MATTEO CANDIDI

Comunicazioni / Communications

2021-2022

Social Neuroscience

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2021-2022

Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience

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Theses and interships

Theses/internships are available on the following topics/techniques:

1. Behavioral, physiological and neural bases of interpersonal motor interactions (motion kinematics, EEG, brain stimulation);
2. Interpersonal body and space representations (EEG, brain stimulation);
3. Role of motor functions for perception and higher-order cognitive/affective functions;
4. Social neuropsychology.

Who: undergraduate students in Psychology/Neuroscience.

Where: Department of Psychology, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome.

Time frame: at least 9 months.

Note: no option for "remote" work currently, unless we are forced by law restrictions.

I am Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2005 I am affiliated with the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at the Department of Psychology and the Social Neuroscience Lab at the research-oriented hospital IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation of Rome, where I coordinate research using brain stimulation, EEG, psychophysiological and human motion kinematics methods. From 2019 to 2023 I have been the coordinator of the Psychology and Social Neuroscience PhD program which I joined as a board member (curriculum Cognitive Social and Affective Neuroscience) since 2011 at the Department of Psychology. Since 2011 I held the courses in the field of Neuropsychology, Psychobiology of atypical development, Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience and Social Neuroscience at Master and Bachelor’s Degree level at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University. From 2021 I am the coordinator of the international master degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at Sapienza. In 2018 I received the National scientific qualification (ASN) as Full Professor (11/E1, SSD M-PSI/02).

Professional history
• 2018 – present: Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
• 2015 - 2018: Assistant Professor (RTD-B), Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
• 2014 - 2015: Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
• 2011 - 2014: Assistant Professor (RTD-A), Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome
• 2009 - 2011: Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome

Education:
• 2008: European PhD degree in ‘Cognitive Plasticity and Rehabilitation’, Dep. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, score Excellent.
• 2005: Master degree in Psychology, score 110/110 cum laude, Dep. of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome.
• 2000: Studies and exams at the Faculty of Physics, Sapienza University, Rome.
• 1998: High School Diploma, score 56/60, “Virgilio”.

Academic roles:
• 2024-present: Coordinator of the CoSAN curriculum of the international PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Sapienza University
• 2023-present: Board member of the National PhD in Translational and Applied Neuroscience, at Sapienza University unit
• 2021-present: Coordinator of the international master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, Sapienza University
• 2020-2024: Member of Committee for the selection of bursaries to support post-graduate specialization, Sapienza University
• 2019-2023: Coordinator of the international PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Sapienza University
• 2011-present: Board member of the international PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Sapienza University

Teaching (master and bachelor)
• 2024-2025: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (3 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2024-2025: Social Neuroscience (Neuroscienze Sociali) (6 frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), CdS Psicologia e Processi Sociali.

• 2023-2024: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (3 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2023-2024: Social Neuroscience (Neuroscienze Sociali) (6 frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), CdS Psicologia e Processi Sociali.

• 2022-2023: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (6 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2022-2023: Social Neuroscience (Neuroscienze Sociali) (6 frontal credits), CdS Psicologia e Processi Sociali.

• 2021-2022: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (6 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2021-2022: Social Neuroscience (Neuroscienze Sociali) (6 frontal credits), CdS Psicologia e Processi Sociali.

• 2020 – 2021: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (6 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2020 – 2021: Social Neuroscience (Neuroscienze Sociali) (6 frontal credits), CdS Psicologia e Processi Sociali.

• 2019 – 2020: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (6 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2019 – 2020: Social Neuroscience (Neuroscienze Sociali) (6 frontal credits), CdS Psicologia e Processi Sociali.

• 2018 - 2019: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (6 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2018 - 2019: Psychobiology of Atypical Development (3 laboratory credits), CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.

