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J Neuropsychol. 2020 Feb 21;e12203. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12203
Anosognosia for limb and bucco-facial apraxia as inferred from the recognition of gestural errors
Anosognosia is a multifaceted syndrome characterized by a lack of awareness of motor, cognitive, or emotional deficits. While most studies have focused on basic motor disorders such as hemiplegia, only…
Neuropsychologia. 2020 Nov;148:107641. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107641. Epub 2020 Oct 13
Anosognosia for theory of mind deficits: a single case study and a review of the literature
Being aware of one's own ability to interact socially is crucial to everyday life. After a brain injury, patients may lose their capacity to understand others' intentions and beliefs, that…
J Hypertens . 2020 Aug;38(8):1420-1435. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002427
Blood pressure-related hypoalgesia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective: Spontaneous or experimentally induced high blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain perception, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. Despite its clinical implications, such as the interference with early detection…
Sci Rep. 2020 May 4;10(1):7430. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64324-6
Common and distinct lateralised patterns of neural coupling during focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation
Meditation has been integrated into different therapeutic interventions. To inform the evidence-based selection of specific meditation types it is crucial to understand the neural processes associated with different meditation practices.…
Front Psychol. 2020 May 19;11:836. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00836
Emotions, Alexithymia, and Emotion Regulation in Patients With Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a chronic dermatological condition that is frequently associated with problematic patterns of emotional reactivity (the way in which patients react to stimuli), alexithymia (their ability to recognize and…
Neuropsychologia . 2020 Sep;146:107535. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.10753
ERP indices of an orientation-dependent recognition of the human body schema
While it is well-established that the face perception is orientation-dependent, less evidence has been provided on the effects of the orientation on the body schema processing and related attentive mechanisms.…
Int J Psychol. 2020 Feb 6. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12664
Exploring the relationship between umbilical blood cord donation and the impact of social distance on altruism and trust
Allogeneic umbilical cord blood (UCB) donation is a pro-social behaviour directed to strangers that has a certain cost for the donor. Although the promotion of such behaviour is an important…
Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 Oct 15;41(15):4248-4263. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25123
Eyes wide shut: How visual cues affect brain patterns of simulated gait
In the last 20 years, motor imagery (MI) has been extensively used to train motor abilities in sport and in rehabilitation. However, MI procedures are not all alike as much…
Mol Autism. 2020 Oct 21;11(1):81. doi: 10.1186/s13229-020-00371-0
Face individual identity recognition: a potential endophenotype in autism
Background: Face individual identity recognition skill is heritable and independent of intellectual ability. Difficulties in face individual identity recognition are present in autistic individuals and their family members and are…
Psychol Res. 2020 Mar 31. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01319-y
Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it
The Sense of Agency (SoA) is the experience of controlling one's movements and their external consequences. Accumulating evidence suggests that freedom to act enhances SoA, while prediction errors are known…
Neuropsychologia. 2020 Sep;146:107540. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107540
Immersive virtual reality reveals that visuo-proprioceptive discrepancy enlarges the hand-centred peripersonal space
Vision and proprioception, informing the system about the body position in space, seem crucial in defining the boundary of the peripersonal space (PPS). What happens to the PPS representation when…
Riv Psichiatr. 2020 Jul-Aug;55(4):213-221. doi: 10.1708/3417.33997
Impulsive-compulsive disorders in Parkinson's Disease: influence on individual and social decision-making processes
Aim: Parkinson's Disease (PD) has been considered for a long time as a neurodegenerative disorder affecting mainly motor functions, because of the involvement of basal ganglia. Recent research has shown…
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2020 Sep 10. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsaa125
Midfrontal-occipital Ɵ-tACS modulates cognitive conflicts related to bodily stimuli
Neurophysiological studies show that during tasks tapping cognitive control (like the Flanker task), midfrontal theta (MFϴ) oscillations are associated with conflict and error processing and neural top- down modulation of…
Cortex. 2020 Jun;127:131-149. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.020
Midline frontal and occipito-temporal activity during error monitoring in dyadic motor interactions
Discrepancies between sensory predictions and action outcome are at the base of error coding. However, these phenomena have mainly been studied focussing on individual performance. Here, we explored EEG responses…
Exp Brain Res. 2020 Jan;238(1):193-204. doi: 10.1007/s00221-019-05702-z
Modulation of preference for abstract stimuli following competence-based social status primes
In the present study, we measured whether competence-related high and low social status attributed to two unknown individuals affects participants' implicit reactivity to abstract stimuli associated to the identity of…
Sci Rep. 2020 Jun 12;10(1):9555. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66151-1
Oculomotor behavior tracks the effect of ideological priming on deception
The decision to lie to another person involves a conflict between one's own and others' interest. Political ideology may foster self-promoting or self-transcending values and thus may balance or fuel…
Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 8;10(1):41. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-56840-x
Pain perception during social interactions is modulated by self-related and moral contextual cues
Despite the growing interest on the effect of the social context on pain, whether and how different facets of interpersonal interactions modulate pain are still unclear. We tested whether personal…
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2020 May;34:28-38. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2020.03.008
Predicting differential diagnosis between bipolar and unipolar depression with multiple kernel learning on multimodal structural neuroimaging
One of the greatest challenges in providing early effective treatment in mood disorders is the early differential diagnosis between major depression (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD). A remarkable need exists…
Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 5;11:563426. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.563426
Risk perception and media in shaping protective behaviors: Insights from the early phase of COVID-19 Italian outbreak
In the absence of target treatments or vaccination, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic can be impeded by effectively implementing containment measures and behaviors. This relies on individuals' adoption of protective behaviors, their…
Hum Mov Sci. 2020 Apr;70:102569. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2020.102569
Stable or able? Effect of virtual reality stimulation on static balance of post-stroke patients and healthy subjects
Over the last decades, virtual reality (VR) emerged as a potential tool for developing new rehabilitation treatments in neurological patients. However, despite the increasing number of studies, a clear comprehension…
The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics. 2020 Aug. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824350.013.27
The Aesthetics of Action and Movement
The embodied simulation account proposed a pivotal role for the body of an observer in the aesthetic perception of artworks. Beginning with this consideration, this chapter briefly outlines evidence from…
Body Image. 2020 Mar;32:199-217. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.01.006
The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey (BSSS): Breast size dissatisfaction and its antecedents and outcomes in women from 40 nations
- Swami V,
- Tran US,
- Barron D,
- Afhami R,
- Aimé A,
- Almenara CA,
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- Panasiti MS,
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- Argyrides M
The Breast Size Satisfaction Survey (BSSS) was established to assess women's breast size dissatisfaction and breasted experiences from a cross-national perspective. A total of 18,541 women were recruited from 61…
Brain Topogr . 2020 Mar;33(2):238-254. doi: 10.1007/s10548-020-00760-x
The effect of expertise on kinesthetic motor imagery of complex actions
The ability to mentally simulate an action by recalling the body sensations relative to the real execution is referred to as kinesthetic motor imagery (MI). Frontal and parietal motor-related brain…
Cereb Cortex. 2020 May 14;30(5):3271-3285. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz308
The human dynamic clamp reveals the fronto-parietal network linking real-time social coordination and cognition
How does the brain allow us to interact with others? Social neuroscience has already provided some answers to these questions but has tended to treat high-level, cognitive interpretations of social…
Cognition. 2020 Sep 12;205:104446. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104446
Timing is everything: Dance aesthetics depend on the complexity of movement kinematics
What constitutes a beautiful action? Research into dance aesthetics has largely focussed on subjective features like familiarity with the observed movement, but has rarely studied objective features like speed or…
Sci Rep. 2020 Mar 25;10(1):5412. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62394-0
Visual appearance of the virtual hand affects embodiment in the virtual hand illusion
Body ownership (the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself) is commonly studied with Rubber hand illusion (RHI) paradigm that allows inducing a temporary illusory feeling of ownership of a…
Psychol Res. 2020 Jun 10. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01366-5
Visual feedback from a virtual body modulates motor illusion induced by tendon vibration
Frequency-specific tendon vibration (TV) elicits illusory kinesthetic sensations around the vibrated body parts. Studies indicate that vision plays a fundamental role in modulating such illusions. In our current study, we…
