Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Pamplona G, Heldner J, Langner R, Koush Y, Michels L, Ionta S, Salmon CEG, Scharnowski F (2023). Preliminary findings on long-term effects of fMRI neurofeedback training on functional networks involved in sustained attention. Brain and Behavior 13(10), e3217.

Guidetti M, Giannoni-Luza S, Bocci T, Pacheco-Barrios K, Bianchi AM, Parazzini M, Ionta S, Ferrucci R, Maiorana NV, Verde F, Ticozzi N, Silani V, Priori A. (2023) Modeling Electric Fields in Transcutaneous Spinal Direct Current Stimulation: A Clinical Perspective. Biomedicines 11(5):1283.

Giovaola Y, Rojo V, Ionta S (2023) Degraded Vision affects Mental Representations of the Body. Visual Cognition, 30(10), 686-695.

Langner R, Scharnowski F, Ionta S, Salmon C, Piper B, Pamplona G (2023) Evaluation of the reliability and validity of computerized tests of attention. PLoS ONE, e0281196.

Pamplona G, Hardmeier M, Younes S, Goy I, Fornari E, Ionta S (2022) Vision- and touch-dependent brain correlates of body-related mental processing. Cortex 157, 30-52.

Pamplona G, Gruaz Q, Mauron K, Ionta S (2022). Abrupt visibility changes affect specific subjective (not objective) aspects of body ownership. Acta Psychologica 229:103672.

Martinez V, Giovanola Y, Ionta S (2022). Social touch somatotopically affects mental body representations. Neuroscience 494, 178-196.

Rodríguez-Herreros B, Amengual JL, Vázquez-Anguiano JL, Ionta S, Miniussi C, Cunillera T (2022). Early response competition over the motor cortex underlies proactive control of error correction. Scientific Reports 12.1, 1-13.

Pamplona G, Salgado J, Staempfli P, Seifritz E, Gassert R, Ionta S (2022). Illusory body ownership affects the cortical response to vicarious somatosensation. Cerebral Cortex

Aspell JE, Ortibus E, Ionta S (2022). Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology of Perception, Action, and Cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16.

Ionta S (2021). Visual Neuropsychology in Development: Anatomo-Functional Brain Mechanisms of Action/Perception Binding in Health and Disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Farah R, Ionta S, Horowitz-Kraus T (2021). Neuro-Behavioral Correlates of Executive Dysfunctions in Dyslexia over Development from Childhood to Adulthood. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology

Zeugin D, Ionta S (2021). Anatomo-Functional Origins of the Cortical Silent Period: Spotlight on the Basal Ganglia. Brain Sciences

Moro V, Corbella M, Ionta S, Ferrari F, Scandola M (2021). Cognitive training improves disconnected limbs’ body mental representation and peripersonal space after spinal cord injury. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Osimo SA, Aiello M, Gentili C, Ionta S, Cecchetto C (2021). The influence of personality, resilience, and alexithymia on mental health during COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology

Cecchetto C, Aiello M, Gentili C, Ionta S, Osimo SA (2021). Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress. Appetite

Osimo SA, Piretti L, Ionta S, Rumiati RI, Aiello M (2021). The neural substrates of subliminal attentional bias and reduced inhibition in individuals with a higher BMI: a VBM and resting state connectivity study. NeuroImage

Ionta S, Costantini M, Ferretti A, Galati G, Romani GL, Aglioti S (2020) Visual similarity and psychological closeness are neurally dissociable in the brain response to vicarious pain. Cortex

Zeugin D, Notter MP, Knebel JF, Ionta S (2020) Temporo-parietal contribution to the mental representations of self/other face. Brain and Cognition.

Pamplona G, Heldner J, Langner R, Koush Y, Michels L, Ionta S, Scharnowski F, Salmon CEG (2020) Network-based fMRI-neurofeedback training of sustained attention. Neuroimage.

