Does religious faith affect components of bodily self-awareness? A nice journey exploring new horizons in understanding the individual factors that shape how we perceive our body academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Strength of religious faith is associated with altered sense of agency during multisensory conflict

Abstract. Religious belief systems shape human experience of the self and the world, yet their influence on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying bodily

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🧪Gerardo Salvato et al. show that memory can support attention even in the presence of focal hippocampal pathology, revealing how adaptive cognitive processes are maintained when key memory structures are compromised, per Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://ow.ly/vz0p50ZkKmr

We are excited to share a new publication led by B&C alumnus Gerardo Salvato, in collaboration with fellow B&C alumna Zita Patai and Kia. The study explores how long-term memory helps guide attention, even when critical memory structures are affected by focal pathology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sometimes the most interesting finding isn’t loss of function—it’s resilience. Our new @pnas.org study shows that memory-guided attention survives left hippocampal sclerosis, with the brain shifting toward the right hippocampus. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join us online during Brain Awareness Week 2026 for a free FESN webinar on the neuropsychology of criminal behaviour with Gerardo Salvato. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... #BrainAwarenessWeek #FESN #Neuropsychology @gerardosalvato.bsky.social

#brainawarenessweek #fesn #neuropsychology #psychologyevents | British Psychological Society Division of Neuropsychology

As part of Brain Awareness Week 2026, the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (FESN) is hosting a free online talk exploring the neuropsychology of criminal behaviour. 🎤 Speaker: ...

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Looking forward to talking about temperature and bodily self-awareness at Campus Biotech in Geneva campusbiotech.ch/events/neuro...

Many thanks to all my co-authors for the depth of expertise and genuinely collaborative work behind this review @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @michelabassolino @maddalendabeccerle @gretavianello @katerinafoto.bsky.social @gabriellabottini & @valentinamoro plus the @CairnillarInstitute & @UoVerona

Delighted to share my first paper of 2026 "Interoception and allostatic load after stroke: A scoping review". Available now, open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Online Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research has also started to uncover the role of these thermosensory signals in cognition. Such signals may contribute to the construction of our bodily self-awareness, and specifically the sense of body ownership, which is defined as the feeling that the body and its parts belong to us. This review examines how thermosensory signals travel from the skin to the brain and their impact on body ownership in both healthy and clinical populations. Furthermore, we propose mechanisms that may underlie this interaction and highlight potential clinical and societal applications.

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We discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...

Warmth and Hugging Strengthen the Feeling of Being You - Neuroscience News

Changes in skin temperature play a key role in how strongly we experience our bodies as our own.

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How do thermosensory signals contribute to bodily self-awareness? Our review on this topic with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social has just been published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! Grateful for the collaborations, the shared curiosity, and the scientific community pushing this conversation forward.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Online Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere stroke. Lesion mapping reveals damage to parietal regions and interhemispheric disconnections 👉 buff.ly/cEGwaft

The sense of ownership and agency stem from proprioception, the sensory root of self-awareness. In a group of 46 right-brain-damaged patients, the disruption of a bilateral parietal network underlies proprioceptive deficits leading to ownership disorders and anosognosia for hemiplegia.

Proprioception as a sensory root for body and motor awareness

Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere

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Great start to #IMRF2025 with Symposium 2 all about body representation and some amazing talks! Really enjoyed hearing about how sounds can affect it, e.g. with the auditory pinocchio illusion 🔊, something quite different than what I work on but so fun!

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings | Nature Scientific Reports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings

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🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025 🗣️Presenting Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University) #body #bodyrepresentation #computationalneurosciences

Day 1 of #EUCAS2025 is a wrap! We kicked off with our grant-writing pre-event, thanks to our amazing speakers: @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, Francesca Lionetti, Luca Rinaldi & @gerardosalvato.bsky.social for sharing insights. We closed the day, spirits in hand at the welcome reception. On to Day 2!

@davidecrepaldi.bsky.social at @eucas2025.bsky.social pre-conference event “Submit a grant: from funding opportunities to writing a project”

A comment on our recent study published in Nature Communications. Front Matter Discovery article just published in Temperature #temperature #termoception #bodyownership www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beautifully done! I’m reading it with great curiosity. Super @mattlongo.bsky.social! ✋🤙🫱

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · last yr.

In "The Invisible Hand," @mattlongo.bsky.social provides a deftly written account of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that have made a seemingly ordinary physical appendage—the human hand—an extraordinary tool in the evolution of humanity: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255187...

Very cool study!

@aaron-douglas.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to share part of my postdoctoral work from the @tjryan.bsky.social lab, out now in @nature.com. Here, my brilliant co-author @andreamunozz.bsky.social and I explored the link between memory engrams and whole-body metabolism. A thread: 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📱🌡️👶 Even brief parental distractions (digital and non-digital) can distress infants. Using thermal imaging, we found unique stress responses when moms used smartphones instead of paper. Distraction matters, and the type of distraction might matter more. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Hot stuff”: Behavioural and affective thermal responses to digital and non-digital disruptions during early mother-infant interaction

Responsive social exchanges are critical for infants' bio-behavioural regulation and healthy development. Parental smartphone use may disrupt early pa…

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New paper alert! In this chapter, part of a volume led by the late Bud Craig’s colleagues Alan Simmons, Marc Wittmann, and Irina Strigo, we opine on the role of the insula in interoception and body image processing in anorexia nervosa and other health conditions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40178772/

Sensing the Self: The Role of the Insula and Interoception in Body Image - PubMed

This chapter explores the insula's role in shaping body image through interoception - the neural process of sensing, interpreting, and integrating internal bodily signals to facilitate a coherent sens...

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👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa

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Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

Two days left to submit your abstract! (new deadline March 14th). Hope to see you all in Utrecht 🤚🧠

Body Representation Network – BRNet@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera... Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

Open Access UCL Research: The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Brilliant talk by @stephforkel.bsky.social about the human disconnectome at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology #EWCN2025 🧠

The symposium “Metacognition and social cognition: common ground or false equivalence?” organised by @smfleming.bsky.social is about to start! With @mkwittmann.bsky.social @vhsouthgate.bsky.social @joebarnby.bsky.social #EWCN2025