COSIMO URGESI
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine
Via Margreth, 3 -‐ 33100 Udine (Italy)
Voice: +39-‐0432-‐249889, Fax: +39-‐0432-‐556545
e-‐mail: cosimo.urgesi@uniud.it
http://people.uniud.it/page/cosimo.urgesi
Scientific Institute (IRCCS) "E. Medea", Polo Friuli Venezia Giulia
Via della Bontà, 7 -‐ 33078 San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) Italy
Personal Information:
Date of birth:
May 07, 1978
Place of birth: Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi), Italy
Citizenship: Italian
Present Position
Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Tenure) in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Udine.
Senior Researcher, Scientific Institute “E. Medea”, Polo Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Research activities
Urgesi’s major expertise is in single pulse and repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) of body and action
representation. In recent years, he has translated the results of his basic neuroscience researches on the
neuropsychological and neurophysiologic evaluation of brain lesion and mental disorders patients. Furthermore, he serves
as Scientific Consultant at the Scientific Institute “E. Medea”, a research child hospital specialized for neurodevelopmental
disorders. He coordinates the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory at the Hospital Gervasutta of Udine, in
collaboration with the University of Udine and with the Scientific Institute (IRCCS) “E. Medea”, where clinical-‐rehabilitative
and basic research studies are conducted. His research interests include the study of the:
-‐ neural bases and development of corporeal knowledge;
-‐ neural mechanisms involved in action prediction and anticipation,
-‐ neural and cognitive correlates of elite sport performance and sport learning;
-‐ neural bases of spiritual and religious experiences.
Since 2004, he has authored 55 articles in international, peer-‐reviewed journals (including multidisciplinary journals). He
has also authored the Italian standardization of a neuropsychological test (NEPSY-‐II), 5 book chapters and 4 lay-‐people
articles in Italian journals. H-‐index: 23 (Scholar), 20 (Scopus), 19 (WoS). Mean Impact factor: ~5.00. Citations: >2300
(Scholar), >1600 (Scopus). He is first / last / correspondent author in ~70% of his publications.
Curriculum studiorum
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October 2006: PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Verona (supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Berlucchi).
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July 2002 -‐ Degree (cum laude) in Psychology – Experimental Psychology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Non-‐academic Achievements
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1997-‐2002: Fellowship at the Collegio Universitario “Lamaro -‐ Pozzani” (www.rulp.it) of the Federazione Nazionale dei
Cavalieri del Lavoro, Rome.
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2000: Grade B in the Examination for the First Certificate in English – University of Cambridge.
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2000: Summer School of English in Sciences, University of Warwick (UK).
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December 2006: attending as “young scientist” the PENS/Hartie Winter School “Brain Basis of Social Interaction: From
Concepts to Imaging”, Kitzbuhel, Austria.
Previous positions
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2014-‐2016: Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales, UK
2007-‐2008: Post-‐Doc fellowship, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Udine. Project: Plasticity of the neural
representation of body image. Supervisor: Prof. Franco Fabbro.
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2005-‐2008: Research Fellowship at the Research Institute “E. Medea”, Polo Friuli Venezia Giulia. Project: Italian
Standardization of the NEPSY-‐II for the neuropsychological evaluation of children. Supervisor: Prof. Franco Fabbro.
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2002-‐2003: Research Fellowship at the “Associazione per le Neuroscienze G. Moruzzi”, of the Dpt. of Neurological
and Vision Sciences, Section of Human Physiology, University of Verona. Project: Hemispheric Metacontrol and perception
of chimeric stimuli in healthy individuals and split-‐brain patients. Supervisor: Prof. Salvatore M. Aglioti.
