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Data di nascita: 23/10/1981
Nazionalità: Italian
Indirizzo: Via Montpellier, 1 00133 Roma
E-mail 1: alessandro.moscatelli@uniroma2.it
E-mail 2: a.moscatelli@hsantalucia.it
ORCID: 0000-0001-6269-4536
ResearcherID: L-1391-2018
Posizione attuale
Professore Associato presso Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi, settore scientifico disciplinare BIO/09 (Fisiologia). Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” , Roma, Italia.
Istruzione e Formazione
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” , Roma, Italia.
Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia, Luglio 2006
Tesi:“Le Basi Neurali della Percezione dell’Accelerazione di Gravit`a: Studio di Risonanza Magnetica Funzionale ”
Supervisore: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
Voto: 110 e lode
Master di II Livello in Biostatistica, Settembre 2009
Tesi: “Mixed Models in Psychophysics: Estimates from Bootstrap and Delta Methods” Supervisore: Prof.ssa Maura Mezzetti
Voto: 110 e lode
Dottorato in Neuroscienze, Novembre 2011
Tesi: “Behavioral Studies on the Perception of Time”
Supervisore: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
Posizioni ricoperte
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” , Roma, Italia. 2019–2022
Ricercatore a tempo determinato (RTD-B) presso Dipartimento
di Medicina dei Sistemi, settore scientifico disciplinare BIO/09 (Fisiologia) Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italia.
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” 2017–2019
Ricercatore a tempo determinato (RTD-A) presso Dipartimento
di Medicina dei Sistemi, settore scientifico disciplinare BIO/09 (Fisiologia) Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italia.
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” 2015–2017
Assegnista di Ricerca presso il Centro di Biomedicina Spaziale, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italia. Presso il gruppo guidato dal Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
Bielefeld University 2011–2015
Wissenschaftlicher Beschaeftigter (post-doc) presso
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Interaction Technology–Centre of Excellence,
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Presso il gruppo guidato dal Prof. Marc O. Ernst
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” 2011
Assegnista di Ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italia. Presso il gruppo guidato dal Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia 2007
Borsa di Studio presso il Dipartimento di Fisiologia Neuromotoria, IRCSS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma, Italia.
Membro di Società Scientifiche Internazionali
EuroHaptics Society 2014–Oggi
Membro dal 2014 ad oggi. Dal 2018 eletto Member of Executive Committee
https://eurohaptics.org/
Società Italiana di Fisiolgia - SIF 2024-Oggi
https://fisiologiaitaliana.org/
Istituto di Robotica e Macchine Intelligenti (I-RIM) 2019–2020
https://i-rim.it/
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2020–2021
https://www.acm.org/
The American Physiological Society 2015
https://www.the-aps.org/
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per professore di I fascia, settore concorsuale 05/D1 – Fisiologia.
VALIDO DAL 11/2023 AL 11/2033.
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per professore di II fascia, settore concorsuale 05/D1 – Fisiologia.
VALIDO DAL 25/07/2017 AL 25/07/2023.
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per professore di II fascia, settore concorsuale 11/E1 – Psicologia Generale
VALIDO DAL 11/04/2018 AL 11/04/2024.
Iscrizione all’Ordine dei Medici di Roma il 13 Marzo 2007.
Riconoscimenti e Premi
Premio “Sebastiano e Rita Raeli” per meriti negli studi, 2007
EuroHaptics Conference 2014, Versailles (France)
Best paper award: A. Moscatelli, M. Bianchi, A. Serio, O. Al Atassi, S. Fani, A. Terekhov, V. Hayward, M.O. Ernst, and A. Bicchi for the poster entitled “A Change in The Fingertip Contact Area Induces An Illusory Displacement of The Finger”. https://eurohaptics.org/static/2014/node/39.html
Research Grants e Progetti Finanziati
(Awarded on March 2022)
Team Leader (Haptic Team - Santa Lucia Foundation Unit) in Horizon RIA grant: “HARIA HUMAN-ROBOT SENSORIMOTOR AUGMENTATION WEARABLE SENSORIMOTOR INTER-
FACES” (Proposal number: 101070292).
(Awarded on March 2022)
Co-Investigator in project “LATIN: Locomotion in Ataxia and modulation by Tactile vibratIoN”. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy)”.
