Francesca Garbarini’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’s research studies are aimed at investigating the correlates of body representation both employing experimental manipulations in healthy subjects and measuring paradoxical behaviors of brain-damaged patients, at the behavioral and neurophysiological level.

Valentina Bruno’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’s PhD project is aimed to investigate how the healthy and pathological brain weights sensory information to compute a coherent body representation, both at the behavioral and neurophysiological level.

Mattia Galigani’s PhD project addresses the neurofunctional mechanisms underpinning self/other discrimination, identifying behavioral and neurophysiological signatures of self-body recognition.

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

Nicoletta Scanferlato’s PhD project is founded by Luigi Lavazza Spa and addresses the psychophysiological correlates of coffee consumption.

Nicolò Castellani'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'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.

Tommaso Berbenni's PhD project is jointly supervised by MANIBUSLab and NMF research group. His project aims to contribute to the study of the psychophysical conditions of the astronaut and pilot through the development of a system for mapping and monitoring biological and neuromuscular signals during training and real-time operations. 

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

Patrizia Gindri is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist. Her clinical activity ranges from the assessment and rehabilitation of brain damaged patients with cognitive deficits and with neurodegenerative diseases, to the clinical intervention in autism spectrum disorders.

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

Stefano's project aims to study the effect of practising sports in a naturalistic environment on the cognitive workload during stressful tasks.

Carmen's project aims to study human behavior in high-complexity contexts through the use of electroencephalography.