A5073945017- Face Recognition and Perception
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Music Therapy and Health
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Sinusitis and nasal conditions
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Peripheral Nerve Disorders
- Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Nasal Surgery and Airway Studies
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
- Diverticular Disease and Complications
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
2024-2025
University of Milano-Bicocca
2017-2024
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2007-2024
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
2024
Sapienza University of Rome
2018-2021
Policlinico Umberto I
2019-2021
Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music related personal or cultural (individualistic vs. collectivistic) variables in maintaining wellbeing during times isolation as imposed by COVID-19 crisis. In an online questionnaire, administered 11 countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, UK, USA, N = 5,619), participants rated relevance goals pandemic,...
Recently, virtual faces are often used as stimuli to replace traditional photographs in human face perception studies. However, despite being increasingly human-like and realistic, they still present flaws their aspects that might elicit eerie feelings the observers, known Uncanny Valley (UV) effect. The current systematic review offers a qualitative synthesis of empirical studies investigating observers' subjective experience with compared real discuss possible challenges UV effect poses...
We tend to express more positive judgments and behaviors toward individuals belonging our own group compared other (out-) groups. In this study, we assessed the role of cerebellum dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) - two regions critically implicated in social cognition processes mediating implicit valenced attitudes in-group out-group individuals. To aim, used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) combination with a standard attitude priming task, which Caucasian participants had...
Psychophysical observations indicate that the spatial profile of visuospatial attention includes a central enhancement around attentional focus, encircled by narrow zone reduced excitability in immediate surround. This inhibitory ring optimally amplifies relevant target information, likely stemming from top-down frontoparietal recurrent activity modulating early visual cortex activations. However, mechanisms through which neural suppression gives rise to surrounding attenuation and any...
Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music related personal or cultural (individualistic versus collectivistic) variables in maintaining wellbeing during times isolation as imposed by COVID-19 crisis. In an online questionnaire, administered 11 countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, UK USA, N = 5619), participants rated relevance goals pandemic,...
According to embodied cognition research, one's bodily self-perception can be illusory and temporarily shifted toward an external body. Similarly, the so-called "enfacement illusion" induced with a synchronous multisensory stimulation over self-face face result in implicit explicit changes self. The present study aimed verify (i) possibility of eliciting enfacement illusion computer-generated faces (ii) which condition was more effective. A total 23 participants were asked look at...
Due to the multitasking nature of driving, drivers are physiologically distracted by both relevant and irrelevant environmental stimuli. The ability select stimuli suppress distractors during driving two factors for safety. There is a lot evidence suggesting that frontal eye field (FEF) plays an important role in target selection suppression, as well attentional mechanisms crucial safety performance. Taking these points into account, this study was designed examine effects different...
In psychology, researchers often rely on face photographs to study perception. However, finding suitable stimuli for experiments is challenging. Computer-generated (CG) faces have emerged as a potential solution due their flexibility and controllability. it has been suggested that these are evaluated processed differently from real faces, suitability alternatives in experimental settings remains unclear. To address this, two studies were conducted examine the impact of CG faces' realism...
Introduction: The Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) technique has revolutionized outpatient hand surgery, enabling procedures such as carpal tunnel release and trigger finger without a tourniquet. Its benefits include patient cooperation during especially for tendon repairs. However, WALANT limitations, including steep learning curve, longer operative preparation time, risks digital ischemia adrenaline-induced cardiac ischemia. This study evaluates the safety effectiveness...
Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping using near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging is a recent technique to improve nodal staging in several tumors. The presence of colorectal cancer (CRC) micro-metastases has recently been defined as N1 disease and no longer N1mi, determining the need for adjuvant chemotherapy. In CRC, reported rate SLN detected by ultrastaging techniques high 30%. aim this prospective study report preliminary results sensitivity analysis NIRF ex vivo research patients with...
Abstract Humans have the unique ability to flexibly and proactively extract a regular beat from complex auditory patterns, such as music. Recent neuropysiological neuroimaging studies demonstrated that perception rely on interactions between motor systems, specifically premotor cortex (PMC) supplementary areas (SMA/pre-SMA). However, how planning regions in human brain actively contributes is still an open question. To fill this gap, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied over...