A5063288687- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
2025
University of Pavia
2020-2024
University College London
2023-2024
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
2023-2024
University of Milano-Bicocca
2020-2021
Thermosensory signals may contribute to the sense of body ownership, but their role remains highly debated. We test this assumption within framework pathological hypothesising that skin temperature and thermoception differ between right-hemisphere stroke patients with without Disturbed Sensation Ownership (DSO) for contralesional plegic upper limb. Patients DSO exhibit lower basal hand temperatures bilaterally impaired perception cold warm stimuli. Lesion mapping reveals associations in...
Bodily self-awareness relies on a constant integration of visual, tactile, proprioceptive, and motor signals. In the ‘rubber hand illusion' (RHI), conflicting visuo-tactile stimuli lead to changes in self-awareness. It remains unclear whether other, somatic signals could compensate for alterations caused by visual information about body. Here, we used RHI combination with robot-mediated self-touch systematically investigate role proprioceptive maintaining restoring bodily Participants moved...
A growing body of research has shown that a unilateral alteration in the sense limb ownership is associated with cooling limb's temperature. However, recent emergence contradictory results calls into question existence relationship between this physiological reaction and ownership. In light evidence malleability hand differs based on preferential motor use to which illusion applied, one might observe same lateralised pattern skin temperature cooling. particular, if change signature...
Postural balance requires the interplay between several physiological signals. Indirect evidence suggests that perception of signals arising from autonomic nervous system might play a role (e.g. cardiac awareness). Here, we tested this hypothesis by investigating relationship postural control and awareness (i.e. interoception) in sample N = 70 healthy individuals. was measured using medical robotic device, while evaluated heartbeat counting task. A within-subject design included two platform...
Abstract Bodily self-awareness relies on a constant integration of visual, tactile, proprioceptive, and motor signals. In the “Rubber Hand Illusion” (RHI), conflicting visuo-tactile stimuli lead to changes in self- awareness. It remains unclear whether other, somatic signals could compensate for alterations caused by visual information about body. Here, we used RHI combination with robot-mediated self-touch systematically investigate role protecting restoring bodily self-awareness....
We investigated whether self-administered tactile stimulation could act as a temporary restorative mechanism for body ownership disorders, both implicitly and explicitly. tested this hypothesis in patient with somatoparaphrenia, who displayed increased accuracy explicitly recognizing their left hand during self-touch. Furthermore, the perceived experimenter's more belonging to own compared conditions where vision was sole sensory input. These findings highlight importance of self-touch...
The experience of owning a body is built upon the integration exteroceptive, interoceptive, and proprioceptive signals. Recently, it has been suggested that motor signals could be particularly important in producing feeling part ownership. One thus may hypothesize strength this not spatially uniform; rather, vary as function degree by which different parts are involved behavior. Given our dominant hand plays leading role behavior, we hypothesized more strongly associated with one’s self...