Flavia Cardini CV - Department of Psychology - Royal Holloway ...

FLAVIA CARDINI
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal information:
Place and Date of birth: Florence – 15 May 1980
Nationality: Italian
Languages: Italian – native; English – fluent; Spanish – basic level
e-mail: flavia.cardini@rhul.ac.uk
Current position:
Post-doctoral Research Assistant at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Education:
• January 2008 - December 2010: PhD student under the Joint International Cognitive Neuroscience
PhD Program between University of Bologna, Centro studi e ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive,
Cesena (CNC) and University College London (UCL), Institute of Cogntive Neuroscience (ICN).
• 16-22 June 2008. Summer School on Body Representation, “The sense of body”. Bologna, Italy.
• 2008: Student in the Joint International Cognitive Neuroscience Ph.D. program (Supervisors: Prof.
Elisabetta Ladavas and Prof. Patrick Haggard) at the Department of Psychology, University of
Bologna, Italy and University College London (UCL).
• 2007: Master in Clinical and Neuropsychological assessment (Prof. Maria Pia Viggiano).
• 2007: Apprenticeship in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi
di Firenze, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Sica.
• 2007: Apprenticeship in Experimental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Università degli
Studi di Firenze, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Maria Pia Viggiano.
• 1999 – 2006: Master’s Degree in Clinical and Community Psychology. Faculty of Psychology,
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Date of graduation: 16 November 2006
Type of Thesis: experimental
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Pia Viggiano
• February-July 2003: Universidad de Salamanca. ERASMUS program.

Courses:
• Postgraduate Statistics Course - Maarten Speekenbrink, Division of Psychology and Language
Sciences, UCL (University College of London), London (October-November 2009).
• Postgraduades Research Methods Course 2009/2010. UCL (University College London).
• Methods for Dummies 2009/2010. UCL (University College London).
• MATLAB for Cognitive Neuroscience 2009/2010 – ICN (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).
• SPM Course 22-23 April 2010 – ICN (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).
• TMS laboratory – Dr Alessio Avenanti – Centro studi e ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive (March
2009).
• Statistics for Consumer Research – Prof. Mazzocchi – Department of Statistic, Bologna (February -
March 2009).
Work experience:
• 2008-2010: Tutor at the University of Bologna, Italy. Tutoring and assistance activity for students at
faculty of Psychology.
• 1st September 2011-29th February 2012: Post-doctoral Research Assisitant at Royal Holloway
University.
Funding and awards:
• UCL Graduate School Student award approval for attending IMRF conference, Liverpool 2010
(250£).
• July-August 2011. COST Action BM0605 Grant on Consciousness: a Transdisciplinary, Integrated
Approach (2500 !).
• March 2012. IBRO-CEERC-WERC InEurope Short Stay Fellowship (2500 !).!
Conference Participations:
• CenSes Workshop: Understanding the role of Interoceptive Awarness in Cognition; Institute of
Philosophy. University of London (UK), 27-28 September 2011.
• CenSes Workshop: The body: Sensation and Representation, Chancellor's Hall, Senate House.
University of London (UK), 4 February 2011.
• THEO MURPHY MEETING ON Active touch sensing. Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire (UK), 31
January-2 February 2011.
• 2010 Summer One-day Symposium ‘Bridging Scales in Neuroimaging’. London (UK), 13 September,
2010.
• Joint Workshop. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour & UCL Institute of Cognitive
Neuroscience. London (UK), 21 June, 2010.
• IMRF (International Multisensory Research Forum). Liverpool (UK), 16-19 June, 2010.
• Experimental Psychology Society Workshop on Body Representation. London (UK), 29-30 March,
2010.
• IMRF (International Multisensory Research Forum). New York (USA), 29 June -02 July, 2009.

