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Functional role of the theory of mind network in integrating mentalistic prior information with action kinematics during action observation (2023)
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Cristiano, A., Finisguerra, A., Urgesi, C., Avenanti, A., & Tidoni, E. (2023). Functional role of the theory of mind network in integrating mentalistic prior information with action kinematics during action observation. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 166, 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.05.009

Inferring intentions from verbal and nonverbal human behaviour is critical for everyday social life. Here, we combined Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with a behavioural priming paradigm to test whether key nodes of the Theory of Mind network... Read More about Functional role of the theory of mind network in integrating mentalistic prior information with action kinematics during action observation.

Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation (2023)
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Scandola, M., Cross, E. S., Caruana, N., & Tidoni, E. (2023). Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation. International Journal of Social Robotics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00962-2

The future of human–robot collaboration relies on people’s ability to understand and predict robots' actions. The machine-like appearance of robots, as well as contextual information, may influence people’s ability to anticipate the behaviour of robo... Read More about Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation.

Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction (2022)
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Tidoni, E., Holle, H., Scandola, M., Schindler, I., Hill, L., & Cross, E. S. (2022). Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction. iScience, 25(6), Article 104462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104462

Do people ascribe intentions to humanoid robots as they would to humans or non-human-like animated objects? In six experiments, we compared people's ability to extract non-mentalistic (i.e., where an agent is looking) and mentalistic (i.e., what an a... Read More about Human but not robotic gaze facilitates action prediction.

Brain Dynamics of Action Monitoring in Higher-Order Motor Control Disorders: The Case of Apraxia (2022)
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Spinelli, G., Pezzetta, R., Canzano, L., Tidoni, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2022). Brain Dynamics of Action Monitoring in Higher-Order Motor Control Disorders: The Case of Apraxia. eNeuro, 9(2), Article 0334-20.2021. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0334-20.2021

Limb apraxia (LA) refers to a high-order motor disorder characterized by the inability to reproduce transitive actions on commands or after observation. Studies demonstrate that action observation and action execution activate the same networks in th... Read More about Brain Dynamics of Action Monitoring in Higher-Order Motor Control Disorders: The Case of Apraxia.

Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it (2020)
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Villa, R., Tidoni, E., Porciello, G., & Aglioti, S. M. (in press). Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it. Psychological research, https://doi.org/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 to reduce it. Here, we investigated if pred... Read More about Freedom to act enhances the sense of agency, while movement and goal-related prediction errors reduce it.

Error, rather than its probability, elicits specific electrocortical signatures: A combined EEG-immersive virtual reality study of action observation (2018)
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Pezzetta, R., Nicolardi, V., Tidoni, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2018). Error, rather than its probability, elicits specific electrocortical signatures: A combined EEG-immersive virtual reality study of action observation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(3), 1107-1118. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00130.2018

Detecting errors in one’s own actions, and in the actions of others, is a crucial ability for adaptable and flexible behavior. Studies show that specific EEG signatures underpin the monitoring of observed erroneous actions (error-related negativity,... Read More about Error, rather than its probability, elicits specific electrocortical signatures: A combined EEG-immersive virtual reality study of action observation.

Violation of expectations about movement and goal achievement leads to Sense of Agency reduction (2018)
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Villa, R., Tidoni, E., Porciello, G., & Aglioti, S. M. (2018). Violation of expectations about movement and goal achievement leads to Sense of Agency reduction. Experimental Brain Research, 236(7), 2123-2135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-018-5286-3

The control of one’s own movements and of their impact on the external world generates a feeling of control referred to as Sense of Agency (SoA). SoA is experienced when actions match predictions and is reduced by unpredicted events. The present stud... Read More about Violation of expectations about movement and goal achievement leads to Sense of Agency reduction.

