Fear-related signals are prioritised in visual, somatosensory and spatial systems

C Bertini, E Làdavas - Neuropsychologia, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The human brain has evolved a multifaceted fear system, allowing threat detection to enable
rapid adaptive responses crucial for survival. Although many cortical and subcortical brain …

The interaction between felt touch and tactile consequences of observed actions: an action-based somatosensory congruency paradigm

E Deschrijver, JR Wiersema… - Social Cognitive and …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Action observation leads to a representation of both the motor aspect of an observed action
(motor simulation) and its somatosensory consequences (action-based somatosensory …

Dissociation between emotional remap** of fear and disgust in alexithymia

C Scarpazza, E Ladavas, G di Pellegrino - PLoS One, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
There is growing evidence that individuals are able to understand others' emotions because
they “embody” them, ie, re-experience them by activating a representation of the observed …

The detached self: Investigating the effect of depersonalisation on self-bias in the visual remap** of touch

H Farmer, A Cataldo, N Adel, E Wignall, V Gallese… - Multisensory …, 2020‏ - brill.com
There is a growing consensus that our most fundamental sense of self is structured by the
ongoing integration of sensory and motor information related to our own body …

Fear‐specific enhancement of tactile perception is disrupted after amygdala lesion

C Bertini, F Starita, C Passamonti… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tactile perception on one's own face is enhanced when viewing a fearful face being touched–
as opposed to just approached–by fingers, compared to viewing other expressions, a …

Vicarious experiences and detection accuracy while observing pain and touch: The effect of perspective taking

S Vandenbroucke, G Crombez, T Loeys… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2015‏ - Springer
In this study, we investigated the effects of observing pain and touch in others on vicarious
somatosensory experiences and the detection of subtle somatosensory stimuli. Furthermore …

I know how you feel coding others' somatosensory experience in the observer's somatosensory cortex

A Rossetti - 2014‏ - boa.unimib.it
My doctoral thesis aims at exploring the role of the somatosensory cortices in the visual
coding of others' tactile experiences. Several studies posit the existence in the human brain …

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