DANIELA DE BARTOLO

PhD Graduate

PhD program:: XXXIII



Thesis title: From perception to action and back: Finding harmony in time-space domains of human behaviour

This PhD thesis was aimed at studying the organization of human behavior through a series of experiments that fall within the perception-action topic. This investigation had two levels of analysis: on the one hand, the concept of harmony was used as a method of analysis; on the other hand, harmony was the subject of investigation. However, within the human behavioral repertoire, it was chosen to focus on a specific behavior: human walking. This choice is motivated by the fact that some of its harmonic properties are well known, which are also common to dynamic systems, namely fractality. In fact, human locomotion represents a stable, repeatable behavior, characterized by sub-phases that mark the gait cycle that have the property of self-similarity. This property can also be found in the relationship between the duration of the gait cycle phases and has recently been identified in the irrational number phi (φ) 1.618032 ... In the first chapters, this proportion was investigated in a psychophysical task of visual stimuli perception (Chapter 1) and in the gait ratio of different locomotor tasks (Chapter 2). In the following experiments, the study of another harmonic property of the gait, the fluidity, has been deepened, in relation to the production of a cognitive rhythm mimicking the locomotor one (Chapter 3); and of the perception of an external rhythm that can instead regulate the progress of walking (Chapter 4). In the final part of this thesis, the investigation of walking complexity was made in relation to the entrainment between physiological and cognitive systems (Chapter 5) and, finally, considering it as a phenomenon emerging from the interaction between man-environment, comparing two possible development trajectories (Chapter 6).

Research products

  • 11573/1664938 - 2023 - Validation of supersense, a sensorized surface for the evaluation of posture perception in supine position (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; IOSA, MARCO; MARINOZZI, FRANCO; BINI, FABIANO
  • 11573/1683462 - 2023 - Are neuroaesthetic principles applied in art therapy protocols for neurorehabilitation? A systematic mini-review (01g Articolo di rassegna (Review))
    IOSA, MARCO; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA
  • 11573/1221854 - 2018 - From paper to informatics: the Post Soft Care-App, an easy-to-use and fast tool to help therapists identify unmet needs in stroke patients (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ALOISE, FABIO; DI FRANCESCO, DOMENICO; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1221889 - 2019 - Rehabilitative devices for a top-down approach (01g Articolo di rassegna (Review))
    MORONE, GIOVANNI; SPITONI, GRAZIA FERNANDA; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ZOCCOLOTTI, PIERLUIGI; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1221844 - 2019 - Tailored, technological therapy: physician and therapists point of view on robotic rehabilitation (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    MORONE, GIOVANNI; IOSA, MARCO; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA
  • 11573/1222808 - 2019 - Gait phase proportions in different locomotion tasks: the pivot role of golden ratio (01a Articolo in rivista)
    IOSA, MARCO; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; MORONE, GIOVANNI; BINI, FABIANO; MARINOZZI, FRANCO; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA
  • 11573/1280416 - 2019 - Perceiving harmony behind walking: a study on healthy subjects (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1221840 - 2019 - Movement and Nnumbers: The mathematics behind motor actions (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
    IOSA, MARCO; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA
  • 11573/1336493 - 2020 - Effect of different music genres on gait patterns in Parkinson’s disease (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; RUSSO, VALENTINA; MARINOZZI, FRANCO; BINI, FABIANO; SPITONI, GRAZIA FERNANDA; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1402498 - 2019 - From movement to thought and back: a review on the role of cognitive factors influencing technological neurorehabilitation (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; SPITONI, GRAZIA FERNANDA; IOSA, MARCO; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA
  • 11573/1465349 - 2020 - Te.M.P.O., an app for using temporal musical mismatch in post-stroke neurorehabilitation: a preliminary randomized controlled study (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; IOSA, MARCO; TRAMONTANO, MARCO
  • 11573/1547719 - 2021 - Italian Version of the Pittsburgh Rehabilitation Participation Scale: Psychometric Analysis of Validity and Reliability (01a Articolo in rivista)
    IOSA, MARCO; GALEOTO, GIOVANNI; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; RUSSO, VALENTINA; SPITONI, GRAZIA FERNANDA; TRAMONTANO, MARCO; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; MORONE, GIOVANNI
  • 11573/1564386 - 2021 - Effects of cognitive workload on heart and locomotor rhythms coupling (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; DE GIORGI, CHIARA; COMPAGNUCCI, LUCA; BETTI, VIVIANA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; MORONE, GIOVANNI; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1607101 - 2021 - The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1607359 - 2022 - The role of walking experience in the emergence of gait harmony in typically developing toddlers (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1647443 - 2022 - Editorial: Rhythmic Patterns in Neuroscience and Human Physiology (01m Editorial/Introduzione in rivista)
    IOSA, MARCO; DE BARTOLO, DANIELA
  • 11573/1221893 - 2018 - The Walking Brain: factors influencing human gait (01g Articolo di rassegna (Review))
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; IOSA, MARCO
  • 11573/1435018 - 2020 - Sensorized assessment of dynamic locomotor imagery in people with stroke and healthy subjects (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DE BARTOLO, DANIELA; ANTONUCCI, GABRIELLA; MARINOZZI, FRANCO; BINI, FABIANO; IOSA, MARCO

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