Franceschiello B, Di Sopra L, Minier A, Ionta S, Zeugin D, Notter MP, Bastiaansen JAM, Jorge J, Yerly J, Stuber M, Murray MM (2020) 3-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Freely Moving Human Eye. Progress in Neurobiology.

Pamplona G, Vieira BH, Scharnowski F, Salmon C (2020) Personode: A Toolbox for ICA Map Classification and Individualized ROI Definition. Neuroinformatics

Scandola M, Aglioti SM, Lazzeri G, Avesani R, Ionta S*, Moro V* (2020) Visuo-motor and interoceptive influences on peripersonal space representation following spinal cord injury. Nature Scientific Reports.

Marquis R, Muller S, Lorio S, Rodriguez-Herreros B, Melie-Garcia L, Kherif F, Lutti A, Draganski B (2020) Spatial resolution and imaging encoding fMRI settings for optimal cortical and subcortical motor somatotopy in the human brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Cárdenas-de-la-Parra A, Martin-Brevet S, Moreau C,  Rodriguez-Herreros R,  Fonov VS,  Maillard AM,  Zürcher NR, 16p11.2 European Consortium, Hadjikhani N,  Beckmann JS,  Reymond A, Draganski B, Jacquemont S, Collins DL (2020) Developmental Trajectories of Neuroanatomical Alterations Associated With the 16p11.2 Copy Number Variations. NeuroImage.

Osimo SA, Korb S, Aiello M. Obesity, subliminal perception and inhibition: Neuromodulation of the prefrontal cortex (2019) Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Scandola M, Dodoni L, Lazzeri G, Arcangeli CA, Avesani R, Moro V, Ionta S. (2019) Neurocognitive benefits of physiotherapy for spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurotrauma

Perruchoud D, Fiorio M, Cesari P, Ionta S (2018). Beyond variability : Subjective timimng and the neurophysiology of motor cognition. Brain Stimulation.

Murray M, Thelen A, Ionta S, Wallace M (2018). Contributions of intra- and inter-individual differences to multisensory processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 

Zeugin D, Arfa N, Notter M, Murray M, Ionta S (2017). Implicit self-other discrimination affects the interplay between multisensory affordances of mental representations of faces. Behavioural Brain Research 333.

Carda S, Biasiucci A, Maesani A, Ionta S, Moncharmont J, Clarke S, Murray M, Millán J (2017). Electrically assisted movement therapy in chronic stroke patients with severe upper limb paresis: a pilot, single blind, randomized crossover study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Ionta S, Villiger M, Jutzeler C, Curt A, Gassert R (2016) Spinal cord injury affects the interplay between visual and sensorimotor representations of the body. Nature – Scientific Reports.

Perruchoud D, Pisotta I, Carda S, Murray M, Ionta S (2016). Biomimetic rehabilitation engineering: the importance of somatosensory feedback for brain-machine interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering.

Perruchoud D, Michels L, Piccirelli M, Gassert R, Ionta S (2016). Differential neural encoding of sensorimotor and visual body representations. Nature – Scientific Reports.

Herrmann C, Murray M, Ionta S, Hutt A, Lefebvre J (2016). Shaping Intrinsic Neural Oscillations with Periodic Stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience.

Lebedev M, Ionta S. (2015) Health, pathology, and rehabilitation of the sensory-motor loop. Neuropsychologia.

Ackerley R, Borich M, Oddo CM, Ionta S (2016). Insights and Perspectives on Sensory-Motor Integration and Rehabilitation. Multisensory Research.

Halje P, Seeck M, Blanke O, Ionta S (2015). Inferior frontal oscillations reveal visuo-motor matching for actions and speech: evidence from human intracranial recordings. Neuropsychologia.

Pisotta I, Perruchoud D, Ionta S (2015). Hand-in-Hand Advances in Biomedical Engineering and Sensorimotor Restoration. Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

Borich M, Brodie S, Gray W, Ionta S, Boyd L (2015). Understanding the role of the primary somatosensory cortex: opportunities for rehabilitation. Neuropsychologia.

