Tuesday, Mar 7, 5:30. The event will be held in-person only: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1161 Amsterdam, New York
Neuroscientific research applied to schizophrenia has so far almost entirely neglected the first-person experiential dimension of this syndrome. An alternative view posits that schizophrenia is a self-disorder characterized by anomalous self-experience and awareness. Cognitive neuroscience can today address classic topics of psychopathology by adding a new level of description. Gallese suggests that brain function anomalies of multi-sensory integration might be at the basis of the deficits and imbalance in the relationship of the bodily self to the social world observed in schizophrenia.
Vittorio Gallese is an Italian Academy Fellow and trained neurologist who is Professor of Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Parma, Italy. As a cognitive neuroscientist, he focuses on social cognition by investigating the neurobiological grounding of intersubjectivity, psychopathology, language and aesthetics.
Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Attendees must follow Columbia’s COVID-19 policies, which include mandatory proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all visitors to campus.