Boosting and decreasing action prediction abilities through excitatory and inhibitory tDCS of inferior frontal cortex (2017)
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Avenanti, A., Paracampo, R., Annella, L., Tidoni, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2018). Boosting and decreasing action prediction abilities through excitatory and inhibitory tDCS of inferior frontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 28(4), 1282-1296. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx041

Influential theories suggest that humans predict others’ upcoming actions by using their own motor system as an internal forward model. However, evidence that the motor system is causally essential for predicting others’ actions is meager. Using tran... Read More about Boosting and decreasing action prediction abilities through excitatory and inhibitory tDCS of inferior frontal cortex.

Primary somatosensory cortex necessary for the perception of weight from other people's action: a continuous theta-burst TMS experiment (2017)
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Valchev, N., Tidoni, E., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., Gazzola, V., & Avenanti, A. (2017). Primary somatosensory cortex necessary for the perception of weight from other people's action: a continuous theta-burst TMS experiment. NeuroImage, 152, 195-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.075

The presence of a network of areas in the parietal and premotor cortices, which are active both during action execution and observation, suggests that we might understand the actions of other people by activating those motor programs for making simil... Read More about Primary somatosensory cortex necessary for the perception of weight from other people's action: a continuous theta-burst TMS experiment.

Local and remote cooperation with virtual and robotic agents:a P300 BCI study in healthy and people living with spinal cord injury (2016)
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Tidoni, E., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Leonardis, D., Kapeller, C., Fusco, G., Guger, C., …Aglioti, S. M. (2017). Local and remote cooperation with virtual and robotic agents:a P300 BCI study in healthy and people living with spinal cord injury. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(9), 1622-1632. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2016.2626391

The development of technological applications that allow people to control and embody external devices within social interaction settings represents a major goal for current and future brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. Prior research has sugges... Read More about Local and remote cooperation with virtual and robotic agents:a P300 BCI study in healthy and people living with spinal cord injury.

Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles (2016)
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Paracampo, R., Tidoni, E., Borgomaneri, S., di Pellegrino, G., & Avenanti, A. (2017). Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles. Cerebral Cortex, 27(11), 5116-5129. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw294

Understanding whether another's smile reflects authentic amusement is a key challenge in social life, yet, the neural bases of this ability have been largely unexplored. Here, we combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with a novel empathic... Read More about Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles.

Illusion of arm movement evoked by tendon vibration in patients with spinal cord injury (2016)
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Fusco, G., Tidoni, E., Barone, N., Pilati, C., & Aglioti, S. M. (2016). Illusion of arm movement evoked by tendon vibration in patients with spinal cord injury. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 34(5), 815-826. https://doi.org/10.3233/rnn-160660

Background: Studies in healthy people show that stimulation of muscle spindles through frequency-specific tendon vibration (TV) induces the illusory perception of movement. Following spinal cord injury (SCI), motor and sensory connections between the... Read More about Illusion of arm movement evoked by tendon vibration in patients with spinal cord injury.

Apparent biological motion in first and third person perspective (2016)
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Tidoni, E., Scandola, M., Orvalho, V., & Candidi, M. (2016). Apparent biological motion in first and third person perspective. i-Perception, 7(5), 204166951666915. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516669156

Apparent biological motion is the perception of plausible movements when two alternating images depicting the initial and final phase of an action are presented at specific stimulus onset asynchronies. Here, we show lower subjective apparent biologic... Read More about Apparent biological motion in first and third person perspective.

The role of audio-visual feedback in a thought-based control of a humanoid robot: a BCI study in healthy and spinal cord injured people (2016)
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Tidoni, E., Gergondet, P., Fusco, G., Kheddar, A., & Aglioti, S. M. (2017). The role of audio-visual feedback in a thought-based control of a humanoid robot: a BCI study in healthy and spinal cord injured people. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(6), 772-781. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2016.2597863

© 2016 IEEE. The efficient control of our body and successful interaction with the environment are possible through the integration of multisensory information. Brain-computer interface (BCI) may allow people with sensorimotor disorders to actively i... Read More about The role of audio-visual feedback in a thought-based control of a humanoid robot: a BCI study in healthy and spinal cord injured people.

