EWCN Prize
Winners for 2022
Michella Barddakan
“Neuropsychological evidence for the presence of a motor working memory subsystem related to apraxia."
Michella Bardakan is a PhD student at the department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3) of the Research Centre Juelich. She holds a Master's in Cognitive Psychology from Humboldt University of Berlin. Her main research interests involve the study of the neural correlates of motor cognition by using behavioural and lesion analysis techniques. More recently she is focusing her research on the investigation of a motor working memory subsystem by studying patients with higher-level deficits in motor cognition (i.e., apraxia).
Bardakan-Candidate-New-EWCN-Prize.pdf
Ivan Patané
“Two is better than one: superadditive responses in premotor-parietal areas of the peripersonal space network signal the presence of another person's hand after dyadic interactions”
Ivan Patané, post doc at the Impact Team of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center obtained his joint PhD in Psychology at the University of Bologna and in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University Lyon 1 with a thesis about the action- and social-related modulations of the peripersonal space. His main research interests are the study of the relationships between body-related spatial representations and how these are affected by social manipulations. He is now focusing on the effects of emotions on social distancing in virtual reality settings, and on the neural correlates of these spatial representations with fMRI techniques.. External Link
Attention & Space-Patane'-Ivan.pdf