• 2017 - 2018: Experimental Methods in Social Neuroscience (6 cfu frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), international CdS Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 2017 - 2018: Organizational Neuroscience (Neuroscienze delle Organizzazioni) (3 frontal credits, 3 laboratory credits), CdS Psicologia applicata ai contesti della salute, del lavoro, e giuridico-forense.

• 2016 - 2017: Cognitive Neuroimaging (3 laboratory credits), CdS Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica.
• 2016 - 2017: Psychobiology of Atypical Development (6 frontal credits), CdS Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica.

• 2015 - 2016: Psychobiology of Atypical Development (3 laboratory credits), CdS Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica.
• 2015 - 2016: Neuropsychology (Neuropsicologia) (3 laboratory credits) CdS Psicologia dello sviluppo tipico e atipico.

• 2013 - 2014: Neuropsychology across the lifespan (Neuropsicologia nel corso di vita) (3 laboratory credits) CdS Psicologia dello sviluppo, dell’educazione e del benessere.

• 2012 - 2013: Neuropsychology across the lifespan (Neuropsicologia nel corso di vita) (2 laboratory credits) CdS Psicologia dello sviluppo, dell’educazione e del benessere.
• 2012 - 2013: Informatic abilities (Abilità Informatiche) (4 frontal credits) CdS Scienze Psicologiche.

• 2011 - 2012: Neuropsychology in the lifespan (Neuropsicologia nel corso di vita) (2 laboratory credits) CdS Psicologia dello sviluppo, dell’educazione e del benessere.

Research interests:
My research interests fall within the broad field of cognitive, affective and social neuroscience. My work focuses on the neural correlates of body and action visual and motor representations, predictive action simulation, embodied emotions, conscious vision, neuroaesthetics, motor error detection, interpersonal motor coordination, joint-actions, and the way these functions are shaped by psychological individuals’ traits/states and culture. By adopting an embodied cognition perspective, I focused my research on how “low-level” perceptual and sensorimotor skills shape higher-order perceptual, emotional and cognitive functions and, vice-versa, what are the neurophysiological effects of higher-order cognition on “lower-level” perceptual and sensorimotor body representations. I study these topics mainly through non-invasive brain stimulation methods (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) in healthy individuals, elite musicians and brain-damaged patients. I also use motion kinematics and EEG and psychophysiological methods to correlate individuals’ interactive behavior to their neural activity. My future research will focus on the perceptual, motor, affective and neurocognitive features that make our perceptual interpretation, and motor interaction with the world, intrinsically predictive. My research shifts from an area-based approach to an inter-areal perspective in order to study the causal contribution of the anatomo-functional connectivity between distant sensorimotor brain areas for the development and control of different socio-cognitive affective and motor functions.

Research commitment and bibliometric impact:
Documents: 72 on SCOPUS
Total Citations: >26000 (SCOPUS), >3800 (Google Scholar)
Average Citations per Product on SCOPUS: 36, (Total citations SCOPUS/ Total publications SCOPUS)
Hirsch (H) index: 28 (SCOPUS), 32 (Google Scholar)
Normalized H index*: 1,55 (as for the following formula my academic seniority is 2024-2006 = 18 years; 28/18 = 1,55)

Research funding:
As PI:
• 2023: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“Interoceptive pathways in social cognition: correlational and causal approaches with clinical implications to study the impact of bodily signals on social decisions, social stress and interpersonal synchronization.”) 30.000 euros + 1 year funded Post-Doc position 20000 euros
• 2022: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“Cerebello-cortical connectivity contribution to body and space representation along individuals' body dissatisfaction continuum”), 10.000 euros
• 2021: Sapienza University, Roma, Sapienza Medie Attrezzature (“La Stimolazione Magnetica Transcranica ripetitiva (rTMS) in un approccio multi-tecnica per lo studio e la modulazione delle basi cerebrali della percezione, cognizione, dei processi sociali, della personalità e dei disturbi psicologici.”), 71.980 euros
• 2018: Sapienza University, Rome, grant for the international mobility of PhD students.
• 2016: Ministry of Heath, Ricerca Finalizzata, Progetto Giovani Ricercatori 2016 (“Promoting the recovery of higher-order motor functions in brain damaged patients. A novel approach based on the combination of virtual reality and non-invasive brain stimulation”), 350.000 euros.
• 2016: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“ElectroEncephaloGraphic correlates of body and action visual perception, their functional role and modulation through non-invasive brain stimulation.”), 8000 euros + 1 year funded Post-Doc position 22.800 euros
• 2016: Individual research grant (FFABR) (MIUR), 3.000 euro
• 2013: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“Neuroscience of inter-subjectivity: from motor interactions to social impairments”), 2.000 euros
• 2012: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“I see it this way: personality and neural foundations of emotionally positive conscious visual perception”), 12.000 euros
• 2011: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“Neural and personality foundations of predictive motor interactions in healthy and damaged brains”), 5.000 euros + 1 year funded Post-Doc position 22800 euros

As co-PI:
• 2020: Marie-Curie Global Fellowship (“InteroceptionAction - Unraveling the role of interoceptive abilities in aesthetic appreciation of movement.” PI Andrea Orlandi)
• 2020: BIAL Foundation “Beyond your own body: extending the bodily self to the neuroaesthetics of interactions”, PI Andrea Orlandi, 49.500,00 euros
• 2014: BIAL Foundation Fellowship Programme (Portugal) ("Measuring the Self: behavioural and neural correlates of bodily awareness"), PI PhD Tidoni E, 47.000 euros

As team member:
• 2021: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“The effect of deontological guilt on immoral behavior: evidence from a clinical and brain stimulation study”) PI Maria Serena Pnasiti, 10.000 euros
• 2020: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“Cerebro-cerebellar predictive systems for interpersonal interactions: integrating motion kinematics, autonomic monitoring, fMRI and lesions approaches in virtual reality”), 40.000,00 euros + 1 year funded Post-Doc position 23.787,00 euros
• 2019: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“MicroRNA-34 as potential biomarker of coping style to stress and stress-induced cognitive performance: a translational study.”), 29.000 euros
• 2018: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (““SHARETRAIN”: an integrated international, EU-based, network for innovative training in social cognitive and affective neuroscience”), 30.000 euros
• 2017: Sapienza University, Rome, Sapienza Ricerca (“To the heart of the matter: Brain-body pathways to perseverative cognition”), 15.000 euros + 1 year funded Post-Doc position 23.750 euros
• 2013: The Cogito Foundation (“Embodied (e)motions: brain mechanisms and their socio-cultural modulation”), PI Avenanti A
• 2011: Bial Foundation Fellowship Programme (Portugal) (“The Spiritual Brain: neurophysiologic investigations of Self-transcendence and Spirituality”), PI Prof Aglioti SM, 41.000 euros
• 2010-2013: IIT SEED (“Predictive Action-perception Resonance and Mental Simulation (PARMS)”), PI Prof. Aglioti SM, 320.000 euros
• 2010-2013: FP7 Tango (“Emotional interaction grounded in realistic context (TANGO)”), PI Prof. de Gelder, 2.784.999 euros
• 2010-2015: FP7 VERE (“Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-Embodiment (VERE)”), PI Prof SlaterM, 11.100.000 euros
• 2009: PRIN (“Meccanismi e basi nervose dell’attenzione riflessa condivisa e sua modulabilità sociale”), PI Prof. Berlucchi, co-PI Prof. Aglioti.

Editorial and reviewing activity:
• 2022: Member of the Editorial Board of Social Neuroscience (https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoar...).
• 2020: Associate Editor for Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, section Brain imaging and Stimulation (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/sections/brain-i...)
• 2011: Ad hoc Review Editor for Frontiers in Emotion Science
• Ad-hoc reviewer for peer-reviewed ISI journals (e.g. Current Biology, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience, Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research, Behavioral Brain Research, PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Neurosciences, Frontiers in Emotion Science, Frontiers in Psychology, Acta Psychologica, Psychological Research, Cognition, Brain Topography, Rendiconti dei Lincei Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, Giornale Italiano di Psicologia.)
• Reviewer of research projects for international research funding agencies (H2020 European Research Council (ERC); Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Wellcome Trust, The Royal Society, UK; National Competence Center in Biomedical Imaging (NCCBI), ETH, EPSL, SW; Agence Nationale de la Recherche / French National Research Agency (ANR), France; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Research awards and honors:
• 2011 Sapienza University, Under 40 Researcher (Ricerca under 40): Research title “Bodies in the brain: body identity and actions in the visual and motor system”.

Research mentoring:
12 PhD students and 50 MD/BD theses. 1 Sapienza School of Advanced Studies thesis.

Publications
Peer-reviewed international publications
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=13604685500
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=candidi+matteo&sort=date&size=100
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=SG8XlC0AAAAJ&hl=it

Cover image
1) Cerebral cortex cover image January the 15th 2023 for the paper by Moreau Q, Tieri G, Era V, Aglioti SM, Candidi M. (2022) The performance monitoring system is attuned to others' actions during dyadic motor interactions. Cereb Cortex. 33(1): 222-234. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac063.

Peer-reviewed national indexed publications
1) Candidi M, Minio-Paluello I. (2013). Capacità predittiva e traslazionale: due sfide per l’embodied cognition. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, Società editrice il Mulino, 35: 1: 57-63.
2) Liuzza M.T., Candidi M., Aglioti S.M. (2012). Non farlo! Negazione linguistica e simulazione delle azioni. Rivista Italiana Di Filosofia Del Linguaggio, vol. 5, p. 127-136, ISSN: 2036-6728, doi: 10.4396/20120310

National non-indexed publications
1) Candidi M. (2008). “Il corpo emozionale.” DiPAV- Quaderni, 23, pp. 75-88, 2008.
2) Candidi M. (2008). “Rappresentazioni neurali del corpo statico ed in movimento: studi di stimolazione magnetica transcranica.” Atti del convegno CODISCO, Convegno del Coordinamento Nazionale Dottorati Scienze Cognitive, Noto 5-6 Giugno 2008.
3) Urgesi C., Candidi M., Aglioti S.M. (2007). “Gli strani miraggi del nostro corpo.” Darwin, 18: 44-49.

Book chapters
1) Abreu AM, Candidi M, Aglioti SM. (2017) Catching on it early: Bodily and brain anticipatory mechanisms for excellence in sport. Progress in Brain Research, 234:53-67. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2017.08.006.
2) Aglioti S.M., Candidi M., Sacheli L.M. (2015) “La stimolazione cerebrale non-invasiva nelle neuroscienze cognitive e sociali” in N. Bolognini e G. Vallar "Stimolare il cervello" Il Mulino, Bologna.
3) Sacheli L., Aglioti S.M., Candidi M. (2015) “Neural underpinnings of anticipatory action simulation and perception in expert brains” in F. Ferrari and G. Rizzolatti. New Frontiers in Mirror Neuron Research. Oxford University Press. In press
4) Aglioti S.M., Bufalari I., Candidi M. (2014). “Multisensory simulation and aesthetic appreciation” in A. Pascual-Leone and N. Levent. The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory and Space. AltaMira Press.
5) Candidi M., Aglioti S.M. (2012). Il corpo emozionale. In L. Marini and A. Carlino. Il corpo post-umano tra scienza, diritto e società. Carocci.

Presentations
Invited talks
1) Candidi M, “Cortical systems for interpersonal goal directed interactions”, Sapienza Neuroscience - Neuroscienze Romane, 20 May 2022.
2) Candidi M., “Cortical systems for interpersonal goal directed interactions” SIPF 29 September - 1 October 2021, Palermo, Italy.
3) Candidi M, Sacheli LM, Era V, Canzano L, Tieri G, Gandolfo M, Aglioti SM “Causal contribution of the parietal lobe in human-avatar and human-human (interpersonal) motor interactions”, 23-26 June 2016, European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) Porto, Portugal.
4) Candidi M, “Correlati neurali della percezione visiva del corpo e delle sue azioni: dall'osservazione alle interazioni interpersonali”, 26 may 2016, NESMOS Department, Sapienza University, Rome.
5) Candidi M, “Non invasive brain stimulation and body representations: social neuroscience studies” ECM course “Manipulating the mind: reality and fantasy concerning brain stimulation and neuroimaging”, 16 May 2014, Viterbo, Italy.
6) Candidi M, Aglioti SM. “Visual perception of the static, dynamic and emotional body”. Body representation in eating disorders, Udine, 19-20 April 2013, Italy.
7) Candidi M. "Bodies in the brain: identity and actions in the visual and motor system". Sapienza Research Award, Sapienza University, Rome, 16 November 2011, Italy.
8) Candidi M., “Perceiving the static and dynamic body”, SIRN, Verona 5 May 2011, Italy.
9) Candidi M., “The emotional body”, ECM course, hospital “Sacro Cuore – Don Calabria”, Verona, 7 October 2010, Italy.
10) Candidi M., “Statics and dynamics of the body”, AIP, Padova 18-20 September 2008.
11) Candidi M., Aglioti S.M. "Neural representations of the static and dynamic body: transcranial magnetic studies", Noto, 5-6 June 2008, Italy.

Oral presentations
1) Candidi M, Canzano L., Era V., Sacheli LM. “Apraxia and motor interactions” University of Naples, SINP, 23-24 October 2014, Naples, Italy.
2) Candidi M., “Visual perception of emotional expressions: the causative role of the right posterior superior temporal sulcus” Bicocca University, SINP, 15-16 November 2013, Milan, Italy.
3) Candidi M. Stienen BM, Aglioti SM, de Gelder B. “Causative role of the superior temporal sulcus in the conscious perception of bodily and facial expressions of fear: an rTMS study” AIP, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, 16-18 September 2013, Rome, Italy.
4) Candidi M., “Multiple action representation in the cortico-spinal system”, in “Representing another person’s body, actions and sensations: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation approaches” Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, 24 May, 2010, Rome, Italy.
5) Candidi M., Vicario C.M., Abreu A.M. “The experience of tennis and soccer players reflected in the motor system of an observer: TMS studies” SINP, Bologna, 26-27 November 2009, Italy.

Congresses and posters
1) Boukarras S, Era V., Schepisi M., Placidi V., Panasiti S., Garfinkel S., Critchley H., Candidi M. “Hierarchical interactions: behavioural and physiological effects of perceived and experienced social status” SIPF 29 September-1 October 2021, Palermo, Italy.
2) Curioni A., Donnarumma F., Sacheli L.M., Pezzulo G., Candidi M. Leader-follower sensorimotor communication strategies during repetitive joint actions. Oral presentation at Corpi, Strumenti & Cognizione/ Bodies, Tools & Cognition. XI annual meeting of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) e VIII meeting of the coordination of the Italian PhD in Cognitive Science (CODISCO), December, 2nd-5th 2014, Rome, Italy.
3) Era V., & Candidi M. “Emotional and socio-cognitive influences on the aesthetic judgment of bodily visual stimuli". Oral presentation at Corpi, Strumenti & Cognizione/ Bodies, Tools & Cognition. XI annual meeting of the Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) e VIII meeting of the coordination of the Italian PhD in Cognitive Science (CODISCO), December, 2nd-5th 2014, Rome, Italy.
4) Era V., & Candidi M. “Are negative emotions the key for everyday beauty appreciation? A subliminal emotional prime study". Poster presentation at the XXII National Congress of the Italian Psychophysiology Association SIPF, 27th-29th November 2014, Firenze, Italy.
5) Era V., Candidi M. “A me piace comunque! Influenza dello status artistico di un’immagine sulla sua valutazione estetica in funzione della competenza artistica dell’osservatore". Oral presentation at the XX Congress of Experimental Psychology, Italian Association of Psychology, AIP, 15-17 September 2014, Pavia, Italy.
6) Era V., Candidi M. “Are negative emotions the key for everyday beauty appreciation? A subliminal emotional prime study". Oral presentation at the XXII National Congress of the Italian Psychophysiology Association, 27-29 November 2014, Firenze, Italy.
7) Curioni A., Sacheli, LM, Candidi, M. “Signaling and implicit imitation strategies during Leader-Follower repetitive joint actions” 4th IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, ICN, 10 July 2014, London, England
8) Curioni A., Sacheli, LM, Candidi, M. “Kinematic signaling and imitative strategies during repeated joint actions” Cognitive Science Arena for Beginners (CSAB), Bressanone, 22 February 2014, Italy.
9) Sacheli L., Era V., Gandolfo M., Aglioti SM, Candidi M. “Role of the anterior intraparietal sulcus in interpersonal motor interactions: a TMS study” AIP, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, 16-18 September 2013, Rome, Italy.
10) Candidi M, Stienen BM, Aglioti SM, de Gelder B. “Virtual lesion of human posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus exerts opposite influence on the conscious perception of bodily and facial expressions of fear” Magstim TMS Summer School, Oxford 4-5 May 2013, England.
11) Sacheli LM, Pavone EF, Christensen A, Giese MA, Era V, GandolfoM, Aglioti SM, Candidi M. “Integration of partners’ goal in aIPS during joint-action”. Magstim TMS Summer School, Oxford 4-5 May 2013, England.
12) Alessandrini M., Micarelli A., Pagani M., Bruno E., Chiaravalloti A., Di Pietro B., Schillaci O., Candidi M., Napolitano B. “Early cortical responses during vestibular neuritis”. 27th Bárány Society Meeting, 2013.
13) Sacheli L., Candidi M., Mega I., Aglioti S.M. “Cortico-spinal signatures of visually detected fingering errors in expert pianists.” European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, EWCN, Bressanone 23-28 January 2010, Italy.
14) Candidi M., Leone Fernandez B., Barber H., Carreiras M. and Aglioti S.M. “Hands on the future: facilitation of cortico-spinal hand-representation when reading the future tense of hand-related action verbs” NeuroIITscience Workshop, 14-15 July, 2010, Genova, Italy.
15) Liuzza, M.T., Candidi, M. and Aglioti, S.M. “Linguistic negation is mapped in the cortico-spinal system”, Magstim/University of Oxford TMS summerschool, 28-29 June 2010, Oxford, England.
16) Stienen B.M.C., Candidi M., Aglioti S.M. and de Gelder, B. “Virtual lesions of occipital and temporal areas impair processing of neutral but not emotional body movements: an rTMS study”, Magstim/University of Oxford TMS summerschool, 28-29 June 2010, Oxford, England.
17) Vicario C.M., Candidi M. and Aglioti S.M. “Temporal dynamics of cortico-spinal embodiment for newly acquired semantic-motor associations”, Magstim/University of Oxford TMS summerschool, 28-29 June 2010, Oxford, England.
18) Candidi M., Leone B., Barber H., Carreiras M. and Aglioti S.M., “Grasping the future with the hand: modulations of cortico-spinal excitability associated to temporal features of action verbs” AIP, 24-26 September 2009, Chieti, Italy.
19) Liuzza M.T., Candidi M. and Aglioti S.M., “Negation in the cortico-spinal system: a TMS study”, Chieti, 24-26 September 2009, Italy.
20) Leone B., Candidi M., Barber H., Carreiras M. and Aglioti S.M., “The influence of action-verb processing in the motor cortex: a TMS study”, Embodied and Situated Language Processing, July 2009, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
21) Candidi M., Vicario C.M., Abreu A.M. and Aglioti S.M., “Grounding sports in the motor cortex”, Sense of body, Bologna 16-21 June 2008, Italy.
22) Candidi M., Urgesi C., Ionta S. and Aglioti S.M., “Representation of body identity and body action in extrastriate body area and ventral premotor cortex”, ISBET 2006 Chieti, Italy.
23) Candidi M., Urgesi C., Ionta S. and Aglioti S.M. “The causative role of EBA and vPMc in mapping body action and body form. An event-related repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study.” XII Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, NeuroImage, 2006 June; 31 (Supplemement 1): S162.
24) Urgesi C., Moro V., Candidi M. and Aglioti S.M. “Selective facilitation of the human motor system by observation of static snapshots that imply body actions.” XII Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, NeuroImage, 2006 June; 31 (Supplemement 1): S139.
25) Urgesi C., Candidi M., Ionta S., Aglioti S.M. “Rappresentazione neurale del corpo fermo e in movimento. Studi di stimolazione magnetica transcranica ripetitiva.” Oral presentation, SINP, Bologna, 27-28 May 2005, Italy.

