Mattia Galigani

NEUROSCIENZE
Phd: 34th cycle
Matriculation number: 824122

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mattia.galigani@unito.it
Via Verdi 10, Torino
https://www.neurosciences.unito.it/do/studenti.pl/Show?824122
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Research activities

Neural correlates of bodily awareness and self-recognition: behavioural and physiological evidence.

The main aim of my PhD project is to investigate how the body is represented in the brain and to identify neurophysiological signatures of self-body parts recognition.

Within an integrated perspective, I will exploit behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques, such as electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging in both intact and damaged brain.

These techniques will be employed in order to shed light on the neurofunctional mechanisms underpinning self-other body parts discrimination and the processing of bodily stimuli.

Galigani, M., Fossataro, C., Gindri, P., Conson, M., & Garbarini, F. (2021). Monochannel Preference in Autism Spectrum Conditions Revealed by a Non-Visual Variant of Rubber Hand Illusion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-9.

Ronga, I., Galigani, M., Bruno, V., Castellani, N., Sebastiano, A. R., Valentini, E., ... & Garbarini, F. (2021). Seeming confines: electrophysiological evidence of peripersonal space remapping following tool-use in humans. Cortex.

Ronga, I., Galigani, M., Bruno, V., Gazzin A., Perathoner C., Noel, J.P., Serino, A., Garbarini F. (2021). Spatial tuning of electrophysiological responses to multisensory stimuli reveals a primitive coding of the body boundaries in newborns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Galigani, M., Ronga, I., Fossataro, C., Bruno, V., Castellani, N., Sebastiano, A. R., ... & Garbarini, F. (2020). Like the back of my hand: Visual ERPs reveal a specific change detection mechanism for the bodily self. Cortex, 134, 239-252.

Galigani, M., Ronga, I., Bruno, V., Castellani, N., Rossi Sebastiano, A., Fossataro, C., & Garbarini, F. (2020). FaceÔÇÉlike configurations modulate electrophysiological mismatch responses. European Journal of Neuroscience.

Galigani, M., Castellani, N., Donno, B., Franza, M., Zuber, C., Allet, L., ... & Bassolino, M. (2020). Effect of tool-use observation on metric body representation and peripersonal space. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107622.

Fossataro, C., Sebastiano, A. R., Tieri, G., Poles, K., Galigani, M., Pyasik, M., ... & Garbarini, F. (2020). Immersive virtual reality reveals that visuo-proprioceptive discrepancy enlarges the hand-centred peripersonal space. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107540.

Fossataro, C., Burin, D., Ronga, I., Galigani, M., Sebastiano, A. R., Pia, L., & Garbarini, F. (2020). Agent-dependent modulation of corticospinal excitability during painful transcutaneous electrical stimulation. Neuroimage, 217, 116897.

Bruno, V., Ronga, I., Fossataro, C., Galigani, M., Sacco, K., & Garbarini, F. (2020). Long-term limb immobilization modulates inhibition-related electrophysiological brain activity. NeuroImage, 218, 116911.

Galigani M., Romeo M., Genovese F., Forster B., Garbarini F. (2021). The tactile knowledge of visual body self. XXIX Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 30 September -2 October 2021, Palermo (Italy).

Castellani N., Galigani M., Mancano M., Pizzola E., Podestà M., Bottari D., Garbarini F. (2021). Mine or Yours? Frequency tagging reveals an implicit neural index of hand identity recognition in the human brain. XXIX Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 30 September -2 October 2021, Palermo (Italy).

Galigani M., Fossataro C., Gindri P., Ronga I., Castellani N., Rossi Sebastiano A., Bruno V., Conson M., Garbarini F. (2020). Non-visual variant of RHI reveals monochannel preference in ASC. XXVIII Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 20-21-26-27 November 2020.

Galigani M., Ronga I., Fossataro C., Bruno V., Garbarini F. Salience effect on visual change detection: face-like configurations modulate the N270 component. XXVII Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 14-16 November 2019, Ferrara (Italy).

Ronga I., Bruno V., Galigani M., Fantoni M., Castellani N., Perathoner C., Gazzin A., Garbarini F. (2019). Multisensory integration effects in newborns: an EEG study. XXVII Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 14-16 November 2019, Ferrara (Italy).

Rossi Sebastiano A., Fossataro C., Tieri G., Poles K., Galigani M., Castellani N., Pyasik M., Bruno V., Garbarini F. (2020). Multisensory integration in virtual reality: the role of vision and proprioception in coding the arm position in space. 38th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 27-30 January 2020, Brixen (Italy).

Galigani M., Bruno V., Fossataro C., Castellani N., Poles K., Rossi Sebastiano A., Garbarini F. You or me? Pathological embodiment after brain damage alters the self-other body boundary. 38th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 27-30 January 2020, Brixen (Italy).

Rossi Sebastiano A., Bruno V., Galigani M., Fossataro C., Ronga I., Neppi-Modona M., Garbarini F. (2019). The rubber hand illusion induces an up regulation of visual detection. XXVII Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 14-16 November 2019, Ferrara (Italy).

Galigani M., Ronga I., Fossataro C., Bruno V., Garbarini F. For the face only: mismatch detection reveals face-like configuration preference. 7th scientific meeting of FESN. 5-7 September 2019, Milan (Italy).

Fossataro C., Galigani M., Rossi Sebastiano A., Ronga I., Bruno V., Garbarini F. (2019). You or me? Defining the boundaries of self-other peripersonal space. Abstracts of The Fuzzy Body, Body Representation Network (BRNet) workshop 2019, Milan.

Ronga I., Bruno V.., Castellani N, Galigani M., Neppi-Modona M., Fossataro C., Valentini E., Garbarini F. Coming closer: Electrophysiological evidence of tool-use. 37th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 21-25 January 2019, Brixen, Italy.

Ronga I., Bruno V., Castellani N., Galigani M., Neppi-Modona M., Fossataro C., Valentini E., Garbarini F. Spatial remapping following tool-use: An electrophysiological study in humans. VII Congresso SINP, 23-24 November 2018, Roma (Italy).

Ronga I., Bruno V., Castellani N., Galigani M., Neppi-Modona M., Fossataro C., Garbarini F. Near or far? Electrophysiological evidence of tool-use dependent spatial remapping in humans. XXIV Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 15-17 November 2018, Torino (Italy).

Ronga I., Galigani M., Fossataro C., Bruno V., Garbarini F. (2018). Me, my hand and I. Repeated stimulation highlights a possible correlate of self-body recognition in visual ERPs. MeeTo, 25-27 May 2018, Torino (Italy).

Precongressual workshop of the XXVI National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, organized by the 25^th Annual Meeting of the Human Brain Mapping Organization 2019, 14 November 2018, Turin, Italy.

XVI National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 15-17 November 2018, Turin, Italy.

37th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21-25 January 2019, Brixen, Italy.

"New Frontiers of connectivity analysis from healthy brain to pathoconnectomics" 15 June 2019, Turin, Italy.

The Fuzzy Body, Body Representation Network (BRNet) workshop 2019, 5th July 2019, Milan (Italy).

7th scientific meeting of FESN. 5-7 September 2019, Milan (Italy).

XXVII National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 14-16 November 2019, Ferrara (Italy).

38th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27-30 January 2020, Brixen (Italy).

XXVI Congress of The Italian Society of Experimental Psychology, 2-4 September 2020.

XXVIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 20-21-27-28 November 2020.

XXIX National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 October-2 November 2021, Palermo (Italy).

"The (Neuro)Science of Bodily Self-Cosciousness", Prof. Lorenzo Pia; 25 March 2019.

"Reasoning", Prof. Monica Bucciarelli; 29 and 31 May 2019.

"Fly Your Thesis! Selection Workshop", European Space Agency (ESA Education), 11-12 October 2018, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, (Netherlands).

“Understanding brain networks: implications for linking brain and behavior”(L. Pessoa); 23 November 2018, Turin.

“The networked brain: interactions between emotion, motivation, and cognition”(L. Pessoa); 29 November 2018, Turin.

"Prismatic adaptation: an effective tool for changing functional connectivity, space representation, and learning" (S. Schintu); 30 November 2018, Turin.

"A four-dimensional picture of the somatosensory system through intracranial recordings" (P. Avanzini); 19 February 2019, Turin.

"The neurobiology of social behavior: from Static to Dynamic" (O. Dal Monte); 19 February 2019, Turin.

"A four-dimensional picture of the somatosensory system through intracranial recordings" (P. Avanzini); 19 February 2019, Turin.

"Getting Fear Right in the Science of Fear" (J. Le Doux); 9 April 2019, Turin.

"From split-brains to emotional Consciousness. A tribute to Joseph Le Doux". 17 April 2019, Turin

"Experience dependence brain plasticity revealed by temporary and permanent sensory deprivation" (L. Bottari). 7 May 2019, Turin.

Data report (XXXI cycle). 25 June 2019, Turin.

"MATLAB course", Prof. Tommaso Costa. 11 September 2019. Turin.

D-Day 2019. 30 September 2019. Turin.

"Manuscript Writing", Dr Sonal Jhaveri. 5-8 November 2019. Turin.

"Neuroscience and Social Behavior", Dr Olga dal Monte. 11 December 2019. Turin.

Data report (XXXIV cycle). 19 February 2020, Turin.

Data report (XXXII cycle). 23 September 2020. Turin.

"Introduction to Research Metodology", Dr Daniele Romano. 4 December 2020.

"Advanced course: An introduction to machine learning for Neuroscience", Prof. Andrea Cavallo. 19 February 2021.

Galigani M., Romeo M., Genovese F., Forster B., Garbarini F. (2021). The tactile knowledge of visual body self. XXIX Congresso Nazionale SIPF, 30 September -2 October 2021, Palermo (Italy).

Galigani M., Rossi Sebastiano A., Castellani N. "Multisensory integration in microgravity. Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from visual enhancement of touch". "Fly Your Thesis! Selection Workshop", European Space Agency (ESA Education), 11-12 October 2018, ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk), Netherlands.

Bando Talenti della Società Civile 2019 (Goria Foundation, CRT Foundation).

IBRO inEurope Short Stay Grant