Manuela Sellitto
@manuelasellitto.bsky.social
Cognitive Neuroscientist and Neuropsychologist, Associate Professor at University of Pavia
Rather than just scrambling neural activity, the psychedelic substance psilocybin also reorganizes brain dynamics so as to align with a person’s context and experiences go.nature.com/4wKDgGF
Psychedelics tune the brain to the environment
Rather than just scrambling neural activity, the psychedelic substance psilocybin also reorganizes brain dynamics so as to align with a person’s context and experiences.
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🧠 New publication out! 👁️🗨️ 🫀 In this perspective, we draw parallels with anosognosia for hemiplegia, commonly seen in acute stroke patients, in the attempt to explain anosognosia for the illness in anorexia nervosa, based on recent computational accounts www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
Frontiers | The adamant adherence to a prior belief: the case of anosognosia in anorexia nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a complex psychiatric disorder marked by restrictive eating and distorted body image. Often, individuals with AN show a persistent d...
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Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #neuroscience
Frontiers | Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness
IntroductionConsciousness relies on both cortical and subcortical structures and their feedforward and feedback pathways. Within this framework, the thalamus...
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Just out in Cognitive Psychology Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
People often make judgments about uncertain facts and events, for example ‘Germany will win the world cup’. Judgment under uncertainty is often studie…
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Brilliant talk by Matthew Rushworth at the INS 2025
A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. https://go.nature.com/4jPup00
World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing
Nature - Device translates thought to speech in real time.
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Sorry to hear that Claudio Luzzatti passed away. Another piece of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience is lost.
A new study reveals that we simplify decisions by storing key choices early and prioritizing critical points. These insights were uncovered through an analysis of London taxi drivers’ navigation strategies. In @apnews.com: apnews.com/video/how-th... In @pnas.org:: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf@hhu.de · 2y ago🎉 Guten Morgen, #HHU und #HELAU an alle Jeckinnen und Jecken! Wir suchen euch! Wenn am 3. März der Rosenmontagszug durch Düsseldorf zieht, wird unsere Universität mit einem von Jacques Tilly gestalteten Wagen und einer Fußgruppe dabei sein: anlässlich des 60-jährigen Bestehens der HHU. 1/5
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
We all know about inequalities in income & physical childcare but inequalities in cognitive load are often forgotten. This paper is on gender & the household, but there are many other cognitive load inequalities also in the office. Think of who does more mentorship link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cognitive household labor: gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing - Archives of Women's Mental Health
Purpose Although the division of unpaid household labor has been studied as a driver of global gender inequity, the cognitive dimension of household labor—planning, anticipating, and delegating househ...
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I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11
The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications
Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...
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Gerardo Salvato@gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 2y agoCold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU
Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU
