Some publications from Vitality Lab

• 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 [PDF]
• Communicative and affective components in processing auditory vitality forms: An fMRI study
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Valentina Cuccio, Massimo Marchi, Alessandra Sciutti, Giacomo Rizzolatti
  Cerebral Cortex, 2021, DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhab255
• The influence of vitality forms on action perception and motor response
  Giada Lombardi, Jacopo Zenzeri, Giulia Belgiovine, Fabio Vannucci, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Giuseppe Di Cesare
  Scientific Reports, 2021, DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-01924-w [PDF]
• 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
• The neural bases of tactile vitality forms and their modulation by social context
  Giacomo Rizzolatti, D'Alessio A., Massimo Marchi, Giuseppe Di Cesare
  Scientific Reports, vol. 11, (no. 1), 2021, DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-87919-z [PDF]
• How attitudes generated by humanoid robots shape human brain activity
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Fabio Vannucci, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Giulio Sandini
  Scientific Reports, 2020, DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-73728-3
• The Importance of the Affective Component of Movement in Action Understanding
  Giuseppe Di Cesare
  Modelling Human Motion, Publisher: Springer, Cham, 2020, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-46732-6_6
• 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 [PDF]
• How attitudes generated by humanoid robots shape human brain activity
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Fabio Vannucci, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti
  Scientific Reports, (2020) 10:16928, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73728-3 [PDF]
• A robot with style: can robotic attitudes influence human actions?
  Fabio Vannucci, Giuseppe Di Cesare, Francesco Rea, Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti
  Humanoids (Bejing, 2018). Conference Paper [submitted] [PDF]
• 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 [PDF abstract and biblio]
• Vitality Forms Expressed by Others Modulate Our Own Motor Response: A Kinematic Study
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Elisa De Stefani, Maurizio Gentilucci and Doriana De Marco
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 22 November 2017 [PDF]
• Differences in Action Style Recognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Laura Sparaci, Annalisa Pelosi, Luigi Mazzone, Giulia Giovagnoli, Deny Menghini, Emanuele Ruffaldi and Stefano Vicari
  Frontiers in Psychology, September 2017, Volume 8, Article 1456 [PDF]
• Language for action: Motor resonance during the processing of human and robotic voices
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Antonino Errante, Massimo Marchi and Valentina Cuccio
  Brain and Cognition 118 (2017) 118–127 [PDF]
• Mirroring the Social Aspects of Speech and Actions: The Role of the Insula
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Massimo Marchi, Antonino Errante, Fabrizio Fasano and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  Cerebral Cortex, 2017; 1–10 [PDF]
• Understanding the internal states of others by listening to action verbs
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Fabrizio Fasano, Antonino Errante, Massimo Marchi and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  NeuroPsychologia 89 (2016) 172-179 [PDF]
• Vitality Forms Processing in the Insula during Action Observation: A Multivoxel Pattern Analysis
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Giancarlo Valente, Cinzia Di Dio, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Massimo Bergamasco, Rainer Goebel and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 09 June 2016 [PDF]
• Human, Nature, Dynamism: The Effects of Content and Movement Perception on Brain Activations during the Aesthetic Judgment of Representational Paintings
  Cinzia Di Dio, Martina Ardizzi, Davide Massaro, Giuseppe Di Cesare, Gabriella Gilli, Antonella Marchetti and Vittorio Gallese
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12 January 2016 [PDF]
• Expressing our internal states and understanding those of others
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Cinzia Di Dio, Massimo Marchi, and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  PNAS, 6 June 2015 [PDF]
• The neural correlates of vitality form recognition: an fMRI study
  Giuseppe Di Cesare, Cinzia Di Dio, Magali J. Rochat, Corrado Sinigaglia, Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Daniel N. Stern and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Advance Access, June 17, 2013 [PDF]
• The neural correlates of velocity processing during the observation of a biological effector in the parietal and premotor cortex
  Cinzia Di Dio, Giuseppe Di Cesare, Satomi Higuchi, Neil Roberts, Stefan Vogt and Giacomo Rizzolatti
  NeuroImage 64 (2013) 425–436 [PDF]