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Lorenzo Pia is a researcher affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy focusing primarily on psychology and neuroscience. Their work encompasses a broad range of studies in cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, human-computer interaction, psychiatry and mental health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research topics notably include:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Lorenzo Pia has published extensively in a number of scientific outlets. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • NeuroImage
  • Brain Sciences

The recent papers showcase the diversity of their focus and contribution to the scientific community. Some of these works include:

  • "Visual appearance of the virtual hand affects embodiment in the virtual hand illusion," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Virtual reality rehabilitation for unilateral spatial neglect: A systematic review of immersive, semi-immersive and non-immersive techniques," 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Conversational Therapy through Semi-Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Language Recovery and Psychological Well-Being in Post Stroke Aphasia," 2020, Behavioural Neurology
  • "I'm a believer: Illusory self-generated touch elicits sensory attenuation and somatosensory evoked potentials similar to the real self-touch," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Full body illusion and cognition: A systematic review of the literature," 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Lorenzo Pia's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Maria Pyasik
  • Tommaso Ciorli
  • Francesca Garbarini
  • Olga Dal Monte
  • Dalila Burin

Lorenzo Pia's research spans multiple interconnected domains, focusing on how sensory experiences, particularly those facilitated by virtual reality, relate to cognitive and psychological processes. Their interest in multisensory perception and the neural mechanisms underpinning sensory and motor functions aligns with contemporary trends in experimental psychology and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Shared Cortical Anatomy for Motor Awareness and Motor Control

    A. Berti;G. Bottini;M. Gandola;L. Pia

  • Understanding Intentions in Social Interaction: The Role of the Anterior Paracingulate Cortex

    Henrik Walter;Mauro Adenzato;Angela Ciaramidaro;Ivan Enrici

  • The intentional network: how the brain reads varieties of intentions.

    A. Ciaramidaro;A. Ciaramidaro;M. Adenzato;I. Enrici;S. Erk

  • The anatomy of anosognosia for hemiplegia: a meta-analysis.

    Lorenzo Pia;Marco Neppi-Modona;Raffaella Ricci;Anna Berti

  • Understanding Motor Awareness Through Normal and Pathological Behavior

    Anna Berti;Lorenzo Pia

  • 'Moving' a paralysed hand: bimanual coupling effect in patients with anosognosia for hemiplegia

    Francesca Garbarini;Marco Rabuffetti;Alessandro Piedimonte;Lorenzo Pia

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

    Francesca Garbarini;Carlotta Fossataro;Anna Berti;Patrizia Gindri

  • Are Movements Necessary for the Sense of Body Ownership? Evidence from the Rubber Hand Illusion in Pure Hemiplegic Patients

    Dalila Burin;Alessandro Livelli;Francesca Garbarini;Carlotta Fossataro

  • Modular structure of awareness for sensorimotor disorders: evidence from anosognosia for hemiplegia and anosognosia for hemianaesthesia.

    Lucia Spinazzola;Lorenzo Pia;Alessia Folegatti;Clelia Marchetti

  • Embodiment of an alien hand interferes with intact-hand movements

    Francesca Garbarini;Lorenzo Pia;Alessandro Piedimonte;Marco Rabuffetti

  • Unawareness in schizophrenia: neuropsychological and neuroanatomical findings.

    Lorenzo Pia;Marco Tamietto

  • Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements.

    Dalila Burin;Konstantina Kilteni;Marco Rabuffetti;Mel Slater;Mel Slater

  • Motor awareness and motor intention in anosognosia for hemiplegia

    Annamaria Berti;L Spinazzola;Lorenzo Pia;M. Rabuffetti

  • Mental number line disruption in a right-neglect patient after a left-hemisphere stroke.

    Lorenzo Pia;Luca Latini Corazzini;Alessia Folegatti;Patrizia Gindri

  • Visual appearance of the virtual hand affects embodiment in the virtual hand illusion.

    Maria Pyasik;Gaetano Tieri;Lorenzo Pia

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

    Dalila Burin;Francesca Garbarini;Valentina Bruno;Carlotta Fossataro

  • On the relation between body ownership and sense of agency: A link at the level of sensory-related signals.

    Maria Pyasik;Dalila Burin;Lorenzo Pia

  • That's my hand! Therefore, that's my willed action: How body ownership acts upon conscious awareness of willed actions.

    Dalila Burin;Maria Pyasik;Adriana Salatino;Lorenzo Pia

  • Embodiment of others' hands elicits arousal responses similar to one's own hands.

    Francesca Garbarini;Luca Fornia;Carlotta Fossataro;Lorenzo Pia

  • Abnormal Sense of Agency in Patients with Schizophrenia: Evidence from Bimanual Coupling Paradigm

    Francesca Garbarini;Angela Mastropasqua;Monica Sigaudo;Marco Rabuffetti

  • Pain and body awareness: evidence from brain-damaged patients with delusional body ownership.

    Lorenzo Pia;Francesca Garbarini;Carlotta Fossataro;Luca Fornia

  • Effects of emotional face cueing on line bisection in neglect: a single case study.

    Marco Tamietto;Luca Latini Corazzini;Lorenzo Pia;Marina Zettin

Frequent Co-Authors

Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology
Roberto Cubelli
Roberto Cubelli University of Trento
Giuseppe Vallar
Giuseppe Vallar University of Milano-Bicocca
Francesca Frassinetti
Francesca Frassinetti University of Bologna
Marco Del Giudice
Marco Del Giudice University of New Mexico
Fabrizio Doricchi
Fabrizio Doricchi Sapienza University of Rome
Jon Driver
Jon Driver University College London

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