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Title: junior researcher

Research interests are mainly focused on the understanding of how the brain represents the pain of others (empathy for pain) and of what kind of affordances influences the motor responses.

E-mail: filomena.anelli@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

• March 2008 – To present: Research fellow (1 year long) at the University of
  Bologna, Communication Disciplines Department, Bologna, Italy. Project “ROSSI – Emergence of communication in Robots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction”.
  Tutor: Professor Roberto Nicoletti.

• November 2007 – May 2008: Training post-lauream at the “Centro Studi e
  Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive”, Cesena, Italy.
  Tutor: Professor Elisabetta Làdavas.

• November 2007: Master Degree in Neuropsychology and Functional
  Rehabilitation in life-span (58/S), University of Bologna (Cesena), Italy.
  Title of the dissertation: “The Role of the Somatosensory Cortex on Empathy for Pain.
  Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation studies”.
  Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude.
  Supervisor: Professor Alessio Avenanti.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Behaviour and of Social Relations (L-24), University of Bologna (Cesena), Italy.
  Title of the dissertation: “The neuropsychological deficit of encephalopathy acute resulting from wasp sting”.
  Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude.
  Supervisor: Professor Elisabetta Làdavas.
  

Complete CV (italian) in pdf format
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Conference Presentations:

• Anelli, F. & Avenanti, A., “The Role of the Somatosensory Cortex on Empathy for Pain. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation studies”.
  Poster presented at the Summer School “The Sense of Body”, University of Bologna,
  Bologna, Italy, June 16th – 22th, 2008.

• T. Ziemke, A. Borghi, F. Anelli, C. Gianelli, F. Binkovski, G. Buccino, V. Gallese, M.
  Huelse, M. Lee, R. Nicoletti, D. Parisi, L. Riggio, A. Tessari, E. Sahin
  ROSSI. Emergence of communication in Robots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction.
  Poster presented at the “International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008)”, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2nd – 4th, 2008.