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Gerardo Salvato

@gerardosalvato.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Pavia🧠✋🌡️

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 10

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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Maggie Szymanska @maggieszymanska.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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Dr. Angelica Lim @petitegeek.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

www.nature.com

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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 4

🗝️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

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EUCAS 2025 Pavia @eucas2025.bsky.social · May 7

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!

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · May 7

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

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · May 1

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....

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Apr 15

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...

"The Invisible Hand: Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Hand Function" on a white background. The cover is grey and features various sketches of hands.

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congrats!! Very impressive!

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Apr 24

Very cool study!

aaron-douglas.bsky.social @aaron-douglas.bsky.social · Apr 24

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...

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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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Apr 10

📱🌡️👶 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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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · Apr 4

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

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Mar 29

👁️✋🌡️ 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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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · Jan 21

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

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Valeria Peviani @pevianiv.bsky.social · Mar 12

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 · Jan 9

🚀 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! 🌍✨

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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · Feb 5

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 - UCL Discovery

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

discovery.ucl.ac.uk

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 28

You can ask by emailing [email protected] 🙂

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 27

A fantastic keynote lecture by Alfonso Caramazza at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology #EWCN2025

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧵5/5 This represents the first causal evidence of the contribution of thermosensory signals to bodily self-awareness. Read more at @naturecomms.bsky.social @springernature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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 · Jan 16

🧵4/5 Disconnections in bilateral parietal regions are associated with lower hand temperature, while disconnections in a right lateralized thalamus-parietal hub correlate with thermoception deficits. 4/5

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧵3/5 Lesion mapping reveals associations in the right operculum and #insula, indicating that these regions are linked to lower skin #temperature. Deficits in #thermoception are associated with the same brain regions, but more anteriorly.

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧵2/5 Patients with right-brain damage and altered ownership for the left-hand exhibit lower basal hand temperatures bilaterally and impaired perception of cold and warm stimuli compared to right-brain damaged patients with and without hemiplegia and preserved ownership.

Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧵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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