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Salvatore Maria Aglioti

Salvatore Maria Aglioti

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Psychology
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
91
Citations
28497
World Ranking
1071
National Ranking
33

Psychology

D-Index
91
Citations
28337
World Ranking
924
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Salvatore Maria Aglioti is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. The main fields of study for this researcher are Psychology and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology as subfields. Their work spans other areas including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The research topics frequently addressed by Aglioti include:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Aglioti has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • iScience
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Psychological Research

Some recent papers by Aglioti include:

  • Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries, 2024, Science Advances
  • The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology, 2021, Psychological Research
  • Midline frontal and occipito-temporal activity during error monitoring in dyadic motor interactions, 2020, Cortex
  • Visuo-motor and interoceptive influences on peripersonal space representation following spinal cord injury, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Heterosexual, gay, and lesbian people's reactivity to virtual caresses on their embodied avatars' taboo zones, 2021, Scientific Reports

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Aglioti's research output. Frequent coauthors include Maria Serena Panasiti, Giuseppina Porciello, Vanessa Era, Gaetano Tieri, and Martina Fusaro, each with numerous joint publications.

Aglioti is recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Size-contrast illusions deceive the eye but not the hand

    Salvatore Aglioti;Joseph F.X. DeSouza;Melvyn A. Goodale

  • Action anticipation and motor resonance in elite basketball players

    Salvatore M Aglioti;Paola Cesari;Michela Romani;Cosimo Urgesi

  • Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias

    Tabitha C. Peck;Sofia Seinfeld;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Mel Slater

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

    Alessio Avenanti;Domenica Bueti;Gaspare Galati;Salvatore M Aglioti

  • The body in the brain: neural bases of corporeal awareness.

    Giovanni Berlucchi;Salvatore Aglioti

  • Racial Bias Reduces Empathic Sensorimotor Resonance with Other-Race Pain

    Alessio Avenanti;Angela Sirigu;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • The body in the brain revisited

    Giovanni Berlucchi;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Empathy for Pain and Touch in the Human Somatosensory Cortex

    Ilaria Bufalari;Taryn Aprile;Alessio Avenanti;Francesco Di Russo

  • Mapping Implied Body Actions in the Human Motor System

    Cosimo Urgesi;Valentina Moro;Matteo Candidi;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Their pain is not our pain: Brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals

    Ruben T. Azevedo;Emiliano Macaluso;Alessio Avenanti;Valerio Santangelo

  • Representation of body identity and body actions in extrastriate body area and ventral premotor cortex

    Cosimo Urgesi;Matteo Candidi;Silvio Ionta;Salvatore M Aglioti

  • Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain.

    Alessio Avenanti;Ilaria Minio-Paluello;Ilaria Bufalari;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • Pathological switching between languages after frontal lesions in a bilingual patient

    Franco Fabbro;Miran Skrap;Salvatore Aglioti

  • Neural underpinnings of gesture discrimination in patients with limb apraxia.

    Mariella Pazzaglia;Nicola Smania;Elisabetta Corato;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • My face in yours: Visuo-tactile facial stimulation influences sense of identity.

    Anna Sforza;Ilaria Bufalari;Patrick Haggard;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain

    Matthew R. Longo;Viviana Betti;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Patrick Haggard

  • Somatic and Motor Components of Action Simulation

    Alessio Avenanti;Nadia Bolognini;Angelo Maravita;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • The spiritual brain: selective cortical lesions modulate human self-transcendence

    Cosimo Urgesi;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Miran Skrap;Franco Fabbro

  • Simulating the Future of Actions in the Human Corticospinal System

    Cosimo Urgesi;Marta Maieron;Alessio Avenanti;Emmanuele Tidoni

  • My eyes want to look where your eyes are looking: exploring the tendency to imitate another individual's gaze.

    Paola Ricciardelli;Emanuela Bricolo;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Leonardo Chelazzi

  • Distribution in the visual field of the costs of voluntarily allocated attention and of the inhibitory after-effects of covert orienting.

    Giancarlo Tassinari;S. Aglioti;Leonardo Chelazzi;Carlo Alberto Marzi

  • Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias consciousness and cognition

    Tabitha C. Peck;Sofia Seinfeld;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Mel Slater

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Berlucchi
Giovanni Berlucchi University of Verona
Cosimo Urgesi
Cosimo Urgesi University of Udine
Alessio Avenanti
Alessio Avenanti University of Bologna
Michele Tinazzi
Michele Tinazzi University of Verona
Antonio Fiaschi
Antonio Fiaschi University of Verona
Franco Fabbro
Franco Fabbro University of Udine
Emiliano Macaluso
Emiliano Macaluso Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Leonardo Chelazzi
Leonardo Chelazzi University of Verona
Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Gian Vittorio Caprara
Gian Vittorio Caprara Sapienza University of Rome

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