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Maria-Chiara Villa

Phd thesis

The perceptual system and the motor system are closely connected. It is known that there are strong interconnections between the two processes, as also emerges from Gibson's theory of the perception-action cycle: "We must perceive in order to move, but we must also move in order to perceive". On the one hand perception is aimed at movement but on the other hand the movement is necessary to gather perceptual information in the environment.
This project aims to explore motor plasticity mechanisms, the connection of motor system with perception and some factors that play a role in modulating this relationship.

Research activities

2023

Pinto Y, Villa M-C, Siliquini S, Polonara G, Passamonti C, Lattanzi S, Foschi N, Fabri M and de Haan EHF (2023) Visual integration across fixation: automatic processes are split but conscious processes remain unified in the split-brain. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 17:1278025.
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1278025

Villa, M. C., Geminiani, G. C., Zettin, M., Cicerale, A., Ronga, I., Duca, S., & Sacco, K. (2023). Re-learning mental representation of walking after a brain lesion. Effects of a cognitive-motor training with a robotic orthosis. Frontiers in Neurorobotics17.

2020

Pinto, Y., de Haan, E. H., Villa, M. C., Siliquini, S., Polonara, G., Passamonti, C., ... & Fabri, M. (2020). Unified Visual Working Memory without the Anterior Corpus Callosum. Symmetry, 12(12), 2106.

2023

“Ownership, Agency, and the body –Understanding the moving body” - A.Kalckert - Seminar at Palazzo Badini, Unito, March 30th

2022

"Toolbox Course: Workshop: Public engagement and outreach" - Turin, November 18 and 19, 2022

2021

"Advanced course: An introduction to machine learning for Neuroscience" - A.Cavallo - Advanced Course, February 19th - 26th.

"From neural cell excitability to brain circuit recording, visualization and manipulation" - F. Ferrini,B. Sacchetti,S. Bovetti, E. Hoxha. - Toolbox Course, February 1st - 4th - 8th - 11th.

"Basic Concepts of Statistics" - A. Ricotti - Toolbox Course,  January 25th - 26th.

"Basic Programming for Neuroscience" - M. Betta. IMT School for advanced studies Lucca, Online Course (20 h), January 14th - March 2nd.

"Ethics of research and Responsible research: an introduction" - D.Ovadia - Toolbox Course, May 3rd - 10th - 17th -24th.

"Advanced Neuroimaging" - G.Handjaras, G.Costagli-  IMT School for advanced studies Lucca, Online Course, September 17th - October 21th.

2020

"Welcome Meeting for PhD Students XXXVI cycle" - M.Sassoè - Webinar, 21th October 2020.

Journal Club 2020/2021.

"Inaugurazione anno dottorale 2020-2021" - S.Geuna, A.Rizzuti - Webinar, November 5th 2020.

"Clinical, methodological and theoretical aspects of translational and cognitive neuroscience" - A. Berti, A. Chiò, M. Giustetto - Toolbox Course, November 27th 2020.

"Basic Principles and Applications of Brain Imaging Methodologies to Neuroscience" - E.Ricciardi, L.Cecchetti. IMT School for advanced studies Lucca, Online Course (52 h), November 9th 2020 - February 17th 2021.

"Principles of Brain Anatomy and Physiology" - L.Cecchetti - IMT School for advanced studies Lucca, Online Course (30 h), November 10th - December 14th 2020.

"Introduction to Research methodology" - D. Romano - Toolbox Course,  December 4th - 11th - 18th 2020.

"Orientamento al Dottorato UniTo" - Webinar, December 16th 2020.

2023

"Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology Summer School: Acquisition, processing and analysis of EEG signal " - Faculty of Psychology and Education Science, University of Porto, Portugal. July 17-21st.

2022

"The function architecture of visual motion perception: the contribution of the mid-brain" - P. Azzopardi - Seminar at Palazzo Badini, Unito, December 5th.

""The causes and effects of a unified mind"" - Y.Pinto & P.Corballis - Workshop in Amsterdam, July 7-11th.

""New forms of publication and revision"" - C. Chambers - ITRN Online seminars on Open Science, January 12th.

""Introduction to computational Neuroscience"" - G. Deco - Online Course, April 4th - 5th - 11th - 12th - 26th.

""Collaborating across time and space: How to get a large dataset together"" - C. Bergmann - ITRN Online seminars on Open Science, April 6th.

""The Jansari assessment of Executive Functions (JEF©):A new ecologically-valid tool for assessing EFs using virtual reality"" - A. Jansari- Seminar at Palazzo Badini, Unito, 20th April 2022.

2021 

""How to Write a Scientific Paper"" - S. Jhaveri - Online Course for Psychology Department, Unito, October 18th-22nd.

2020

""New insight from the Direct Electrical Stimulation of human premotor cortex"" - L.Fornia - Online Seminar, 6th November 2020.

""Exploring human laughter using invasive techniques"" - F.Caruana - Online Seminar, 18th November 2020.

""The social brain through the lens of mirror neurons "" - M.Lanzilotto - Online Seminar, 26th November 2020.

""Danger is Universal, fear is Personal"" - J.Ledoux - Online Seminar, 6th December 2020.

2023

National Congress of the Italian Society for Neuroscience - Torino, September 15th-17th

National Meeting of PhD satudents in Neuroscience 2023 - Torino, September 14th

2022

Interdisciplinary perpectives on Beauty and Change - Fondazione Giorgio Amendola, Torino, 17-19 October.

25th ASSC (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness) meeting - Amsterdam, 12-15 July.

2021

""Beyond the lockdown of the brain"" - XXIX Congresso Nazionale SIPF (Società Italiana si Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive), Palermo, September 30th - October 2nd.

2020

“Human Single Neuron Meeting Virtual Edition"" - Conference, 13th November 2020.

2023

Villa, Borriero, Diano, Ciorli, Celeghin, deGelder, Tamietto - "SPATIAL FREQUENCY SENSITIVITIES FOR EMOTIONAL BODY STIMULI" - poster presented at SINS meeting, Turin, 14-17 September 2023

Gammeri, Villa, Geminiani, Ciorli, Ricci, Berti - "Effects of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on Actions Recognition: a single-blind study" - poster presented at SINS meeting, Turin, 14-17 September 2023

2021

 M.C. Villa - "Research in Awake Surgery" - Oral presentation at SAMBA.JournalClub - Department of Psychology, Unito, October 14th.

2019

Neirotti A., Villa M.C, Crespi C.M, Motta G., Giordano A., Mineccia V., Lanfranco F., Cicolin A., "Sleep quality and dream contents in gender dysphoria" - poster presented at EPATH (European Professional Association for Transgender Health) Conference, Rome, April 11-13th 

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