Top publications

2022    Keysers C, Knapska E, Moita MA, Gazzola V, Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.05.005.

2022    Cerliani L, Bhandari R, De Angelis L, vdZwaag W, Bazin PL, Gazzola V, Keysers C. Predictive coding during action observation – a depth-resolved intersubject functional correlation study at 7T. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.008.

2021    Paradiso E, Gazzola V, Keysers C. Neural mechanisms necessary for empathy-related phenomena across species. Current Opinions in Neurobiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.02.005.

2020    Hernandez-Lallement J, Attah AT, Soyman E, Pinhal C, Gazzola V*, & Keysers C*. Harm to others acts as a cingulate dependent negative reinforcer in rat. Current Biology. [see online] For a video summary click here.

2020    Han Y, Sichterman B, Carrillo M, Gazzola V, Keysers C. Similar levels of emotional contagion in male and female rats. Sci Rep. 2020; 10: 2763. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59680-2.

2020    Borja Jimenez KC, Abdelgabar AR, De Angelis L, McKay LS, Keysers C, Gazzola V. Changes in brain activity following the voluntary control of empathy. Neuroimage. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116529

2019    Abdelgabar AR*, Suttrup J*, Broersen R*, Bhandari R*, Picard S, Keysers C*, de Zeeuw C* & Gazzola V*. Action perception recruits the cerebellum and is impaired in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia. Brain : A Journal of Neurology [see online]

2019    Han Y*, Bruls R*, Thomas RM, Pentaraki V, Jelinek N, Heinemans M, …, Gazzola V, Carrillo M, Keysers, C. Bidirectional cingulate-dependent danger information transfer across rats. PLoS Biology, e3000524 [see online]

2019    Carrillo M, Han Y, Migliorati F, Liu M, Gazzola V, Keysers C (2019). Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex. Current Biology. [see online]

2018    Gallo S, Paracampo R, Müller-Pinzler L, Severo MC, Blömer L, Fernandes-Henriques C, Henschel A, Lammes BK, Maskaljunas T, Suttrup J, Avenanti A, Keysers C, Gazzola V. The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour. eLife 7 e32740 [see online]

2016    Zaki J, Wager TD*, Singer T*, Keysers C*, Gazzola, V*. The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the relationship between nociceptive and empathic pain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20, 249-259. [see online]

2015    Cerliani L, Mennes M, Thomas RM, Di Martino A, Thioux M & Keysers C. Increased functional connectivity between subcortical and cortical resting-state networks in autism spectrum disorder. JAMA Psychiatry 72, 767-777. [see online]

2014    Keysers C & Gazzola V. Dissociating the ability and propensity for empathy. Trends Cogn. Sci. 18, 163-166. [see online]

2014    Di Martino A, Yan CG, Li Q, Denio E, Castellanos FX, Alaerts K, Anderson JS, Assaf M, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Deen B, Delmonte S, Dinstein I, Ertl-Wagner B, Fair DA, Gallagher L, Kennedy DP, Keown CL, Keysers C, Lainhart JE, Lord C, Luna B, Menon V, Minshew NJ, Monk CS, Mueller S, Muller RA, Nebel MB, Nigg JT, O’Hearn K, Pelphrey KA, Peltier SJ, Rudie JD, Sunaert S, Thioux M, Tyszka JM, Uddin LQ, Verhoeven JS, Wenderoth N, Wiggins JL, Mostofsky SH & Milham MP. The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism. Mol. Psychiatr. 19, 659-667. [see online]

2013    Meffert H, Gazzola V, den Boer JA, Bartels AAJ & Keysers C. Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy. Brain 136, 2550-2562. [see online]

2012    Hasson U, Ghazanfar AA, Galantucci B, Garrod S & Keysers C. Brain-to-brain coupling: a mechanism for creating and sharing a social world. Trends Cogn. Sci. 16, 114-121. [see online]

2012    Gazzola V, Spezio ML, Etzel JA, Castelli F, Adolphs R & Keysers C. Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109, E1657-E1666. [see online]

2012    Cerliani L, Thomas RM, Jbabdi S, Siero JCW, Nanetti L, Crippa A, Gazzola V, D’Arceuil H & Keysers C. Probabilistic tractography recovers a rostrocaudal trajectory of connectivity variability in the human insular cortex. Hum. Brain Mapp. 33, 2005-2034. [see online]

2011    Atsak P, Orre M, Bakker P, Cerliani L, Roozendaal B, Gazzola V, Moita M & Keysers C. Experience Modulates Vicarious Freezing in Rats: A Model for Empathy. PLoS One 6 [see online]

2011    Arnstein D, Cui F, Keysers C, Maurits NM & Gazzola V. mu-Suppression during Action Observation and Execution Correlates with BOLD in Dorsal Premotor, Inferior Parietal, and SI Cortices. J. Neurosci. 31, 14243-14249. [see online]

2010    Schippers MB, Roebroeck A, Renken R, Nanetti L & Keysers C. Mapping the information flow from one brain to another during gestural communication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 107, 9388-9393. [see online]

2010    Keysers C, Kaas JH & Gazzola V. Somatosensation in social perception. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 11, 417-428. [see online]

2009    Keysers C & Gazzola V. Expanding the mirror: vicarious activity for actions, emotions, and sensations. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 19, 666-671. [see online]

2009    Keysers C. Mirror neurons. Curr. Biol.19, R971-R973

2009    Gazzola V & Keysers C. The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data. Cereb. Cortex 19, 1239-1255

2009    Bastiaansen J, Thioux M & Keysers C. Evidence for mirror systems in emotions. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci. 364, 2391-2404

2007    Jabbi M, Swart M & Keysers C. Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex. Neuroimage34 1744-1753

2007    Gazzola V, van der Worp H, Mulder T, Wicker B, Rizzolatti G & Keysers C. Aplasics born without hands mirror the goal of hand actions with their feet. Curr. Biol. 17, 1235-1240

2007    Gazzola V, Rizzolatti G, Wicker B & Keysers C. The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions. Neuroimage 35, 1674-1684

2006    Keysers C & Gazzola V Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition. Understanding Emotions 379-401

2006    Gazzola V, Aziz-Zadeh L & Keysers C. Empathy and the somatotopic auditory mirror system in humans. Curr. Biol. 16, 1824-1829

2004    Keysers C, Wicker B, Gazzola V, Anton JL, Fogassi L & Gallese V. A touching sight: SII/PV activation during the observation and experience of touch. Neuron 42, 335-346

2004    Keysers C & Perrett DI. Demystifying social cognition: a Hebbian perspective. Trends Cogn. Sci. 8, 501-507

2004    Gallese V, Keysers C & Rizzolatti G. A unifying view of the basis of social cognition. Trends Cogn. Sci. 8, 396-403

2003    Wicker B, Keysers C, Plailly J, Royet JP, Gallese V & Rizzolatti G. Both of us disgusted in My Insula: The common neural basis of seeing and feeling disgust. Neuron 40, 655-664

2002    Kohler E, Keysers C, Umilta MA, Fogassi L, Gallese V & Rizzolatti G. Hearing sounds, understanding actions: Action representation in mirror neurons. Science 297, 846-848

2001    Umilta MA, Kohler E, Gallese V, Fogassi L, Fadiga L, Keysers C & Rizzolatti G. I know what you are doing: A neurophysiological study. Neuron 31, 155-165