University of Ferrara
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgico Specialistiche - Sezione di Fisiologia Umana
Italian Institute of Technology
CTNSC@UniFe - Center of Translational Neurophysiology for Speech and Communication
Via Fossato di Mortara, 17/19 - 44121 - Ferrara
e-mail: alessandro.dausilio@iit.it; dsllsn@unife.it
Phone: +39 0532 974512
UNIFE page http://docente.unife.it/dsllsn
IIT page www.iit.it/it/persone/alessandro-dausilio.html
Personal Homepage sites.google.com/site/alessandrodausilio/home
Google Scholar scholar.google.com/citations?user=uKn-9MoAAAAJ&hl
Scopus Author ID 16229298400
Researcher ID A-3997-2010
Orcid ID 0000-0003-1472-6200
ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandro_Dausilio
Loop Profile http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/41229
Mendeley www.mendeley.com/profiles/alessandro-dausilio
Academia.edu iit-it.academia.edu/AlessandroDAusilio
Research areas
THE ROLE OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM IN SPEECH PERCEPTION
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF ACTION OBSERVATION AND OBJECT AFFORDANCE
THE SYNTACTIC ORGANISATION OF ACTION
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS AS A TEST-BED FOR SENSORIMOTOR NON-VERBAL INTERACTIONS
SENSORIMOTOR CONVERGENCE DURING SPEECH INTERACTION
SENSORIMOTOR NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION DURING JOINT ACTION
Studies
2007 - PhD defence. Title: Learning and plasticity in cerebral sensory-motor coupling (2nd April)
2006 - Psychology professional habilitation (Feb)
2003/2006 - PhD in Cognitive Psychology-Psychophysiology-Personality, Sapienza University of Rome
2003 - MA defence, score of 110/110 cum Laude. Title: Musical Recognition Modelling (16th July)
1998/2003 - Experimental Psychology (equivalent to a BA+MS), Sapienza University, Rome
1998 - High-School Scientific Diploma (Jul)
Positions
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY (since April 2017). University of Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgico Specialistiche, Sezione di Fisiologia Umana
AFFILIATED RESEARCHER (since April 2017). Italian Institute of Technology, CTNSC@UniFe, Ferrara
RESEARCHER (Jan 2016 - Mar 2017). Italian Institute of Technology, CTNSC@UniFe, Ferrara
RESEARCHER (Apr 2012 - Dec 2015). Italian Institute of Technology, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Genova
SENIOR POST-DOC (Apr 2010 - Mar 2012). Italian Institute of Technology, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Genova. Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Fadiga
POST-DOC (Apr 2007 - Mar 2010). University of Ferrara, D.S.B.T.A. Section of Human Physiology, Neurolab, Ferrara. Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Fadiga and Prof. Laila Craighero
VISITING PHD STUDENT (Feb-Sept 2005; Apr-May 2006). MIT, Brain and Cognitive Science Department, BizziLab, Cambridge, MA (USA). Supervisor: Prof. Emilio Bizzi
VISITING PHD STUDENT (Mar-Sept 2004; Nov-Dec 2004). Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Tübingen (Germany). Supervisors: Prof. Niels Birbaumer and Martin Lotze
PHD STUDENT (Nov 2003 - Mar 2007). Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Psychology, CSPL - Cognitive Science and Psychology Lab, Rome. Supervisor: Prof. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT (Jan 2002-Oct 2003). Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Psychology, Cognitive Science and Psychology Lab, Rome (Italy). Supervisor: Prof. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Honours & Awards
2017 - 2023 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2016). Full Professor habilitation in Physiology (05/D1)
2017 - 2023 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2016). Full Professor habilitation in Psychobiology, Cognitive Psychology and Statistical Psychology (11/E1)
2015 - 2020 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2013). Associate Professor habilitation in Physiology (05/D1)
2015 - 2020 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2013). Associate Professor habilitation in Psychobiology, Cognitive Psychology and Statistical Psychology (11/E1)
2014 - 2019 – Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2012). Associate Professor habilitation in Psychobiology, Cognitive Psychology and Statistical Psychology (11/E1)
2012 - “De Renzi” Prize for young investigators, SINP – Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia (Italian Society for Neuropsychology)
2009 - Young Investigator Award, AIP - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sperimentale (Italian Association of Psychology, Experimental Section)
2006 - Travel award, Human Brain Mapping conference. OHBM Grant
2005 - Travel award, Human Brain Mapping conference. NIH Grant #2 R13 MH062008-06
2005 - ECONA scholarship on “Auditory-Motor Integration: New Methods and Perspective”
2005 - Selected by the MIT/Italy Program for a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 - ERASMUS/SOCRATES scholarship for a research stay at the Eberhart-Karls-Universität
