Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy)
Health, Social and behavioural sciences
Motor cognition
Social intentionality, action and intention representation
Mechanisms underlying the ability to create a shared world
Temporal cognition and role of temporal mechanisms in object processing
Kinematics, Neuroimaging (fMRI)
ERC Starting grant, (2012)
Becchio C., Del Giudice M., Dal Monte O., Latini-Corazzini L., Pia L. (2013). In your place: Neuropsychological evidence for altercentric remapping in embodied perspective taking. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 165-170.
Becchio C., Manera V., Sartori L., Cavallo A., Castiello U. (2012). Grasping intentions: from thought experiments to empirical evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 117.
Becchio C., Cavallo A., Begliomini C., Sartori L., Feltrin G., Castiello U. (2012). Social grasping: from mirroring to metalizing. NeuroImage, 61, 240-248.
Becchio C., Sartori L., Castiello U. (2010). Towards you: the social side of actions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 183-188.
Principal Investigator in the ERC Starting grant project: Intention-from-movement understanding: from moving bodies to interacting minds. Agency: European Research Council, (2013-2018)
Principal Investigator in the project: The Invisible Grammar of Social Relations. Agency: Regione Piemonte, (2010-2012)
Academic Editor for Plos One and Social Neuroscience
Review Editor for Frontiers in Emotion Science
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Prof. Cristina Becchio has now demonstrated that we can decode the intentions of others simply by observing their movements.