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Birth Name:

Francesco Lacquaniti

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Dec 24, 1952

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Age:

71

Zodiac Sign:

Capricorn

Astrology Data:

Sun

2°

Cap

36'

About Francesco Lacquaniti

Francesco Lacquaniti is an Italian neurologist and neuroscientist. He received his medical education and completed his Neurology residency at the University of Turin.. He is currently Professor of Physiology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata , the Director of the Center of Space Biomedicine at the University of Rome Tor Vergata , and the Director of the Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology at Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome . Between 1979 and 1986, he has been a Visiting Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Department of Physiology of the University of Minnesota Medical School . He has been Visiting Fellow at LPPA, CNRS, Paris (France), Ricercatore and Acting Director at the Institute of Neural Centers of the National Research Council (Italy) in Milan, Professor of Physiology, Director of the Physiology Institute and the Director of the Specialty Schools in Sports Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Cagliari . In 2000, he held a Chair of Invited Professor at Collège de France, Paris . His research focuses on the laws of movement control in humans and other animals (including the two-thirds Power law, see Penmanship, Motor coordination, Affine curvature, Cat anatomy), their development in children and alteration after neurological lesions (Developmental coordination disorder). He also studied the neural representation of spatial information in the brain (Brodmann area 5), the neural representation of gravity effects on the body, and how the brain adapts to weightlessness (Locomotion in space). The New Scientist covered his discovery about the encoding of a mental model of gravity effects in the human brain. This discovery is also discussed in Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, a New York Times bestseller by David Eagleman, as well as in other books . Several media covered his work on the presence of locomotor primitives in neonates of humans and other animal species , , , .

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Categories related to Francesco Lacquaniti: Living people, December 24 births, 1952 births, Members of Academia Europaea, People from Turin, Italian neurologists, University of Turin alumni, University of Rome Tor Vergata faculty, 20th-century Italian physicians, 21st-century Italian physicians