Neuroscience Haptics and more

Our current research interests include haptics, motor control of the hand, multisensory integration, tactile and visual perception of motion.

from: (Moscatelli et al., 2016)

from: (Moscatelli et al., 2016)

Selected Pubblications

Ryan, C. P., Ciotti, S., Balestrucci, P., Bicchi, A., Lacquaniti, F., Bianchi, M., Moscatelli, A. (2024). The relativity of reaching: Motion of the touched surface alters the trajectory of hand movements. Iscience, 27(6).

Moscatelli, A., Bianchi, M., Ciotti, S., Bettelani, G. C., Parise, C. V., Lacquaniti, F., Bicchi, A. (2019). Touch as an auxiliary proprioceptive cue for movement control. Science advances, 5(6), eaaw3121.

Moscatelli, A., Bianchi, M., Serio, A., Terekhov, A., Hayward, V., Ernst, M. O., Bicchi, A. (2016) The Change in Fingertip Contact Area as a Novel Proprioceptive Cue. Current Biology, 26, 1159-1163

Dallmann, C.J., Ernst, M.O., Moscatelli, A. (2015) The role of vibration in tactile speed perception. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(6), 3131-3139.

Moscatelli, A., Mezzetti, M., and Lacquaniti, F. (2012). Modeling psychophysical data at the population-level: The generalized linear mixed model. Journal of Vision 12:26, 1-17.

Funded Projects

2024 - 2026

Italian grant PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE. Title of the project: “COordination and iNtegration of motion in the TACTile and motor system - CONTACT”. Settore SH4; Codice Progetto 2020EL3FZL. Responsabile dell’Unita di Ricerca Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata.

2022 - 2026

Team Leader (Haptics Team - Santa Lucia Foundation Unit) in Horizon RIA grant: HARIA HUMAN-ROBOT SENSORIMOTOR AUGMENTATION WEARABLE SENSORIMOTOR INTERFACES (Proposal number: 101070292).

Previous funded projects

Principal investigator in the research project ‘Understanding tactile motion for rendering’, founded by and in collaboration with Facebook Reality lab (Facebook Inc.), and in collaboration with the University of Pisa.

Work Package leader in the project “TIGHT: Tactile InteGration for Humans and arTificial systems” (Italian PRIN project; grant number: 2017SB48FP).

Co-investigator in the European projects “THE: The Hand Embodied” and “WearHap”.

People

Group Leader

Alessandro Moscatelli

Post Docs

Priscilla Balestrucci, Ph.D.

Sylvain Famié, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Students

Aurelia Schirripa (with Viviana Betti )

Anna Vitale (with Monica Gori )

Master Students

Alessio Lin

Alice Flamini

Domenica Mele

Fanny Valente

Francesca Campana

Giulia Daniele

Raffaella Santucci