Grants
As PI (national or international coordinator):
2015-‐2017: European Commission, H2020-‐MSCA-‐IF-‐2014 NBUCA — “Neural and behavioral underpinnings of contextual
modulations in Autism” Proposal ID 656881. Role: Coordinator at University of Udine. Fellow: Lucia Amoruso. €180,277.20
2014-‐2016: European Commission, FP7, Marie Curie Intra-‐European Fellowships for Career Development (IEF). Spiritual
Brains and Embodied Minds: Neural bases of Self-‐transcendence and Empathy. Role: Fellow at School of Psychology,
Bangor University, Wales, UK. Coordinator Paul Downing. €309,235.20.
2015-‐2018: Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, Current Research Program 2015. Social perception abilities in
neurodevelopmental disorders. €110,000.
2012-‐2014: Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, Current Research Program 2012. Configural and Local Processing of social
stimuli: Neural bases, development and early mother-‐child relationships. €80,000.
2011-‐2012: Consortium of Italian and Argentinian Universities (CUIA). Connectivity between executive and semantic
neurocognitive systems in executive dysfunctions. € 32,000.
2011-‐2013: Young Researcher Grant 2008, Italian Ministry of Health. Neurofunctional Alterations of Body representation
in Anorexia Nervosa: Neuropsychological Measures and Neurophysiologic Treatments. € 585,000.
2011: Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, Current Research Program 2011. Semantic knowledge for familiar people.
Behavioural, neuropsychological and TMS studies. € 25,000
2009: Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, Current Research Program 2009. Motor and somatic components of motor
imagery as a rehabilitation tool. Behavioral and TMS studies. € 25,000.
As CO-‐PI or research unit (RU) coordinator:
2015-‐2016: Royal Society Research Grants 2015R2. Subject: Behavioral Neuroscience. Paired-‐pulse TMS investigations of
the underlying neural mechanisms. Co-‐applicant. Applicant: Kenneth Valyear £ 15.000 (topped-‐up by the Bangor
University School of Psychology upt tot he full cover of a new Magstim Bi-‐Stim device).
2013-‐: Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, Future in Research Program 2012. Neuropsychological bases
of social and emotion perception. Head of RU. National PI: Marco Tamietto, Turin, Italy. Total: € 865,800; RU: € 159,000.
2011-‐2013: Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale) Program
2009 # 20092009A8FR3Z. Plasticity of anticipatory coding in motor experts and novice players learning to detect bluffs in
body actions: Behavioural and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation studies. PI: Salvatore M Aglioti, Rome. Total: € 237,145;
RU: € 70,670.
2010-‐2013: Project SEED, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy. Predictive Action-‐perception Resonance and
Mental Simulation (PARMS). PI: Salvatore M Aglioti, Rome. Total: € 320,000; RU: € 60,000.
2012: 2012 Mind and Life Contemplative Studies Fellowships (MLCSF), Mind & Life Institute (New York, USA). Philosophical
and historical accounts for the neuroscientific investigation of human spirituality. PI: Franco Fabbro, Udine. Total: $
60,000.
2011-‐2012: Fundacao BIAL (Portugal), Bursaries for Scientific Research 2010-‐2011. The Spiritual Brain: neuropsychological
and neurophysiologic investigations of Self-‐transcendence and Spirituality. PI: Salvatore M Aglioti, Rome. Total: € 42,000.
Collaborations
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Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Dpt. of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Director,
Prof. Salvatore M. Aglioti), for neurophysiologic and neuroimaging research on the neural bases of body and action
representations.
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Department of Psychology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Verona (Dr. Valentina Moro), for research on
body perception disorders in brain lesion patients.
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Spinal Injury Division, Rehabilitation Hospital Gervasutta of Udine (Dr. Emiliana Bizzarrini), for research on the
neuroplastic changes of motor representations after functional electri stimulation in spinal cord injury patients.
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Faculty of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Argentina (Dr. Julian Marino-‐Davolos), for research on the neural
underpinnings of semantic and emotional control.
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Scientific Institute IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris, Pisa (Dr. Filippo Muratori), for studies on neuropsychological
evaluation of patients with eating disorders.
