Welcome

The EMbodied COgnition lab brings together researchers from many fields who hold a common goal: understanding how human cognition works. Our research moves from the idea that cognition is embodied and situated.

Work in the lab is primarily focused on behavioural experimentation. However, the empirical work of the group has three strands:

psychological (experimental psychology, kinematics),
neuropsychological (studies with patients, physiological studies with TMS),
computational (neural networks and Artificial Life and robotics simulations).

Within a general embodied and situated approach, our areas of interest include:

interaction between perception and action
categorization, action and motion
object affordances
action imitation
body representation
grounding of language in perception and action
motor resonance and mirroring effects
spatial compatibility phenomena and embodiment
shared attention.

Now our group coordinates an FP7 Cognitive Systems and Robotics project, the ROSSI project (Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction).