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Affiliations, Organization, Funding

Affiliations

At the University of Bologna

q       Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione

q       Corso di Laurea in Filosofia

In Rome, National Research Council: Research Group on Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, CNR, Rome

Professional Societies:

Editorial board:

Organization

SUMMER SCHOOLS; SYMPOSIA

* June 2008. Summer School THE SENSE OF BODY(Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, June 2008) – co-organized with Andrea Serino, Alessia Tessari, Manos Tsakiris. Funding: project selected and funded by ISA (Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Università di Bologna), funds by the European Science Foundation.
* September 2006. Lucia Riggio, Anna Borghi: Organization of the Symposium: Affordances: tra percezione e azione. Participants: Leonardo Fogassi, Lucia Riggio, Fabio Ferlazzo, Anna Borghi. AIP, Sez. di Psicologia Sperimentale, Rovereto, September 13-15 2006.
* July 2005. Summer School Neural network models of perception, action and embodied knowledge (Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, July 13-19, 2005) – co-organized with Stefano Ghirlanda

CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES:
• September 2003. Scientific committee. I WORKSHOP ITALIANO DI VITA ARTIFICIALE. Università della Calabria, Cosenza, 5-6- settembre 2003
• March 2005. Scientific committee. II WORKSHOP ITALIANO DI VITA ARTIFICIALE. ROMA, ISTCCNR. 3-5 MARZO 2005
April 2006. Program Committee - iccm2006 The 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling – Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006.
• September 2006. Scientific Committee. III WORKSHOP ITALIANO DI VITA ARTIFICIALE. Wiva3 - Siena, 12-15 settembre 2006.
• September 2006. Program Committee – From animals to animats 9. The Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB ’06, sab06), 25-29 September 2006, CNR, Rome, Italy. November 2007. IV convegno nazionale di Scienze Cognitive. Tavola rotonda su Cognizione, complessità, cittadinanza.

Funding

Since 2000 RFO funds 60%, University of Bologna
2006-08 PRIN funds. coordination of the Bologna – Department of Psychology Unit. Project on Language, objects and motor system: the role of affordances. In collaboration with: University of Milano Bicocca (coordinator Natale Stucchi), University of Parma, Dept. of Neuroscience (coordinator Lucia Riggio),. University of Bologna, Department of Communication Disciplines (coordinator Roberto Nicoletti).

From March 2008. Coordination of the ROSSI project, Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction (FP7, call Cognitive Systems and Robotics.)