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Social Brain in Action Laboratory at the School of Psychology of Bangor University (Dr. Emily Cross, Louise Kirsch)
and School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester (Dr Luca Ticini) for a project on Embodied Aesthetics
and the Emotional Motor System
Teaching
2010-‐2014: Lecturer of Developmental Psychology and Psychobiology, Single Cycle Degree Course in Education with
Teaching Qualification, University of Udine.
2006-‐2010: Acting Lecturer of Developmental Psychology and Social Psychology, Single Cycle Degree Course in Education
with Teaching Qualification, University of Udine.
2006-‐2014: Acting Lecturer of Psychobiology, Degree in Motor Sciences, University of Udine.
2008-‐2014: Acting Lecturer of Psychobiology, MSc in Sports Sciences, University of Udine.
2006-‐2014: Acting Lecturer of Neurophysiology, Degree in Physiotherapy, University of Udine.
2008-‐2012: Acting Lecturer of Psychobiology -‐ Action and Perception Module-‐ for the MSc in Rehabilitation Sciences,
University of Trieste, Italy
Supervision
Since 2005, he has been supervisor of 30 students for the degree thesis in Education Science, 6 students for the degree
thesis in Motor Science, and 2 students for the master degree thesis in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Udine.
He has been supervisor for the dissertation project of a MSc student in Foundations of Clinical Psychology, a MSc student
in Psychology Research, and an intercalating medical student in Neuropsychology at Bangor University School of
Psychology (Wales, UK). He has supervised of 7 post-‐doc fellows and 1 PhD student.
Prizes and acknowledgements:
Gold Medal ”Mente e Cervello” 2007 and Medal from the President of Italy for his research in neuroscience.
Publishers Award for your researchers 2008, Italian Association of Psychology, Section of Experimental Psychology.
Editorial Activity:
He is Academic Editor at PlosOne, Review Editor at Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and
member of the editorial board of ISRN Neuroscience. He served as ad-‐hoc referee for Advances in Eating Disorder,
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Behavioral Brain Research, Biology Letters, Brain and Cognition, British Journal of
Psychology, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive Science,
Cognition, Cortex, European Eating Disorders Review, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research,
Experimental Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Studies, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception and
performance, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Sports Sciences, Journal of Research in
Personality, PLOS One, Neuroscience, Neuroimage, Neuropsychologia, Psychological Research, Religion Brain & Behavior,
Scientific Reports, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. He served as coordinator of the special issue of European
Psychologist on Body Image. He served as grant referee for the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Swiss National
Research Foundation and the Research Foundation of Flanders, and the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
Publications in peer reviewed journals
1. Vicario CM, Makris S, Urgesi C. (2016). Do experts see it in slow motion? Altered timing of action simulation uncovers
domain-‐specific perceptual processing in expert athletes. Psychol Res. 2016 Sep 7.
2. Cazzato V, Mele S, Urgesi C. (2016). Different contributions of visual and motor brain areas during liking judgments of
same-‐ and different-‐gender bodies. Brain Res. 1646:98-‐108.
3. Urgesi C, Mattiassi AD, Buiatti T, Marini A., Tell it to a child! A brain stimulation study of the role of left inferior
frontal gyrus in emotion regulation during storytelling. Neuroimage. 2016 May 14. pii: S1053-‐8119(16)30159-‐8.
4. Amoruso L, Urgesi C. 2016. Contextual modulation of motor resonance during the observation of everyday actions.
Neuroimage. 134:74-‐84.
5. Amoruso L, Urgesi C. 2016. Familiarity modulates motor activation while observing other species' actions: A magnetic
stimulation study. Eur J Neurosci. 43(6):765-‐72.
6. Kirsch LP, Urgesi C, Cross ES. 2016. The shaping and reshaping of the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the
neurobiology of embodied aesthetics. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 62:56-‐68.
7. Cazzato V, Mian E, Mele S, Tognana G, Todisco P, Urgesi C. 2016. The effects of body exposure on self-‐body image
and esthetic appreciation in anorexia nervosa. Exp Brain Res. 234(3):695-‐709.