2002/03 - Merit-based selection for payed undergrad research assistance, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University
2002 - Undergrad research scholarship with Prof. Olivetti Belardinelli (Apr ’02 – Nov ’02)
2001/02 - Merit-based selection for payed undergrad research assistance, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University
Invited talks
2017 - Cognitive-motor strategies. Workshop “Neuroscience of Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation”, SIPF, Roma
2017 - Grasping Synergies: A motor-control approach to the mirror neuron mechanism. 1st Bologna Workshop on Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Bologna
2017 - Neuroscienze e voce: tra percezione e esecuzione. Workshop “La voce artistica”, Ravenna
2017 - Grasping Synergies: A motor-control approach to the mirror neuron mechanism. DAAD-MIUR Workshop “The motor system in action: common and specific motor representations in performing, perceiving and communicating actions”, Universität Potsdam
2017 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of natural speech interaction. Symposium "Cognitive and neural mechanisms of action imitation", Experimental Psychology Society (EPS), London
2016 - L’elaborazione del linguaggio: dal cervello ai sistemi artificiali. Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche: Giornata Dipartimentale della Ricerca. Università di Ferrara
2016 - The common origins of language and action. “Action, Language, Cognition” conference, CNR, Rome
2016 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication. School of Psychological Sciences, Univ. of Manchester
2016 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich
2016 - Music and the brain, the case of ensemble musicians. Istituto di Neuroscienze CNR, Milan
2015 - Sensorimotor communication in music ensembles. Mind and Brain in Music Workshop. Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Milano - Bicocca
2015 - Sensorimotor communication, speech and language. 16th International Multisensory Research Forum, Pisa
2015 - Sensorimotor basis of human-objects-human interaction. VisLab, Institute for Systems and Robotics of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
2015 - Le basi sensorimotorie della comunicazione. Technology Enhanced Learning Workshop, Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Milano
2014 - Joint ecological action. Int. Symp. on Cogn. Neurosci. Robotics, Osaka
2014 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication. Departmental Colloquium. Department of Cognitive Science. Central European University, Budapest
2014 - Percezione-Azione nell'interazione comunicativa nelle orchestre. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
2014 - Communication and action coordination in musical performance. The Conscious Body meeting III – Paris
2014 - Understanding the sensorimotor basis of human communication. 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction- Workshop: HRI: a bridge between Robotics and Neuroscience, Bielefeld
2014 - Sensorimotor processing of speech: brain inspired approaches to automatic speech recognition. Brain & Language Research Institute Seminar, Aix en Provence
2013 - Active perception - sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language. 57th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging - Leipzig
2013 - The common origins of language and action. Int. Symp. on Cogn. Neurosci. Robotics, Seattle
2012 - The motor contribution to speech perception: neurophysiological and modeling approaches, Uppsala University
2012 - The motor contribution to speech perception: neurophysiological and modelling approaches, International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech (ISICS 2012), Aix-en-Provence
2012 - The motor contribution to speech perception: neurophysiological and modelling approaches, Max Plank Institute - Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2011 - Linguaggio e azione: analogie, problemi e spunti per la ricerca. La Mente nel Cervello, Tor Vergata, Rome
2010 - Communication and action coordination in musical performance. Interdisciplinary colloquium on Music and Emotion, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva
2010 - Il ruolo del sistema motorio nella comprensione del parlato. Centro di diagnosi precoce e di trattamento dell’ Autismo: Una breccia nel muro, Rome
2010 - The role of the motor system in speech perception. Max Plank Institute - Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2010 - The role of the motor system in speech perception. Speech and Brain 2010, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Helsinki
2010 - The motor system in speech comprehension. CISC talk, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova
2009 - Motor contribution to speech perception. Interlocution Workshop: Linguistic structure and human interaction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2008 - Audio-motor integration in action comprehension and production. Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome
