!!Luciano Fadiga - Biography
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Born in 1961, M.D. University of Bologna, Ph.D. in Neuroscience University of Parma. Full Professor of Human Physiology at the Medical School of the University of Ferrara and Senior Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology. From 2015 he is Coordinator of the IIT@UniFe Center for Translational Neurophysiology. He has a long experience in electrophysiology and neurophysiology in monkeys (single neuron recordings) and humans (transcranial magnetic stimulation, study of spinal excitability, brain imaging, electrophysiological recordings). \\
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Among his contributions are:  - The discovery of mirror neurons in macaque monkey, a  class of neurons that respond both when the monkey performs actions and when it observes similar actions made by other individuals - The study of peripersonal space representation in premotor cortex. T-The first demonstration that a mirror system exists also in humans by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on the hand motor cortex of human subjects while they were observing others’ actions. T-The demonstration that a similar motor resonance is activated during speech listening and involves tongue-related motor centers and that it is functional to speech perception. T-The first demonstration that, in humans, the frontal area for speech production (Broca’s area) is activated by action observation and that this activation reflects a primary role played by this area in pragmatically understanding actions of others. \\
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Currently: H-He continues his research on monkey ventral premotor cortex (to elucidate the physiological mechanisms at the basis of mirror neurons visuomotor response) and on humans (by TMS and fMRI, to reveal the link between action representation and language). H-He coordinates a project on neurorehabilitation of stroke patients by action observation. H-He is leading a group of researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology to investigate the possibility to establish hardware communication between the human brain and some artificial device (brain-machine interfaces). H-He is currently PI in three EU funded Projects (EnTimeMent, Cobra nad PRIMI). He has been coordinator of an EU funded Integrated Project on the brain basis of action and language grammars (Poeticon++) and PI in several other international and national projects. \\
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He has been member of the SH4 Panel of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2009-2011 and Chair of the same Panel in 2012 - 2014. He has been invited to give several talks and plenary lectures by International Centers and Institutions. He coordinates the Ph.D. School of Neuroscience and Neurotechnologies at the Univesity of Ferrara. His work has received more than 30000 citations.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit lfadiga}][{ALLOW upload lfadiga}][{ALLOW comment All}]