Publications

Scientific papers

2025

Body ownership alterations in stroke emerge from reduced proprioceptive precision and damage to the frontoparietal network Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity Neuronal responses in the human primary motor cortex coincide with the subjective onset of movement intention in brain-machine interface-mediated actions

2024

An immersive virtual reality tool for assessing left and right unilateral spatial neglect

2023

Bertoni T, Mastria G, Akulenko N, Perrin H, Zbinden B, Bassolino M, Serino A. The self and the Bayesian brain: Testing probabilistic models of body ownership through a self-localization task. Cortex. 2023 Jul 25;167:247-272. von Mohr M, Silva PC, Vagnoni E, Bracher A, Bertoni T, Serino A, Banissy MJ, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A. My social comfort zone: Attachment anxiety shapes peripersonal and interpersonal space. iScience. 2023, 26(2):105955. Mastria G, Scaliti E, Mehring C, Burdet E, Becchio C, Serino A, Akselrod M. Morphology, Connectivity, and Encoding Features of Tactile and Motor Representations of the Fingers in the Human Precentral and Postcentral Gyrus. J Neurosci. 2023, 43(9):1572-158

2022

Serino A, Bockbrader MA, Colachis SC, Solcá M, Bertoni T, Dunlap CF, Eipel K, Ganzer P, Annetta N, Sharma G, Orepic P, Friedenberg D, Sederberg P, Faivre N, Rezai A, Blanke O. What it feels like to move via an intracortical brain computer interface (BMI). Ellena G, Bertoni T, Durand-Ruel M , Thoresen J, Sandi C, Serino A. Acute stress affects peripersonal space representation in cortisol stress responders. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022 142:105790. Wilf M, Dupuis C, Nardo D, Huber D, Sander S, Al-Kaar J, Haroud M, Perrin H, Fornari E, Crottaz-Herbette S, Serino A. Virtual reality-based sensorimotor adaptation shapes subsequent spontaneous and naturalistic stimulus-driven brain activity. Cereb Cortex

2021

Schneider C, Marquis R, Jöhr J, Lopes da Silva M, Ryvlin P, Serino A, De Lucia M, Diserens K. Disentangling the percepts of illusory movement and sensory stimulation during tendon vibration in the EEG. Neuroimage. 2021 Jul 28;241:118431. doi: 10.1016/j.ne Serino S, Trabanelli S, Jandus C, Fellrath J, Grivaz P, Paladino MP, Serino A. Sharpening of peripersonal space during the COVID-19 pandemic. Curr Biol. 2021 Jul 26;31(14):R889-R890. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.001. Ronga I, Galigani M, Bruno V, Noel JP, Gazzin A, Perathoner C, Serino A1, Garbarini F. Spatial tuning of electrophysiological responses to multisensory stimuli reveals a primitive coding of the body boundaries in newborns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 M Masson C, van der Westhuizen D, Noel JP, Prevost A, van Honk J, Fotopoulou A, Solms M, Serino A. Testosterone administration in women increases the size of their peripersonal space. Exp Brain Res. 2021 Mar 26. doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06080-1. Akselrod M, Martuzzi R, van der Zwaag W, Blanke O, Serino A. Relation between palm and finger cortical representations in primary somatosensory cortex: A 7T fMRI study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2021 Feb 23. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25365. Serino A, Pozeg P, Bernasconi F, Solcà M, Hara M, Progin P, Stripeikyte G, Dhanis H, Salomon R, Bleuler H, Rognini G, Blanke O. Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states. iScien Sorrentino G, Franza M, Zuber C, Blanke O, Serino A1,3, Bassolino M. How ageing shapes body and space representations: A comparison study between healthy young and older adults. Cortex. 2021 Mar;136:56-76. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.11.021. Solcà M, Krishna V, Young N, Deogaonkar M, Herbelin B, Orepic P, Mange R, Rognini G, Serino A1,3, Rezai A, Blanke O. Enhancing analgesic spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain with personalized immersive virtual reality. Pain. 2020 Nov 30. doi: 10.1097/