8. Zilli T, Zanini S, Conte S, Borgatti R, Urgesi C. 2015. Neuropsychological assessment of children with epilepsy and
average intelligence using NEPSY II. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 37(10):1036-‐51.
9. Urgesi C. 2015. Multiple Perspectives on Body Image Research. Body Image, 20 (1) 1-‐5.
10. Crescentini C, Di Bucchianico M, Fabbro F, Urgesi C. 2015. Excitatory stimulation of the right inferior parietal cortex
lessens implicit religiousness/spirituality. Neuropsychologia. 70:71-‐9.
11. Makris S, Urgesi C. 2015. Neural underpinnings of superior action prediction abilities in soccer players. Soc Cogn
Affect Neurosci. 10(3):342-‐51.
12. Cazzato V, Mian E, Serino A, Mele S, Urgesi C. 2015. Distinct contributions of extrastriate body area and
temporoparietal junction in perceiving one's own and others' body. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci.15(1):211-‐28.
13. Crescentini C, Urgesi C, Campanella F, Eleopra R, Fabbro F. 2014. Effects of an 8-‐week meditation program on the
implicit and explicit attitudes toward religious/spiritual self-‐representations. Conscious Cogn. 30:266-‐80.
14. Crescentini C, Urgesi C, Fabbro F, Eleopra R. 2014. Cognitive and brain reserve for mind-‐body therapeutic approaches
in multiple sclerosis: A review. Restor Neurol Neurosci. 32(5):575-‐95.
15. Urgesi C, Candidi M, Avenanti A. 2014. Neuroanatomical substrates of action perception and understanding: an
anatomic likelihood estimation meta-‐analysis of lesion-‐symptom mapping studies in brain injured patients. Front
Hum Neurosci. 8:344.
16. Mele S, Mattiassi AD, Urgesi C. 2014. Unconscious Processing of Body Actions Primes Subsequent Action Perception
but Not Motor Execution. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 40(5):1940-‐62.
17. Campanella F, Crescentini C, Urgesi C, Fabbro F. 2014. Mindfulness-‐oriented meditation improves self-‐related
character scales in healthy individuals. Compr Psychiatry. 55(5):1269-‐78.
18. Mattiassi AD, Mele S, Ticini LF, Urgesi C. 2014. Conscious and Unconscious Representations of Observed Actions in
the Human Motor System. J Cogn Neurosci. 26(9):2028-‐41.
19. Crescentini C, Aglioti SM, Fabbro F, Urgesi C. 2014. Virtual lesions of the inferior parietal cortex induce fast changes
of implicit religiousness/spirituality. Cortex. 54:1-‐15.
20. Cazzato V, Mele S, Urgesi C. 2014. Gender differences in the neural underpinning of perceiving and appreciating the
beauty of the body. Behav Brain Res. 264C:188-‐196.
21. Mele S, Cazzato V, Urgesi C. 2013. The importance of perceptual experience in the esthetic appreciation of the body.
PLoS One. 8(12):e81378.
22. Urgesi C, Fornasari L, Canalaz F, Perini L, Cremaschi S, Faleschini L, Thyrion EZ, Zuliani M, Balestrieri M, Fabbro F,
Brambilla P. 2014. Impaired configural body processing in anorexia nervosa: Evidence from the body inversion effect.
Br J Psychol. 105(4):486-‐508.
23. Crescentini C, Fabbro F, Urgesi C. 2014. Mental Spatial Transformations of Objects and Bodies: Different
Developmental Trajectories in Children From 7 to 11 Years of Age. Dev Psychol. 50(2):370-‐83.
24. Campanella F, Fabbro F, Urgesi C. 2013. Cognitive and anatomical underpinnings of the conceptual knowledge for
common objects and familiar people: a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study. PLoS One. 8(5):e64596.
