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…
Sci Rep. 2020 May 4;10(1):7430. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64324-6
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
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…
Int J Psychol. 2020 Feb 6. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12664
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…
Psychol Res. 2020 Mar 31. doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01319-y
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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…
Body Image. 2020 Mar;32:199-217. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.01.006
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…
Cereb Cortex. 2020 May 14;30(5):3271-3285. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz308
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…
Sci Rep. 2020 Mar 25;10(1):5412. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62394-0
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
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…
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