List of works - Alessio Avenanti

Absence of embodied empathy during pain observation in Asperger syndrome

scientific article

Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition.

scientific article published in January 2013

Action-related dynamic changes in inferior frontal cortex effective connectivity: A TMS/EEG coregistration study

Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the ventromedial prefrontal cortex enhances fear extinction in healthy humans: A single blind sham-controlled study

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Author Correction: Unfolding political attitudes through the face: facial expressions when reading emotion language of left- and right-wing political leaders

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Behavioral inhibition system sensitivity enhances motor cortex suppression when watching fearful body expressions

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Blocking facial mimicry affects recognition of facial and body expressions

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Boosting and Decreasing Action Prediction Abilities Through Excitatory and Inhibitory tDCS of Inferior Frontal Cortex

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Cathodal tDCS over the left prefrontal cortex diminishes choice-induced preference change

scientific article published on 24 November 2013

Compensatory plasticity in the action observation network: virtual lesions of STS enhance anticipatory simulation of seen actions

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

Core, social and moral disgust are bounded: A review on behavioral and neural bases of repugnance in clinical disorders

scientific article

Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery

scientific article published on 26 July 2005

Counterfactual thinking affects the excitability of the motor cortex

scientific article

Delay discounting in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published in 2023

Don't do it! Cortical inhibition and self-attribution during action observation

scientific article published in June 2009

Driving Hebbian plasticity over ventral premotor-motor projections transiently enhances motor resonance

Driving associative plasticity in premotor-motor connections through a novel paired associative stimulation based on long-latency cortico-cortical interactions

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Early changes in corticospinal excitability when seeing fearful body expressions

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Early motor reactivity to observed human body postures is affected by body expression, not gender

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Emotional and movement-related body postures modulate visual processing.

scientific article published in January 2015

Empathy for pain and touch in the human somatosensory cortex

scientific article published on 6 January 2007

Empowering Reentrant Projections from V5 to V1 Boosts Sensitivity to Motion

scientific article

Enhanced action performance following TMS manipulation of associative plasticity in ventral premotor-motor pathway

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Enhanced fear acquisition in individuals with evening chronotype. A virtual reality fear conditioning/extinction study

scientific article published in 2022

Enhancing Motor Brain Activity Improves Memory for Action Language: A tDCS Study

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Enhancing creative cognition with a rapid right-parietal neurofeedback procedure

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Enjoying vs. smiling: Facial muscular activation in response to emotional language

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Freezing or escaping? Opposite modulations of empathic reactivity to the pain of others

scientific article

Fronto-parietal areas necessary for a multisensory representation of peripersonal space in humans: an rTMS study

scientific article published on 10 March 2011

Functional and epiphenomenal modulation of neural activity in body-selective visual areas

scientific article published in September 2011

Functional neuroanatomy of racial categorization from visual perception: a meta-analytic study

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Il versante sensorimotorio dell’empatia per il dolore

Independent mechanisms for ventriloquism and multisensory integration as revealed by theta-burst stimulation.

scientific article

Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Kinesthetic imagery and tool-specific modulation of corticospinal representations in expert tennis players

scientific article

Left hemisphere dominance in reading the sensory qualities of others' pain?

scientific article published in January 2006

Long-latency interhemispheric interactions between motor-related areas and the primary motor cortex: a dual site TMS study

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Long-latency modulation of motor cortex excitability by ipsilateral posterior inferior frontal gyrus and pre-supplementary motor area.

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Low-frequency rTMS promotes use-dependent motor plasticity in chronic stroke: a randomized trial

scientific article

Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language ⬇️

scientific article published on March 31, 2012

Motor properties of peripersonal space in humans

scientific article

Mu rhythm and corticospinal excitability capture two different frames of motor resonance: A TMS–EEG co-registration study

scientific article published in 2022

Neuroanatomical substrates of action perception and understanding: an anatomic likelihood estimation meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies in brain injured patients

scientific article

Perturbing the action observation network during perception and categorization of actions' goals and grips: state-dependency and virtual lesion TMS effects

scientific article published in October 2013

Pictures of disgusting foods and disgusted facial expressions suppress the tongue motor cortex

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

Predicting response originality through brain activity: An analysis of changes in EEG alpha power during the generation of alternative ideas

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Primary motor cortex crucial for action prediction: A tDCS study

Primary somatosensory contribution to action observation brain activity-combining fMRI and cTBS

scientific article

Primary somatosensory cortex necessary for the perception of weight from other people's action: A continuous theta-burst TMS experiment

scientific article

Racial bias reduces empathic sensorimotor resonance with other-race pain

scientific article

Reward and punishment: investigating cortico-bulbar excitability to disclose the value of goods

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Seeing fearful body language rapidly freezes the observer's motor cortex

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Seeing the pain of others while being in pain: a laser-evoked potentials study

scientific article

Sensorimotor Network Crucial for Inferring Amusement from Smiles.