2021 - 2022
Principal Investigator in project “MOPED: Multisensory mOtion PErception” and pathological changes in Diabetes. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy), research program “Beyond Borders”.
2020 - July PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE. Ti-
tolo del Progetto “TIGHT: Tactile InteGration for Humans and arTificial systems”. Settore PE7; Codice Progetto 2017SB48FP. Responsabile del’Unit`a di Ricerca Dipartimento di Medicina dei Si- stemi, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”.
2017 - 2019
Research Agreement with Facebook Reality Lab (Facebook, Inc.). The research project has a duration of 2+1 years. In collaboration with Centro Piaggio, University of Pisa. Role of Principal Investigator for the unit IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation.
2013 - 2017
Co-investigator in European project “WEARHAP WEARable HAPtics for humans and robo- ts”. The project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program- me FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement 601165. Information and Communication Technolo- gies, Collaborative Large-scale integrating project (IP), FP7-ICT-2011-9-2.1: Cognitive Systems and Robotics. Coordinator: Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo
October, 2011 - June, 2014
Co-investigator in European Project “THE - The Hand Embodied”. A project supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme Large-scale integrating project Infor- mation and Communication Technologies ICT Supported by the ICT Programme Cognitive Systems and Robotics. Coordinator: Prof. Antonio Bicchi
Attivita` Didattica
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” 2015–Oggi
Corso di Fisiologia, corso di laurea in “Odontoiatria e Protesi Dentaria”. Argomenti trattati: Fisiologia Cellulare, Neurofisiologia, Fisiologia Orale.
Modulo di Neurofisiologia nell’ambito dell’insegnamento di “Physiology” del corso di laurea in lingua inglese“Medicine and Surgery”. Argomenti trattati: Fisiologia Cellulare, Sistemi Sensoriali, Sistema Motorio.
Modulo di Neurofisiologia nell’ambito dell’insegnamento di “Fisiologia” del corso di laurea “Medicina e Chirurgia”. Argomenti trattati: Sistema Motorio.
Corso di Fisiologia per i seguenti corsi di Laurea triennale: Fisioterapia, Podologia, Ortottica ed assistenza oftalmologica, Terapia della neuro e psicomotricita dell’eta evolutiva, Tecniche della riabilitazione psichiatrica, Tecniche di Neurofisiopatologia
Supervisore per dottorato di: Colleen P. Ryan; Dottorato in Neuroscienze presso Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (attualmente al secondo anno di corso).
Supervisore per tesi di laurea di: Colleen P. Ryan; corso di laurea “Medicine and Surgery” presso
Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”; discussione in data 25 Ottobre 2019;
Supervisore per tesi di laurea come relatore esterno di: Lucia Cosentino; corso di Laurea Magistra- le in Ingegneria Gestionale e dell’Automazione presso Universit`a degli Studi di Roma Tre; A.A. 2017/2018.
University of Bielefeld 2011–2015
Assistente alla Didattica
Faculty of Biology; Project Module “Touch and Audition”.
Supervisore per tesi di laurea o progetto di ricerca: Chris Dallmann, M.Sc., Meike Scheller, M.Sc, Gabriele J. Kowalsky, M.Sc., Shirley Mey, M.Sc., Sven Bergfeld, Janina R¨ockner.
Competenza in Biostatistica
Conoscenza approfondita di probabilit`a e statistica per analisi dei dati biomedici, in particolare modelli per dati categoriali, modelli Bayesiani e “Mixed Models”. Autore del programma in R per analisi statistica in psicofisica, MixedPsy. Disponile sul sito web CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MixedPsy/index.html
Attività di Consulenza
a.a. 2012–2013
Consulente scientifico presso la Banca Centrale Europea.
Selezione di Pubblicazioni Scientifiche su riviste con Peer Review
Ryan CP, 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.
Ryan CP, Ciotti S, Cosentino L, Ernst MO, Lacquaniti F, Moscatelli A. Masking Vibrations and Contact Force Affect the Discrimination of Slip Motion Speed in Touch. IEEE Trans Haptics. 2022 Oct-Dec;15(4):693-704. doi: 10.1109/TOH.2022.3209072. Epub 2022 Dec 19. PMID: 36149999.
