| Biographical Info |
Dr Alberto Gallace is a cognitive neuroscientist with a special interest in the study of the cognitive and neural aspects of tactile and nociceptive information processing across the body surface.
In 2001 Alberto gained a scholarship to undertake a doctorate at university of Milan. Two years of his 4 year PhD program were spent at Oxford University as a visiting student. After the completion of his PhD in 2005, he worked for 2 years in the Department of Experimental Psychology of Oxford University on crossmodal integration. While working in Oxford he also obtained a Junior Research Fellowship from Wolfson College.
In 2007 Alberto returned to Italy where he was appointed as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Psychology of University of Milano-Bicocca, where he teaches psychobiology of human behavior. He also teaches Consumer Neuroscience at commercial university Luigi Bocconi in Milan. His work investigates multisensory integration, synaesthesia, body representation, pain perception, spatial attention and spatial information processing in both neurologically normal participants and patients affected by neurological and neuropsychological disorders. His work underpins the very first neurocognitive model of tactile awareness. He is also interested in the application of cognitive neuroscience research to the fields of engineering, virtual reality, product design, economics and marketing.
Since 2005, he has written 2 books (one on the sense of touch), 12 book chapters, and more than 50 scientific articles. He has been invited as speaker at a number of international conferences and his work has been the focus of popular media articles in different countries. He has published in general science (eg Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and leading journals in his field (eg Experimental Brain Research, Pain, Journal of Neuropsychology, Consciousness and Cognition, Brain Research, Neuroscience Letters, Perception, Psychological Bulletin, Perception & Psychophysics, Neuroscience and Biobehavioural reviews, Acta Psychologica). |