2007 - BMI: Cosa dobbiamo cercare in corteccia? L'area motoria primaria ci può dare informazioni utili? Brain Machine Interface Group @ The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova
2006 - Auditory-motor learning. Dept of Physiology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara
Organization and editorial activities
2018 - Scientific Committee ICSC2018 (International Conference on Space and Cognition), Rome
since 2017 - Review Editor for the journal “Frontiers in Cognition” (Frontiers)
2016 - Scientific Board of the PhD Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neurotechnologies, University of Ferrara
2015 - Program Committee INTERPERSONAL@ICMI (International Workshop on Modelling Interpersonal Synchrony), Seattle
2015 - Scientific Committee ICSC2015 (International Conference on Space and Cognition), Rome
since 2014 - Secretary of the “Associazione Scientifica Umbrella” ONLUS
since 2014 - Review Editor for the journal “Frontiers in Language Sciences” (Frontiers)
since 2013 - Academic Editor for the journal “PLOS ONE” (Public Library of Sciences)
since 2013 - Advisory Board for the journal “Cognitive Processing” (Springer)
2012 - Scientific Committee ICSC2012 (International Conference on Space and Cognition) Rome
2011 - IIT organising group for “150 humanoid robots and more...", Festival della Scienza, Genova
2011 - Scientific Committee CulturAbruzzo 2011 (Abruzzo's high-school students excellence award)
2010 - IIT organising responsible for “E-Motion - Un Laboratorio-Esperimento a Casa Paganini", in collaboration with SARC Queen's University, Belfast, InfoMus-Casa Paganini, Festival della Scienza, Genova
2010 - Scientific Committee CulturAbruzzo 2010 (Abruzzo's high-school students excellence award)
2006 - Organising Committee of ICSC2006 (International Conference on Space and Cognition) Rome
2006 - Panel organisation “Putting motor learning in its proper context: the effects of contextual cues and training history on skill acquisition.” NCM’06 (Neural Control of Movement) Key Biscayne, Florida
2003 - Organising Committee of ICSC2003 (International Conference on Space and Cognition) Rome
2003 - Staff of ESCOM’05 (5th triennial Conf. European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music) Hannover
Neuron, Current Biology, PNAS, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Neuroimage, Scientific Reports, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Neuropsychologia, PlosONE, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Brain and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Neuroscience Research, Brain Research, Brain Research Bulletin, Experimental Brain Research, Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuropsychology, Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Cognitive Processing, Brain Sciences, Multisensory Research, Swiss Journal of Psychology, CogSci.
Occasional Grant reviewer
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Leverhulme Trust, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation.
Funding
EU FUNDING
2011/15 - POETICON++ (“Robots need Language: A computational mechanism for generalisation and generation of new behaviours in robots”). FP7-ICT-288382. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
2010/13 - SIEMPRE ("Social Interaction and Entrainment using Music PeRformance Experimentation"). FP7-ICT-250026. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
2008/11 - POETICON ("The Poetics of Everyday Life: Grounding Resources and Mechanisms for Artificial Agents"). FP7-ICT-215843. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
2007/08 - CONTACT (“Learning and development of Contextual Action”). FP6-NEST-5010 (NEST). Contribution: scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
OTHER FUNDING
2006/08 - Vigoni Program with the Eberhart-Karls-Universität Tuebingen, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Tübingen (Germania). Contribution: writing complete proposal
2004/05 - PRIN - Modellizzazione Matematica del Comportamento Naturale e Artificiale. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution
2003/07 - Several projects for the Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. Contribution: writing part of the proposals, scientific program execution
Science popularization activities
2016 - Interazione comunicativa sensorimotoria nelle orchestre. Brain Awareness Week, Trieste
2015 - L’uomo, buono e cattivo. Neuroethics article on the geopolitics bi-monthly magazine “East” (n.57)
2014 - Radio interview on Radio3 Regionale (Bolzano local edition)
2014 - Nella prigione della mente. Neuroethics article on the geopolitics bi-monthly magazine “East” (n.54)
2013 - National TV interview on RAI Storia for “Dixit Stelle” in a 2Hr show entitled “Lo Spettacolo del Cervello”
2012 - Full page about neuroscience and art on the national newspaper “l’Unità”, 27 Nov
2012 - National Radio interview on Radio3 for “Radio3Scienza”
2012 - National Radio interview on RadioMonteCarlo for “RMC Prima Serata”
