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Architettura di Egizio Nichelli (1937-1991)
Full text linkIl volume ricostruisce l’opera dell’architetto Egizio Nichelli, analizzando sia i suoi restauri che le sue costruzioni nuove. Si tratta di un lavoro che parte da un minuzioso studio di archivio, una ricerca documentale e iconografica volta al recupero di un protagonista poco noto del panorama milanese. Il volume riscopre una figura della storia dell’architettura del dopoguerra italiano che rappresenta bene il rinnovato interesse per gli studi archeologici emerso a partire dalla seconda metà dell’Ottocento. Nichelli condivide con gli archeologi milanesi l’obbiettivo di ricostruire la Forma Urbis Mediolani e nei suoi molti progetti di restauro dimostra una predisposizione speciale per i resti archeologici romani. Dai suoi lavori al civico museo archeologico, nel chiostro degli olivetani, a cascina Pozzobonelli, a palazzo Greppi, nei progetti del sottopassaggio degli archi di porta nuova o nell’autoparcheggio di via Brisa si evince sempre la volontà di mettere in evidenza i resti romani ritrovati sia sotto forma di murature che di reperti archeologici minori. Nichelli, ispirato dalle teorie sul restauro dei maestri Camillo Boito, Gustavo Giovannoni e Ambrogio Annoni, ricostruisce minuziosamente opere storiche chiave del tessuto milanese fortemente compromesse dai bombardamenti della seconda guerra mondiale, pensiamo ai chiostri dell’ospedale maggiore o alla facciata del museo di storia naturale. L’architetto è andato alla ricerca di un’identità primigenia del tessuto urbano, ponendosi come un argine alla ricerca di un volto esclusivamente contemporaneo della città, sebbene abbia anche realizzato molte opere pubbliche moderne ex novo: scuole, piscine, centri sportivi e musei. L’architettura di Egizio Nichelli è fatta di un delicato equilibrio tra la realizzazione di opere moderne a carattere sociale e una forte volontà di restituire alla cittadinanza le tracce più antiche di Milano
Consciousness and Aphasia
No full textDifferent language impairments allow us to investigate how much the use of language can influence the content of conscious awareness and therefore of thinking and reasoning. Pure anarthria (differently form mutism) and verbal short-term memory deficits are associated with an impairment of the effect of covert speech on the content of working memory. Dynamic aphasia impairs the processes involved in the transition between thinking and speaking. However, even the most severe agrammatic patients can retain reasoning about others ’ beliefs that according to some theories can only take place in explicit sentences of a natural language.Error monitoring is also impaired in many aphasic patients and in some of them is associated with complete lack of error awareness (anosognosia for aphasia)
Time perception measurements in neuropsychology
No full textThe interest in the concept of time has a long history and has been a topic of study for a wide range of investigators. No change can take place without specification of time. While philosophers and physicists have been intrigued by the concept of subjective perception of time and its relationship to real time, natural scientists have been concerned mainly with investigating time as a factor in understanding the behaviour of animals from the migratory habits of birds to the periodical breeding cycles. The immense bulk of temporal perception studies, the variety of approaches, methods of measurement and even terminology has led to a difficulty in reaching a global interpretation of the results.This book aims to give an integrative approach of time sense and to focus the analysis on temporal factors in the processing of movement, trying to link temporal perception studies in the final common pathway, that is motion. To give some clues of human brain integrative processes at higher levels. And, finally, to clarify the neurophysiological substrate of these operations
A step forward an integrated network for Neuropsychology research: Highlights from the ‘First Congress of the European Neurosychological Societies’. Modena, (Italy),18th-20th April 2004.
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Age-related decline in mentalizing skills across adult life span
No full textIn the literature, there are few and conflicting reports regarding age-related changes in adult mentalizing abilities: whereas Happe et al. (1998, Developmental Psychology, 34, 358-362) showed better performances of elderly compared with young subjects in an advanced theory of mind (ToM) task, Mayor et al. (2002, British Journal of Psychology, 93, 465-485) and Sullivan and Ruffmann (2004, British Journal of Psychology, 95(Pt 1), 1-18) found an age-related decline. Former studies addressing the issue compared young to elderly subjects and did not investigate earlier changes in middle-aged adults. To shed light on changes in ToM skills along adulthood, the authors used the revised version of the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test" (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 241-251) to compare four groups of people of different ages covering the whole span of adult life. The authors found aged-related decline in ToM skills as early as the fifth decade of life. Awareness of the age-related changes in adult mentalizing is important to differentiate normal aging effects from ToM impairments due to neuropsychiatric diseases
Recognition of emotions from faces and voices in medial temporal lobe epilepsy
No full textPatients with chronic medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) can be impaired in different tasks that evaluate emotional or social abilities. In particular, the recognition of facial emotions can be affected (Meletti S, Benuzzi F, Rubboli G, et al. Neurology 2003;60:426-31. Meletti S, Benuzzi F, Cantalupo G, Rubboli G, Tassinari CA, Nichelli P. Epilepsia 2009;50:1547-59). To better understand the nature of emotion recognition deficits in MTLE we investigated the decoding of basic emotions in the visual (facial expression) and auditory (emotional prosody) domains in 41 patients. Results showed deficits in the recognition of both facial and vocal expression of emotions, with a strong correlation between performances across the two tasks. No correlation between emotion recognition and measures of IQ, quality of life (QOLIE-31), and depression (Beck Depression Inventory) was significant, except for a weak correlation between prosody recognition and IQ. These data suggest that emotion recognition impairment in MTLE is not dependent on the sensory channel through which the emotional stimulus is transmitted. Moreover, these findings support the notion that emotional processing is at least partly independent of measures of cognitive intelligence
Relations between attentional and intentional neural systems
No full textThis study explored whether preparing an arm movement influences detection of a visual stimulus. We cued subjects to respond with either a rightward or a leftward movement to the appearance of a stimulus located either in the centre, in the left, or in the right visual field. Programming a movement toward a lateral direction enhanced visual attention at that side. Rightward movements were associated with an attentional cost only for responses to a central location, while leftward movements slowed response latencies to both central and right-sided stimuli. We hypothesized that programming a rightward movement depends on the activation of intentional centers in either cerebral hemisphere. On the contrary, leftward movements might be only driven by the contralateral hemisphere
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