PERSONAL INFORMATION

Gori Monica

EDUCATION

2005-2009 Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies, University of Genoa, Italy. Final dissertation: Multimodal Integration in Adults and Children. Tutor: Prof David Burr. Date: January 2009

1999-2004 Degree (summa cum laude) in Psychology, University of Florence, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Michela Del Viva. Date: July 2004

• CURRENT POSITION(S)

2015-Present Tenure Track U-VIP Unit for Visually Impaired People, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy (14 people considering Ph.D., Post-Doc and one technician)

• PREVIOUS POSITIONS2012-2015 Team Leader Visual-Haptic Lab, RBCS, Italian Institute ofTechnology, Genova, Italy

2009-2012 Post Doc RBCS, Italian Institute ofTechnology, Prof. Giulio Sandini, Genova, Italy.

2008 Part of Ph.D. Dep. of Ophthalmology, Prof. Martin Bank's, University ofBerkeley, USA

2004-2005 Fellow Institute ofNeuroscience CNR, Prof. David Burr's Lab, Pisa, Italy

2003-2004 Master Student Institute ofNeuroscience CNR, Prof. David Burr's Lab, Pisa, Italy

• SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Supervision of 12 PhD students (Alice Tomassini; Tiziana Vercillo; Giulia Cappagli; Alessia Tonelli, Elena Aggius-Velia; Anna Vera Cuppone, Maria Bianca Amadeo, Walter Setti, Chiara Martolini, Hafsha Hamad; Nicola Domenici; Davide Esposito); 9 Post- doctoral fellows students (Sara Finocchietti, Alice Tomassini, Claudio Campus, Luigi Cuturi, Lucilla Cardinali, Giulia Cappagli; Alberto Inuggi; Alice Bollini; Lucia Schiatti); Supervisor of 8 Master students; at University of Florence, of Pisa, University of Genoa and Institute San Raffaele Milan, Italy.

• CAREER BREAKS: maternity leave for 3 children2019-2019 maternity leave third child 2015-2015 maternity leave second child 2013-2014 maternity leave first child

• TEACHING ACTIVITIES2019- Lesson Osaka University part ofthe Minouru Asada Course on Robotics 2017-abilitation for University as Associate Professor 2016-present: part ofthe board of professor, University of Genoa, Genoa 2016-present: professor, integrative activity, Bioengineering, University of Genoa 2009-present: professor neurophysiology ofthe perceptual systems, Advanced courses for Ph.D. students, 10 hours (about 20 students per course), IIT and University of Genoa, Genoa 2009-present: professor psychophysical methods, Advanced courses for Ph .D. students, 10 hours (about 20 students per course), IIT and University ofGenoa, Genoa 2004-2005: MATLAB course 20 hours (about 20 students) University of Psychology Florence, Italy

• ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS2018 MIE - First International Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for Education 2014-2017 ABBI EU project weDRA W project Kick-offMeeting and review meeting with EU commission, ABBI: Feb. 2014-2015, Aprii 2016, weDRA W: July 2018, Genoa, Italy 2015 Member ofthe organization committee IMRF 2015, Pisa, Italy 2014 Symposium at IMRF conference, June, Amsterdam, Gori, and Hanganu-Opatz 2011 Workshop "Multisensory Perception", May, Sestri Levante, Italy

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EDITORIAL ACTIVITY 2019 Editor research topic "Spatial and Temporal Perception in Sensory Deprivation" Frontiers Neurosc. 2014 Invited editor Journa! of Mu!tisensory Res.: "Development and plasticity of multisensory processing". 2014- present Invited reviewer for: PNAS, Experimental Brain Research, Neuropsychologia, Child Development, Developmental Science, Multisensory research, Frontiers in Psychology, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, IEEE, PLoSONE, Perception, Trans. on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, Neuroscience & Biob. Reviews, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Cell and Tissue Research, AMSCI, Celi e tissue research, Cerebral Cortex, Brain Topography, Scientific Reports, Current Biology, Cognit, NIMG, MSI, STREP, Neuroscience Letter.

• COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 2018 Review for NHS Trust;

Review for Ph.D. thesis, CHUV Lausanne, student of Matusz and Murray 2016 Review for Leverhulme Trust 2015 Review for Ph.D. thesis, University of Dublin, TCD, Ireland, student of Newell 2013 Advisory member ofthe MIROR project, Grant agreement n° 258338 2010 -2013 MEMBERSHJPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 2012 Member of the Society for Neuroscience (StN) 2004-2011 Visual Science Society (VSS) Member

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS: Collaborations with work visits to the following distinguished scholars, as documented by co-authored publications and projects: • Prof. Martin Banks, Multisensory integration, University ofBerkeley, USA, 2008-2010 • Melvin Goodale, Echolocators and perception, University of Western Ontario, Canada 2013-now • Prof. Brigitte Roeder, Visual disability, University ofHamburg, Germany, 2014-2017 • Prof. Juergen Konczak, sensory-motor integrati on University of Minnesota, USA, 2008-2017 • Prof. Charlotte Magnusson, User studies in blind children, University ofLund, Sweden 2014-2017 • Prof. Concetta Morrone, Tempora! and multisensory processing, University of Pisa, Italy 2006-now • Prof. David Burr, University ofFlorence, Italy, 2002-now • Prof. Francesco Pavani, Multisensory integration University of Trento, Italy 2015-now • Dr. Andrea Serino, Multisensory integration EPFL, Switzerland 2015-now • Prof. Fiona Newell , Multisensory integration development for learning, Dublin, Ireland 2016-now

SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL: I am tenure track at IIT and am leading the new group U-VIP, Unit for Visually Impaired People, composed of 14 scientists (6 Ph.D., 6 PostDocs, I Technician, 1 PI) as an expert on development, multisensory integration, visual disability, and spatial perception. The impact of my work on the scientific community can be summarized by 92 international papers, 3 book chapters, and many conferences' abstracts. Internationally accepted indices of impact and productivity show that my work has received 1144 citations, leading me to an H-index of 18 in Scopus and 22 in Google Scholar. I am the scientific coordinator oftwo large European grants, ABBI (-€2 million) and WeDraw (-€2.5 million). Since the beginning ofmy Ph.D. I was encouraged to work independently on my research projects, working on my own ideas with little hands-on supervision. This was particularly important as I was at the University of Genoa while my supervisor, David Burr, worked in Pisa and Florence. During my Ph.D. I also interacted with a strong multidisciplinary environment starting collaborations with engineers and clinica! institutes (e.g. Chiossone Institute and Stella Maris Institute). After my Ph.D. I started a post-doc at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science Department of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (director prof. Giulio Sandini). In IIT I had the possibility to develop new laboratories (visual­haptic lab and child !ab) and to supervise Ph.D. and Master students. I also developed with engineers many mechatronic devices to be used for experiments with children. I also started important collaborations such as with prof. Juergen Konczac (Minnesota University, USA) and with prof. Melvin Goodale (Western University, Canada). Two of my studies have been highlighted in editoria! opinions, by Mare Emst ( Current Biology 2008) and by Andrew King (Brain 2014). One study has been Iisted as faculty of 1000 (Gori et al. Curr Biol, 2008). From 2011 to date I ama member ofthe Board of Professors ofthe Ph.D. Program in Bioengineering and Robotics, University of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

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On-going Grants

Project Funding Amount Period Raie ofthe Relation to current Tille source (Euros) PI ERC vroposal

MULTIT EU- EC Durati Project This project aims at providing OUCH H2020- contributi on: onin partner high level training to a new

MSCA- 1,543,335 € month generation ofEarly Stage ITN- s:48 Researchers (ESR) in the 2019, (02/02 multidisciplinary field of ITN /2020- haptics. In the project we will Network, 31/03/ create an ambitious environment 2019- 2024) that free their creativity, 2023 motivate them for

entrepreneurship, and drive them towards thriving careers. We will achieve this by combining hands-on training, involving academic and industriai researchers, bringing the necessary academic knowledge as well as soft-skills, and by facing off research challenges in different sectors of neuroscience, computer science, rehabilitation, human-computer interfaces, multisensory tactile displays and virtual realitv.

Past grants

WeDraw EC Cali EC Durati Project WeDraw examines how to Exploitin identifier: contributi on: onin coordinator exploit the best sensory g the best IH2020 €2,500,000 month modality for learning arithmetic sensory CT22- s: 24 and geometrica! concepts based modality 2016: (01/01 on multisensory technology and for Technolo /2017- serious games for typical and learning gies for 31/12( atypical children. I coordinate a arithmetic Learning 2018) consortium of 1 O partners with and and Skills different backgrounds. WeDraw geometrie is highly interdisciplinary, al involving engineers, concepts psychologists, pedagogics, and based on industria! links. The project multisens exploits knowledge of ory multisensory integration in the technolog teaching activity of elementary y and schools. serious games ABBI EC EC Durati Project ABBI, Audio Bracelet for Blind www.abbi Cali contributi on: onin coordinator Interaction, proposes a new Dl'OÌl!Cl Cli identifier: 1,849,995 € month technology based on sensory-Audio FP7- s: motor rehabilitation for visually Bracelet ICT- 36 (01/ impaired children. I was the for Blind 2013.5.3 02/201 coordinator of more than 15 Interactio ICT for 4- scientists with different n: anew smart and 31/01/ backgrounds. The ABBI project technolog personaliz 2017) is highly interdisciplinary with y based ed engineers, psychologist, medica! on inclusion and rehabilitators working on it.

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sensory- The ABBI device was motor highlighted in the Horizon rehabilitat Magazine and received ion for extensive media coverage. visually impaired children PACE EU- EC Durati Project The PACE project is an ITN Perceptio H2020- contributi on: onin partner project that studies action and nand MSCA- €516,122 month perception in individuals with action in ITN- s:48 and without disabilities. I complex 2014, (01/04 contributed to the project environm ITN /2015- preparation within the IIT team. ents Network, 31/03/ Within this project, I follow one

2015- 2019) Ph.D. student in IIT together 2019 with Gabriel Baud-Bovy. I also

follow the activity oftwo PhDs students, that come in IIT for few months to work on visual multisensory integration in children.

CODEFR FP7- EC (1/02/ Project The goal of the project is to OR PEOPLE- contribution: 2014- partner investigate aspects of human cognitive 2013- €147,000 31/01/ cognitive development with the Developm IRSES 2018) double goal of developing ent for robots able to internet with Friendly humans in a friendly way and of RObots designing and testing protocols and and devices for sensory and Rehabilita motor rehabilitation of disabled tion children.

Grant applications

ERC Starting Grant in preparation for submission in October 2019.

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Early achievements track-record:

I have published 92 (72 of 92 without the Ph.D. supervisor) international papers, 3 book chapters and many conference abstracts with 87 different co-authors. My work has received 1144 citations, leading to an H-index of 18 in Scopus and 22 in Google Scholar. I published my first article in my Master's thesis in 2006. My first ground-breaking research was published in 2008 in a paper presented in Current Biology and listed

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as "faculty of 1000". This work has been considered highly innovative. The next ground-breaking research was published in 2010 in Current Biology and in 2014 in Brain showing that visually impaired adults have strong deficits in audio perception. The increment of the citation level and h­index (showed in the graph) is strongly encouraging.

i) Project coordinator ABBI ,, ,, ,, .ahl>iprojèct.i.:u FP7- ICT-2013.5.3 ICT for smart and personalised inclusion (1,849,995 € 01/02/2014 - 31/01/2017). Final evaluation: Good; ii) Project coordina tor weDRA W w,, ,, . ,, cdr:.I\\ .cu IH2020-ICT 22-2016: Technologies for Learning and Skills € €2,500,000 (Ol/01/2017-31/12(2018)). Final evaluation: Excellent

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PAPERS (52 of92 presented bere, 72 of92 without the Ph.D. supervisor). Please note that I decided to list here papers published in the last few years even if with low citati on number. Previous works with much citations are provided below. 1. Amadeo, Campus, Gori. Impact ofyears ofblindness on neural circuits underlying auditory spatial

representation. Neurolmage, 2019, impactfactor 5.4 citations 1 2. Gori, Amadeo, Campus. Temporal cues influence space estimations in visually impaired individuals.

iScience, 2018, new journal citations 3. 3. Campus, Sandini, Concetta Morrone, & Gori. Spatial localization of sound elicits early responses from

occipital visual cortex in humans. Scientific Report, 2017, impact factor 4.8, citations 1 O 4. Cappagli, Cocchi, & Gori. Auditory and proprioceptive spatial impairments in blind children and adults.

Developmental Science, 2017, impactfactor 3.98 citations 23 5. Gori, Cappagli, Tonelli, Baud-Bovy, Finocchietti. Devices for visually impaired people: high

technological devices with low user acceptance and no adaptability for children Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2016, impactfactor 10.5 page citations 22

6. Finocchietti, Gori, Souza Oliveira. Kinematic Profile ofVisually Impaired Football Players During Specific Sports Actions. Scientific Reports, 2019, impactfactor 4.5 (citationsjust published)

7. Amadeo, Stormer, Campus, Gori. Peripheral sounds elicit stronger activity in contralateral occipital cortex in blind than sighted individuals. Scientific Reports, 2019, impact factor 4.5 ( citations just published)

8. Aggius-V ella, Campus, Kolarik, Gori. The Role of Visual Experience in Audi tory Space Perception around the Legs. Scientific Reports, 2019, impact factor 4.5 ( citations just published)

9. Campus, Sandini, Amadeo, Gori. Stronger responses in the visual cortex of sighted compared to blind individuals during auditory space representation. Scientific Reports, 2019, impactfactor 4.5, citations 1

10. Cappagli, Finocchietti, Cocchi, Giammari, Zumiani, Cuppone, Baud-Bovy, Gori. Audio motor training improves mobility and spatial cognition in visually impaired children. Scientific Reports, 2019, impact factor 4.5 ( citations just published)

11. Amadeo, Campus, Pavani, Gori. Spatial Cues Influence Time Estimations in Deaf Individuals. iScience, 2019, new journal ( citations just published)

12. Amadeo, Campus, Gori. Impact ofyears ofblindness on neural circuits underlying auditory spatial representation. Neurolmage, 2019, impactfactor 5.4 citations 1

13. Finocchietti, Cappagli, Giammari, Cocchi, Gori. Test-retest reliability ofBSP, a battery oftests for assessing spatial cognition in visually impaired children, PLoS ONE, 2019, impactfactor 2.8, (citations just published)

14. Tonelli, Campus, Serino, Gori. Enhanced audio-tactile multisensory interaction in a peripersonal task after echolocation. Experimental Brain Research, 2019, impactfactor 1.9 (citations just published)

15. Volpe, Gori. Multisensory interactive technologies for primary education: From science to technology. Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, impactfactor 2.1 (citations just published)

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16. Cuturi, Gori. Biases in the visual and haptic subjective vertical reveal the role of proprioceptive/vestibular priors in child development. Frontiers in Neurology, 2019, impactfactor 3.6 ( citations just published)

17. Nava, Focker, Gori. Children can optimally integrate multisensory information after a short action-like mini game training Developmental Science, 2019, impact factor 4.1 ( citations j ust published)

18. Aggius-Velia, Campus, Gori. Different audio spatial metric representation around the body. Scientific Reports, 2018, impact factor 4.5 ( citations just published)

19. Setti, Cuturi, Cocchi, Gori. A nove! paradigm to study spatial memory skills in blind individuals through the auditory modality. Scientific Reports, 2018, impactfactor 4.5 (citations just published)

20. Cappagli, Finocchietti, Baud-Bovy, Badino, D'Ausilio, Cocchi, Gori. Assessing Socia! Competence in Visually Impaired People and Proposing an Interventional Program in Visually Impaired Children. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2018, impact factor 2.8 ( citations just published)

21. Cuppone, Cappagli, Gori. Audio feedback associated with body movement enhances audio and somatosensory spatial representation. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2018, impactfactor 2.8 ( citations just published)

22. Nelson, Kuling, Gori, Postma, Brenner, Smeets. Spatial Representation ofthe Workspace in Blind, Low Vision, and Sighted Human Participants. i-Perception, 2018, impactfactor I.I citations 3

23. Vercillo, Tonelli, Gori. Early visual deprivation prompts the use ofbody-centered frames ofreference for auditory localization. Cognition, 2018, impactfactor I.I citations 4

24. Cuturi, Aggius-Velia, Campus, Parmiggiani, and Gori. From science to technology: orientation and mobility in blind children and adults. Neurosci and Bio. Reviews, 2016, impactfactor 10.5 citations 15

25. Faculty of 1000, Gori, Del Viva, Sandini & Burr. Young children do not integrate visual and haptic form information. Current Biology, 2008, impactfactor 9.2 Citations 250

26. Gori, Sandini, Martinoli & Burr. Poor haptic orientation discrimination in non-sighted children may reflect. Current Biology, 2010, impact factor 9.2 Citations 70

27. Gori, Sandini, Burr Development ofvisuo-auditory integration in space and time. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2012, impactfactor 4.5 Citations 66

28. Gori, Sandini, Martino li and Burr Impairment of audi tory spatial localization in congenitally blind human subjects; We also had the joumal cover. Brain, 2014, impactfactor 11.8 Citations 82

29. Konczak, Sdutti, Avanzino, Squeri, Gori, Masia, Abruzzese, Sandini, Parkinson's disease accelerates age­related decline in haptic perception Brain, 2012, impactfactor 11.8 Citations 46

30. Gori, Cappagli, Baud-Bovy, & Finocchietti. Shape Perception and Navigation in Blind Adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 2017, impactfactor 2.8 citations 2

31. Cappagli, and Gori, Auditory spatial localization: Developmental delay in children with visual impairments M. 2016 Research in Developmental Disabilities impactfactor 3,3 Citations 8

32. Vercillo, Tonelli, & Gori (2017). Early visual deprivation prompts the use of body-centered frames of reference for auditory localization. Cognition, 2018, impact factor 3.4 Citations 3

33. Finocchietti, Cappagli and Gori Encoding audio motion: spatial impairment in early blind individuals. Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, impact factor 2.8 Citations 19

34. Gori, Multisensory integration, and calibration in children and adults with and without sensory and motor disabilities. Multisensory research 2015, impact factor 1.0 citations 30

35. Squeri, Sciutti, Gori, Masia, Sandini & Konczack. Two hands, one perception: how bimanual haptic information is combined by the brain, J Neurophysiol, 2012, impact factor 2.9 Citations 22

36. Del Viva, Gori & Burr, Powerful motion illusion caused by tempora! asymmetries in ON and OFF visual pathways, Journal of Neurophysiology, 2006, impact factor 2.9 Citations 19

37. Gori, Vercillo, Sandini, Burr Tactile feedback improves auditory spatial localization. Front. Psychology, 2014, impact factor 2.8 Citations 9

38. Sciutti, Squeri, Gori, Masia, Sandini & Konczak 2010, 'Predicted sensory feedback derived from motor commands does not improve haptic sensitivity', EBR, impact factor 1.9, Citations 18

39. Dahiya & Gori, Probing with and into Fingerprints, 2010 Jour ofNeuroph. impact factor 2.9 Citations 16

40. Tonelli, Brayda, & Gori. Task-dependent calibration of auditory spatial perception through environmental visual observation. Front Syst Neuroscience, 2015, impact factor 3.4 Citations 4

41. Tonelli, Brayda, & Gori, 2016 Depth echolocation leamt by novice sighted people PLoS ONE impact factor 3.1 Citations 9

42. Vercillo, Milne, Gori, Goodale Enhanced auditory spatial localization in blind echolocators. Neuropsychologia, 2015, impact factor 4.3 Citations 32

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43. Sciutti, Burr, Saracco, Sandini, Gori. Development of context dependency in human space perception Developmental Science, 2014, impact factor 4.1 Citations 16

