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.: Caminiti, Roberto Giorgio

Chair Schools Committee, Chair CARE Committee

Roberto Caminiti
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
SAPIENZA University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 Rome Italy
Phone: 39 06 4991 0967
Fax: 39 06 4991 0942
E-mail: roberto.caminiti@uniroma1.it
Website: http://w3.uniroma1.it/neurophys

Personal

Date and place of birth: 26 August 1948, Catania (CT), Italy.
Citizenship: Italian.
Civil status: Married.

Major research interests

Behavioral neurophysiology, cortico-cortical relationships, cortical mechanism of motor control, neuroanatomy.

Present position

Full Professor of Physiology.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

M. D. from the School of Medicine (November 1967 - July 1973) University of Catania, Italy.

Academic positions and teaching experience in Physiology

1974
University of Ferrara, as Assistant Professor
1975-1981
University of Ancona, as Assistant Professor
1981-1985
University of Rome "La Sapienza", as Assistant Professor.
1985-1994
University of Rome "La Sapienza", as Associate Professor.
1994-present
University of Rome "La Sapienza", as Full Professor.
Director of the PhD in Neurophysiology, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
Director of the School of Doctorate in Neuroscience, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.

Member of

Societŕ Italiana di Neuroscienze (SINS)
Societŕ italiana di Fisiologia (SIF)
Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
European Brain and Behavior Society (EBBS)
Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
International Neuropsychology Symposium (INS)

Selected Publications

  • Innocenti G M, Fiore L, Caminiti R (1977) Exuberant projection into the corpus callosum from the visual cortex of newborn cat. Neurosci Letters, 4: 273-242.
  • Georgopoulos AP, Kalaska JF, Caminiti R, Massey JT (1982) On the relations between the direction of two dimensional arm movements and cell discharge in primate motor cortex. J Neurosci 11: 1527-1537.
  • Johnson PB, Angelucci A, Ziparo RM, Minciacchi D, Bentivoglio M, R Caminiti (1989) Segregation and overlap of callosal and association neurons in frontal and parietal cortices of primates. A spectral and coherency analysis. J Neurosci 9: 2313 - 2326.
  • Caminiti R, P B Johnson and A Urbano (1990) Making arm movements within different parts of space: Dynamic mechanisms in the primate motor cortex. J Neurosci 10:2039 - 2058.
  • Caminiti R, Johnson PB, Galli C, Ferraina S, Burnod Y (1991) Making arm movements within different parts of space: The premotor and motor cortical representation of a coordinate system for reaching to visual targets. J Neurosci 11:1182-1197
  • Burnod Y, Otto I, Grandguillaume P, Ferraina S, Johnson PB, Caminiti R (1992) Visuomotor transformations underlying arm movements toward visual targets: A neural network model of cerebral cortical operations. J Neurosci 12:1435-1453.
  • Johnson PB, Ferraina S, Bianchi L, Caminiti R (1996) Cortical networks for visual reaching. Anatomical and physiological organization of frontal and parietal lobe arm regions. Cereb Cortex 6:102-119.
  • Wise SP, Boussaoud D, Johnson PB, Caminiti R (1997) Premotor and Parietal Cortex: Corticocortical Connectivity and Combinatorial Computations. Ann Rev Neurosci 20:25-42.
  • Caminiti R, Ferraina S, Battaglia-Mayer A (1998) Visuomotor transformations: Early cortical mechanisms of reaching. Curr Op Neurobiol 8: 753-761, 1998.
  • Marconi B, Genovesio A, Battaglia-Mayer A, Ferraina S, Squatrito S, Molinari M, Lacquaniti F, Caminiti R (2001) Eye-hand coordination during reaching. I. Anatomical relationships between parietal and frontal cortex. Cereb Cortex, 1:513-527.
  • Battaglia-Mayer, A, Ferraina S, Genovesio A, Marconi, B, Squatrito S, Lacquaniti F, Caminiti R (2001) Eye-hand coordination during reaching. II. An analysis of the relationships between visuomanual signals in parietal cortex and parieto-frontal association projections. Cereb Cortex, 11: 528-544.
  • Battaglia-Mayer A, Caminiti R (2002) Optic ataxia as result of the breakdown of the global tuning fields of parietal neurons. Brain, 125: 1-13.
  • Mascaro M, Battaglia-Mayer A, Nasi L, Amit D, Caminiti R (2003) The eye and the hand: neural mechanisms and network models for oculomanual coordination. Cereb Cortex 13:1276-1286.
  • Battaglia-Mayer A, Mascaro M, Brunamonti E, Caminiti R (2005) The over-representation of contralateral space in parietal cortex: A positive image of directional motor components of neglect? Cereb Cortex 15:514-525.
  • Battaglia-Mayer A, Archambault PS, Caminiti R (2005) The cortical network for eye-hand coordination and its relevance to understanding motor disorders of parietal patients. Neuropsychologia 44: 2607-2620.
  • Battaglia-Mayer A, Mascaro M, Caminiti R (2007) Temporal Evolution and Strength of Neural Activity in Parietal Cortex during Eye and Hand Movements. Cereb Cortex 17:1350-1363.
  • Battaglia-Mayer A, R Caminiti (2008) Posterior parietal cortex and arm movements, in LR Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, vol 7 pp. 783-795. Oxford: Academic Press.
  • Caminiti R (2009) Replacement of animals in research will never be possible, Nature, 457, p 147.
  • Ferraina S, A Battaglia-Mayer, A Genovesio, P Archambault, R Caminiti (2009) Parietal encoding of action in depth, Neuropsychologia 47: 1409-1420.
  • Averbeck B, A Battaglia-Mayer, C Guglielmo, R Caminiti (2009) Statistical analysis of the parieto-frontal cognitive-motor network, J Neurophysiol 102, 1911-1920.
  • Archambault P, R Caminiti, A Battaglia-Mayer (2009) Cortical mechanisms for on-line control of hand movement trajectory. The role of the posterior parietal cortex. Cereb Cortex 19: 2848-2864.
  • Ferraina S, E Brunamonti, MA Giusti, S Costa, A Genovesio, R Caminiti (2009) Reaching in depth: Hand position dominates over binocular eye position in the rostral Superior Parietal Lobule, J Neurosci 29 (37):11461-11470.
  • Caminiti R, H Ghaziri, R Galuske, PR Hof, GM Innocenti (2009) Evolution amplified processing with temporally-dispersed, slow, neural connectivity in primates. PNAS, 106:19551-19556.