2020

Noel JP, Bertoni T, Terrebonne E, Pellencin E, Herbelin B, Cascio C, Blanke O, Magosso E, Wallace MT, Serino A. Rapid Recalibration of Peri-Personal Space: Psychophysical, Electrophysiological, and Neural Network Modeling Evidence. Cereb Cortex. 2020 May Riva G, Di Lernia D, Serino A1, Serino S. The role of reference frames in memory recollection. Behav Brain Sci. 2020 Jan 3;42:e296. Bréchet L, Hausmann SB, Mange R, Herbelin B, Blanke O, Serino A1,3. Subjective feeling of re-experiencing past events using immersive virtual reality prevents a loss of episodic memory. Brain Behav. 2020 Apr 27:e01571. Salomon R, Progin P, Griffa A, Rognini G, Do KQ, Conus P, Marchesotti S, Bernasconi F, Hagmann P, Serino A1,3, Blanke O. Sensorimotor Induction of Auditory Misattribution in Early Psychosis. Schizophr Bull. 2020 Feb 11:sbz136. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbz136. E Bertoni T, Magosso E, Serino A. From statistical regularities in multisensory inputs to peripersonal space representation and body ownership: insights from a neural network model. European Journal of Neuroscience, Eur J Neurosci. 2020 Sep 23. doi: 10.1111

2019

Serino A. Peripersonal space (PPS) as a multisensory interface between the individual and the environment, defining the space of the self. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2019 Apr;99:138-159. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.01.016. Tonelli A, Campus C, Serino A1,3, Gori M. Enhanced audio-tactile multisensory interaction in a peripersonal task after echolocation. Exp Brain Res. 2019 Jan 7. Bréchet L, Mange R, Herbelin B, Theillaud Q, Gauthier B, Serino A1,3, Blanke O. First-person view of one's body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory. PLoS One. 2019 Mar 7;14(3):e0197763. Noel JP*, Serino A. High Action Values Occur Near Our Body. Trends Cogn Sci. 2019 Apr;23(4):269-270. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.001. Mehring C, Akselrod M, Bashford L, Mace M, Choi H, Blüher M, Buschhoff AS, Pistohl T, Salomon R, Cheah A, Blanke O, Serino A1,3, Burdet. E. Augmented manipulation ability in humans with six-fingered hands. Nature Communications 2019. 10.1038/s41467-019-10 Cardinali L, Serino A1,3, Gori M. Hand size underestimation grows during childhood. Sci Rep. 2019 Sep 13;9(1):13191. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49500-7. Noel JP*, Chatelle C, Perdikis S, Jöhr J, Lopes Da Silva M, Ryvlin P, De Lucia M, Millán JDR, Diserens K, Serino A. Peri-personal space encoding in patients with disorders of consciousness and cognitive-motor dissociation. Neuroimage Clin. 2019 Jul 23;24 Bassolino M*, Bouzerda-Wahlen A, Moix V, Bellmann A, Herbelin B, Serino A+, Blanke O. You or me? Disentangling perspectival, perceptual, and integrative mechanisms in heterotopagnosia. Cortex. 2019 Jun 15;120:212-222.

