of Association of Italian Researchers in Japan (AIRJ) https://www.airj.info/ 

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