Avanzino L, Tinazzi M, Ionta S, Fiorio M (2015). Sensorimotor integration in dystonia. Neuropsychologia.

Perruchoud D, Murray MM, Lefebvre J, Ionta S. (2014) Focal dystonia and the Sensory-Motor Integrative Loop for Enacting (SMILE). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Ionta S, Martuzzi R, Salomon R, Blanke O. (2014) The Brain Network reflecting Bodily Self-Consciousness: a functional connectivity study. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience.

Pisotta I, Ionta S (2014). Are We the Robots? Man-Machine Integration. Chapter in: “Emerging Theory and Practice in Neuroprosthetics (Ed. Naik GR,  Guo Y). IGI Global, Hershey (PA), USA.

Bufalari I, Ionta S (2013) The social and personality neuroscience of empathy for pain and touch. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Ionta S, Sforza A, Funato M, Blanke O (2013) Anatomically plausible illusory posture affects mental rotation of body parts. Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience.

Ionta S, Perruchoud D, Draganski B, Blanke O (2012). Body context and posture affect mental imagery of hands. PLoS One.

Ionta S, Heydrich L, Lenggenhager B, Mouthon M, Fornari E, Chapuis D, Gassert R, Blanke O (2011). Multisensory mechanisms in temporo-parietal cortex support self-location and first-person perspective. Neuron.

Ionta S, Gassert R, Blanke O (2011). Multi-Sensory and Sensorimotor foundation of Bodily Self-Consciousness – an interdisciplinary approach. Frontiers in Psychology.

Duenas J, Chapuis D, Pfeiffer C, Martuzzi R, Ionta S, Blanke O, Gassert R (2011). Neuroscience robotics to investigate multisensory integration and bodily awareness. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc.

Blanke O, Ionta S, Fornari E, Mohr C, Maeder P (2010). Mental imagery for full and upper human bodies: common right hemisphere activations and distinct extrastriate activations. Brain Topography.

Abate M, Carlo LD, Romualdo SD, Ionta S, Ferretti A, Romani GL, Merla A (2010). Postural adjustment in experimental leg length difference evaluated by means of thermal infrared imaging. Physiological Measurements.

Ionta S, Ferretti A, Merla A, Tartaro A, Romani GL (2010). Step-by-step: the effects of physical practice on the neural correlates of locomotion imagery revealed by fMRI. Human Brain Mapping.

Ionta S, Fourkas AD, Aglioti SM (2010). Egocentric and object-based transformations in the laterality judgment of human and animal faces and of non-corporeal objects. Behavioural Brain Research.

Ionta S & Blanke O (2009). Differential influence of hands posture on mental rotation of hands and feet in left and right handers. Experimental Brain Research.

Arzy S, Collette S, Ionta S, Fornari E, Blanke O (2009). Subjective mental time: the functional architecture of projecting the self to past and future. European Journal of Neuroscience.

Candidi M, Urgesi C, Ionta S, Aglioti SM (2008). Virtual lesion of ventral premotor cortex impairs visual perception of biomechanically possible but not impossible actions. Social Neuroscience.

Urgesi C, Candidi M, Ionta S, Aglioti SM (2007). Representation of body identity and body actions in extrastriate body area and ventral premotor cortex. Nature Neuroscience.

Ionta S, Fourkas AD, Fiorio M, Aglioti SM (2007). The influence of hands posture on mental rotation of hands and feet. Experimental Brain Research.

Fiorio M, Tinazzi M, Ionta S, Fiaschi A, Moretto G, Edwards MJ, Bhatia KP, Aglioti SM (2007). Mental rotation of body parts and non-corporeal objects in patients with idiopathic cervical dystonia. Neuropsychologia.

Fourkas AD, Ionta S, Aglioti SM (2006). Influence of imagined posture and imagery modality on corticospinal excitability. Behavioural Brain Research.