Picconi F, Ryan CP, Russo B, Ciotti S, Pepe A, Menduni M, Lacquaniti F, Frontoni S, Moscatelli,
A. The evaluation of tactile dysfunction in the hand in type 1 diabetes: a novel method based on haptics. Acta Diabetol. 2022 Aug;59(8):1073-1082. doi: 10.1007/s00592-022-01903-1. Epub 2022 May 31. PMID: 35641837; PMCID: PMC9242965.
Balestrucci P, Maffei V, Lacquaniti F, Moscatelli, A. . The Effects of Visual Parabolic Motion on the Subjective Vertical and on Interception. Neuroscience. 2021 Jan 15;453:124-137. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.052. Epub 2020 Oct 1. PMID: 33010347.
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. Impact Factor: 11.511
Moscatelli, A., La Scaleia, B., Zago, M., Lacquaniti, F.(2019). Motion direction, luminance contra- st and speed perception: An unexpected meeting. Journal of Vision, 19(6):16. doi: 10.1167/19.6.16 Impact Factor: 2.089
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.052 Impact Factor: 9.193
Dallmann, C.J., Ernst, M.O., Moscatelli, A. (2015) The role of vibration in tactile speed percep- tion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(6), 3131-3139. http://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00621.2015 Impact Factor: 2.887
Moscatelli, A., Hayward, V., Wexler, M., Ernst, M.O. (2015) Illusory Tactile Motion Perception: An Analog of the Visual Filehne Illusion. Scientific Reports, 5:14584, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/srep14584 Impact Factor: 4.525
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. Impact Factor: 2.089
Moscatelli, A., and Lacquaniti, F. (2011). The weight of time: Gravitational force enhances discrimination of visual motion duration. Journal of Vision 11:14, 1-17. Impact Factor: 2.089
Invited Talk
2023
Touch and hand movements: optimal integration and biased combination. Invited Talk at Workshop: “Touch in context: from the body to the external world”. Chairs: Belkis Ezgi Arikan, Dimitris Voudouris. TeaP Conference, Trier, Germany.
2022
Invited talk: “The evaluation of tactile dysfunction in the hand in type 1 diabetes: a novel method
based on haptics”. At Robotics Research Jam Sessions, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Invited talk: “Touch and Hand Movements”, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy.
Invited Lecture at 8th International Summer School of Neuroengineering, University Genova, Ge- nova, Italy. From 18th to 22nd July 2022.
2021
Moscatelli, A. (2019). Motion perception in touch and vision: analogies and differences; Aix- Marseille University (UMR 7287), Marseille, France. (Invited Talk).
Moscatelli, A. (2018). Insights from Behavioral Neuroscience for the design of haptic devices. Nel- l’ambito del Workshop: “Mo-WS14: User-Centered Methods in Human-Robot Interaction”, IROS, Madrid, Spain. (Invited Talk).
Moscatelli, A. (2017). Tactile Motion Perception. Nell’ambito del Workshop: “Wearable haptic systems: design, applications, and perspectives”, IEEE World Haptics, Fu¨rstenfeldbruck (Munich), Germany. (Invited Talk).
Moscatelli, A. (2017). Analysis of Categorical Data in Psychophysics: The Generalized Linear Mixed Model. (Invited Talk). Applied Cognitive Psychology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Moscatelli, A. (2017). Combining Tactile and Hand Motion: Constancy, Priors and Perceptual Illusions (Invited Talk). Experimental Psychology, Team Perception and Action, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
Moscatelli, A. (2017). Workshop: Analysis of Categorical Data in Psychophysics (Invited Talk). Experimental Psychology, Team Perception and Action, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
Moscatelli, A. (2016). Perceptual illusions and priors in the combination of tactile and hand motion (Invited Talk). Nell’ambito di: ERC PATCH Closing Workshop on Computational Touch, UPMC Jussieu Campus, Paris (France).
Bianchi, M. and Moscatelli, A., Organizers. (2016) Full-day Workshop “Human and Robot Hands, Human and Robot Touch: Sensorimotor Synergies to Bridge the Gap Between Neuroscience and Robotics”, Haptics Symposium 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA).
Moscatelli, A. (2016) Invariants and priors in tactile perception of object motion. Nell’ambito di: Workshop “Haptic Invariance: from Mechanics, Perception, and Neural Coding to Interface Design”, Haptics Symposium 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA).
Moscatelli, A. (2016) Sensorimotor Synergies: Fusion of Cutaneous Touch and Proprioception in the Perceived Hand Kinematics. Nell’ambito di: Workshop “Human and Robot Hands, Human and Robot Touch: Sensorimotor Synergies to Bridge the Gap Between Neuroscience and Robotics”, Haptics Symposium 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA).
B¨oddeker, N., Moscatelli, A., and Ernst, M.O. (2014). Homing with audio landmarks and path integration. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 2.
Moscatelli, A., and Lacquaniti, F. (2011). The weight of time: implied gravitational force enhances discrimination of visual motion duration. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 1217.
Carrozzo, M., Moscatelli, A., and Lacquaniti, F. (2011). Tempo rubato: Animacy speeds up time in the brain. Journal of Vision, 11(11), 1228.
Libri
Bianchi, M., and Moscatelli, A. (Eds.). (2016). Human and Robot Hands. Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26706-7
Attivita` Editoriale
Associate Editor per la rivista Frontiers in Integrative Physiology Associate Editor per la rivista IEEE Transaction on Haptics
Revisore per riviste scientifiche internazionali, tra cui: Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Vi- sion, Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Cognitive Psychology, Attention Perception and Psychophysics, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, IEEE Transaction on Human Machine System, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports.
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 23/10/1981
Nationality: Italian
Address (Work): Via Montpellier, 1 00133 Rome (Italy)
E-mail 1: alessandro.moscatelli@uniroma2.it
E-mail 2: a.moscatelli@hsantalucia.it
ORCID: 0000-0001-6269-4536
ResearcherID: L-1391-2018
Position
Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Medicina dei Sistemi, settore scientifico disciplinare BIO/09 (Fisiologia). Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” , Roma, Italia.
Research Interests
Haptics, Human Perception, Motor Control in Hand Grasping and Reaching, Statistical Modelling
Education and Training
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Ph.D. Neuroscience, November 2011
Dissertation: “Behavioral Studies on the Perception of Time” Advisor: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
Postgraduate Master in Biostatistics, September 2009
Dissertation: “Mixed Models in Psychophysics: Estimates from Bootstrap and Delta Methods” Advisor: Prof. Maura Mezzetti
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Medical Doctor degree, July 2006
Dissertation: “Neural Basis of the Perception of Gravity Acceleration: An fMRI Study ” Advisors: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
Co-advisor: Dr. William L. Miller Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Work Experience
November 2019 - November 2022
Tenure Track researcher (RTD-B), Department of Systems Medicine, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy.
October 2017 - November 2019
Fixed-term researcher (RTD-A), Department of Systems Medicine, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy.
June 2018 - Present
Board Member of the EuroHaptics Society
October 2015 - September 2017
Post Doc (Assegnista di Ricerca), Department of Systems Medicine and Centre of Space Biomedicine, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy.
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
October 2011 - September 2015
Post Doc (Wissenschaftlicher Besch¨aftigter), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Interaction Technology–Centre of Excellence, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Supervisor: Prof. Marc O. Ernst
January 2011 - December 2011
Post Doc (Assegnista di Ricerca), Department of Neuroscience and Centre of Space Biomedicine, Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy.
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
January 2007 - December 2007
Fellowship, Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, IRCSS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Lacquaniti
Honors and Awards
2022 Contributi premiali per i ricercatori Regione Lazio 2018 Italian Habilitation as Professor of General Psychology 2017 Italian Habilitation as Professor of Physiology
Best Paper Awards (Poster Presentation), Eurohaptics, 2014
Award “Sebastiano e Rita Raeli” for outstanding proficiency in studies, M.D., 2007 Scholarship (M.D.), 2000-2006
Membership of Scientific Societies
EuroHaptics Society 2014–Today
From 2018 Member of the Executive Committee
Società Italiana di Fisiolgia - SIF 2024–Oggi
https://fisiologiaitaliana.org/
Istituto di Robotica e Macchine Intelligenti (I-RIM) 2019–Today
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2020–Today
The American Physiological Society (APS) 2015
Research Grants
October 2022 - September 2026
Team Leader (Haptic Team - Santa Lucia Foundation Unit) in Horizon RIA grant: “HARIA HUMAN-ROBOT SENSORIMOTOR AUGMENTATION WEARABLE SENSORIMOTOR INTER-
FACES” (Proposal number: 101070292).
