New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research
Edited by Pier Francesco Ferrari and Giacomo Rizzolatti
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Edited by Pier Francesco Ferrari, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma , Italy, and Giacomo Rizzolatti, Professor Emeritus, University of Parma, Italy
Pierfrancesco Ferrari is Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, USA. Ferrari's current research focuses on the functional role and development of parietal and premotor cortical functions in relation to social cognitive processes in human and nonhuman primates. From 2007 to 2008, Ferrari served as Adjunct Scientist at the NIH, Bethesda, USA, conducting research on cortical development in relation to cognitive functions in macaque monkeys. Together with Giacomo Rizzolatti he is Director of the International School of Neurosciences "Sir John Eccles ", at the Ettore Majorana Centre in Erice, Italy.
Giacomo Rizzolatti has been President of the European Brain Behavior Society and Italian Society for Neuroscience. He is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons. His main research focus has been the role of the motor cortex in higher cognitive functions. He is member of Accademia dei Lincei, Académie des Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of several prizes: "Golgi Prize for Physiology", "George Miller Award", "Grawemeyer Prize ", Price of Asturias Prize for Science and Technology " Prix J.L. Signoret in Neuropsychologie " from the IPSEN Fondation, and the "Brain Prize from Lundbeck Foundation ".
Contributors:
Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Daniel Arnstein
Luca Bonini
Giovanni Buccino
Vittorio Caggiano
Matteo Candidi
Riccardo Dalla Volta
Doriana De Marco
Elisa De Stefani
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Francesca Ferri
Courtney Filippi
Leonardo Fogassi
Nathan A. Fox.
Vittorio Gallese
Maurizio Gentilucci
Martin Giese
Kristina Grigaityte
Riitta Hari
Claes von Hofsten
Marco Iacoboni
Atsushi Iriki
James J. M. Kilner
Richard Mooney
Lindsay M. Oberman
Guy A. Orban
Annika Paukner
Jörn K. Pomper
Jonathan F. Prather
Wolfgang Prinz
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
K. Rosander
Stefano Rozzi
Lucia Maria Sacheli
Simone Schütz-Bosbach
Elizabeth A. Simpson
Corrado Sinigaglia
Stephen J. Suomi
Peter Thier
Antonella Tramacere
Amanda Woodward.
Kathryn H. Yoo