44. Gori, Tinelli, Sandini, Cioni, Burr Impaired visual size-discrimination in children with movement disorders. Neuropsychologia, 2012, impact factor 4.3 Citations 28

45. Gori, Mazzilli, Sandini & Burr. Cross-sensory facilitation reveals neural interactions between visual and tactile motion in humans. Front. Psychology, 2011, impact factor 2.8 Citations 25

46. Tomassini, Gori, Burr, Sandini & Morrone, Perceived duration of visual and tactile stimuli depends on perceived speed. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2011, impact factor 4.5 Citations 29

47. Gori, Giuliana, Sandini, Burr Visual size perception and haptic calibration during development 2012 Developmental Science impact factor 4.1 Citations 24

48. Tomassini, Gori, Baud-Bovy Sandini & Morrone. Motor commands induce time compression for tactile stimuli, J Neuroscience, 2014, impact factor 6, Citations 21

49. Vercillo, Burr, Sandini, Gori. Children do not recalibrate motor-sensory temporal order after exposure to delayed sensory feedback. Devel. Science, 2015, impact factor 4.1 Citations 10

50. Gori, Chilosi, Forli, & Burr. Audio-visual temporal perception in children with restored hearing. Neuropsychologia, 2017, impact factor 4.3 Citations 3

51. Gori, Vercillo, Sandini, Burr. Tactile feedback improves auditory spatial localization. Frontiers in Psychology, 2014, impact factor 2.8 Citations 8

52. Vercillo, Burr, Gori. Early visual deprivati on severely compromises the auditory sense of space in congenitally blind children. Developmental Psychology, 2016, impact factor 3.1 Citations 21

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS 53. Burr, Gori (2011) Multisensory integration develops late in humans. Taylor & Francis Group.

54. Burr, Binda, Gori (2011) Combining information from different sense. Oxford University Press.

PATENTS Italian Patent Application 1T T02014A000323 (IIT 2013-159) for the ABBI device

INvITED PRESENTATIONS AT UNNERSITIES OR CONFERENCES 2011 UCL and CBCD London, May 2011 invited by Marko Nardini and Prof. A Karmiloff-Smith;

University ofHamburg, November 2011, invited by Brigitte Roeder. 2013 Symposium European Conf of Developmental Psychology by D. Maurer Lausanne September. 2014 CBCD London, May 2014 invited by Prof. A Karmiloff-Smith; University ofMunich October 2014

invited by Hermann Mueller; Symposium FENS 2014 organized by A.King and J.Rauschecker 2015 Invitation at University ofBarcellona by Lopez Moliner. 2016 ESOF Invited talk, organized by Alessandra Sciutti Manchester, UK; Symposium ECVP organized

by Montagnini and Bremmer, Barcellona, Spain. 2017 The Rank Prize Funds, Symposium on Learning to See: From Retinai to Brain Computations;

Symposiums at IMRF organized by Streim-Amit and Andy Bremner. Invited talk for ERC starting, June Belgium

2018 Invited talk for ERC starting, May Belgium Invited talk Workshop SPADE organized by Binda, Burr, Morrone, June Pisa, Italy Invited talk at the Blind Brain Workshop by Ricciardi, Bottari & Pietrini, Lucca, Italy Invited talk Paris "Cross-modal Processing from neurophysiology to behaviour" by Claudia Lunghi Invited talk JBC student-initiated workshop "Visual function acquisition in normai development and

following emergence from blindness", Hebrewe Univerity of Jerusalem, organized by Ehud Zohary

2019 Invited talk for ERC starting, May Belgium Invited Talk Zangwill Club Seminar, University of Cambridge, Uk Invited talk Symbiotic Intelligent Systems, Osaka, Japan

A WARDS and HONOURS Listed in the faculty of 1000: Gori et al. 2008; Young children do not integrate visual and haptic form information. Curr Biol.; Winner ofthe Italian Prize TR35 for young innovators Date: March 2012; Winner of Smart Cup Liguria October 2015 Cup for new technological solutions and start-up.

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