Supervisor
Luca Casartelli, PhDGroup Leader: IRCCS Medea - “Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience” Unit
Joint Researcher: Politecnico di Milano - "Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Engineering and Health Design" Research Unit (“Accordo di Piattaformazione”)
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Team
Andrea Crispino
Bioengineer
Giacomo Guzzardi
Bioengineer
Beatrice Masa
Psychologist
Students
- Camilla Maronati, PhD Student in Neuroscience (Università degli Studi di Torino)
- Alessandro Arnaudo, PhD Student in Neuroscience (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Contacts
+39 031 877989
Description
Action and interactions in the world strictly depend on our ability to sample (multi)sensory information and map (motorically) the space of action. Research in our group aims to characterize these specific computations from a theoretical and epistemological perspective. We aim to describe neural correlates (in particular, oscillatory correlates) of sensory and (high-level) motor computations and - at the same time - to investigate how basic anomalies in these components can lead to cascade effects on the development of more complex functions. To do it, we try to go beyond classical average-based approaches focusing on variability. Accordingly, variability is not simply noise. In contrast, variability has specific (and largely underestimated) functional meanings. We benefit from both clinical and nonclinical models, using convergent lines of evidence to test our hypotheses.
Experimental techniques: computational models, psychophysics, motion capture, EEG, (f)MRI
Selected publications
- Manuello J, Ciceri T, Longatelli V, Maronati C, Biffi E, Cavallo A, Casartelli L. (2025). Mapping the complexity of motor variability: From individual space of variability to motor fingerprints. Behav Res Methods.
- Villa L and Casartelli L. (2024). Understanding autism and the autistic functioning. Routledge
- Casartelli L, Maronati C, Cavallo A. (2023). From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability. Phys Life Rev.
- Ciceri T, Malerba G, Gatti A, Diella E, Peruzzo D, Biffi E, Casartelli L. (2023) Context expectation influences the gait pattern biomechanics. Sci Rep.
- Ronconi L, Vitale A, Federici A, Mazzoni N, Battaglini L, Molteni M, Casartelli L. (2023) Neural dynamics driving audio-visual integration in autism. Cereb Cortex.
- Casartelli L, Federici A, Fumagalli L, Cesareo A, Nicoli M, Ronconi L, Vitale A, Molteni M, Rizzolatti G, Sinigaglia C. (2020). Neurotypical individuals fail to understand action vitality form in children with autism spectrum disorder. PNAS
Partnerships
- Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan)
- Andrea Cavallo (Università degli Studi di Torino e IIT-Genova)
- Erika Molteni (UCL London)
