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Giuseppe Di Cesare

Affiliated Researcher
COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Research center
About

I am a biologist, in 2015 I obtained the PhD in neuroscience from the University of Parma (Italy). I am leading several studies focused on the expression and recognition of vitality forms. Since August 2019, I am working at IIT (CONTACT lab) where I am carrying out experiments on human-robot interactions collecting fMRI and kinematic data.

Skills

fMRI

Kinematic

Electromyography

Psychophysics

All Publications
2022
Lombardi G., Gerbella M., Marchi M., Sciutti A., Rizzolatti G., Di Cesare G.
Investigating form and content of emotional and non-emotional laughing
Cerebral Cortex
2021
Di Cesare G., Pelosi A., Aresta S., Lombardi G., Sciutti A.
Affective Contagion: How Attitudes Expressed by Others Influence Our Perception of Actions
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2021
Di Cesare G., Cuccio V., Marchi M., Sciutti A., Rizzolatti G.
Communicative and affective components in processing auditory vitality forms: An fMRI study
Cerebral Cortex
2021
Lombardi G., Zenzeri J., Belgiovine G., Vannucci F., Rea F., Sciutti A., Di Cesare G.
The influence of vitality forms on action perception and motor response
Scientific Reports
2021
Di Cesare G., Marchi M., Lombardi G., Gerbella M., Sciutti A., Rizzolatti G.
The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: a mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America