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Pietro Morasso is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research primarily spans the intersection of engineering, neuroscience, and medicine, with particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, social psychology, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, and control and systems engineering.

The main topics explored in their work include motor control and adaptation, balance, gait, and falls prevention, action observation and synchronization, muscle activation and electromyography studies, robot manipulation and learning, embodied and extended cognition, as well as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Morasso has published multiple papers across various scientific journals. Selected recent works include:

  • "Postural instability via a loss of intermittent control in elderly and patients with Parkinson's disease: A model-based and data-driven approach" (2020) in Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • "Vibrotactile Feedback for Improving Standing Balance" (2020) in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • "Integrating ankle and hip strategies for the stabilization of upright standing: An intermittent control model" (2022) in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • "Centre of pressure versus centre of mass stabilization strategies: the tightrope balancing case" (2020) in Royal Society Open Science
  • "Tactile and proprioceptive dysfunction differentiates cervical dystonia with and without tremor" (2020) in Neurology

Their frequent coauthors comprise Jacopo Zenzeri, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Taishin Nomura, Giulia A. Albanese, and Akihiro Nakamura.

Morasso's publications regularly appear in journals such as Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Cognitive Robotics, Preprints.org, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Best Publications

  • Spatial control of arm movements

    P. Morasso

  • HUMAN ARM TRAJECTORY FORMATION

    W. Abend;E. Bizzi;P. Morasso

  • Mechanisms Underlying Achievement of Final Head Position

    E. Bizzi;A. Polit;P. Morasso

  • Can Muscle Stiffness Alone Stabilize Upright Standing

    Pietro G. Morasso;Marco Schieppati

  • Human hand impedance characteristics during maintained posture

    Toshio Tsuji;Pietro G. Morasso;Kazuhiro Goto;Koji Ito

  • Effect of load disturbances during centrally initiated movements

    E. Bizzi;P. Dev;P. Morasso;A. Polit

  • A new look at posturographic analysis in the clinical context: sway-density versus other parameterization techniques.

    Luigi Baratto;Pietro G. Morasso;Cristina Re;Gino Spada

  • Trajectory formation and handwriting: A computational model

    P. Morasso;F. A. Mussa Ivaldi

  • Mechanisms underlying recovery of eye-head coordination following bilateral labyrinthectomy in monkeys

    J. Dichgans;E. Bizzi;P. Morasso;V. Tagliasco

  • Ankle Muscle Stiffness Alone Cannot Stabilize Balance During Quiet Standing

    Pietro G. Morasso;Vittorio Sanguineti

  • Direct measurement of ankle stiffness during quiet standing : implications for control modelling and clinical application

    Maura Casadio;Pietro G. Morasso;Vittorio Sanguineti

  • Kinematic networks distributed model for representing and regularizing motor redundancy

    F.A. Mussa Ivaldi;P. Morasso;R. Zaccaria

  • A model of postural control in quiet standing: robust compensation of delay-induced instability using intermittent activation of feedback control.

    Yoshiyuki Asai;Yuichi Tasaka;Kunihiko Nomura;Taishin Nomura

  • Bounded stability of the quiet standing posture: An intermittent control model

    Alessandra Bottaro;Youko Yasutake;Taishin Nomura;Maura Casadio

  • Adjustment of saccade characteristics during head movements.

    P. Morasso;E. Bizzi;J. Dichgans

  • Body sway during quiet standing: Is it the residual chattering of an intermittent stabilization process?

    Alessandra Bottaro;Maura Casadio;Pietro G. Morasso;Vittorio Sanguineti

  • Intermittent control with ankle, hip, and mixed strategies during quiet standing: A theoretical proposal based on a double inverted pendulum model

    Yasuyuki Suzuki;Taishin Nomura;Maura Casadio;Pietro Morasso

  • Braccio di Ferro: a new haptic workstation for neuromotor rehabilitation.

    Maura Casadio;Vittorio Sanguineti;Pietro G Morasso;Vincenzo Arrichiello

  • Internal models in the control of posture

    P. G. Morasso;L. Baratto;R. Capra;G. Spada

  • Three dimensional arm trajectories

    Pietro Morasso

  • Two modes of active eye-head coordination in monkeys.

    Emilio Bizzi;Ronald E. Kalil;Pietro Morasso

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Sandini
Giulio Sandini Italian Institute of Technology
Toshio Tsuji
Toshio Tsuji Hiroshima University
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Makoto Kaneko
Makoto Kaneko Osaka University
Salvatore Gaglio
Salvatore Gaglio University of Palermo
Paolo Vitali
Paolo Vitali McGill University
Guido Rodriguez
Guido Rodriguez University of Genoa
Luca Roccatagliata
Luca Roccatagliata University of Genoa
Etienne Burdet
Etienne Burdet Imperial College London

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