Embodying others in immersive virtual reality: Electro-cortical signatures of monitoring the errors in the actions of an avatar seen from a first-person perspective (2016)
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Pavone, E. F., Tieri, G., Rizza, G., Tidoni, E., Grisoni, L., & Aglioti, S. M. (2016). Embodying others in immersive virtual reality: Electro-cortical signatures of monitoring the errors in the actions of an avatar seen from a first-person perspective. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(2), 268-279. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0494-15.2016

Brain monitoring of errors in one's own and other's actions is crucial for a variety of processes, ranging from the fine-tuning of motor skill learning to important social functions, such as reading out and anticipating the intentions of others. Here... Read More about Embodying others in immersive virtual reality: Electro-cortical signatures of monitoring the errors in the actions of an avatar seen from a first-person perspective.

Body visual discontinuity affects feeling of ownership and skin conductance responses (2015)
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Tieri, G., Tidoni, E., Pavone, E. F., & Aglioti, S. M. (2015). Body visual discontinuity affects feeling of ownership and skin conductance responses. Scientific reports, 5(1), Article 17139. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17139

When we look at our hands we are immediately aware that they belong to us and we rarely doubt about the integrity, continuity and sense of ownership of our bodies. Here we explored whether the mere manipulation of the visual appearance of a virtual l... Read More about Body visual discontinuity affects feeling of ownership and skin conductance responses.

Re-establishing the disrupted sensorimotor loop in deafferented and deefferented people: The case of spinal cord injuries (2015)
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Tidoni, E., Tieri, G., & Aglioti, S. M. (2015). Re-establishing the disrupted sensorimotor loop in deafferented and deefferented people: The case of spinal cord injuries. Neuropsychologia, 79(B), 301-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.029

Acting efficiently in the world depends on the activity of motor and somatosensory systems, the integration of which is necessary for the proper functioning of the sensorimotor loop (SL). Profound alterations of SL functioning follow spinal cord inju... Read More about Re-establishing the disrupted sensorimotor loop in deafferented and deefferented people: The case of spinal cord injuries.

Mere observation of body discontinuity affects perceived ownership and vicarious agency over a virtual hand (2015)
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Tieri, G., Tidoni, E., Pavone, E. F., & Aglioti, S. M. (2015). Mere observation of body discontinuity affects perceived ownership and vicarious agency over a virtual hand. Experimental Brain Research, 233(4), 1247-1259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-015-4202-3

The mental representation of one’s body typically implies the continuity of its parts. Here, we used immersive virtual reality to explore whether mere observation of visual discontinuity between the hand and limb of an avatar could influence a person... Read More about Mere observation of body discontinuity affects perceived ownership and vicarious agency over a virtual hand.

Rubber hand illusion highlights massive visual capture and sensorimotor face-hand remapping in a tetraplegic man (2014)
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Tidoni, E., Grisoni, L., Liuzza, M. T., & Aglioti, S. M. (2014). Rubber hand illusion highlights massive visual capture and sensorimotor face-hand remapping in a tetraplegic man. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 32(5), 611-622. https://doi.org/10.3233/RNN-130385

Purpose: The illusory ownership of a fake hand as part the body follows synchronous tactile stimulation over a visible rubber hand and a covered hand. Whether brain plasticity mechanisms after sensory and motor disconnection modulates this illusion r... Read More about Rubber hand illusion highlights massive visual capture and sensorimotor face-hand remapping in a tetraplegic man.

Illusory movements induced by tendon vibration in right- and left-handed people (2014)
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Tidoni, E., Fusco, G., Leonardis, D., Frisoli, A., Bergamasco, M., & Aglioti, S. M. (2015). Illusory movements induced by tendon vibration in right- and left-handed people. Experimental Brain Research, 233(2), 375-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-4121-8

Frequency-specific vibratory stimulation of peripheral tendons induces an illusion of limb movement that may be useful for restoring proprioceptive information in people with sensorimotor disability. This potential application may be limited by inter... Read More about Illusory movements induced by tendon vibration in right- and left-handed people.