A5036554814- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Mental Health Research Topics
University of Chieti-Pescara
2011-2025
Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo
2014-2024
University of Milano-Bicocca
2009-2024
University of Plymouth
2023
University of Aberdeen
2023
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
2023
National Research Council
2023
Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
2023
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
2022
University of Milan
2014-2020
Worry is considered a key feature of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), whose neural correlates are poorly understood. It not known whether the brain regions involved in pathological worry similar to those worry-like mental activity normal subjects or areas associated with same for different triggers such as verbal stimuli faces. This study was designed clarify these issues.Eight GAD and 12 controls underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) mood induction paradigms based on...
The aim of our study was to use functional magnetic resonance imaging investigate how spontaneous activity interacts with evoked activity, as well the temporal structure that is, long-range correlations, relate this interaction. Using an extremely sparse event-related design (intertrial intervals: 52-60 s), a novel blood oxygen level-dependent signal correction approach (accounting for fluctuations using pseudotrials) and phase analysis, we provided direct evidence nonadditive interaction...
Previous studies suggested that the observation of other individuals' somatosensory experiences also activates brain circuits processing one's own experiences. However, it is unclear whether cortical regions involved with elementary stages touch are in automatic coding affective consequences observed and to which extent they show overlapping activation for self others. In order investigate these issues, present fMRI study, healthy participants either experienced or watched videos depicting...
The cortical midline structures seem to be involved in the modulation of different resting state networks, such as default mode network (DMN) and salience (SN). Alterations these systems, particular perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (PACC), play a central role bipolar disorder (BD). However, exact PACC, its functional connections other regions (within outside DMN) still remains unclear BD.We investigated connectivity (FC), standard deviation (SD, measure neuronal variability) their...
The present study focuses on the multifaceted concept of self-disturbance in schizophrenia, adding knowledge about a not yet investigated aspect, which is interoceptive accuracy. Starting from assumption that accuracy requires an intact sense self, otherwise was proved to be altered aim explore group schizophrenia patients, compared healthy controls. Furthermore, possible association between and patients' positive negative symptomatology assessed. To pursue these goals, 23 patients controls...
Respiration and heartbeat continuously interact within the living organism at many different levels, representing two of main oscillatory rhythms body providing major sources interoceptive information to brain. Despite modulatory effect respiration on exteroception cognition has been recently established in humans, its role shaping perception scarcely investigated so far. In independent studies, we spontaneous breathing cardiac interoception by assessing Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP)...
Respiration and cardiac activity intricately interact through complex physiological mechanisms. The heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) is an EEG fluctuation reflecting the cortical processing of signals. We recently found higher HEP amplitude during exhalation than inhalation a task involving attention to sensations. This may have been due reduced perception heightened attentional To investigate relationships between HEP, attention, respiration, we introduced experimental setup that included...
Neuroscientists and philosophers, among others, have long questioned the contribution of bodily experience to constitution self-consciousness. Contemporary research answers this question by focusing on notions sense agency and/or ownership. Recently, however, it has been proposed that self might also be rooted in motor experience, is, oneself as instantiating a structure enables specific range actions. In current fMRI study, we tested hypothesis making participants undergo hand laterality...
The present study aimed at determining whether and what factors affect the control of motor sequences related to interactions between conspecifics. Experiment 1 demonstrated that during conspecifics guided by social intention feeding, a affordance was activated, which modified kinematics constituted reaching-grasping placing. This relative same sequence directed an inanimate target. Experiments 2 4 suggested related-to-feeding request emitted receiver (i.e. gesture mouth opening) is...
More than 100 papers have been published on the rubber hand illusion since its discovery 14 years ago. The has proposed as a demonstration that body is distinguished from other objects by participation in specific forms of intermodal perceptual correlation. Here, we radically challenge this view claiming correlation not necessary to produce experience mine. Each 15 participants was seated with his/her right arm resting upon table just below another smaller table. Thus, real hidden...
Our coherent perception of external events is enabled by the integration inputs from different senses occurring within a range temporal offsets known as binding window (TBW), which varies person to person. A relatively wide TBW may increase likelihood that stimuli originating environmental are erroneously integrated and abnormally large has been found in psychiatric disorders characterized unusual perceptual experiences. Despite strong evidence inter-individual differences TBW, both clinical...
The brain processes information from the external environment alongside signals generated by body. Among bodily rhythms, respiration emerges as a key modulator of sensory processing. Multisensory integration, non-linear combination multiple senses to reduce environmental uncertainty, may be influenced respiratory dynamics. This study investigated how modulates reaction times and multisensory integration in simple detection task. Forty healthy participants were presented with unimodal...
The study of brain-heart interplay has been linked to several physiological and pathological conditions. A common approach this interaction relies on the use non-invasive electrophysiological data, such as electroencephalographic (EEG) signal heart rate variability (HRV) time series. Despite advances in approach, there are still major challenges overcome, particularly establishing a robust methodology assess these complex multi-scale interactions extract meaningful information from...
Social dysfunction has been recognized as an elementary feature of schizophrenia, but it remains a crucial issue whether social deficits in schizophrenia concern the inter-subjective domain or primarily have their roots disturbances self-experience. perception comprises vicarious processes grounding experiential inter-relationship with others well self-regulation allowing to maintain coherent sense self. The present study investigated functional neural basis underlying these is altered...
Humans' ability to represent their body state from within through interoception has been proposed predict different aspects of human cognition and behaviour. We focused on the possible contribution interoceptive sensitivity social behaviour as mediated by adaptive modulation autonomic response. We, thus, investigated whether one's heartbeat predicts participants' response at distances. measured respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) during either a Social or Non-social task. In task each...