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Alessandro D'Ausilio

Post-Doc

RBCS / Mirror Neurons and Interaction Lab


Bio

I studied Experimental Psychology (1998-2003) and obtained a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the Sapienza University of Rome (2007 – Prof. Olivetti Belardinelli). During my Ph.D. I spent extended research periods both at MIT (Brain and Cognitive Science Department, McGovern Institute for Brain Research - Prof. Bizzi) and the Eberhart-Karls-Universität in Tübingen (Institut für Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie - Prof. Birbaumer and Prof. Lotze). After the Ph.D. I mooved to Ferrara for a three-years postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Ferrara (NeuroLab - Prof. Fadiga and Prof. Craighero). I joined the Italian Institute of Technology in May 2010, first a Senior Post-doc and then since April 2012 as a Team Leader in the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department (Prof. Sandini and Prof. Fadiga).


Projects

- The role of the motor system in speech perception
- Neurophysiological studies of action observation
- Music and musicians as a test-bed for human to human interactions

Other Publications

INTERNATINAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

25. Busan P., D’Ausilio A., Borelli M., Monti F., Pelamatti G., Pizzolato G., Fadiga L. (20xx) Motor excitability evaluation in developmental stuttering: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Cortex. In Press.

24. D’Ausilio A., Craighero L., Fadiga L., (20xx) The contribution of the frontal lobe to the perception of speech and language. J Neurolinguist. In Press.

23. D’Ausilio A., Bufalari I., Salmas P., Fadiga L., (20xx) The role of the motor system in discriminating degraded speech sounds. Cortex, In Press.

22. D'Ausilio A., (2012) Arduino: a low-cost multi purpose lab equipment. Behav Res Methods. In Press.

21. D'Ausilio A., Badino L., Tokay S., Aloimonos Y., Li Y., Craighero L., Canto R., Fadiga L. (2012) Coordinated action in orchestra. PLoS ONE 7(5): e35757.

20. D'Ausilio A., Jarmolowska J., Busan P., Bufalari I., Craighero L. (2011) Tongue corticospinal modulation during attended verbal stimuli: Priming and coarticulation effects. Neuropsychologia. 49(13), 3670-3676.

19. D’Ausilio A., Bufalari I., Salmas P., Busan P., Fadiga L., (2011) Vocal pitch discrimination in the motor system. Brain & Lang. 118, 9-14.

18. Senot P., D’Ausilio A., Franca M., Caselli L., Craighero L., Fadiga L. (2011) Effect of weight-related labels on corticospinal excitability during observation of grasping: a TMS study. Exp Brain Res. 211(1), 161-167.

17. Ruspantini I., D’Ausilio A., Mäki H., Ilmoniemi R.J. (2011) Some considerations about the biological appearance of pacing stimuli in visuomotor finger tapping tasks. Cogn Process, 12(2), 215-218.

16. Ruspantini I., Maki H., Korhonen R., D’Ausilio A., Ilmoniemi R. (2011) The functional role of the ventral premotor cortex in a visually-paced finger tapping task: a TMS study. Behav Brain Res. 220, 325–330.

15. Canto R., Bufalari I., D’Ausilio A. (2011) A convenient and accurate parallel Input/Output USB device for E-Prime. Behav Res Methods. 43(1), 292-296.

14. Ajemian R., D’Ausilio A., Moorman H., Bizzi E. (2010). Why professional athletes need a prolonged period of warm-up and other peculiarities of human motor learning. J Mot Behav. 42(6), 381-388.

13. Londei A., D’Ausilio A., Basso D., Sestieri C., Del Gratta C., Romani GL., Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2010) Sensory-motor brain network connectivity for speech comprehension. Hum Brain Map. 31(4), 567-580.

12. D’Ausilio A., Brunetti R., Delogu F., Santonico C., Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2010) How and when action-effects audition impairs motor performance. Exp Brain Res. 201(2), 323-330.

11. Kotz S.A., D’Ausilio A., Begliomini C., Craighero L., Fabbri-Destro M., Raettig T., Zingales C., Haggard P., Fadiga L. (2010) Lexicality drives audio-motor transformations in Broca's area. Brain & Lang. 112, 3-11.

10. D'Ausilio A. (2009) Mirror-Like Mechanisms and Music. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL, 9, 1415-1422.

9. Olivetti Belardinelli M., Palmiero M., Sestieri C., Nardo D., Di Matteo R., Londei A, D’Ausilio A., Ferretti A., Del Gratta C., Romani G.L. (2009) An fMRI investigation on image generation in different sensory modalities: The influence of vividness. Acta Psych. 132(2): 190-200.

8. Palmiero M., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Nardo D., Sestieri C., Di Matteo R., D'Ausilio A., Romani G.L. (2009) Mental imagery generation in different modalities activates sensory-motor areas. Cogn Process, 10(supp. 2): S268-S271.

7. Fadiga L., Craighero L., D’Ausilio A. (2009) Broca’s Area in language, action and music. Ann NY Acad Sci. 1169: 448–458.

6. Fazio P., Cantagallo A., Craighero L., D’Ausilio A., Roy A.C., Calzolari A., Pozzo P., Granieri E., Fadiga L. (2009) Encoding of Human Action in Broca's area. Brain, 132(7): 1980-1988.

5. D’Ausilio A., Pulvermüller F., Salmas P., Bufalari I., Begliomini C., Fadiga L. (2009) The motor somatotopy of speech perception. Curr Biol, 19, 381-385. [Comment by: Devlin J.T. & Aydelott J. (2009) Curr Biol, 19(5):R198-200. Online discussion with Dr. Gregory Hickok available at: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments#Hickok]

4. D’ausilio A., (2007) The Role of the Mirror System in Mapping Complex Sounds into Actions. J Neurosci, 27(22), 5847-5848.

3. Londei A., D’Ausilio A., Basso D., Sestieri C., Del Gratta C., Romani GL., Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2007) Brain network for passive word listening as evaluated with ICA and Granger’s causality. Brain Res Bull, 72(4-6), 284-292.

2. D’Ausilio A., Altenmuller E., Olivetti Belardinelli M., Lotze M. (2006). Cross modal plasticity of the motor cortex while listening to a rehearsed musical piece. Eur J Neurosci, 24, 955-958. (Cited in Faculty of Biology 1000)

1. Londei A., D’Ausilio A., Basso D., Olivetti Belardinelli M. (2006). A new method for detecting causality in fMRI data of cognitive processing. Cogn Process, 7, 42–52. (Cited in Faculty of Biology 1000)

Awards

2009 - Young Investigator Award, AIP - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sperimentale (Italian Association of Psychology, Experimental Section).

2006 - Travel award, Human Brain Mapping conference. OHBM Grant.

2005 - Travel award, Human Brain Mapping conference. NIH Grant #2 R13 MH062008-06

2005 - ECONA scholarship on “Auditory-Motor Integration: New Methods and Perspective”

2005 - Selected by the MIT/Italy Program for a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2002/03 - Merit-based selection for undergrad research assistance, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University

2001/02 - Merit-based selection for undergrad research assistance, Dept. of Psychology, Sapienza University

 

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