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Alessandro FARNÈ Position: CR1 INSERM Email: alessandro.farneinserm.fr Phone number: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 12

Curriculum vitae

Born 21/09/1967 (42 years-old, married, one child)

1999 PhD in Experimental Psychology, University of Bologna

2001-2005 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy

Since 1-3-2005 INSERM Researcher (CR1) Unit 864 Espace et Action, Bron, France

Since 1-1-2006 AVENIR Team Director “Multisensory Space & Action”

Main research interests

My research focuses on the neural processes of multisensory interaction and their behavioural effects. Its clinical aim is to rehabilitate deficits of sensory perception and action control in neurological patients affected by neglect and extinction following cerebral stroke.

• Multisensory Perception and Action

• Multisensory Extinction & Neglect

• Body representations

• Tool-use & cerebral plasticity

• Self-other recognition

Projects

• Action on Perception
• Body Ownership
• Effects of Orofacial Muscles Stimulation on Speech Perception
• DISCOS
• Extinction and Neglect
• TMS cortical perturbations during saccadic adaptation
• Tool Use and Body Schema

Publications (last three years)

• Cardinali L, Brozzoli C, and Farnè A (2009) Peripersonal Space and Body Schema: Two Labels for the Same Concept? Brain Topogr (in press):. [PMID: 19387818]
• Frassinetti F, Maini M, Benassi M, Avanzi S, Cantagallo A, and Farnè A (2009) Selective impairment of self body-parts processing in right brain-damaged patients. Cortex (in press):. [PMID: 19482271]
• Makin TR, Holmes NP, Brozzoli C, Rossetti Y, and Farnè A (2009) Coding of visual space during motor preparation: Approaching objects rapidly modulate corticospinal excitability in hand-centered coordinates. J Neurosci 29(38):11841–51. [PMID: 19776270]
• Revol P, Farnè A, Pisella L, Holmes NP, Imai A, Susami K, Koga K, and Rossetti Y (2009) Optokinetic stimulation induces illusory movement of both out-of-the-body and on-the-body hand-held visual objects. Exp Brain Res 193(4):633–8. [PMID: 19199099]
• Jacquin-Courtois S, Rode G, Luaute J, Pisella L, Farnè A, O'Shea J, Boisson D, and Rossetti Y (2009) Syndrome de négligence spatiale unilatérale: d'un polymorphisme clinique vers un polymorphisme thérapeutique Revue de Neuropsychologie 1(4):332.
• Folegatti A, de Vignemont F, Pavani F, Rossetti Y, and Farnè A (2009) Losing one's hand: visual-proprioceptive conflict affects touch perception. PLoS One 4(9):e6920. [PMID: 19738900]
• Cardinali L, Frassinetti F, Brozzoli C, Urquizar C, Roy AC, and Farnè A (2009) Tool-use induces morphological updating of the body schema Curr Biol 19(12):R478–9. [PMID: 19549491]
• Brozzoli C, Pavani F, Urquizar C, Cardinali L, and Farnè A (2009) Grasping actions remap peripersonal space Neuroreport (in press):. [PMID: 19512951]
• Frassinetti F, Pavani F, Zamagni E, Fusaroli G, Vescovi M, Benassi M, Avanzi S, and Farnè A (2009) Visual processing of moving and static self body-parts Neuropsychologia 47(8-9):1988–93. [PMID: 19428432]
• Brozzoli C, Cardinali L, Pavani F, and Farnè A (2009) Action-Specific Remapping Of Peripersonal Space Neuropsychologia 48(3):796–802. [PMID: 19837102]
• Rossetti Y, Farnè A, Rode G, Tilikete C, and Pisella L (2009) Attention et espace: l'héminegligence est-elle un piège pour l'ophtalmologiste? Ou comment les dialogues sensori-moteurs modifient les représentations cognitives Ophtalmo Septembre 2009(6):8.
• Rossetti Y, Rode G, Farnè A, and Pisella L (2008) L'oubli du côté gauche La Recherche (415):47.
• Brozzoli C, Ishihara M, Gobel SM, Salemme R, Rossetti Y, and Farnè A (2008) Touch perception reveals the dominance of spatial over digital representation of numbers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(14):5644–8. [PMID: 18385382]
• Serino A, Farnè A, Rinaldesi ML, Haggard P, and Ladavas E (2007) Can vision of the body ameliorate impaired somatosensory function? Neuropsychologia 45(5):1101–7. [PMID: 17101158]
• Ro T, Farnè A, Johnson RM, Wedeen V, Chu Z, Wang ZJ, Hunter JV, and Beauchamp MS (2007) Feeling sounds after a thalamic lesion Ann Neurol 62(5):433–41. [PMID: 17893864]
• Serino A, Bassolino M, Farnè A, and Ladavas E (2007) Extended multisensory space in blind cane users Psychol Sci 18(7):642–8. [PMID: 17614874]
• Farnè A, Serino A, and Làdavas E (2007) Dynamic size-change of peri-hand space following tool-use: determinants and spatial characteristics revealed through cross-modal extinction. Cortex 43(3):436–43. [PMID: 17533766]
• Legrand D, Brozzoli C, Rossetti Y, and Farnè A (2007) Close to me: multisensory space representations for action and pre-reflexive consciousness of oneself-in-the-world Conscious Cogn 16(3):687–99. [PMID: 17683948]
• Farnè A, Brozzoli C, Ladavas E, and Ro T (2007) Investigating multisensory spatial cognition through the phenomenon of extinction. In: Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition, Attention and Performance XXVII (Haggard P and Rossetti Y, eds.), : Kawato M, p. 183–206.
• Bonifazi S, Farnè A, Rinaldesi L, and Ladavas E (2007) Dynamic size-change of peri-hand space through tool-use: spatial extension or shift of the multi-sensory area. J Neuropsychol 1(Pt 1):101–14. [PMID: 19331028]