Dissemination
Organization of events
• 2024 Organization of the Symposium “Modulation of cortico-cortical plasticity to understand and manipulate action execution, control and learning: new brain stimulation approaches” at the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF), Cesena, 4-6 September.
• 2022: Organization of the Symposium “Neuroscienze e Arti Performative” at Sapienza University (Aula Odeion) 24 September.
• 2021: Organization of the Symposium “Multi-faceted social coordination: multi-faceted social coordination: attunement, synchrony and joint action” 1 October 2021, at the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF), Palermo, 30 September – 2 October.
• 2020: Organization of the Symposium “Action prediction and monitoring in patients with cerebral and cerebellar diseases” at the Italian Society of Neuropsychology (SINP), virtual meeting, 20-21 November.
• 2019: Organization of the Symposium “Neuroscience goes social” (Prof Urgesi, Prof Ottaviani, PhD Era, PhD Fusaro) Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, 15 January 2019.
• 2015: Organization of the Symposium “Situated cognition in the space of social interactions: from the bodily-self to shared spatial representations”, (Lenggenhager, Chakrabarti, Sebanz, Pezzulo) Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, 7-11 September 2015, ICSC (International Conference on Space Cognition).
• 2013: Organization of the event “Anniversario dei 30 anni del Dipartimento di Psicologia”, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, 19 December, Italy.
• 2013: Organization of the event “Neuroscienze in società - Neuroscience and society” Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome,11-13 March, Brain Awarenes Week, Italy.
• 2010: Organization of the event “Neuroscience conferences for the general public” Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome: Prof. Gian Vittorio Caprara, Sapienza University of Rome, Prof. Roberto Caminiti, Sapienza University of Rome, Prof. Patrick Haggard, UCL London, 21 October, Italy.
• 2010: Organization of the event “Representing another person’s body, actions and sensations: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation approaches”, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, 24 May.
• 2010: Organization of the event “Neurosocietà - Neurosociety” Faculty of Psychology 2, Sapienza University, Rome 14 March, Brain Awareness Week, Italy.
• 2008: Organization of the event “Neuropolitica - Neuropolitics” Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, 11-13 March, Brain Awareness Week, Italy.
• 2007: Organization of the event “Il Cervello Mistico – The Mystic Brain” Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome,13-15 March, Brain Awareness Week, Italy.

Media
• 2013: Interview at Radio Tre Scienza, “Tra corpo e cervello“, 11 March 2013 (http://agliotilab.org/in-the-media/interviews#anchor) (http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/programmi/puntata/ContentItem-6e0324d...).
• 2011: Interview on the newspaper Il Tempo, “La ricerca abita alla Sapienza. Premiati i migliori del vivaio”, 17 November 2011.