• SINP Italian society of neuropsychology. Bologna (Italy), 29-30 May, 2009.
• Enacting intersubjectivity. Paving the way for a dialogue between cognitive science, social cognition
and neuroscience, Lugano (Switzerland), 13-14 February, 2009.
• EWCN (European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology), Bressanone (Italy), 25-30 January,
2009.
• ABIM (Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting). Champery (Switzerland), 11-16 January, 2009.
• Summer School “The sense of body”. Bologna (Italy), 16-22 June, 2008.
• SINP (Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia), Bologna (Italy), 9-10 May, 2008.
• Workshop. Neuropsicologia, Neuroscienze Cognitive e Neuroplasticità: prospettive della ricerca di
base e applicata. Florence (Italy), 21-22 September, 2007.
• CAOS (Concepts, actions and objects: functional and neural perspectives). Rovereto (Italy), 19-22
April, 2007.
• AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia). Rovereto (Italy), 13-15 September, 2006.
Conference Presentations:
• F. Cardini, M.R. Longo, P. Haggard. “Viewing the body modulates somatosensory cortical inhibition”.
THEO MURPHY MEETING ON Active touch sensing. Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire (UK), 31
January-2 February 2011.
• F. Cardini, M.R. Longo, P. Haggard. “Viewing the body modulates somatosensory cortical inhibition”.
IMRF (International Multisensory Research Forum). Liverpool (UK), 16-19 June 2010.
• F. Cardini, A. Tajadura, M. Tsakiris, A. Serino. “Going beyond the boundaries between self and
other”. IMRF (International Multisensory Research Forum). Liverpool (UK), 16-19 June 2010.
• C. Passamonti, F. Cardini, C. Bertini, E. Ladavas. “’Affective blindsight’ for fearful faces: evidences
from a Reduntant Target Paradigm in patients with hemianopia”. EWCN (European Workshop on
Cognitive Neuropsychology), Bressanone (Italy), 24-29 January, 2010.
• F. Cardini, M. Costantini, G. Galati, E. Ladavas, A. Serino. “Neural modulation of felt and seen touch
on one’s own face: a fMRI study”. IMRF (International Multisensory Research Forum). New York
(USA), 29 June -02 July 2009.
• F. Cardini, M. Costantini, G. Galati, A. Serino. “Correlati neurali dell’osservazione del tocco sul
proprio volto: uno studio fMRI”. SINP (Società Italiana di Neuropsicologia), Bologna (Italy), 9-10 May,
2008.
• F. Cardini, G. Giovagnoli, A. Serino, E. Ladavas. “I feel what I see, if the other is similar to me”.
Enacting intersubjectivity. Paving the way for a dialogue between cognitive science, social cognition
and neuroscience. Lugano (Switzerland), 13-14 February, 2009.
• F. Cardini, A. Serino, G. Galati, E. Làdavas, M. Costantini. “Neural modulation of viewing one’s own
face being touched: a fMRI study”. ABIM (Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting). Champery, 11-16 January,
2009.
• F. Cardini, A. Serino, G. Galati, E. Làdavas, M. Costantini. “Neural modulation of viewing one’s own
face being touched: a fMRI study”. EWCN (European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology),
Bressanone (Italy), 25-30 January, 2009.

• F. Cardini, T. Marzi, M.P. Viggiano. “Different face encoding strategies and recognition memory:
electrophysiological correlates”. Neuropsicologia, Neuroscienze Cognitive e Neuroplasticità:
prospettive della ricerca di base e applicata. Florence, 21-22 September, 2007.
• T. Marzi, F. Cardini, M.P. Viggiano. “When memory meets beauty: insights from event-related brain
potentials”. Neuropsicologia, Neuroscienze Cognitive e Neuroplasticità: prospettive della ricerca di
base e applicata. Florence, 21-22 September, 2007.
• C. Brancati, F. Cardini, M.P. Viggiano. “The role of frontal cortex in implicit visual identification: an
ERP study”. CAOS, Rovereto, 19-22 April, 2007.
• C. Brancati, F. Cardini, S. Righi, M.P. Viggiano “Meccanismi impliciti nel processo di riconoscimento
visivo di stimoli complessi: correlati elettrofisiologici”. SIPF, Pisa, 1-3 December, 2006.
• C. Brancati, F. Cardini, T. Marzi, M.P. Viggiano. “Effetti dell’età e della categoria sull’elaborazione
sensoriale e cognitiva di stimoli complessi”. AIP, Rovereto, 13-15 September, 2006.
Publications:
• F. Cardini, G. Giovagnoli, A. Serino, E. Ladavas. “I feel what I see, if the other is similar to me”.
Enacting intersubjectivity. Paving the way for a dialogue between cognitive science, social cognition
and neuroscience. Ed. Carassa, A., Morganti, F., & Riva, G. Lugano, Switzerland. Pag. 90-98.
• F. Cardini, M. Costantini, G. Galati, G. L. Romani, E. Ladavas, A. Serino. “Viewing one’s own face
being touched modulates tactile perception: a fMRI study”. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2011
Mar;23(3):503-13. Epub 2010 Mar 29.
• F. Cardini, M.R. Longo, P. Haggard. “Vision of the body modulates somatosensory cortical inhibition”.
Cerebral Cortex. 2011, 21(9), 2014-2022.
• F. Cardini, C. Bertini, A. Serino, E. Ladavas. “Emotional modulation of Visual Remapping of Touch”.
Emotion (submitted).
• F. Cardini, M.R. Longo, J. Driver, P. Haggard. “Rapid enhancement of touch from non-informative
vision of the hand” (in preparation).