Neuropsicologia e Neuromodulazione delle Funzioni Cognitive, Affettive e Sociali nei Disturbi del Neurosviluppo

Descrizione

La finalità del gruppo di ricerca in Neuropsicologia e Neuromodulazione delle Funzioni Cognitive, Affettive e Sociali nei Disturbi del Neurosviluppo è di i) studiare con metodiche neurofisiologiche e psicofisiche i meccanismi alla base delle funzioni Cognitive, Affettive e Sociali in condizioni di sviluppo tipico; ii) individuare le loro alterazioni nei disturbi del neurosviluppo ed in altri disturbi neurologici congeniti o acquisiti con particolare attenzione all’età pediatrica; iii) utilizzare le tecniche di neuromodulazione non invasiva per la riabilitazione di questi disturbi. Il gruppo è attivo nelle sedi IRCCS di Pasian di Prato (UD), San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) e Bosisio Parini (LC). Attraverso la costituzione di un Laboratorio di Stimolazione Magnetica Transcranica in collaborazione con l’Università di Udine e con l’IMFR Gervasutta, il gruppo è inoltre impegnato nello studio dei meccanismi di plasticità per il recupero delle funzioni compromesse in seguito a danno neurologico.

Pubblicazioni principali

• Bianco, V., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2022). Updating implicit contextual priors with explicit learning for the prediction of social and physical events. Brain and Cognition, 160, 105876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2022.105876
• Butti, N., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2022). Holistic processing of body stimuli: Evidence of body composite illusion in adults and children. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001353
• Betti, S., Finisguerra, A., Amoruso, L., & Urgesi, C. (2021). Contextual Priors Guide Perception and Motor Responses to Observed Actions. Cerebral Cortex, bhab241. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab241
• D’Argenio, G., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2021). Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01569-4
• Finisguerra, A., Ticini, L. F., Kirsch, L. P., Cross, E. S., Kotz, S. A., & Urgesi, C. (2021). Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks. Cognition, 212, 104663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104663
• Oldrati, V., Finisguerra, A., Avenanti, A., Aglioti, S. M., & Urgesi, C. (2021). Differential Influence of the Dorsal Premotor and Primary Somatosensory Cortex on Corticospinal Excitability during Kinesthetic and Visual Motor Imagery: A Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. Brain Sciences, 11(9), 1196. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091196
• Urgesi, C., Butti, N., Finisguerra, A., Biffi, E., Valente, E. M., Romaniello, R., & Borgatti, R. (2021). Social prediction in pediatric patients with congenital, non-progressive malformations of the cerebellum: From deficits in predicting movements to rehabilitation in virtual reality. Cortex, 144, 82–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.08.008
• Oldrati, V., Ferrari, E., Butti, N., Cattaneo, Z., Borgatti, R., Urgesi, C., & Finisguerra, A. (2021). How social is the cerebellum? Exploring the effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on the prediction of social and physical events. Brain Structure and Function. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-020-02198-0
• Urgesi, C., Butti, N., Finisguerra, A., Biffi, E., Valente, E. M., Romaniello, R., & Borgatti, R. (2021). Neuropsychological assessment and virtual reality training of social prediction in patients with cerebellar malformation [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.19.427247
• Farmer, A. D., Strzelczyk, A., Finisguerra, A., Gourine, A. V., Gharabaghi, A., Hasan, A., et al.. International consensus based review and recommendations for minimum reporting standards in research on transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (version 2020). Accepted in Front. Hum. Neurosci. 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.568051
• Butti, N., Biffi, E., Genova, C., Romaniello, R., Redaelli, D. F., Reni, G., Borgatti, R., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Virtual Reality Social Prediction Improvement and Rehabilitation Intensive Training (VR-SPIRIT) for paediatric patients with congenital cerebellar diseases: Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 21(1), 82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-4001-4
• Amoruso, L., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Spatial frequency tuning of motor responses reveals differential contribution of dorsal and ventral systems to action comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201921512. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921512117
• Butti, N., Montirosso, R., Giusti, L., Borgatti, R., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Premature birth affects visual body representation and body schema in preterm children. Brain and Cognition, 145, 105612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105612
• Bianco, V.*, Finisguerra, A.*, Betti, S., D’Argenio, G., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Autistic Traits Differently Account for Context-Based Predictions of Physical and Social Events. Brain Sciences, 10(7), 418. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10070418 (* equal contribution)
• Butti, N., Corti, C., Finisguerra, A., Bardoni, A., Borgatti, R., Poggi, G., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Cerebellar Damage Affects Contextual Priors for Action Prediction in Patients with Childhood Brain Tumor. The Cerebellum. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-020-01168-w
• Finisguerra, A., Amoruso, L., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Beyond Automatic Motor Mapping: New Insights into Top-Down Modulations on Action Perception. In N. Noceti, A. Sciutti, & F. Rea (A c. Di), Modelling Human Motion (pagg. 33–51). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46732-6_3
