Salvatore Maria Aglioti#
| Membership Number: | 3284 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Head of Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome
- since 2005 Coordinator of the International Ph.D. Program in “Cognitive Social and Affective Neuroscience”, http://w3.uniroma1.it/cosan/ (derived from the European Ph.D. program in “Cognitive plasticity and rehabilitation”) at University of Rome "La Sapienza" (http://www.uniroma1.it/studenti/phd)
- 2005-2008 Director of the School of Specialisation in Clinical Neuropsychology, at IRCCS Foundation Santa Lucia Hospital
- since 2001 Full professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychological Physiology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- 1998-2000 Associate Professor, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- 1990-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, Human Physiology, Medical School, University of Verona
Fields of Scholarship
- Personality and neural foundations of ideological divide - group distinction - social decision making
- Neural Basis of the Empathic Processes of Other’s Pain
- Behavioural and lesion studies of corporeal awareness
- Neural Correlates of Excellence in Sports
- Shared Attention and Social Communication
- Neural Basis of Imitative Processes in Neurotypicals and Brain Lesioned Participants
- Visual and Multimodal Mental Images
- Bodily illusions and self-other distinction
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Menzione di Eccellenza Sapienza Ricerca, macroarea 5, for the studies on empathy for pain
- 2009 Sapienza Eccellenza, macroarea 5, for the research on Action Anticipation in elite basketball players
- 2009 Themosystems, PNI, First prize for the best entrepreneurial idea, Regione Lazio, Italy
