Key constructs of body awareness impairments post-stroke: a scoping review of assessment tools and interventions

I Serrada, L Williams, B Hordacre… - Disability and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose To summarise body awareness assessment tools and interventions relevant for
stroke rehabilitation using a framework that categorises key body awareness constructs …

Are movements necessary for the sense of body ownership? Evidence from the rubber hand illusion in pure hemiplegic patients

D Burin, A Livelli, F Garbarini, C Fossataro, A Folegatti… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A question still debated within cognitive neuroscience is whether signals present during
actions significantly contribute to the emergence of human's body ownership. In the present …

Direct electrical stimulation of the premotor cortex shuts down awareness of voluntary actions

L Fornia, G Puglisi, A Leonetti, L Bello, A Berti… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A challenge for neuroscience is to understand the conscious and unconscious processes
underlying construction of willed actions. We investigated the neural substrate of human …

When your arm becomes mine: pathological embodiment of alien limbs using tools modulates own body representation

F Garbarini, C Fossataro, A Berti, P Gindri, D Romano… - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous evidence has shown that active tool-use can reshape one's own body schema,
extend peripersonal space and modulate the representation of related body parts. Here we …

Personal neglect: A comprehensive theoretical and anatomo–clinical review.

G Committeri, C Piervincenzi, L Pizzamiglio - Neuropsychology, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Personal neglect (PN) is the hemi-inattention toward the contralesional bodily space that
follows a cerebral lesion, usually to the right hemisphere. Objective: To provide a historical …

Movements and body ownership: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion after mechanical limb immobilization

D Burin, F Garbarini, V Bruno, C Fossataro… - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
There is no consensus on whether, and to what extent, actions contribute to constructing
awareness of one's own body. Here we investigated at both physiological and behavioral …

Feeling touch on the own hand restores the capacity to visually discriminate it from someone else'hand: Pathological embodiment receding in brain-damaged patients

C Fossataro, V Bruno, P Gindri, L Pia, A Berti… - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
The sense of body ownership, ie, the belief that a specific body part belongs to us, can be
selectively impaired in brain-damaged patients. Recently, a pathological form of …

Do movements contribute to sense of body ownership? Rubber hand illusion in expert pianists

M Pyasik, A Salatino, L Pia - Psychological Research, 2019 - Springer
Currently, it is still debated whether, how and to what extent movements contribute to the
sense of body ownership (ie, the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself). To answer this …

What pathological embodiment/disembodiment tell us about body representations

F Garbarini, C Fossataro, L Pia, A Berti - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last decade, a considerable amount of studies investigated different
neuropsychological syndromes related to the disorder of body awareness. In this paper, we …

The anatomo-clinical picture of the pathological embodiment over someone else's body part after stroke

L Pia, C Fossataro, D Burin, V Bruno, L Spinazzola… - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, a monothematic delusion of body ownership due to brain damage (ie, the
embodiment of someone else's body part within the patient's sensorimotor system) has been …