2012 - SCINTILLE…di musica, scienza, arte e poesia. Public talk at Teatro Palladium, Rome
2011 - Musica e neuroscienze: dalla psicofisica del suono all’esperienza estetica. Public talk for CulturAbruzzo Foundation, Pescara
2010 - Il linguaggio nel cervello: nuove soluzioni a vecchie controversie. Neuroscience Café, Trieste
Teaching
2017 - Neurophysiology (36Hrs), Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2017 - Lecture on “Interaction and communication in music” (2Hrs), for “Corso di Perfezionamento in Musica e Musicoterapia in Neurologia”, Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2016 - Short course on “Language and speech” and “Interaction and communication” (6Hrs) for the “International Summer School in Cognitive Science”, New Bulgarian University
2016 - Lecture on “Interaction and communication in music” (2Hrs), for “Corso di Perfezionamento in Musica e Musicoterapia in Neurologia”, Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2015 - Short course on “The role of the motor system in perception and social interaction” (8Hrs) for the “International Summer School in Cognitive Science”, New Bulgarian University
2014 - Lecture on “Interaction and communication in music” (2Hrs), for “Corso di Perfezionamento in Musica e Musicoterapia in Neurologia”, Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2014 – Short course on “Neurophysiology of the motor system and TMS” (8Hrs), for IIT PhD students
2013 - Lecture on “Language, Speech and the Motor System” (3Hrs), for the course on “Psychology of action” (prof. Becchio), Dept of Psychology, University of Torino
2013 - Lecture on “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation” (3Hrs), for IIT PhD students
2013 - Short course on “Neurophysiology of the motor system” (6Hrs), for IIT PhD students
2011 - Lecture on “Language and speech comprehension” (4 Hrs), master di I livello di Logopedia (master-level course), University of Ferrara and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2007/09 - TMS Lab practical demonstration for medical students at the University of Ferrara (6hr/semester)
2007 - Lecture on “Forward and inverse models for motor control and learning” (4 Hrs), for Professional Psychologists and Educators, Società Italiana di Psicoterapia Integrata, Casoria
2007 - Lecture on "Introduction to brain functioning and mirror neurons" (4 Hr), Istituto Socio-Psico-Pedagogico Marconi, Pescara
2006/07 - Contract Professor of “History of Psychology” (30Hrs), Faculty of Psychology, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti
2006 - Course on “Neural networks and memory models” (25 Hrs), for Professional Psychologists and Educators, Santo Spirito Hospital, Pescara
2005/07 - Teaching assistant for: Mental Models (prof. Olivetti Belardinelli), Psychology, LUMSA University, Rome
2005/08 - High school students’ tutorship in General Psychology, “Comunità Domenico Tardini” Foundation, Rome
2005 - Lecture on "Connectionism, Artificial Intelligence and Problem Solving" (4Hrs), for the course of “General Psychology” (prof. Brunetti), IES, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Fundamentals of General Psychology (prof. Olivetti Belardinelli), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Cognitive Psychology (prof. Olivetti Belardinelli), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Neural Networks Modelling of Cognitive Functions (prof. Londei), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Artificial Intelligence (prof. Londei), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004 - Lecture on "Musical recognition modelling by means of neural networks" (2Hrs), for the course on “Neural Networks Modelling of Cognitive Functions” (prof. Londei), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
External Reviewer Doctoral defence
- Pauline Hilt. Thesis Title: “Décision motrice et contrôle modulaire d'un système hyper redondant”. Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (15 December 2015)
- Judith Schmitz. Thesis Title: “On the relationship between native and non-native speech perception and speech production”. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (18 March 2016)
Tutoring and co-tutoring activities
Jeffrey J. Berry: Visiting PhD student (11/10-4/11); Postdoc (04/12-07/13)
Eleonora Bartoli: PhD student (01/11-04/14); Postdoc (04/14-12/14)
Giacinto Barresi: Internship (03/11-09/11)
Laura Maffongelli: Internship (07/11-12/11); PhD student (01/12-04/15)
SunJin Ji: PhD student (01/12-06/13)
Judith Schmitz: Visiting PhD student (02/12-07/12)
Elisabetta Ferrari: PhD student (01/13-12/15)
Olivia Morgan Lapenta: Visiting PhD student (09/14-05/15)
Sankar Mukherjee: Internship (05/15-10/15); PhD student (11/15-02/19)
Pauline Hilt: PhD student (11/15-02/19)
Anaelli Campos: Visiting Postdoc (06/15-10/16)
Pasquale Cardellicchio: Postdoc (06/16-Present)
Alessandro D'Ausilio
Ferrara, July 2017
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgico Specialistiche - Sezione di Fisiologia Umana