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Simulating the future of actions in the human corticospinal system

scientific article

Social dimensions of pain. Comment on "Facing the experience of pain: a neuropsychological perspective" by Fabbro and Crescentini

scientific article published on 5 June 2014

Somatic and Motor Components of Action Simulation

State-Dependent TMS over Prefrontal Cortex Disrupts Fear-Memory Reconsolidation and Prevents the Return of Fear

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

State-dependent TMS of inferior frontal and parietal cortices highlights integration of grip configuration and functional goals during action recognition

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain

scientific article published on 3 May 2006

Strengthening functionally specific neural pathways with transcranial brain stimulation

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Suppression of premotor cortex disrupts motor coding of peripersonal space

scientific article published on 6 July 2012

Temporal dynamics of motor cortex excitability during perception of natural emotional scenes

scientific article

The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain

The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour

scientific article published on 8 May 2018

The pain of a model in the personality of an onlooker: influence of state-reactivity and personality traits on embodied empathy for pain

scientific article published on 9 August 2008

Their pain is not our pain: brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals

scientific article

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in ADHD: A Systematic Review of Efficacy, Safety, and Protocol-induced Electrical Field Modeling Results

scientific article published on 16 May 2020

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Over the Human Medial Posterior Parietal Cortex Disrupts Depth Encoding During Reach Planning

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex dampens mind-wandering in men.

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

scientific article published in July 2005

Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language

scientific article

Tuning alpha rhythms to shape conscious visual perception

scientific article published in 2022

Understanding 'what' others do: mirror mechanisms play a crucial role in action perception

scientific article published on June 2011

Unfolding political attitudes through the face: facial expressions when reading emotion language of left- and right-wing political leaders

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Vicarious motor activation during action perception: beyond correlational evidence.

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Visual, sensorimotor and cognitive routes to understanding others' enjoyment: an individual differences rTMS approach to empathic accuracy

scientific article published in February 2018

Weight dependent modulation of motor resonance induced by weight estimation during observation of partially occluded lifting actions

scientific article

You Are as Old as the Connectivity You Keep: Distinct Neurophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Age-Related Changes in Hand Dexterity and Strength

scientific article published in October 2024

a-tDCS on the ipsilesional parietal cortex boosts the effects of prism adaptation treatment in neglect

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

cTBS delivered to the left somatosensory cortex changes its functional connectivity during rest

scientific article published on 13 April 2015

List of works by Alessio Avenanti

Absence of embodied empathy during pain observation in Asperger syndrome

Action simulation plays a critical role in deceptive action recognition.

Action-related dynamic changes in inferior frontal cortex effective connectivity: A TMS/EEG coregistration study

Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the ventromedial prefrontal cortex enhances fear extinction in healthy humans: A single blind sham-controlled study

Author Correction: Unfolding political attitudes through the face: facial expressions when reading emotion language of left- and right-wing political leaders

Behavioral inhibition system sensitivity enhances motor cortex suppression when watching fearful body expressions

Blocking facial mimicry affects recognition of facial and body expressions

Boosting and Decreasing Action Prediction Abilities Through Excitatory and Inhibitory tDCS of Inferior Frontal Cortex

Cathodal tDCS over the left prefrontal cortex diminishes choice-induced preference change

Compensatory plasticity in the action observation network: virtual lesions of STS enhance anticipatory simulation of seen actions

Core, social and moral disgust are bounded: A review on behavioral and neural bases of repugnance in clinical disorders

Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery

Counterfactual thinking affects the excitability of the motor cortex

Delay discounting in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Don't do it! Cortical inhibition and self-attribution during action observation

Driving Hebbian plasticity over ventral premotor-motor projections transiently enhances motor resonance

Driving associative plasticity in premotor-motor connections through a novel paired associative stimulation based on long-latency cortico-cortical interactions

Early changes in corticospinal excitability when seeing fearful body expressions

Early motor reactivity to observed human body postures is affected by body expression, not gender

Emotional and movement-related body postures modulate visual processing.

