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Marcello Costantini

Marcello Costantini

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
6322
World Ranking
8534
National Ranking
466

Overview

Marcello Costantini is affiliated with the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines within neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, focusing particularly on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their recent scholarly contributions include several peer-reviewed articles:

  • Brain-heart interactions are modulated across the respiratory cycle via interoceptive attention, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Body-environment integration: Temporal processing of tactile and auditory inputs along the schizophrenia continuum, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Temporal binding window and sense of agency are related processes modifiable via occipital tACS, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Attention to cardiac sensations enhances the heartbeat-evoked potential during exhalation, 2024, iScience
  • Visual similarity and psychological closeness are neurally dissociable in the brain response to vicarious pain, 2020, Cortex

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Costantini include:

  • Francesca Ferri
  • Mauro Gianni Perrucci
  • Andrea Zaccaro
  • Eleonora Parrotta
  • Giulio Di Cosmo

Costantini has published in venues with recurring appearances such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, NeuroImage, iScience, and Biological Psychology.

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Subfields within these areas include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Key research topics addressed by Costantini involve:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Best Publications

  • Just a heartbeat away from one's body: interoceptive sensitivity predicts malleability of body-representations

    Manos Tsakiris;Ana Tajadura Jiménez;Marcello Costantini

  • The rubber hand illusion: sensitivity and reference frame for body ownership.

    Marcello Costantini;Patrick Haggard

  • The role of the right temporo-parietal junction in maintaining a coherent sense of one's body

    Manos Tsakiris;Marcello Costantini;Patrick Haggard

  • Where does an object trigger an action? An investigation about affordances in space.

    Marcello Costantini;Ettore Ambrosini;Gaetano Tieri;Corrado Sinigaglia

  • Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

    Andrea Serino;Adrian Alsmith;Marcello Costantini;Alisa Mandrigin

  • Neural Systems Underlying Observation of Humanly Impossible Movements: An fMRI Study

    Marcello Costantini;Gaspare Galati;Antonio Ferretti;Massimo Caulo

  • The space of affordances: A TMS study

    Pasquale Cardellicchio;Corrado Sinigaglia;Marcello Costantini

  • When objects are close to me: Affordances in the peripersonal space

    Marcello Costantini;Ettore Ambrosini;Claudia Scorolli;Anna M. Borghi;Anna M. Borghi

  • Looking Ahead: Anticipatory Gaze and Motor Ability in Infancy

    Ettore Ambrosini;Vasudevi Reddy;Annette de Looper;Marcello Costantini

  • Ready both to your and to my hands: mapping the action space of others.

    Marcello Costantini;Giorgia Committeri;Corrado Sinigaglia

  • A sensorimotor network for the bodily self

    Francesca Ferri;Francesca Frassinetti;Martina Ardizzi;Marcello Costantini

  • Emotion-inducing approaching sounds shape the boundaries of multisensory peripersonal space

    Francesca Ferri;Ana Tajadura-Jiménez;Aleksander Väljamäe;Roberta Vastano

  • Grasping with the eyes.

    Ettore Ambrosini;Marcello Costantini;Corrado Sinigaglia

  • Temporal limits on rubber hand illusion reflect individuals' temporal resolution in multisensory perception.

    Marcello Costantini;Marcello Costantini;Jeffrey Robinson;Daniele Migliorati;Brunella Donno

  • The body beyond the body: expectation of a sensory event is enough to induce ownership over a fake hand.

    Francesca Ferri;Antonio Maria Chiarelli;Arcangelo Merla;Vittorio Gallese

  • Tool-use observation makes far objects ready-to-hand

    Marcello Costantini;Ettore Ambrosini;Corrado Sinigaglia;Vittorio Gallese;Vittorio Gallese

  • Grasping affordances with the other's hand: a TMS study.

    Pasquale Cardellicchio;Corrado Sinigaglia;Marcello Costantini

  • Viewing one's own face being touched modulates tactile perception: An fmri study

    Flavia Cardini;Marcello Costantini;Gaspare Galati;Gian Luca Romani

  • Action perception as hypothesis testing

    Francesco Donnarumma;Marcello Costantini;Ettore Ambrosini;Karl Friston

  • Tie my hands, tie my eyes.

    Ettore Ambrosini;Corrado Sinigaglia;Marcello Costantini

Frequent Co-Authors

Vittorio Gallese
Vittorio Gallese University of Parma
Gian Luca Romani
Gian Luca Romani University of Chieti-Pescara
Gaspare Galati
Gaspare Galati Sapienza University of Rome
Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Salvatore Maria Aglioti Sapienza University of Rome
Giorgia Committeri
Giorgia Committeri University of Chieti-Pescara
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
Anna M. Borghi
Anna M. Borghi Sapienza University of Rome
Francesca Frassinetti
Francesca Frassinetti University of Bologna
Giovanni Martinotti
Giovanni Martinotti University of Chieti-Pescara
Antonio Ferretti
Antonio Ferretti University of Chieti-Pescara

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