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Overview

Alberto Gallace is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sensory systems.

The scientist's work broadly encompasses topics such as virtual reality applications and impacts, multisensory perception and integration, tactile and sensory interactions, olfactory and sensory function studies, action observation and synchronization, color perception and design, and spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction.

Gallace has published research in frequently appearing venues including Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, and Scientific Reports.

Some of the recent papers authored by Gallace include:

  • Social touch in virtual reality (2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)

Other notable works in the field published around the same period, though with different lead authors, feature themes closely related to virtual reality, attention, and neuropsychological assessment:

  • The Challenges and Perspectives of the Integration Between Virtual and Augmented Reality and Manual Therapies (2021, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • Explicit and Implicit Own's Body and Space Perception in Painful Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Scoping Review (2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • May I Smell Your Attention: Exploration of Smell and Sound for Visuospatial Attention in Virtual Reality (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • The Neuropsychological Assessment of Unilateral Spatial Neglect Through Computerized and Virtual Reality Tools: A Scoping Review (2023, Neuropsychology Review)

Gallace's frequent coauthors include Matteo Girondini, Roberta Etzi, Gemma Massetti, Francesco Ferrise, and Massimo Montanaro, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • The science of interpersonal touch: An overview

    Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part caused by the illusory ownership of an artificial counterpart

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Nick Olthof;Annemeike Venema;Sanneke Don

  • Bodily illusions in health and disease: physiological and clinical perspectives and the concept of a cortical 'body matrix'.

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • Multisensory design: Reaching out to touch the consumer

    Charles Spence;Alberto Gallace

  • Multisensory synesthetic interactions in the speeded classification of visual size.

    Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • Is mirror therapy all it is cracked up to be? Current evidence and future directions.

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • The cognitive and neural correlates of "tactile consciousness": a multisensory perspective.

    Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • Space-based, but not arm-based, shift in tactile processing in complex regional pain syndrome and its relationship to cooling of the affected limb.

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Alberto Gallace;Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • The cognitive and neural correlates of tactile memory.

    Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • The failure to detect tactile change: A tactile analogue of visual change blindness

    Alberto Gallace;Alberto Gallace;Hong Z. Tan;Charles Spence

  • The body surface as a communication system: The state of the art after 50 years

    Alberto Gallace;Hong Z. Tan;Charles Spence

  • Tasting shapes and words

    Charles Spence;Alberto Gallace

  • Multisensory Presence in Virtual Reality: Possibilities & Limitations.

    Alberto Gallace;Mary K. Ngo;John Sulaitis;Charles Spence

  • On the taste of "Bouba" and "Kiki": An exploration of word-food associations in neurologically normal participants.

    Alberto Gallace;Erica Boschin;Charles Spence

  • Recent developments in the study of tactile attention.

    Charles Spence;Alberto Gallace

  • To what extent do Gestalt grouping principles influence tactile perception

    Alberto Gallace;Charles Spence

  • Spatially defined modulation of skin temperature and hand ownership of both hands in patients with unilateral complex regional pain syndrome.

    G. Lorimer Moseley;G. Lorimer Moseley;Alberto Gallace;Gian Domenico Iannetti

  • Numerosity judgments for tactile stimuli distributed over the body surface

    Alberto Gallace;Hong Z Tan;Charles Spence

  • Textures that we like to touch: an experimental study of aesthetic preferences for tactile stimuli.

    Roberta Etzi;Roberta Etzi;Charles Spence;Alberto Gallace

  • Dynamic touch reduces physiological arousal in preterm infants: A role for c-tactile afferents?

    Andrea Manzotti;Francesco Cerritelli;Jorge E. Esteves;Gianluca Lista

  • Neglect-like tactile dysfunction in chronic back pain

    G. Lorimer Moseley;Laura Gallagher;Alberto Gallace

  • The analgesic effect of crossing the arms.

    A. Gallace;D.M.E. Torta;D.M.E. Torta;G.L. Moseley;G.D. Iannetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Gian Domenico Iannetti
Gian Domenico Iannetti University College London
Andrea Gaggioli
Andrea Gaggioli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Massimiliano Zampini
Massimiliano Zampini University of Trento
Giuseppe Riva
Giuseppe Riva Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Pietro Cipresso
Pietro Cipresso Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology
Giuseppe Vallar
Giuseppe Vallar University of Milano-Bicocca
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Stefaan Van Damme
Stefaan Van Damme Ghent University

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