Exploring divergent kinematics in autism across social and non-social vitality forms G. Di Cesare, R. Bruschetta, A. Vitale, A. Pelosi, E. Leonardi, F. I. Famà, M. Mastrogiuseppe, C. Carrozza, S. Aiello, A. Campisi, R. Minutoli, P. Chilà, S. Campisi, F. Marino, G. Pioggia, G. Tartarisco, V. Cuccio & L. Ruta
Scientific Reports, 2024, DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-74232-8
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Two distinct networks for encoding goals and forms of action: An effective connectivity study Di Cesare, G., Lombardi, G., Zeidman, P., Urgen, B. A., Sciutti, A., Friston, K. J., & Rizzolatti, G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024, DOI 10.1073/pnas.2402282121
Humanoid facial expressions as a tool to study human behaviour Lombardi G, Sciutti A, Rea F, Vannucci F, Di Cesare G
Scientific Reports, 2024, DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-45825-6
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2021
Affective Contagion: How Attitudes Expressed by Others Influence Our Perception of Actions Giuseppe Di Cesare, Annalisa Pelosi, Silvia Maria Aresta, Giada Lombardi, Alessandra Sciutti
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021, DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2021.712550
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The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: a mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms Giuseppe Di Cesare, Massimo Marchi, Giada Lombardi, Marzio Gerbella, Alessandra Sciutti, Giacomo Rizzolatti
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021, DOI 10.1073/pnas.2111358118
2020
The neural bases of vitality forms Giuseppe Di Cesare, Marzio Gerbella, Giacomo Rizzolatti
National Science Review, 7: 202–213, 2020, DOI 10.1093/nsr/nwz187
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2019
Understanding the attitude of others by hearing action sounds: the role of the insula Di Cesare, G., Marchi, M., Pinardi, C., & Rizzolatti, G.
Scientific Reports, 2019, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50609-y
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2018
Insula Connections With the Parieto-Frontal Circuit for Generating Arm Actions in Humans and Macaque Monkeys Giuseppe Di Cesare, Chiara Pinardi, Cecilia Carapelli, Fausto Caruana, Massimo Marchi, Marzio Gerbella and Giacomo Rizzolatti
Cerebral Cortex, 2018; 1–8
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2017
Differences in action style recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders Di Cesare, G., Sparaci, L., Pelosi, A., Mazzone, L., Giovagnoli, G., Menghini, D., Vicari, S.
Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1456. 2017
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2015
Expressing our internal states and understanding those of others Giuseppe Di Cesare, Cinzia Di Dio, Massimo Marchi, and Giacomo Rizzolatti
PNAS, 6 June 2015
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2014
The neural correlates of 'vitality form' recognition: an fMRI study: this work is dedicated to Daniel Stern, whose immeasurable contribution to science has inspired our research Giuseppe Di Cesare, Cinzia Di Dio, Magali J Rochat, Corrado Sinigaglia, Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Daniel N Stern, Giacomo Rizzolatti
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 9(7), 951-960.
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