Prof. Corrado Sinigaglia
Professor of Philosophy of Science
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EMERGENZA COVID-19 Corso di Storia e Filosofia della Psicologia Il corso avrà inizio il 14 settembre 2020 e si svolgerà on-line, con lezione video-registrate che verranno caricate settimanalmente. Gli studenti troveranno il link alle lezioni nel sito Ariel del corso. Le ultime due lezioni del 26 e 28 Ottobre si terranno in sincrono sulla piattaforma TEAMS (codice emrkpu0). Contrariamente a quanto annunciato in precedenza, la lezione del 28 Ottobre NON sarà in presenza.
EMERGENZA COVID-19 Corso di Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience (e per mutuazione Filosofia della Scienza) Il corso avrà inizio il 14 settembre 2020, 10.30-12.30. Le lezioni si terranno online sulla piattaforma TEAMS e avranno luogo col seguente orario: Lunedì 10.30-12.30, Martedì 8.30-10.30, Mercoledì 10.30-12.30. Il codice di accesso al corso è fxzvzhy
About me
I am Full Professor of Philosophy of Science. I have been at University of Milan since 2001 when I was appointed as Assistant Professor there. Before that I studied at the Husserl-Archives of Leuven (1992-1993), at the Ecole Normale Superiéure of Paris (1994), and at the University of Genova (1995-1999), where I obtained my PhD in Philosophy of Science.
Fields of research: Cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind. I'm currently working on the role of motor processes and representations in joint action. Here you can find my CV.
Teaching
2020-2021
- Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience (Corso di Laura Magistrale) Acting together. When philosophy meets cognitive neuroscience. I Semestre
- Philosophy of Science (Corso di Laura Magistrale) Acting together. When philosophy meets cognitive neuroscience. I Semestre
- Storia e Filosofia della Psicologia Come comprendiamo gli altri. Alle radici della cognizione sociale. I Semestre
Research Projects
PRIN 2017-2020 The cognitive neuroscience of interpersonal coordination and cooperation: a motor approach in humans and non-human primates. Interpersonal coordination and cooperation around collective goals provide a core feature of human sociality, often involving a shared sense of agency, or responsibility, on the corresponding outcomes. However, coordination and cooperation seem also to occur (at least in more elementary forms) in non-human primates. The overall aim of the project is to systematically investigate the cognitive architecture of coordination and cooperation and their neural underpinnings. Our main conjecture is that some critical building blocks can be found within the motor system.
BIAL FOUNDATION 2019-2021 The motor roots of acting together: A psychophysiological investigationThe aim of the project is to explore the possibility and provide psychophysiological evidence that, when people act together, the collective goals of their actions are represented motorically. We will employ a multimodal approach,i.e. TMS-EEG coregistration, which offers a unique insight into effective connectivity, the description of causal interactions between regions. TMS-EEG will be used to measure activity and connectivity of the cortical motor system during joint actions.
TRANSITION GRANT 2015-2017 The main aim is to explore whether and how motor processes and representations may facilitate coordination around collective goals as well as to investigate how such 'facilitation' can modulate (or being modulated by) higher-order processes and representations, especially when coordination requires to make use of abstract reasoning, conventions, or social norms.
MOTOR PLANNING AND PRACTICAL REASONING - BRITISH ACADEMY LEVERHULME SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS Much recent research indicates that motor planning must mesh with practical reasoning, both in understanding and in performing actions. But what states and processes could explain how motor planning meshes with practical reasoning, and with thinking more generally? Disciplinary boundaries have obscured the difficulty of this question. Motor planning is a topic for cognitive science, whereas practical reasoning tends to be studied by philosophers alone. The project is to bring the two together in order to provide a framework for understanding how motor planning and practical reasoning interact in understanding and in performing actions.
ACTION REPRESENTATIONS AND THEIR IMPAIRMENT Neuroscience Programme sponsored by Compagnia San Paolo. The aim of the project is to investigate the cortical action organisation in humans from both a functional and computational point of view, elucidating its role in intention understanding as well as in related impairments, with special reference to autism.
COGNITION IN ACTION (CIA) LAB The CIA lab explores cognitive, perceptual and motor processes underlying social interaction. Our take is that action has a driving role in cognition, in individual as well as in social contexts. Broadly speaking, research in the CIA LAB falls within the domains of Motor Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. This research was funded by the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" of the University of Milan under the Project "Department of Excellence 2018-2022" awarded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).
Latest Papers and Books
- D. Quarona, M. Raffuzzi, M. Costantini & C. Sinigaglia (2020) Preventing action slows down performance in perceptual judgment. Experimental Brain Research 10.1007/s00221-020-05948-y.
- L. Casartelli, A. Federici, L. Fumagalli, A. Cesareo, M. Nicoli, L. Ronconi, A. Vitale, M. Molteni, G. Rizzolatti & C. Sinigaglia (2020) Neurotypical individuals fail to understand action vitality form in children with autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America .
- L. Casartelli, A. Cesareo, E. Biffi, G.C. Campione, L. Villa, M. Molteni & C. Sinigaglia (2020) Vitality form expression in autism. Scientific Report 10.1038/s41598-020-73364-x.
- C. Sinigaglia & S. Butterfill (2020) Motor representation and knowledge of skilled action. In E. Fridland & C. Pavese (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Skill and Expertise. Routledge, Oxford-New York: Chapter 22, 292-305.
- C. Sinigaglia & S. Butterfill (2020) Motor representation and action experience in joint action. In A. Fiebich (ed.) Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency. Springer, Dordrecht: Chapter 11, 181-193.
- V. Bruno, I. Carpinella, M. Rabuffetti, C. Sinigaglia, F. Garbarini & M. Ferrarin (2019) How tool-use shapes body metric representation: evidence from motor training with and without robotic assistance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: https://doi.org/ 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00299.
- M. Costantini, L. Tommasi & C. Sinigaglia (2019) How action performance affects object perception. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05547-6
- G. Rizzolatti & C. Sinigaglia (2019) Specchi nel cervello. Come comprendiamo gli altri dall'interno. Raffaello Cortina, Milano.
- V. Gallese & C. Sinigaglia (2018) Embodied Resonance. In A. Newen, L. De Bruin, S. Gallagher (eds) The Oxford Handbook of 4 E Cognition Oxford University Press, Oxford: 417-432.
- E. Ricciardi, D. Menicagli, A.Leo, M. Costantini, P. Pietrini & C. Sinigaglia (2017) Peripersonal space representation develops independently from visual experience. Scientific Reports 7: 17673 DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-17896-9
- F. della Gatta, F. Garbarini, M. Rabuffetti, L. Viganò, S. Butterfill & C. Sinigaglia (2017) Drawn together: When motor representations ground joint actions Cognition 165 C: 53-60.
- G. Rizzolatti & C. Sinigaglia (2016) The mirror mechanism: a basic principle of brain function. Nature Reviews Neuroscience doi:10. 1038 /nrn.2016.135.
- S. Triberti, C. Repetto, M. Costantini, G. Riva & C. Sinigaglia (2016) Press to grasp: how action dynamics shape object categorization. Experimental Brain Research 234 (3): 799-806.
- C. Sinigaglia & S. Butterfill (2015) Motor representation in goal ascription. In M.H. Fischer & Y. Coello (eds) Conceptual and Interactive Embodiment. Foundations of Embodied Cognition, vol. II. Routledge, Oxford UK: 149-164.
- C. Sinigaglia & S. Butterfill (2015) A puzzle about the relations between thought, experience, and the motoric. Synthese 192 (6): 1923-1936.