Francesco Lacquaniti
Born (1952-12-24) 24 December 1952
Turin, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Turin (MD) – 1976 )
University of Turin (Specialty in Neurology) - 1980
Known forMotor coordination
AwardsNational Research Council (Italy) Gradoni Prize (1985)
Ig Nobel Prize (2013)
Herlitzka International Prize for Physiology (2015)
Elected to Academia Europaea (2012)
Elected to Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (2015)
Doctor Honoris Causa Université catholique de Louvain (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity of Turin
University of Minnesota Medical School
National Research Council (Italy)
University of Cagliari
University of Rome Tor Vergata

Francesco Lacquaniti is an Italian neurologist and neuroscientist. He received his medical education and completed his Neurology residency at the University of Turin.[1] He is Professor of Physiology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata,[2] and the Director of the Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology at Santa Lucia Foundation IRCCS, Rome.[3] 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) and 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 (Mental model), and how the brain adapts to weightlessness (Locomotion in space). His scientific work has been covered in books[4] [5][6][7] and media

[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] For his work, he received the Herlitzka International Prize for Physiology,[16] was elected to the Consiglio Universitario Nazionale,[17] was elected to the Academia Europaea,[18] and received a Honorary Degree in Neurosciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain [19]

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