The concept of “motor cognition” has received growing interest from psychologists and neuroscientists. Both transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) have been extensively employed to reveal its neural underpinnings, taking advantage of the capability of these methods to both quantify motor cognition and detailing its time-course. In this talk, both approaches will be reviewed with the support of experimental studies and two recent meta-analyses. Based on this assessment of the field of motor cognition in healthy participants, existing limitations and possible avenues for future research in the field will be discussed.

The presenter is Dr. Claudia Gianelli who is currently Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of Messina and Research Area Coordinator of the Center for Psychological Research and Intervention (CeRIP). After a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (awarded jointly by the Universities of Bologna and Lyon), she spent several years as a Research Scientist at the University of Potsdam in Germany and then as a Research Fellow at the University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia in Italy. Her main research interests are in the field of motor cognition investigated by means of neurophysiological and behavioral measures (TMS, EEG, motion tracking), both as single methods and in combination, in healthy participants and clinical populations.

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