March 2022 - February 2023
Co-Investigator in project “LATIN: Locomotion in Ataxia and modulation by Tactile vibratIoN”. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy)”.
January 2021 - June 2022
Principal Investigator in project “MOPED: Multisensory mOtion PErception” and pathological changes in Diabetes. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy), research program “Beyond Borders”.
February, 2020 - July 2023
Unit coordinator in PRIN project “TIGHT: Tactile InteGration for Humans and arTificial sys- tems”. Ministero dellIstruzione, dell’Universit e della Ricerca (Rome, Italy). GRANT NUMBER: 2017SB48FP
October, 2017 - 2019
Research Agreement with Facebook Reality Lab (Facebook, Inc.). The research project has a duration of 2+1 years. In collaboration with Centro Piaggio, University of Pisa. Role of Principal Investigator for the unit IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation.
March, 2013 - November, 2017
Co-investigator in European project “WEARHAP WEARable HAPtics for humans and robots”. The project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007- 2013 under grant agreement 601165. Information and Communication Technologies, Collaborative Large-scale integrating project (IP), FP7-ICT-2011-9-2.1: Cognitive Systems and Robotics. Coor- dinator: Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo
October, 2011 - June, 2014
Co-investigator in European Project “THE - The Hand Embodied”. A project supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme Large-scale integrating project Infor- mation and Communication Technologies ICT Supported by the ICT Programme Cognitive Systems and Robotics. Coordinator: Prof. Antonio Bicchi
Consulting Activities
October, 2011 - July, 2012
Scientific Advisor at the European Central Bank (ECB), in collaboration with Prof. Marc O. Ernst and Dr. Myrthe Plaisier.
Selection of Peer Reviewed Publications
Ryan CP, 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.
Ryan CP, Ciotti S, Cosentino L, Ernst MO, Lacquaniti F, Moscatelli A. Masking Vibrations and Contact Force Affect the Discrimination of Slip Motion Speed in Touch. IEEE Trans Haptics. 2022 Oct-Dec;15(4):693-704. doi: 10.1109/TOH.2022.3209072. Epub 2022 Dec 19. PMID: 36149999.
Picconi F, Ryan CP, Russo B, Ciotti S, Pepe A, Menduni M, Lacquaniti F, Frontoni S, Moscatelli,
A. The evaluation of tactile dysfunction in the hand in type 1 diabetes: a novel method based on haptics. Acta Diabetol. 2022 Aug;59(8):1073-1082. doi: 10.1007/s00592-022-01903-1. Epub 2022 May 31. PMID: 35641837; PMCID: PMC9242965.
Balestrucci P, Maffei V, Lacquaniti F, Moscatelli, A. . The Effects of Visual Parabolic Motion on the Subjective Vertical and on Interception. Neuroscience. 2021 Jan 15;453:124-137. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.052. Epub 2020 Oct 1. PMID: 33010347.
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. Impact Factor: 11.511
Moscatelli, A., La Scaleia, B., Zago, M., Lacquaniti, F.(2019). Motion direction, luminance contra- st and speed perception: An unexpected meeting. Journal of Vision, 19(6):16. doi: 10.1167/19.6.16 Impact Factor: 2.089
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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.052 Impact Factor: 9.193
Dallmann, C.J., Ernst, M.O., Moscatelli, A. (2015) The role of vibration in tactile speed percep- tion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(6), 3131-3139. http://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00621.2015 Impact Factor: 2.887
Moscatelli, A., Hayward, V., Wexler, M., Ernst, M.O. (2015) Illusory Tactile Motion Perception: An Analog of the Visual Filehne Illusion. Scientific Reports, 5:14584, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/srep14584 Impact Factor: 4.525
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. Impact Factor: 2.089
Moscatelli, A., and Lacquaniti, F. (2011). The weight of time: Gravitational force enhances discrimination of visual motion duration. Journal of Vision 11:14, 1-17. Impact Factor: 2.089
Invited Presentations and Lectures
2023
Slip motion in perceptual and motor tasks. Invited Talk at Workshop: “Touch in space and time”. Experimental Psychology, Team Perception and Action, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
Touch and hand movements: optimal integration and biased combination. Invited Talk at Workshop: “Touch in context: from the body to the external world”. Chairs: Belkis Ezgi Arikan, Dimitris Voudouris. TeaP Conference, Trier, Germany.
