Research assistant at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Reserch Council (CNR), Rome. He has got a master degree in Electronic Engineer at University of Catania and now he is PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome.
He is currently involved in a FP7 project, ROSSI(Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction) and also in a recent started FP7 project, IM-CLeVeR (Intrisically Motivated Cumulative Learning Versatile Robots). His research interests include developmental robotics, computational neuroscience, neural dynamic networks, hierarchies of actions, reinforcement and hebbian learning.

Publications

Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., & Baldassarre, G. (2010). TRoPICALS: An Embodied Neural-Network Model of Experiments on Compatibility Effects, submitted on Psychological Review.
Borghi, A.M., Caligiore, D., & Scorolli, C. (2010). Objects, words, and actions. Some reasons why embodied models are badly needed in cognitive psychology. In V. Capecchi, M. Buscema, P. Contucci, B. D'Amore (Eds.), Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts Mathematics and Society. Springer.
Gaudiello, I., Caligiore, D., Schiavone, G., Salerno, A., Sergi, F., Zollo, L., Guglielmelli, E., Parisi, D., Baldassarre, G., Nicoletti, R., Borghi A.M., (2009).  Effects on space representation of using a tool and a button. Cognitive Processing. Special Issue  pp. 153-154.
Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., & Baldassarre, G. (2008). Affordances and compatibility effects: A neural-Network computational model. In J. Mayor, N. Ruh, K. Plunkett (Eds.), Connectionist Models of Behaviour and Cognition II: Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (pp. 15–26). Singapore: World Scientific.
Gaudiello, I., Liuzza, M.T., Caligiore, D. (2008). Prefrontal Cortex and Action Sequences: a Review on Neural Computational Models, 5° Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale (WIVACE 5), Venezia, 8-10 Settembre 2008.
Caligiore, D., Parisi, D., Baldassarre, G. (2008). Compatibility effects and affordances: a neural-network computational model. In A. Caramazza, M. Goodale, B. Mahon, A. Martin (Orgs.), Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives. Università degli Studi di Trento, Rovereto, Italy, 24-27 April, 2008.
Caligiore, D., Ferrauto, T., Parisi, D., Accornero, N., Capozza, M., & Baldassare, G. (2008). Using motor babbling and Hebb rules for modeling the development of reaching with obstacles and grasping. In R. Dillmann, C. Maloney, G. Sandini, T. Asfour, G. Cheng, G. Metta, A. Ude (Eds.), International Conference on Cognitive Systems (pp. E1–8). Karlsruhe: University of Karlsruhe.
Rosato, V., Issacharoff, L., Meloni, S., Caligiore, D., & Tiriticco, F. (2008). Is the topology of the Internet network really fit to sustain its function? Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 387, issue 7, 1689-1704.
Ferrauto, T., Ognibene, D., Caligiore, D., Baldassarre, G. (2007). A Model of Reaching with Obstacle, 4° Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale (WIVACE 4), Baia Samuele, Sampieri (Ragusa), Sicilia 5 - 7 Settembre 2007.
Caligiore, D., Parisi, D., & Baldassarre, G. (2007). Toward an integrated biomimetic model of reaching. In Proceedings of 6th IEEEInternational Conference on Development and Learning (pp. 241–246). London: Imperial College.
Cecconi, F., Caligiore, D., Baldassarre, G., & Parisi, D. (2007). Interacting Networks as Models of Cultural Change,. Proceedings of Computational Methods for Modelling and learning in Social and Human Sciences (MASHS 2007) Bilingual Conference (French-English), Brest, France, 10-11 May 2007.
Ferrrauto, T., Caligiore, D., Ognibene, D., & Baldassarre, G. (2007). A User Interface for Physical Engine Robot Simulators. Technical Report LARAL-ISTC-CNR-2007/001. Rome: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Parisi, D., Caligiore, D. (2006). The role of tactile input in learning to reach an object with one’s hand. Technical Report LARAL-ISTC-CNR-2006/004. Rome: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Parisi, D., Caligiore, D. (2006). Studio del ruolo del senso di tatto in compiti di raggiungimento e di coordinamento con braccio simulato. Technical Report LARAL-ISTC-CNR-2006/003. Rome: Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Caligiore, D.,  Tria, M., Parisi, D. (2006). Some adaptive advantages of the ability to make predictions, In S. Nolfi, G. Baldassarre, R. Calabretta, J. Hallam, D. Marocc, J-A. Meyer, O. Miglino, & D. Parisi (Eds.), From Animals to Animats  9: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (pp. 381–393). Berlin: Springer Verlag.
Caligiore, D., Cecconi, F.,  Parisi, D. La diffusione di tratti culturali tra reti di agenti artificiali,  3° Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale (WIVA 3), Siena 13-15 Settembre 2006
Cecconi, F., Caligiore, D. Reti complesse e resistenza ai guasti, V° Conferenza GARR “La rete dappertutto” Pisa, 10 - 13 Maggio 2005
Caligiore, D. (tesi di laurea), Controllo dell’assetto di un veicolo sottomarino utilizzando una rete neurale in algebra quaternionica.