Publications

Nikola Valchev, V. Gazzola, Alessio Avenanti, Christian Keysers Primary somatosensory contribution to action observation brain activity-combining fMRI and cTBS Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11 (2016) 1205-1217 Download

Sören Krach, Inge Kamp-Becker, Wolfgang Einhäuser, Jens Sommer, Stefan Frässle, Andreas Jansen, Lena Rademacher, Laura Müller-Pinzler, V. Gazzola, Frieder M Paulus Evidence from pupillometry and fMRI indicates reduced neural response during vicarious social pain but not physical pain in autism Human Brain Mapping 36 (2015) 4730-44 Download

Sara Borgomaneri, V. Gazzola, Alessio Avenanti Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language Brain Structure & Function 220 (2015) 2765-81 Download

Frieder Michel Paulus, Laura Müller-Pinzler, Andreas Jansen, V. Gazzola, Sören Krach Mentalizing and the Role of the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus in Sharing Others' Embarrassment Cerebral Cortex 25 (2015) 2065-75 Download

Nikola Valchev, Branislava Ćurčić-Blake, Remco J Renken, Alessio Avenanti, C. Keysers, V. Gazzola, Natasha M Maurits cTBS delivered to the left somatosensory cortex changes its functional connectivity during rest NeuroImage 114 (2015) 386-97 Download

L Müller-Pinzler, V Gazzola, C Keysers, J Sommer, A Jansen, S Frässle, W Einhäuser, F M Paulus, S Krach Neural pathways of embarrassment and their modulation by social anxiety NeuroImage 119 (2015) 252-261 Download

Sara Borgomaneri, Francesca Vitale, V. Gazzola, Alessio Avenanti Seeing fearful body language rapidly freezes the observer's motor cortex Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 65 (2015) 232-45 Download

Maria Carrillo, Filippo Migliorati, Rune Bruls, Yingying Han, Mirjam Heinemans, Ilanah Pruis, V. Gazzola, C. Keysers Repeated Witnessing of Conspecifics in Pain PLoS One 10 (2015) e0136979 Download

Sara Borgomaneri, V. Gazzola, Alessio Avenanti Temporal dynamics of motor cortex excitability during perception of natural emotional scenes Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9 (2014) 1451-7 Download

H. Meffert, V. Gazzola, J.A. Den Boer, A.A.J. Bartels, C. Keysers Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy. Brain: a journal of neurology 136 (2013) 2550-2562 Download

E. Monfardini, V. Gazzola, D. Boussaoud, A. Brovelli, C. Keysers, B. Wicker Vicarious neural processing of outcomes during observational learning. PLoS One 8 (2013) 73879 Download

S. Borgomaneri, V. Gazzola, A. Avenanti Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language. Brain Stimulation 5 (2012) 70-76 Download

V. Gazzola, M.L. Spezio, J.A. Etzel, F. Cstelli, R. Adolphs, C. Keysers Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (2012) 1657-1666 Download

L. Cerliani, R.M. Thomas, S. Jbabdi, J.C.W. Siero, L. Nanetti, A. Crippa, V. Gazzola, H. D'Arceuil, C. Keysers probabilistic tractography recovers a rostrocaudal trajectory of connectivity variability in the human insular cortex. Human Brain Mapping 33 (2012) 2005-2034 Download

P. Atsak, M. Orre, P. Bakker, L. Cerliani, B. Roozendaal, V. Gazzola, M. Moita, C. Keysers Experience modulates vicarious freezing in rats: a model for empathy. PLoS One 6 (2011) 21855 Download

D. Arnstein, F. Cui, C. Keysers, N.M. Maurits, V. Gazzola {micro}-Suppression during action observation and execution correlates with BOLD in dorsal premotor, inferior parietal and SI cortices. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (2011) 14243-14249 Download

S. Quadvlieg, J.A. Etzel, V. Gazzola, C. Keysers, T.W. Schubert, G.D. Waiter, C.N. Macrae Puddles, parties, and professors: linking word categorization to neural patterns of visuospatial coding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23 (2011) 2636-2649 Download

C. Keysers, V. Gazzola Social neuroscience: mirror neurons recorded in humans. Current Biology 20 (2010) 353-354 Download

C. Keysers, J.H. Kaas, V. Gazzola Somatosensation in social perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11 (2010) 417-428

C. Keysers, V. Gazzola Expanding the mirror: vicarious activity for actions, emotions and sensations. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19 (2009) 666-671 Download