Italian Institute of Technology
CTNSC@UniFe - Center of Translational Neurophysiology for Speech and Communication
Via Fossato di Mortara, 17/19 - 44121 - Ferrara
e-mail: alessandro.dausilio@iit.it; dsllsn@unife.it
Phone: +39 0532 974512
UNIFE page http://docente.unife.it/dsllsn
IIT page www.iit.it/it/persone/alessandro-dausilio.html
Personal Homepage sites.google.com/site/alessandrodausilio/home
Google Scholar scholar.google.com/citations?user=uKn-9MoAAAAJ&hl
Scopus Author ID 16229298400
Researcher ID A-3997-2010
Orcid ID 0000-0003-1472-6200
ResearchGate www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandro_Dausilio
Loop Profile http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/41229
Mendeley www.mendeley.com/profiles/alessandro-dausilio
Academia.edu iit-it.academia.edu/AlessandroDAusilio
Research areas
THE ROLE OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM IN SPEECH PERCEPTION
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF ACTION OBSERVATION AND OBJECT AFFORDANCE
THE SYNTACTIC ORGANISATION OF ACTION
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS AS A TEST-BED FOR SENSORIMOTOR NON-VERBAL INTERACTIONS
SENSORIMOTOR CONVERGENCE DURING SPEECH INTERACTION
SENSORIMOTOR NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION DURING JOINT ACTION
Studies
2007 - PhD defence. Title: Learning and plasticity in cerebral sensory-motor coupling (2nd April)
2006 - Psychology professional habilitation (Feb)
2003/2006 - PhD in Cognitive Psychology-Psychophysiology-Personality, Sapienza University of Rome
2003 - MA defence, score of 110/110 cum Laude. Title: Musical Recognition Modelling (16th July)
1998/2003 - Experimental Psychology (equivalent to a BA+MS), Sapienza University, Rome
1998 - High-School Scientific Diploma (Jul)
Positions
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY (since April 2017). University of Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgico Specialistiche, Sezione di Fisiologia Umana
AFFILIATED RESEARCHER (since April 2017). Italian Institute of Technology, CTNSC@UniFe, Ferrara
RESEARCHER (Jan 2016 - Mar 2017). Italian Institute of Technology, CTNSC@UniFe, Ferrara
RESEARCHER (Apr 2012 - Dec 2015). Italian Institute of Technology, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Genova
SENIOR POST-DOC (Apr 2010 - Mar 2012). Italian Institute of Technology, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Genova. Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Fadiga
POST-DOC (Apr 2007 - Mar 2010). University of Ferrara, D.S.B.T.A. Section of Human Physiology, Neurolab, Ferrara. Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Fadiga and Prof. Laila Craighero
VISITING PHD STUDENT (Feb-Sept 2005; Apr-May 2006). MIT, Brain and Cognitive Science Department, BizziLab, Cambridge, MA (USA). Supervisor: Prof. Emilio Bizzi
VISITING PHD STUDENT (Mar-Sept 2004; Nov-Dec 2004). Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Tübingen (Germany). Supervisors: Prof. Niels Birbaumer and Martin Lotze
PHD STUDENT (Nov 2003 - Mar 2007). Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Psychology, CSPL - Cognitive Science and Psychology Lab, Rome. Supervisor: Prof. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT (Jan 2002-Oct 2003). Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Psychology, Cognitive Science and Psychology Lab, Rome (Italy). Supervisor: Prof. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Honours & Awards
2017 - 2023 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2016). Full Professor habilitation in Physiology (05/D1)
2017 - 2023 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2016). Full Professor habilitation in Psychobiology, Cognitive Psychology and Statistical Psychology (11/E1)
2015 - 2020 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2013). Associate Professor habilitation in Physiology (05/D1)
2015 - 2020 - Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2013). Associate Professor habilitation in Psychobiology, Cognitive Psychology and Statistical Psychology (11/E1)
2014 - 2019 – Italian National Scientific Habilitation (ASN 2012). Associate Professor habilitation in Psychobiology, Cognitive Psychology and Statistical Psychology (11/E1)
2012 - “De Renzi” Prize for young investigators, SINP – Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia (Italian Society for Neuropsychology)
2009 - Young Investigator Award, AIP - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sperimentale (Italian Association of Psychology, Experimental Section)
2006 - Travel award, Human Brain Mapping conference. OHBM Grant
2005 - Travel award, Human Brain Mapping conference. NIH Grant #2 R13 MH062008-06
2005 - ECONA scholarship on “Auditory-Motor Integration: New Methods and Perspective”
2005 - Selected by the MIT/Italy Program for a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 - ERASMUS/SOCRATES scholarship for a research stay at the Eberhart-Karls-Universität
2002/03 - Merit-based selection for payed undergrad research assistance, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University