25. Avenanti A, Candidi M, Urgesi C. 2013. Vicarious motor activation during action perception: beyond correlational
evidence. Front Hum Neurosci. 7:185.
26. Avenanti A, Annella L, Candidi M, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM. 2013. Compensatory Plasticity in the Action Observation
Network: Virtual Lesions of STS Enhance Anticipatory Simulation of Seen Actions. Cereb Cortex. 23:570-‐80.
27. Calderoni S, Muratori F, Leggero C, Narzisi A, Apicella F, Balottin U, Carigi T, Maestro S, Fabbro F, Urgesi C. 2013.
Neuropsychological functioning in children and adolescents with restrictive-‐type anorexia nervosa: An in-‐depth
investigation with NEPSY-‐II. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 35:167-‐79.
28. Tomeo E, Cesari P, Aglioti SM, Urgesi C. 2013. Fooling the Kickers but not the Goalkeepers: Behavioral and
Neurophysiological Correlates of Fake Action Detection in Soccer. Cereb Cortex. 23(11):2765-‐78.
29. Narzisi A, Muratori F, Calderoni S, Fabbro F, Urgesi C. 2012. Neuropsychological Profile in High Functioning Autism
Spectrum Disorders. J Autism Dev Disord. 43(8):1895-‐909
30. Marini A, Urgesi C. 2012. Please get to the point! A cortical correlate of linguistic informativeness. J Cogn Neurosci.
24:2211-‐22.
31. Abreu AM, Macaluso E, Azevedo RT, Cesari P, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM. 2012. Action anticipation beyond the action
observation network: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in expert basketball players. Eur J Neurosci.
35:1646-‐54.
32. Cazzato V, Siega S, Urgesi C. 2012. “What women like”: influence of motion and form on esthetic body perception.
Front Psychol. 3:235.
33. Moro V, Pernigo S, Avesani R, Bulgarelli C, Urgesi C, Candidi M, Aglioti SM. 2012. Visual body recognition in a
prosopagnosic patient. Neuropsychologia. 50:104-‐17.
34. Olivieri I, Bova SM, Urgesi C, Ariaudo G, Perotto E, Fazzi E, Stronati M, Fabbro F, Balottin U, Orcesi S. 2012. Outcome
of extremely low birth weight infants: what’s new in the third millennium? Neuropsychological profiles at four years.
Early Hum Dev. 88:241-‐50.
35. Pernigo S, Moro V, Avesani R, Miatello C, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM. 2012. Massive somatic deafferentation and motor
deefferentation of the lower part of the body impair its visual recognition: a psychophysical study of patients with
spinal cord injury. Eur J Neurosci 36:3509-‐18.
36. Urgesi C, Romanò M, Fornasari L, Brambilla P, Fabbro F. 2012. Investigating the development of temperament and
character in school-‐aged children using a self-‐report measure. Compr Psychiatry. 53:875-‐83.
37. Urgesi C, Fornasari L Perini L, Canalaz F, Cremaschi S, Faleschini L, Balestrieri M, Fabbro F, Aglioti SM, Brambilla P.
2012. Visual body perception in anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 45:501-‐11.
38. Urgesi C, Savonitto M, Fabbro F, Aglioti S. 2012. Long-‐and short-‐term plastic modeling of action prediction abilities in
volleyball. Psychol Res. 76:540-‐62.
39. Urgesi C, Avenanti A (2011). Functional and epiphenomenal modulation of neural activity in body-‐selective visual
areas. Cogn Neurosci. 2(3-‐4): 212-‐4.
40. Avenanti A, Urgesi C. 2011. Understanding “what” others do: mirror mechanisms play a crucial role in action
perception. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 6:257-‐9.
41. Costantini M, Urgesi C, Galati G, Romani GL, Aglioti SM. 2011. Haptic perception and body representation in lateral
and medial occipito-‐temporal cortices. Neuropsychologia. 49:821-‐9.