Empathy for pain and touch in the human somatosensory cortex

Empowering Reentrant Projections from V5 to V1 Boosts Sensitivity to Motion

Enhanced action performance following TMS manipulation of associative plasticity in ventral premotor-motor pathway

Enhanced fear acquisition in individuals with evening chronotype. A virtual reality fear conditioning/extinction study

Enhancing Motor Brain Activity Improves Memory for Action Language: A tDCS Study

Enhancing creative cognition with a rapid right-parietal neurofeedback procedure

Enjoying vs. smiling: Facial muscular activation in response to emotional language

Freezing or escaping? Opposite modulations of empathic reactivity to the pain of others

Fronto-parietal areas necessary for a multisensory representation of peripersonal space in humans: an rTMS study

Functional and epiphenomenal modulation of neural activity in body-selective visual areas

Functional neuroanatomy of racial categorization from visual perception: a meta-analytic study

Il versante sensorimotorio dell’empatia per il dolore

Independent mechanisms for ventriloquism and multisensory integration as revealed by theta-burst stimulation.

Indignation for moral violations suppresses the tongue motor cortex: preliminary TMS evidence

Kinesthetic imagery and tool-specific modulation of corticospinal representations in expert tennis players

Left hemisphere dominance in reading the sensory qualities of others' pain?

Long-latency interhemispheric interactions between motor-related areas and the primary motor cortex: a dual site TMS study

Long-latency modulation of motor cortex excitability by ipsilateral posterior inferior frontal gyrus and pre-supplementary motor area.

Low-frequency rTMS promotes use-dependent motor plasticity in chronic stroke: a randomized trial

Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language ⬇️

Motor properties of peripersonal space in humans

Mu rhythm and corticospinal excitability capture two different frames of motor resonance: A TMS–EEG co-registration study

Neuroanatomical substrates of action perception and understanding: an anatomic likelihood estimation meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies in brain injured patients

Perturbing the action observation network during perception and categorization of actions' goals and grips: state-dependency and virtual lesion TMS effects

Pictures of disgusting foods and disgusted facial expressions suppress the tongue motor cortex

Predicting response originality through brain activity: An analysis of changes in EEG alpha power during the generation of alternative ideas

Primary motor cortex crucial for action prediction: A tDCS study

Primary somatosensory contribution to action observation brain activity-combining fMRI and cTBS

Primary somatosensory cortex necessary for the perception of weight from other people's action: A continuous theta-burst TMS experiment

Racial bias reduces empathic sensorimotor resonance with other-race pain

Reward and punishment: investigating cortico-bulbar excitability to disclose the value of goods

Seeing fearful body language rapidly freezes the observer's motor cortex

Seeing the pain of others while being in pain: a laser-evoked potentials study

Sensorimotor Network Crucial for Inferring Amusement from Smiles.

Simulating the future of actions in the human corticospinal system

Social dimensions of pain. Comment on "Facing the experience of pain: a neuropsychological perspective" by Fabbro and Crescentini

Somatic and Motor Components of Action Simulation

State-Dependent TMS over Prefrontal Cortex Disrupts Fear-Memory Reconsolidation and Prevents the Return of Fear

State-dependent TMS of inferior frontal and parietal cortices highlights integration of grip configuration and functional goals during action recognition

Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain

Strengthening functionally specific neural pathways with transcranial brain stimulation

Suppression of premotor cortex disrupts motor coding of peripersonal space

Temporal dynamics of motor cortex excitability during perception of natural emotional scenes

The Sensorimotor Side of Empathy for Pain

The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour

The pain of a model in the personality of an onlooker: influence of state-reactivity and personality traits on embodied empathy for pain

Their pain is not our pain: brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in ADHD: A Systematic Review of Efficacy, Safety, and Protocol-induced Electrical Field Modeling Results

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Over the Human Medial Posterior Parietal Cortex Disrupts Depth Encoding During Reach Planning

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex dampens mind-wandering in men.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language

Tuning alpha rhythms to shape conscious visual perception

Understanding 'what' others do: mirror mechanisms play a crucial role in action perception

Unfolding political attitudes through the face: facial expressions when reading emotion language of left- and right-wing political leaders

Vicarious motor activation during action perception: beyond correlational evidence.

Visual, sensorimotor and cognitive routes to understanding others' enjoyment: an individual differences rTMS approach to empathic accuracy

Weight dependent modulation of motor resonance induced by weight estimation during observation of partially occluded lifting actions

You Are as Old as the Connectivity You Keep: Distinct Neurophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Age-Related Changes in Hand Dexterity and Strength