2002 - Undergrad research scholarship with Prof. Olivetti Belardinelli (Apr ’02 – Nov ’02)
2001/02 - Merit-based selection for payed undergrad research assistance, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University
Invited talks
2017 - Cognitive-motor strategies. Workshop “Neuroscience of Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation”, SIPF, Roma
2017 - Grasping Synergies: A motor-control approach to the mirror neuron mechanism. 1st Bologna Workshop on Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Bologna
2017 - Neuroscienze e voce: tra percezione e esecuzione. Workshop “La voce artistica”, Ravenna
2017 - Grasping Synergies: A motor-control approach to the mirror neuron mechanism. DAAD-MIUR Workshop “The motor system in action: common and specific motor representations in performing, perceiving and communicating actions”, Universität Potsdam
2017 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of natural speech interaction. Symposium "Cognitive and neural mechanisms of action imitation", Experimental Psychology Society (EPS), London
2016 - L’elaborazione del linguaggio: dal cervello ai sistemi artificiali. Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche: Giornata Dipartimentale della Ricerca. Università di Ferrara
2016 - The common origins of language and action. “Action, Language, Cognition” conference, CNR, Rome
2016 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication. School of Psychological Sciences, Univ. of Manchester
2016 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich
2016 - Music and the brain, the case of ensemble musicians. Istituto di Neuroscienze CNR, Milan
2015 - Sensorimotor communication in music ensembles. Mind and Brain in Music Workshop. Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Milano - Bicocca
2015 - Sensorimotor communication, speech and language. 16th International Multisensory Research Forum, Pisa
2015 - Sensorimotor basis of human-objects-human interaction. VisLab, Institute for Systems and Robotics of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
2015 - Le basi sensorimotorie della comunicazione. Technology Enhanced Learning Workshop, Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Milano
2014 - Joint ecological action. Int. Symp. on Cogn. Neurosci. Robotics, Osaka
2014 - Investigating the sensorimotor basis of human communication. Departmental Colloquium. Department of Cognitive Science. Central European University, Budapest
2014 - Percezione-Azione nell'interazione comunicativa nelle orchestre. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
2014 - Communication and action coordination in musical performance. The Conscious Body meeting III – Paris
2014 - Understanding the sensorimotor basis of human communication. 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction- Workshop: HRI: a bridge between Robotics and Neuroscience, Bielefeld
2014 - Sensorimotor processing of speech: brain inspired approaches to automatic speech recognition. Brain & Language Research Institute Seminar, Aix en Provence
2013 - Active perception - sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language. 57th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging - Leipzig
2013 - The common origins of language and action. Int. Symp. on Cogn. Neurosci. Robotics, Seattle
2012 - The motor contribution to speech perception: neurophysiological and modeling approaches, Uppsala University
2012 - The motor contribution to speech perception: neurophysiological and modelling approaches, International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech (ISICS 2012), Aix-en-Provence
2012 - The motor contribution to speech perception: neurophysiological and modelling approaches, Max Plank Institute - Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2011 - Linguaggio e azione: analogie, problemi e spunti per la ricerca. La Mente nel Cervello, Tor Vergata, Rome
2010 - Communication and action coordination in musical performance. Interdisciplinary colloquium on Music and Emotion, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva
2010 - Il ruolo del sistema motorio nella comprensione del parlato. Centro di diagnosi precoce e di trattamento dell’ Autismo: Una breccia nel muro, Rome
2010 - The role of the motor system in speech perception. Max Plank Institute - Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2010 - The role of the motor system in speech perception. Speech and Brain 2010, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Helsinki
2010 - The motor system in speech comprehension. CISC talk, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova
2009 - Motor contribution to speech perception. Interlocution Workshop: Linguistic structure and human interaction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2008 - Audio-motor integration in action comprehension and production. Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome
2007 - BMI: Cosa dobbiamo cercare in corteccia? L'area motoria primaria ci può dare informazioni utili? Brain Machine Interface Group @ The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova
2006 - Auditory-motor learning. Dept of Physiology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara
Organization and editorial activities
2018 - Scientific Committee ICSC2018 (International Conference on Space and Cognition), Rome
since 2017 - Review Editor for the journal “Frontiers in Cognition” (Frontiers)
2016 - Scientific Board of the PhD Program in Translational Neuroscience and Neurotechnologies, University of Ferrara
2015 - Program Committee INTERPERSONAL@ICMI (International Workshop on Modelling Interpersonal Synchrony), Seattle
2015 - Scientific Committee ICSC2015 (International Conference on Space and Cognition), Rome
since 2014 - Secretary of the “Associazione Scientifica Umbrella” ONLUS
since 2014 - Review Editor for the journal “Frontiers in Language Sciences” (Frontiers)
since 2013 - Academic Editor for the journal “PLOS ONE” (Public Library of Sciences)
since 2013 - Advisory Board for the journal “Cognitive Processing” (Springer)
2012 - Scientific Committee ICSC2012 (International Conference on Space and Cognition) Rome
2011 - IIT organising group for “150 humanoid robots and more...", Festival della Scienza, Genova
2011 - Scientific Committee CulturAbruzzo 2011 (Abruzzo's high-school students excellence award)
2010 - IIT organising responsible for “E-Motion - Un Laboratorio-Esperimento a Casa Paganini", in collaboration with SARC Queen's University, Belfast, InfoMus-Casa Paganini, Festival della Scienza, Genova
2010 - Scientific Committee CulturAbruzzo 2010 (Abruzzo's high-school students excellence award)
2006 - Organising Committee of ICSC2006 (International Conference on Space and Cognition) Rome
2006 - Panel organisation “Putting motor learning in its proper context: the effects of contextual cues and training history on skill acquisition.” NCM’06 (Neural Control of Movement) Key Biscayne, Florida
2003 - Organising Committee of ICSC2003 (International Conference on Space and Cognition) Rome
2003 - Staff of ESCOM’05 (5th triennial Conf. European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music) Hannover
Neuron, Current Biology, PNAS, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, Cortex, Human Brain Mapping, Neuroimage, Scientific Reports, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, European Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Neuropsychologia, PlosONE, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Brain and Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Neuroscience Research, Brain Research, Brain Research Bulletin, Experimental Brain Research, Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuropsychology, Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Cognitive Processing, Brain Sciences, Multisensory Research, Swiss Journal of Psychology, CogSci.
Occasional Grant reviewer
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Leverhulme Trust, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation.
Funding
EU FUNDING
2011/15 - POETICON++ (“Robots need Language: A computational mechanism for generalisation and generation of new behaviours in robots”). FP7-ICT-288382. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
2010/13 - SIEMPRE ("Social Interaction and Entrainment using Music PeRformance Experimentation"). FP7-ICT-250026. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
2008/11 - POETICON ("The Poetics of Everyday Life: Grounding Resources and Mechanisms for Artificial Agents"). FP7-ICT-215843. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
2007/08 - CONTACT (“Learning and development of Contextual Action”). FP6-NEST-5010 (NEST). Contribution: scientific program execution, writing project reports, presenting data at project meetings
OTHER FUNDING
2006/08 - Vigoni Program with the Eberhart-Karls-Universität Tuebingen, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie, Tübingen (Germania). Contribution: writing complete proposal
2004/05 - PRIN - Modellizzazione Matematica del Comportamento Naturale e Artificiale. Contribution: writing part of the proposal, scientific program execution
2003/07 - Several projects for the Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. Contribution: writing part of the proposals, scientific program execution
Science popularization activities
2016 - Interazione comunicativa sensorimotoria nelle orchestre. Brain Awareness Week, Trieste
2015 - L’uomo, buono e cattivo. Neuroethics article on the geopolitics bi-monthly magazine “East” (n.57)
2014 - Radio interview on Radio3 Regionale (Bolzano local edition)
2014 - Nella prigione della mente. Neuroethics article on the geopolitics bi-monthly magazine “East” (n.54)
2013 - National TV interview on RAI Storia for “Dixit Stelle” in a 2Hr show entitled “Lo Spettacolo del Cervello”
2012 - Full page about neuroscience and art on the national newspaper “l’Unità”, 27 Nov
2012 - National Radio interview on Radio3 for “Radio3Scienza”