42. Urgesi C, Fornasari L, De Faccio S, Perini L, Mattiussi E, Ciano R, Balestrieri M, Fabbro F, Brambilla P. 2011. Body
schema and self-‐representation in patients with bulimia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 44:238-‐48.
43. Urgesi C, Aglioti SM, Skrap M, Fabbro F. 2010. The spiritual brain: selective cortical lesions modulate human self-‐
transcendence. Neuron. 65:309-‐19.
44. Calvo-‐Merino B, Urgesi C, Orgs G, Aglioti SM, Haggard P. 2010. Extrastriate body area underlies aesthetic evaluation
of body stimuli. Exp Brain Res. 204:447-‐56.
45. Optale G, Urgesi C, Busato V, Marin S, Piron L, Priftis K, Gamberini L, Capodieci S, Bordin A. 2010. Controlling memory
impairment in elderly adults using virtual reality memory training: a randomized controlled pilot study. Neurorehabil
Neural Repair. 24:348-‐57.
46. Urgesi C, Maieron M, Avenanti A, Tidoni E, Fabbro F, Aglioti SM. 2010. Simulating the future of actions in the human
corticospinal system. Cereb Cortex. 20:2511-‐21.
47. Aglioti SM, Cesari P, Romani M, Urgesi C. 2008. Action anticipation and motor resonance in elite basketball players.
Nat Neurosci. 11:1109-‐16.
48. Candidi M, Urgesi C, Ionta S, Aglioti SM. 2008. Virtual lesion of ventral premotor cortex impairs visual perception of
biomechanically possible but not impossible actions. Soc Neurosci. 3:388-‐400.
49. Moro V, Pernigo S, Urgesi C, Zapparoli P, Aglioti SM. 2008. Finger recognition and gesture imitation in Gerstmann’s
syndrome. Neurocase. 15:13-‐23.
50. Moro V, Urgesi C, Pernigo S, Lanteri P, Pazzaglia M, Aglioti SM. 2008. The neural basis of body form and body action
agnosia. Neuron. 60:235-‐46.
51. Urgesi C, Calvo-‐Merino B, Haggard P, Aglioti SM. 2007. Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two cortical
pathways for visual body processing. J Neurosci. 27:8023-‐30.
52. Urgesi C, Candidi M, Ionta S, Aglioti SM. 2007. Representation of body identity and body actions in extrastriate body
area and ventral premotor cortex. Nat Neurosci. 10:30-‐31.
53. Fourkas AD, Avenanti A, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM. 2006. Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery.
Exp Brain Res. 168:143-‐51.
54. Urgesi C, Candidi M, Fabbro F, Romani M, Aglioti SM. 2006. Motor facilitation during action observation: topographic
mapping of the target muscle and influence of the onlooker’s posture. Eur J Neurosci. 23:2522-‐30. Cit.: 50
55. Urgesi C, Moro V, Candidi M, Aglioti SM. 2006. Mapping implied body actions in the human motor system. J Neurosci.
26:7942-‐9.
56. Romani M, Cesari P, Urgesi C, Facchini S, Aglioti SM. 2005. Motor facilitation of the human cortico-‐spinal system
during observation of bio-‐mechanically impossible movements. Neuroimage. 26:755-‐63.
57. Urgesi C, Bricolo E, Aglioti SM. 2005. Hemispheric metacontrol and cerebral dominance in healthy individuals
investigated by means of chimeric faces. Cogn Brain Res. 24:513-‐25.
58. Urgesi C, Berlucchi G, Aglioti SM. 2004. Magnetic stimulation of extrastriate body area impairs visual processing of
nonfacial body parts. Curr Biol. 14:2130-‐34.
Book chapters
o Makris, S., & Urgesi, C. (2014). Sport performance: mental imagery and observational learning in sport. In Obhi, S.D. &
Cross, E.S. (Eds.), Shared representations: Sensorimotor foundations of social life. Cambridge University Press.
o Ticini LF, Urgesi C, Calvo-‐Merino B (2015) Embodied aesthetics: insight from cognitive neuroscience of the performing
arts. In A. Scarinzi (Ed): Aesthetics and the embodied Mind: beyond art theory and the Cartesian mind-‐body dichotomy.
Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 73, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht (ISBN 978-‐94-‐017-‐9378-‐0).
o Marini, A., Urgesi, C. and Fabbro, F. Clinical Neurolinguistics of Bilingualism. (2012). In Faust, M. (Ed.) The Handbook
of Neuropsychology of Language. Blackwell Publishing Group
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Urgesi C., Fabbro F. (2009). The Neuropsychology of Second Language Acquisition. In (Ed. W.C. Ritchie and T.K.
Bhatia) New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Bingley, UK, Emerald.
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Urgesi C. (2012).
Il corpo nel cervello: tra percezione e rappresentazione. In (Ed. Luca Marini, Andrea Carlino). Il
corpo post-‐umano. Scienze, diritto, società. Roma, Italy, Carocci.
Publications in non indexed journals
o Pezzetta R, Crescentini C, Urgesi C, Fabbro F. (2015). Contributi delle Neuroscienze allo studio della meditazione e
della spiritualità. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, a. XLII, n. 4, 679-‐710.
o Urgesi C. (2010). Neuropsicologia dell’Autotrascendenza. Antropologia della salute, 1: 183-‐196.
o Urgesi C., Candidi M., Aglioti S.M. (2007). Gli strani miraggi del nostro corpo. Darwin, 18(3-‐4): 61-‐66.
o Urgesi C. (2006). I disturbi dello sviluppo della coordinazione motoria. Saggi. Child Development & Disabilities, Vol
XXXII (Neuropsicologia evolutiva e disturbi dell'apprendimento, Parte I) 4: 53-‐63.
o Urgesi C. (2006). Sistemi neurali coinvolti nella percezione del corpo. Studi neurofisiologici. DiPAV-‐ Quaderni, 15: 35-‐
58, Franco Angeli.
Invited talks (selected)
o December 2015: Reshaping the body aesthetics brain: behavioral and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies of
body exposure effects in healthy individuals and patients with Anorexia Nervosa. Psychology Department seminar at City
University of London, UK, 2 December 2015.
o July 2015: Self-‐transcendence, Mindfulness and Yoga Invited talk at the Mindfulness and the Brain Workshop,
Mindfulness in Society Conference, Chester, UK, 3 July 2015.
o February 2015: Perceiving and Appreciating the Beauty of the Body: The Influence of Personality and Perceptual
Experience. Seminar talk at the School of Psychological Sciences of the University of Manchester, UK, 25 February 2015.
o November 2014: Does motor resonance require perceptual awareness? Workshop Motor Control & Cognition – A
Matter of Constitution? Heinrich-‐Heine-‐Universität Düsseldorf, 8 November 2014.
o October 2014: Neural bases of explicit and implicit dimensions of spirituality. Seminar Talk at the Department of
Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, 14 October 2014.
o March 2014: “L'insostenibile leggerezza del corpo. La percezione dei cambiamenti corporei tra illusione e realtà.”
(Perceiving changes in the body: illusion and reality. Infinitamente Science festival, University of Verona, 14 March 2014.
o November 2013: Perceiving and Appreciating the Beauty of the Body: The Influence of Personality and Perceptual
Experience. Of Pain and Pleasure-‐ Seminar on neuroesthetics at Europeant center for Living Tecnologies ,Venezia, 23
novembre 2013.
o September 2013 -‐Visual and motor components of superior action prediction abilities in sport. Intersubjectivity in
Sport seminar-‐ Bielefeld, Germania-‐ 10 settembre 2013.
o May 2013: Perception and misperception of human body forms and body actions. Master WISDOM, Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna and Lama Tzong Kapha Institute, Pomaia, Pisa, Italy.
o January 2013: Perception and misperception of human body forms and body actions. Symposium at the Ruhr
University of Bochum, (Of faces and bodies), Bochum, Germany, 14 January 2013.
