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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Giorgia Committeri
gcommitteri@unich.it
Date of birth: 14/04/1974 Nationality: Italian Academic Researcher in Psychophysiology
University: “G. d’Annunzio” (Chieti)
Phd: Cognitive Neuroscience
Date: April 2003
University: “La Sapienza” (Rome)
Thesis title: Neural basis of spatial localization in the human brain: investigations with functional
magnetic resonance (fMRI)
Degree: Psychology
Mark: 110/110 and magna cum laude
Date: December 1998
University: “La Sapienza” (Rome)
Specialist Subject: Neuropsychology
Thesis title: The perception of egocentric reference in hemispatial neglect
Secondary school-leaving certificate: Scientific
Mark: 58/60
Date: July 1993
2003 Obtained a Fellowship to do research at the Laboratory of Functional Neuroimaging of Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome. Research activities involved fMRI studies on spatial cognition, both on normal and brain-damaged subjects. 2002 Eight months of stage at the Laboratory of Functional Neuroimaging directed by D. LeBihan at the SHFJ/CEA in Orsay and at the LPPA directed by Prof. A. Berthoz at the Collège de France, Paris, France. 2001 Involved in Physiological Psychology didactic activity at the Faculty of Psychology, University 2001 Involved in Clinical Psychophysiology didactic activity at the Faculty of Psychology, University 1999 Obtained a Fellowship to do research at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome. Research activities involved fMRI studies on spatial cognition and cognitive interference. 1999 Six months of Post-lauream apprenticeship at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome. The work entailed neuropsychological diagnosis by the administration of a standardized battery of tests. 1999 Six months of Post-lauream apprenticeship at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Research activities mainly involved psychophysical testing. 1996- 1998 Obtained Fellowships to do research at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Research activity was centered on the validation of a computerized battery for the study of attention on school age children (TEA, by Zimmermann & Fimm). June 2001, Brighton: Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) Course. September 2000, Trieste, ICTP: Interdisciplinary Workshop “The Acting Brain”. November 1999, Rome, Santa Lucia Foundation: “SPM short Course”, given by J. Andersson. October 1998, Rome, Santa Lucia Foundation: “Foundations for using functional magnetic resonance”, October 1997, Ischia: International School of Biocybernetics “Neuronal bases and psychological Since 2007 : UNIDAV- Università Telematica Da Vinci, Chieti - Italy Since 2005 : U280. Mental processes and brain activation, Lyon - France Since 2001: Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action (LPPA), Collège de France, Since 1999: Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS), Roma - Italy Neural basis of spatial cognition Neural basis of sensorimotor transformations Anatomo-clinical correlation in brain-damaged patients Functional mapping of dorsal stream areas Cognitive and neural representation of action Peer reviewer for the following international journals: Brain, Neuropsychologia, Neuroimage. In scientific Journals:

1. Iaria G, Palermo L,Committeri G, Barton J JS. Age differences in the formation and use of cognitive maps.
Behavioral Brain Research, in press 2. Costantini M, Committeri G, Galati G, 2008. Effector- and target-independent representation of observed
actions: evidence from incidental repetition priming. Experimental Brain Research, 188(3):341-51. IF: 2,027. 3. Galati G, Committeri G, Spitoni G, Aprile T, Di Russo F, Pitzalis S, Pizzamiglio L., 2008. A Selective
Representation of the Meaning of Actions in the Auditory Mirror System. Neuroimage, 40(3):1274-86. 4. Iaria G, Committeri G, Pastorelli C, Pizzamiglio L, Watkins KE, Carota A, 2008. Neural activity of the
anterior insula in emotional processing depends on the individuals' emotional susceptibility. Human Brain Mapping, 29(3):363-73. 5. Committeri G, Pitzalis S, Galati G, Patria F, Pelle G, Sabatini U, Castriota-Scanderbeg A, Piccardi L,
Guariglia C, Pizzamiglio L, 2007. Neural bases of personal and extrapersonal neglect in humans. Brain, 130: 431-441. 6. Pitzalis S, Galletti C, Huang R-S, Patria F, Committeri G, Galati G, Fattori P, Sereno MI, 2006. Wide-field
retinotopy reveals the human cortical visual area V6. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(30):7962-73. 7. Di Russo F, Committeri G, Pitzalis S, Spitoni G, Piccardi L, Galati G, Catagni M, Nico D, Guariglia C,
Pizzamiglio L, 2006. Cortical Plasticity Following Surgical Extension of Lower Limbs. Neuroimage, 30(1):172-183. 8. Mainy, N., Jung, J., Committeri, G., Berthoz, A., Baciu, M., Minotti, L., Hoffmann, D., Kahane, P., Bertrand,
O., Lachaux, J.P., 2006. The timing of neural processes in humans: beyond the evoked potentials. Chaos and complexity letters, 2(2), pp 10-15.ISSN:1555-3995. 9. Castriota-Scanderbeg A, Hagberg G, Cerasa A, Committeri G, Galati G, Patria F, Pitzalis S, Caltagirone C,
Frackowiak R, 2005. The appreciation of wine by sommeliers: a functional magnetic resonance study of sensory integration. Neuroimage, 25(2):570-578. 10. Committeri G, Galati G, Paradis A-L, Pizzamiglio L, Berthoz A, LeBihan D, 2004. Reference frames for
spatial cognition: different brain areas are involved in viewer-, object-, and landmark-centered judgements about object location. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,16(9): 1517-1535. 11. Committeri G, Galati G, Pizzamiglio L, Paradis A-L, LeBihan D, Berthoz A, 2004. Retrosplenial and
ventromedial occipital-temporal regions are specialized for environment-centered spatial judgements. Biomedizinische Technik (Berl), 48(2): 217-220.ISSN: 0939-4990. 12. Galati G, Committeri G, Sanes JN, Pizzamiglio L, 2001. Spatial coding of visual and somatic sensory
information in body-centered coordinates. European Journal of Neuroscience, Aug;14(4):737-46. 13. Pizzamiglio L, Galati G, Committeri G, 2001. The contribution of functional neuroimaging to recovery after
brain damage: A review. Cortex, 37(1):11-31. 14. Pizzamiglio L, Committeri G, Galati G, Patria F, 2000. Psychophysical properties of line bisection and body
midline perception in unilateral neglect. Cortex, 36(4):469-84. Abstracts (International Congresses):

Sepe R, Trojano L, Committeri G, Grossi D, Romani GL, Galati G (2007) “On the relationship between
categorical/coordinate and egocentric/allocentric spatial representations”. Atti del Convegno della European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Marsiglia. Pitzalis S., Galletti C., Huang R-S., Patria F., Committeri G., Galati G., Fattori P., Sereno M-I. (2006) Visuotopic
properties of the putative human homologue of the macaque V6A. Neuroimage, 31 (Suppl 1). Atti del Convegno Human Brain Mapping, Firenze. Galati G., Committeri G., Aprile T., Spitoni G., Di Russo F., Pitzalis S., Pizzamiglio L. (2006) Selective cortical
representation of action semantics revealed by cross-modal unconscious repetition priming. Neuroimage, 31 (Suppl 1). Presentazione orale al Convegno Human Brain Mapping, Firenze Committeri G., Berthoz A., Kahane P., Galati G., Lachaux J.-P. (2006) Intracerebral EEG during distance judgments
in topographical space. 17th Convegno della International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), Chieti. Pelle G, Galati G, Committeri G, Costantini M, Caulo M, Ferretti A, Pizzamiglio L, Berthoz A, Romani GL (2005)
Properties of environmental landmarks modulating cortical activation during spatial judgments. Neuroimage 26: S53. Atti del Convegno Human Brain Mapping, Toronto. Committeri G., Galati G., Patria F., Pitzalis S., Pelle G., Doricchi F., Fattori P., Galletti C. 2004. Intention-related
activity for saccades and reaching in the posterior parietal cortex. NeuroImage, 22(1): S22. Pitzalis S., Sereno M., Patria F., Galati G., Committeri G., fattori P., Galletti C. 2004. A new retinotopic area in the
human parietal occipital sulcus. NeuroImage, 22(1): S283. Patria F., Pitzalis S., Galati G., Committeri G., Pizzamiglio L. 2004. Dissociation of visual exploration from target
detection in the parietal cortex during overt visual search. NeuroImage, 22(1): S116. Committeri G., Galati G., Paradis A.L., Poline J.B., Berthoz A., Pizzamiglio L., LeBihan D. 2003. Egocentric and
allocentric spatial coding in a 3D environment. NeuroImage, 19(2): S380. Committeri G., Galati G., Paradis A.L., Poline J.B., Berthoz A., Pizzamiglio L., LeBihan D. 2002. Egocentric and
allocentric coding of relative distance in a 3D environment: lingual/parahippocampal activation during environmental judgements. 3th Forum of European Neuroscience, Paris 13-17 July, Abstract N° 74.8. Committeri G., Galati G., Luzzatti C., Pizzamiglio L., 2002. Event-related fMRI of visual word and non-word
processing. Proceedings of the Euresco Conference "The Science of Aphasia", Maratea 14-19 June. Committeri G., Galati G., Luzzatti C., Sanes J.N., Pizzamiglio L., 2001. Rapid event-related fMRI of visual lexical
processing in the left and right hemisphere. NeuroImage, 13(6): S518. Galati G., Committeri G., Sanes J.N., Pizzamiglio L., 2000. Body-centered coding of visual and somatosensory
stimulus position in the human brain. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26: 838.22. Patria F., Committeri G., Daini R., Pitzalis S., Coriale G., Sanes J. 2000. Brain activation for selective attention and
cognitive interference using the digit-Stroop paradigm. NeuroImage, 11(5): S89. Galati G., Committeri G., Pizzamiglio L., Sanes J.N., 2000. Multisensory spatial representations in body-centered
Patria F., Committeri G., Coriale G., Daini R., Pitzalis S., Sanes J. 2000. Brain activation correlates of cognitive
interference in the digit-stroop paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5: 26E.
Abstracts (National Congresses):

Committeri G, Pitzalis S, Galati G, Patria F, Pelle G, Sabatini U, Castriota-Scanderbeg A, Piccardi L, Guariglia C,
Pizzamiglio L. (2005) Correlati anatomici del neglect extrapersonale e personale. Presentazione orale alla Riunione Primaverile della Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia (SINP), Bologna.Costantini M, Committeri G, DeFeudis F, Galati G. (2005) Effetti di facilitazione cross-effettore nel riconoscimento dello scopo di
un’azione. Atti della Riunione Primaverile della Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia, Bologna. Spitoni G., Catagni M., Committeri G., Galati G., Guariglia C., Nico D., Pitzalis S., Pizzamiglio L., Di Russo F. 2004.
Modificazioni corticali in seguito ad allungamento delle gambe in un soggetto acondroplasico. Atti del Congresso della Società Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. Committeri G., Galati G., Pizzamiglio L., Sanes J.N., 2000. Codifica spaziale egocentrica di stimoli visivi e
somatosensoriali: studio di attivazione funzionale. Atti del Congresso della Società Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, p. 87-88. Piccardi P., Guariglia C., Puglisi Allegra M.C., Committeri G., 2000. Alterazioni dello schema corporeo in pazienti
cerebrolesi. Atti del Congresso della Società Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, p. 222-224. Committeri G., Galati G., Patria F., Pizzamiglio L., 1999. Piano mediano sagittale e bisezione di linee in pazienti con
neglect: effetti direzionali divergenti. Atti del Congresso della Società Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale, p. 99-101. Italian: mother tongue
English: fluent knowledge of written and spoken language
French: good knowledge of written and spoken language
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MacOS, UNIX
Application Programs: Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Statview, Statistica, Matlab, Adobe
Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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