FRANCESCA
GARBARINI

Full Professor &
Research Group Coordinator

Francesca’s research work is characterized by the adoption of a neuropsychological approach to investigate the underpinnings of body representation and motor awareness both in brain-damaged and healthy subjects, exploiting behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. Moreover, she was recently awarded an ERC grant to study bodily self-awareness in fetuses, newborns, and infants, with the aim of describing the development of body representations across the life span, employing both behavioral and neurophysiological measures.

CARLOTTA
FOSSATARO

Assistant Professor (RTDb)

Carlotta’s research investigates the behavioral and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying body representation in healthy individuals, patients with brain injuries, and psychiatric populations. Her work also uses neurophysiological methods to study human behavior and experience in real-world settings, including cultural, musical, social, and sporting contexts.

VALENTINA
BRUNO

Assistant Professor (RTDa)

Valentina’s PhD project focuses on describing the behavioral and neurophysiological counterparts of motor awareness, employing experimental paradigms and neuroimaging techniques in healthy subjects and brain-damaged patients.

ALICE
ROSSI SEBASTIANO

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Alice's a research investigates the neural bases of body representation and multisensory integration, with a focus on how these processes emerge across ontogenetic development.

ALESSANDRA
PIATTI

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Alessandra's project focuses on multisensory integration in healthy individuals and patients with severe acquired brain injury (sABI). This involves an intervention study on the effect of therapy in a multisensory room on post-injury recovery. 

CHIARA
TERZO

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Chiara’s work investigates bodily self-representation and multisensory integration using eye tracking, studying typical adults, infants, and neurological patients.

NICOLÒ
CASTELLANI

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Nicolò's PhD project is jointly supervised by MANIBUSLab and MOMILab. His project aims to investigate the neurofunctional mechanism subserving the perception of naturalistic somatosensory stimulation and the interaction between the somatosensory and other sensory systems (i.e. visual and auditory ones), exploiting different experimental techniques such as fMRI and EEG. 

MARCELLA
ROMEO

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Marcella's PhD project is jointly supervised by MANIBUSLab and MOMILab. Her project aims to study the interplay between bodily and motor representation in action perception and recognition in normal, pathological and developmental populations.

KAROL
POLES

PhD Candidate

Karol’s PhD project addresses the development of the bodily self representation in foetuses and newborns.

BARBARA
ITALIA

PhD Student

Barbara's PhD project addresses the development of the bodily self-representation in newborns and infants. 

FRANCESCA
GENOVESE

PhD Student

Francesca's project aims to study the neurophysiological correlates of bodily self-representation in neurological and psychiatric populations.

CAMILLA
VENTURINI

PhD Student

Camilla's project focuses on investigating multisensory integration and the determination of individual Temporal Binding Window (TBW) in adults and newborns within the audiotactile modalities. Using EEG, the project aims to identify the neural correlates and underlying mechanisms of multisensory integration at both behavioral and neurophysiological levels.

CARLOTTA
ZAMPESE

PhD Student at Embodied Minds Lab

Carlotta's PhD project is jointly supervised by MANIBUSLab and Embodied Minds Lab. Her project aims to investigate bodily self-representation in healthy populations and psychiatric patients. She also investigates the emergence of  interpersonal neural synchrony during mindfulness practices.

GIULIA ANILIA
GAMBARETTI

PhD Student

Giulia’s project aims to investigate bodily self representation by integrating behavioral and psychophysiological measurements.

LUCIA
CAGLIERO

PhD Student

Lucia’s project aims to exploring the behavioural and neural underpinnings of body representations in the developmental period. She’s also interested in the field of psychobiology and aims at delving into epigenetic modifications occurring during pregnancy. 

DEBORAH
TEGGI

PhD Student

Deborah’s project aims to contribute to the study of the computational mechanisms shaping bodily self-representation and multisensory integration across development.

EKATERINA
IVANOVA

PhD Student

SILVIO
ZARA

Research Assistant