Alpha‐band oscillations and emotion: A review of studies on picture perception

M Codispoti, A De Cesarei, V Ferrari - Psychophysiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although alpha‐band activity has long been a focus of psychophysiological research, its
modulation by emotional value during picture perception has only recently been studied …

The analgesic power of pleasant touch in individuals with chronic pain: Recent findings and new insights

M Fusaro, RJ Bufacchi, V Nicolardi… - Frontiers in Integrative …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This mini-review covers recent works on the study of pleasant touch in patients with chronic
pain (CP) and its potential use as a treatment. While experiments have demonstrated that …

The two arrows of pain: mechanisms of pain related to meditation and mental states of aversion and identification

V Nicolardi, L Simione, D Scaringi, P Malinowski… - Mindfulness, 2024 - Springer
Objectives According to the core Buddhist psychology models of the “two arrows of pain”
and “co-dependent origination,” pain is the resultant of bodily and mental factors, which can …

Reminders of Mortality: Investigating the Effects of Different Mortality Saliences on Somatosensory Neural Activity

IL Gyimes, E Valentini - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Terror Management Theory (TMT) offered a great deal of generative hypotheses that
have been tested in a plethora of studies. However, there is a still substantive lack of clarity …

Pain perception during social interactions is modulated by self-related and moral contextual cues

V Nicolardi, MS Panasiti, M D'Ippolito, GL Pecimo… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Social cognition in two brothers with Becker muscular dystrophy: an exploratory study revealing divergent behavioral phenotypes

V Nicolardi, G Accogli, C Ferrante, S Scoditti… - Neurological …, 2024 - Springer
Background and objective Only few studies investigated social cognition in Becker muscular
dystrophy (BMD). However, brain dystrophin deficiency could be a neural substrate for …

Reminders of mortality alter pain-evoked potentials in a Chinese Sample

C Wang, J Tian - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Pain is of evolutionary importance to human survival. However, the perception of pain could
be changed when death-related thoughts are accessible. Although the influence of mortality …

Taking the perspective of an embodied avatar modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a combined Immersive Virtual Reality and EEG study

V Nicolardi, G Tieri, MP Lisi, M Mello, M Fusaro… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Observing negative and positive valence virtual stimuli can influence the onlookers'
subjective and brain reactivity. However, information about the complex link between …

Visual cues of threat elicit greater steady-state electroencephalographic responses than visual reminders of death

E Valentini, IL Gyimes - Biological Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Terror management theory (TMT) suggests that reminders of death activate an exclusive
anxiety mechanism different from the one activated by other types of symbolic threats. This …

The painful awareness of death: Influence of thoughts of death on behavioural and cerebral activity associated with painful nociceptive stimuli

IL Gyimes - 2022 - repository.essex.ac.uk
Terror Management Theory (TMT) attempts to explain how the awareness of mortality affects
people. There has been a large volume of research investigating the changes of human …