o September 2012 -‐ Embodied aesthetics: Visual and sensorimotor components of aesthetic experience. Symposium at
the 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (Convenor and speaker). Rome, 4-‐8 September 2012.
o September 2012: Embodied aesthetics, Meeting of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP), Section of
Experimental Psychology, Chieti, September 2012.
o May 2012 – The Italian adaptation of NEPSY-‐II. Theory, structure and clinical application. Conference talk: Modelli
d’intelligenza e strumenti di ultima generazione. Meeting with Alan e Nadeen Kaufman su WISC-‐IV, KABC-‐II e NEPSY.
Milano, 11 may 2012
o April 2012 – Connectivity between executive and semantic systems. Visiting Professor Lecture at the University of La
Rioja, Argentina, 24 April 2012.
o April 2012 -‐ Anticipatory Motor Simulation of Body Actions. Seminar at Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO).
Buones Aires, Argentina, 19 April 2012
o March 2012 – Administration of NEPSY-‐II tests. GIORNATE DI AGGIORNAMENTO SULL’ USO DEI TEST IN PSICOLOGIA
CLINICA DELLO SVILUPPO. Bologna, 2 march 2012 .
o November 2011 – Anticipatory simulation of body actions in sport: Psychophysics and TMS studies. Satellite
symposium, Annual meeting of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology, Brescia, 14 November 2011.
o December 2010 – Perception and representation of the body in the brain: clinical and research issues. Conference “La
Salute del Bambino tra Genetica e Neuroscienze”, IRCCS E. Medea, Bosisio Parini, 11 December 2011.
o October 2010 – Neural representation of the human body and its actions. Conference “I Corpi nel Cervello. Prospettive
di ricerca nel rapporto tra mente e corpo”. Ospedale del Sacro Cuore -‐ Negrar, Verona, 07 October 2010.
o October 2010 -‐ Anticipatory Motor Simulation of Body Actions. The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition.
28 October 2010.
o September 2010 -‐ Neuropsychological investigation of spirituality: Selective cortical lesions modulate human self
transcendence. Symposium, Second Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN),
Amsterdam, 22 September 2010.
o June 2010 -‐ Anticipatory Motor Simulation of body actions. Action colloquium. Max Planck Institute for Human
Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Leipzig, Germany, 29 June 2010.
o May 2010 – Anticipatory Motor Simulation of body actions. Seminar at the Department of Psychology University of
Rome La Sapienza .
o April 2010 – Neuropsychology of SelfTranscendence. Conference “Evoluzione e filosofia della mente. Tra creatività e
intelligenza artificiale”, International Institute for Humankind Studies, Firenze. “”. Brescia 25 April 2010.
o December 2009 – The Body in the Brain: Perception and representation. Conference “Dottore, vorrei un corpo
bionico! “Cibernetica e biorobotica.” Roma, 02 December 2009.
o June 2009 -‐ Visual and Motor representation of body form and body action perception. DISCOS Summer School.
Parma, 16
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-‐19
th
June 2009.
o May 2009 -‐ Neural Representation of the human body and its forms. Neurophilosophy Seminars. Department of
Philosophy, University of Milan, 22
th
May 2009.
o October 2007 -‐ Neuropsychology of Second Language Acquisition. XVI Convegno Nazionale ILSA “PROCESSI DI
APPRENDIMENTO LINGUISTICO E GESTIONE DELLA CLASSE AD ABILITA’ DIFFERENZIATE” Firenze, 27 October 2007.
o April 2007 -‐ Neural representation of static and moving bodies. Workshop “IL CERVELLO MOTORIO: teoria, clinica,
ipotesi riabilitative”. Rome, 14 April 2007.
o March 2007 -‐ Neuropsychology of Self Transcendence. Brain Awareness Week Meeting “Il Cervello Mistico – The
Mystic Brain”. Rome, 13 -‐ 15 March 2007.
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