Gerardo Salvato
@gerardosalvato.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Pavia🧠✋🌡️
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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
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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
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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.
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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!
July 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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!
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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
July 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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
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Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings | Nature Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings | Nature Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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
🗣️Presenting
Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University)
#body #bodyrepresentation
#computationalneurosciences
July 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🗝️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
🗣️Presenting
Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University)
#body #bodyrepresentation
#computationalneurosciences
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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!
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!
May 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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!
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”
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@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....
May 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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! ✋🤙🫱
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...
April 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Beautifully done! I’m reading it with great curiosity. Super @mattlongo.bsky.social! ✋🤙🫱
Very cool study!
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...
A thread: 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature
Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...
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April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Very cool study!
📱🌡️👶 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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📱🌡️👶 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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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/
👁️✋🌡️ 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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March 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social
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Two days left to submit your abstract! (new deadline March 14th). Hope to see you all in Utrecht 🤚🧠
🚀 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! 🌍✨
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! 🌍✨
March 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Two days left to submit your abstract! (new deadline March 14th). Hope to see you all in Utrecht 🤚🧠
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Open Access UCL Research: The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness
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February 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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 🧠
January 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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
January 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
🧵1/5 🌡️ #Thermosensory signals may contribute to the sense of body #ownership🖐️, yet their role remains highly debated. In our new study, we test this assumption within the framework of pathological body ownership after right-brain #stroke🧠
January 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🧵1/5 🌡️ #Thermosensory signals may contribute to the sense of body #ownership🖐️, yet their role remains highly debated. In our new study, we test this assumption within the framework of pathological body ownership after right-brain #stroke🧠
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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
January 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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
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
@naturecomms.bsky.social
▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU
January 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
@naturecomms.bsky.social
▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU
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I could not find a body representation starter pack so I made one! Please message if you want to join. I know I missed excellent scientists, philosophers and clinicians out there go.bsky.app/EAmckAo
January 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I could not find a body representation starter pack so I made one! Please message if you want to join. I know I missed excellent scientists, philosophers and clinicians out there go.bsky.app/EAmckAo
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Today, the #BRNet would like to introduce Valeria @pevianiv.bsky.social and Jamie @jamoffatt.bsky.social. Every third Weds of every other month, get to know two of our #ECRs. Reach out if you want to be featured in the spotlight or be put in touch with either of this month's ECRs.
December 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Today, the #BRNet would like to introduce Valeria @pevianiv.bsky.social and Jamie @jamoffatt.bsky.social. Every third Weds of every other month, get to know two of our #ECRs. Reach out if you want to be featured in the spotlight or be put in touch with either of this month's ECRs.