Art & Neuroscience Fellowship Opportunities
at the Italian Academy

For details about neuroscience events at the Academy, please go to the
Art & Neuroscience Project page; see here below for details about ongoing study through Fellowships at the Academy.

Each year, the Academy sponsors a Fellowship in Art & Neuroscience, and we are proud to have become known as the leading academic institution for the advanced study of this rich interdisciplinary field.

The Art & Neuroscience Project at the Italian Academy is dedicated to the understanding of the possibilities offered by the cognitive neuroses, broadly conceived, for the understanding of the arts and letters. The aim of the project is to establish a firm basis for interdisciplinary work in this area. Fellows are given every opportunity to organize joint projects and whatever seminars and conferences may be necessary to further development of the relations between the neurosciences and the arts. Applications from neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and scholars of the humanities with an interest in the neurosciences or neurophilosophy are encouraged, as well as from other relevant fields.

The following scholars in the field have been in residence at the Academy:

In 2006–7, Luigi Mazzone (the Bodini Research Fellow, studying the influence of risperidone on emotional stimuli processing in a sample of individuals with autism), Domenica Crupi (working on motor responses and imitation), and Daniela Puzzo (working on Alzheimer's disease).

In 2007–8, Rosalia Crupi (the Bodini Research Fellow, studying whether antidepressant effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation are mediated by stem cells) and Anna Ipata (working on the neurophysiology of vision and emotion).

In 2008–9, Antonio Mantovani (the Bodini Research Fellow, studying transcranial magnetic stimulation for severe Tourette's Syndrome) and Ferdinando Fiumara (the perpetuation of memory storage: a novel mechanism in the long-term maintenance of synaptic plasticity and behavior).

In 2009–10, Tiziano Colibazzi (the Bodini Research Fellow, working on longitudinal imaging of adolescents at risk for schizophrenia), Chiara Cappelletto (theatre, simulation, and mirror neurons), and Franco Pestilli (Neuroimaging of reward processing and decision-making).

In 2010–11, Laura Bevilacqua (the Bodini Research Fellow, studying genomics of suicidal behavior) and Valeria Giardino (visual routines for manipulating diagrams).

In 2011–12, Francesca Zanderigo (the Bodini Research Fellow, working on analysis of brain imaging data for the study and prevention of depression in high risk offspring) and Maria Brincker (developing a sensorimotor view of intentional action and aesthetic involvement).