The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology

A Monti, G Porciello, MS Panasiti, SM Aglioti - Psychological research, 2022 - Springer
Humans are unique in their ability to think about themselves and carry a more or less clear
notion of who they are in their mind. Here we review recent evidence suggesting that the …

Impact of supplementary sensory feedback on the control and embodiment in human movement augmentation

M Pinardi, MR Longo, D Formica, M Strbac… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
In human movement augmentation, the number of controlled degrees of freedom could be
enhanced by the simultaneous and independent use of supernumerary robotic limbs (SRL) …

The “embreathment” illusion highlights the role of breathing in corporeal awareness

A Monti, G Porciello, G Tieri… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Recent theories posit that physiological signals contribute to corporeal awareness, the basic
feeling that one has a body (body ownership) that acts according to one's will (body agency) …

An interoceptive illusion of effort induced by false heart-rate feedback

P Iodice, G Porciello, I Bufalari… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Interoception, or the sense of the internal state of the body, is key to the adaptive regulation
of our physiological needs. Recent theories contextualize interception within a predictive …

Characterizing body image distortion and bodily self-plasticity in anorexia nervosa via visuo-tactile stimulation in virtual reality

L Provenzano, G Porciello, S Ciccarone… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
We combined virtual reality and multisensory bodily illusion with the aim to characterize and
reduce the perceptual (body overestimation) and the cognitive-emotional (body …

Probing corporeal awareness in women through virtual reality induction of embreathment illusion

C Cantoni, A Salaris, A Monti, G Porciello… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We capitalized on the respiratory bodily illusion that we discovered in a previous study and
called 'Embreathment'where we showed that breathing modulates corporeal awareness in …

Face individual identity recognition: a potential endophenotype in autism

I Minio-Paluello, G Porciello, A Pascual-Leone… - Molecular Autism, 2020 - Springer
Background Face individual identity recognition skill is heritable and independent of
intellectual ability. Difficulties in face individual identity recognition are present in autistic …

Mirror, mirror on my phone: Investigating dimensions of self-face perception induced by augmented reality filters

R Fribourg, E Peillard… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The main use of Augmented Reality (AR) today for the general public is in applications for
smartphones. In particular, social network applications allow the use of many AR filters …

Cognitive processes unfold in a social context: a review and extension of social baseline theory

EB Gross, SE Medina-DeVilliers - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Psychologists often assume that social and cognitive processes operate independently, an
assumption that prompts research into how social context influences cognitive processes …

Confrontation with others' emotions changes bodily resonance differently in those with low and high levels of depersonalization

H Gillmeister, I Šmate, D Savva, H Li… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present novel research on the cortical dynamics of atypical perceptual and emotional
processing in people with symptoms of depersonalization–derealization disorder (DP-DR) …