• Corti, C., Urgesi, C., Massimino, M., Gandola, L., Bardoni, A., & Poggi, G. (2020). Effects of supratentorial and infratentorial tumor location on cognitive functioning of children with brain tumor. Child’s Nervous System, 36(3), 513–524. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-019-04434-3
• Corti, C., Urgesi, C., Poggi, G., Strazzer, S., Borgatti, R., & Bardoni, A. (2020). Home-based cognitive training in pediatric patients with acquired brain injury: Preliminary results on efficacy of a randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57952-5
• Oldrati, V., Bardoni, A., Poggi, G., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Influence of Attention Control on Implicit and Explicit Emotion Processing of Face and Body: Evidence From Flanker and Same-or-Different Paradigms. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2971. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02971
• Oldrati, V., Corti, C., Poggi, G., Borgatti, R., Urgesi, C., & Bardoni, A. (2020). Effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Training Programs (CCTP) with Game-like Features in Children with or without Neuropsychological Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Investigation. Neuropsychology Review, 30(1), 126–141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-020-09429-5
• D’Argenio, G., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2020). Motion and Gender-Typing Features Interact in the Perception of Human Bodies. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 277. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00277
• Amoruso, L., & Finisguerra, A. (2019). Low or High-Level Motor Coding? The Role of Stimulus Complexity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 332. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00332
• Amoruso, L., Narzisi, A., Pinzino, M., Finisguerra, A., Billeci, L., Calderoni, S., Fabbro, F., Muratori, F., Volzone, A., & Urgesi, C. (2019). Contextual priors do not modulate action prediction in children with autism. Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 286(1908), 20191319. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1319
• Finisguerra, A., Crescentini, C., & Urgesi, C. (2019). Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Affects Implicit Spiritual Self-Representations. Neuroscience, 412, 144–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.05.059
• Finisguerra, A., Borgatti, R., & Urgesi, C. (2019). Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for the Rehabilitation of Children and Adolescents With Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00135
• Butti, N., Montirosso, R., Giusti, L., Piccinini, L., Borgatti, R., & Urgesi, C. (2019). Early Brain Damage Affects Body Schema and Person Perception Abilities in Children and Adolescents with Spastic Diplegia. Neural Plasticity, 2019, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1678984
• Corti, C., Oldrati, V., Oprandi, M. C., Ferrari, E., Poggi, G., Borgatti, R., Urgesi, C., & Bardoni, A. (2019). Remote Technology-Based Training Programs for Children with Acquired Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analytic Exploration. Behavioural Neurology, 2019, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1346987
• Venchiarutti, M., Vergine, M., Zilli, T., Sommariva, G., Gortan, A. J., Crescentini, C., Urgesi, C., Fabbro, F., & Cogo, P. (2019). Neuropsychological Impairment in Children With Class 1 Congenital Heart Disease. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 126(5), 797–814. https://doi.org/10.1177/0031512519856766
• Butti, N., Montirosso, R., Borgatti, R., & Urgesi, C. (2018). Maternal sensitivity is associated with configural processing of infant’s cues in preterm and full-term mothers. Early Human Development, 125, 35–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.08.018
• Corti, C., Poggi, G., Massimino, M., Bardoni, A., Borgatti, R., & Urgesi, C. (2018). Visual perception and spatial transformation of the body in children and adolescents with brain tumor. Neuropsychologia, 120, 124–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.10.012
• Amoruso, L., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2018). Autistic traits predict poor integration between top-down contextual expectations and movement kinematics during action observation. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 16208. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33827-8
• Amoruso, L., Finisguerra, A., & Urgesi, C. (2018). Contextualizing action observation in the predictive brain: Causal contributions of prefrontal and middle temporal areas. NeuroImage, 177, 68–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.020
• Corti, C., Poggi, G., Romaniello, R., Strazzer, S., Urgesi, C., Borgatti, R., & Bardoni, A. (2018). Feasibility of a home-based computerized cognitive training for pediatric patients with congenital or acquired brain damage: An explorative study. PLOS ONE, 13(6), e0199001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199001
• Finisguerra A., Amoruso L., Makris S., & Urgesi C. (2018). Dissociated Representations of Deceptive Intentions and Kinematic Adaptations in the Observer’s Motor System. Cerebral Cortex, 28(1), 33–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw346

Collaborazioni

• BodyLabUdinE (BLUE), Laboratorio di Neuroscienze Cognitive, Dipartimento d Lingue e Letterature, Comunicazione, Formazione e Società, Università di Udine (bodylabudine.uniud.it)
• Dottorato di Ricerca in Neuroscienze e Scienze Cognitive, Università di Trieste
• Fondazione IRCCS Stella Maris (Prof. Antonio Narzisi)
• NOI - Neuropsychology of Interactions network http://www.neuropsychologyofinteractions.org/noi.php
• SCALab, Sciences Cognitives & Sciences Affectives, Université de Lille, Francia
• School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
• Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spagna