Biography:
Sergio Chieffi was born in Naples May 6, 1960. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1984 and specialized in Neurology in 1988. In 1993 he obtained the PhD degree in Neuroscience. Sergio Chieffi became Researcher in Human Physiology in 1993 and Associate Professor of Human Physiology in 2001. Currently he teaches at the School of Medicine of the Second University of Naples. The main topics of his research are the study, in healthy normal and neurological patients, of reaching-grasping movement planning; distractor interference on visuo-motor performance; coding in spatial working memory of target location to be reached with hand movement.
Title : Involvement of the occipito-temporal pathway in delayed reaching: Data from a case of optic ataxia