2022
Invited talk: “The evaluation of tactile dysfunction in the hand in type 1 diabetes: a novel method based on haptics”. At Robotics Research Jam Sessions, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Invited talk: “Touch and Hand Movements”, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy.
Invited Lecture at 8th International Summer School of Neuroengineering, University Genova, Gen- ova, Italy. From 18th to 22nd July 2022.
2021
Keynote Speech: The role of slip motion for the control of reaching movements. Invited talk at Workshop: “The sense of touch: interplay between action and perception and underlying body representations”, University Gießen, Gießen, Germany (virtual conference).
Invited talk: “Role of textures and slip motion for the control of hand reaching”, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Invited talk at Workshop: “Introduction to R and Models for Psychophysics”, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Keynote Speech: Role of textures and slip motion for the control of hand reaching. Invited talk at Workshop: “MENTE FATTA A MANO: COME LA MANO INFLUENZA CHI SIAMO”, University
La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Invited talk at Workshop: “Tactile Representation of Motion and Space”, IEEE World Haptics Conference (virtual conference).
2020
Keynote Lecture at “AcTive Haptic hUMans and Robots (THUMB): Human Active Touch”. Eu- rohaptics 2020 Virtual conference.
Multi-cue integration in human somatosensory system. Workshop: “WS7: TIGHT–Tactile InteGra- tion for Humans and arTificial systems”, IEEE RO-MAN 2020 Virtual conference.
2019
Motion perception in touch and vision: analogies and differences, Facult´e des Sciences du Sport, Campus de Luminy, Marseille, France.
2018
Insights from Behavioral Neuroscience for the design of haptic devices. Within the Workshop “User- centred methods in Human Robot Interaction”, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain.
Keynote Lecture: “The psychophysics of touch: Towards an early assessment of tactile dysfunction in diabetic patients”. Neurodiab 2018, Rome, Italy.
2017
Combining Tactile and Hand Motion: Constancy, Priors and Perceptual Illusions. Experimental Psychology, Team Perception and Action, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
Workshop: Analysis of Categorical Data in Psychophysics. Experimental Psychology, Team Percep- tion and Action, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany.
2016
Perceptual illusions and priors in the combination of tactile and hand motion. Within the ERC PATCH Closing Workshop on Computational Touch, UPMC Jussieu Campus, Paris (France).
Invariants and priors in tactile perception of object motion. Within the Workshop “Haptic Invari- ance: from Mechanics, Perception, and Neural Coding to Interface Design”, Haptics Symposium 2016, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA).
Editorial Activity
Bianchi, M., and Moscatelli, A. (Eds.). (2016). Human and Robot Hands. Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26706-7
Associate Editor in Frontiers in Integrative Physiology
Associate Editor, Special Issue WHC2021, IEEE Transactions on Haptics
Bianchi, M., and Moscatelli, A. (Eds.). (2016). Human and Robot Hands. Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26706-7
Occasional reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Vision, Exper- imental Brain Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Cognitive Psychology, Multisensory research, Attention Perception and Psychophysics, IEEE Trans- actions on Haptics, IEEE Transaction on Human Machine System, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, and others.
Teaching Experience
Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” 2015-Present
Updated list available on the website of the University
University of Bielefeld September, 2011 - September, 2015
Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Biology; Project Module “Touch and Audition”.
Supervision
Chris Dallmann, M.Sc., Meike Scheller, M.Sc, Gabriele J. Kowalsky, M.Sc., Shirley Mey, M.Sc., Sven Bergfeld, Janina R¨ockner.
Universit`a degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” September, 2009 - July, 2010
Supervision
Laura Polito, M.D.
Open-Source software
Author and maintainer of the CRAN package “MixedPsy” for the analysis of psychophysical data in R. Freely available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MixedPsy/index.html
Personal skills
Biostatistics: Excellent knowledge of statistical inference, with a special focus on the analysis of categorical data, models for repeated measurements and Bayesian models.
Programming Languages: R, Matlab, C, C++.
Applications: LATEX, Blender, Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop. a:0:{}"
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