2012 - National Radio interview on RadioMonteCarlo for “RMC Prima Serata”
2012 - SCINTILLE…di musica, scienza, arte e poesia. Public talk at Teatro Palladium, Rome
2011 - Musica e neuroscienze: dalla psicofisica del suono all’esperienza estetica. Public talk for CulturAbruzzo Foundation, Pescara
2010 - Il linguaggio nel cervello: nuove soluzioni a vecchie controversie. Neuroscience Café, Trieste
Teaching
2017 - Neurophysiology (36Hrs), Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2017 - Lecture on “Interaction and communication in music” (2Hrs), for “Corso di Perfezionamento in Musica e Musicoterapia in Neurologia”, Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2016 - Short course on “Language and speech” and “Interaction and communication” (6Hrs) for the “International Summer School in Cognitive Science”, New Bulgarian University
2016 - Lecture on “Interaction and communication in music” (2Hrs), for “Corso di Perfezionamento in Musica e Musicoterapia in Neurologia”, Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2015 - Short course on “The role of the motor system in perception and social interaction” (8Hrs) for the “International Summer School in Cognitive Science”, New Bulgarian University
2014 - Lecture on “Interaction and communication in music” (2Hrs), for “Corso di Perfezionamento in Musica e Musicoterapia in Neurologia”, Dip. di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche Specialistiche, University of Ferrara
2014 – Short course on “Neurophysiology of the motor system and TMS” (8Hrs), for IIT PhD students
2013 - Lecture on “Language, Speech and the Motor System” (3Hrs), for the course on “Psychology of action” (prof. Becchio), Dept of Psychology, University of Torino
2013 - Lecture on “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation” (3Hrs), for IIT PhD students
2013 - Short course on “Neurophysiology of the motor system” (6Hrs), for IIT PhD students
2011 - Lecture on “Language and speech comprehension” (4 Hrs), master di I livello di Logopedia (master-level course), University of Ferrara and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2007/09 - TMS Lab practical demonstration for medical students at the University of Ferrara (6hr/semester)
2007 - Lecture on “Forward and inverse models for motor control and learning” (4 Hrs), for Professional Psychologists and Educators, Società Italiana di Psicoterapia Integrata, Casoria
2007 - Lecture on "Introduction to brain functioning and mirror neurons" (4 Hr), Istituto Socio-Psico-Pedagogico Marconi, Pescara
2006/07 - Contract Professor of “History of Psychology” (30Hrs), Faculty of Psychology, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti
2006 - Course on “Neural networks and memory models” (25 Hrs), for Professional Psychologists and Educators, Santo Spirito Hospital, Pescara
2005/07 - Teaching assistant for: Mental Models (prof. Olivetti Belardinelli), Psychology, LUMSA University, Rome
2005/08 - High school students’ tutorship in General Psychology, “Comunità Domenico Tardini” Foundation, Rome
2005 - Lecture on "Connectionism, Artificial Intelligence and Problem Solving" (4Hrs), for the course of “General Psychology” (prof. Brunetti), IES, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Fundamentals of General Psychology (prof. Olivetti Belardinelli), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Cognitive Psychology (prof. Olivetti Belardinelli), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Neural Networks Modelling of Cognitive Functions (prof. Londei), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004/07 - Teaching assistant for: Artificial Intelligence (prof. Londei), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
2004 - Lecture on "Musical recognition modelling by means of neural networks" (2Hrs), for the course on “Neural Networks Modelling of Cognitive Functions” (prof. Londei), Dept of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
External Reviewer Doctoral defence
- Pauline Hilt. Thesis Title: “Décision motrice et contrôle modulaire d'un système hyper redondant”. Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (15 December 2015)
- Judith Schmitz. Thesis Title: “On the relationship between native and non-native speech perception and speech production”. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (18 March 2016)
Tutoring and co-tutoring activities
Jeffrey J. Berry: Visiting PhD student (11/10-4/11); Postdoc (04/12-07/13)
Eleonora Bartoli: PhD student (01/11-04/14); Postdoc (04/14-12/14)
Giacinto Barresi: Internship (03/11-09/11)
Laura Maffongelli: Internship (07/11-12/11); PhD student (01/12-04/15)
SunJin Ji: PhD student (01/12-06/13)
Judith Schmitz: Visiting PhD student (02/12-07/12)
Elisabetta Ferrari: PhD student (01/13-12/15)
Olivia Morgan Lapenta: Visiting PhD student (09/14-05/15)
Sankar Mukherjee: Internship (05/15-10/15); PhD student (11/15-02/19)
Pauline Hilt: PhD student (11/15-02/19)
Anaelli Campos: Visiting Postdoc (06/15-10/16)
Pasquale Cardellicchio: Postdoc (06/16-Present)
Alessandro D'Ausilio
Ferrara, July 2017