2018

Franza M, Sorrentino G, Vissani M*, Serino A3, Blanke O, Bassolino M. Hand perceptions induced by single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation over the primary motor cortex. Brain Stimul. 2018 Dec 23. pii: S1935-861X(18)31391-3. (IF=6.7) Noel JP*, Serino A1,3, Wallace MT. Increased Neural Strength and Reliability to Audiovisual Stimuli at the Boundary of Peripersonal Space. J Cogn Neurosci. 2018 Sep 6:1-18. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01334. Perez-Marcos D, Bieler-Aeschlimann M, Serino A. Virtual Reality as a Vehicle to Empower Motor-Cognitive Neurorehabilitation. Front Psychol. 2018 Nov 2;9:2120. Kaliuzhna M, Serino A1,2, Berger S, Blanke O. Differential effects of vestibular processing on orienting exogenous and endogenous covert visual attention. ExpBrain Res. 2019 Feb;237(2):401-410 Solca M, Ronchi R, Bello-Ruiz J, Schmidlin T, Herbelin B, Luthi,F, Konzelmann M, Beaulieu JY, Delaquaize F, Schnider A, Guggisberg A,Serino A1,3, Blanke, O. Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome. Neurology. 2 Rognini G, Petrini FM, Raspopovic S, Valle G, Granata G, Strauss I, Solcà M, Bello-Ruiz J, Herbelin B, Mange R, D'Anna E, Di Iorio R, Di Pino G, Andreu D, Guiraud D, Stieglitz T, Rossini PM, Serino A +, Micera S +, Blanke O +. Multisensory bionic limb to Bernasconi F, Noel JP, Park HD, Faivre N, Seeck M, Spinelli L, Schaller K, Blanke O +, Serino A +. Audio-Tactile and Peripersonal Space Processing Around the Trunk in Human Parietal and Temporal Cortex: An Intracranial EEG Study. Cereb Cortex. 2018 Sep 1; Noel JP*, Blanke O, Serino A. From multisensory integration in peripersonal space to bodily self-consciousness: from statistical regularities to statistical inference. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2018 Jun 6. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13867 Pfeiffer C, Noel JP, Serino A1,3, Blanke O. Vestibular modulation of peripersonal space boundaries. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 Feb 20 Noel JP*, Blanke O, Magosso E, Serino A. Neural Adaptation Accounts for the Dynamic Resizing of Peri-Personal Space: Evidence from a Psychophysical-Computational Approach. J Neurophysiology. 2018 Mar 14. Noel JP*, Park HD, Pasqualini I, Lissek H, Wallace M, Blanke O, Serino A. Audio-visual sensory deprivation degrades visuo-tactile peri- personal space. Conscious Cogn. 2018 May;61:61-75

2017

Grivaz P*, Blanke O+, Serino A+. Common and distinct brain regions processing multisensory bodily signals for peripersonal space and body ownership. Neuroimage. 2017. 147:602-618 Noel JP*, Blanke O, Serino A1,3, Salomon R. Interplay between Narrative and Bodily Self in Access to Consciousness: No Difference between Self- and Non-self Attributes. Front Psychol. 2017 Jan 31;8:72. Zamariola G*, Cardini F*, Mian E, Serino A+, Tsakiris M+. Can you feel the body that you see? On the relationship between interoceptive accuracy and body image, Body Image, 20:130-136 Ronchi R, Heydrich L, Serino A1,3, Blanke O. llusory hand ownership in a patient with personal neglect for the upper limb, but no somatoparaphenia. Journal of Neuropsychology. 2018 Sep;12(3):442-462. Blefari ML, Martuzzi R, Salomon S, Bello-Ruiz J, Herbelin B, Serino A1,3, Blanke O. Bilateral Rolandic Operculum processing underlying heartbeat awareness reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness. European Journal of Neuroscience. In press Akselrod M, Martuzzi R, Serino A, van der Zwaag W, Gassert R, Blanke O. Anatomical and functional properties of the foot and leg representation in areas 3b, 1 and 2 of primary somatosensory cortex in humans: a 7T fMRI study. Neuroimage. 2017 Jun 16. pii: Salomon R, Noel JP, Łukowska M, Faivre N, Metzinger T, Serino A+, Blanke+ O. Unconscious integration of multisensory bodily inputs in the peripersonal space shapes bodily self-consciousness. Cognition. 2017 Sep;166:174-183. Pellencin E*, Paladino MP, Herbelin B, Serino A. Social perception of others shapes one's own multisensory peripersonal space. Cortex. 2017 pii: S0010-9452(17)30290-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.08.033. Serino A, Akselrod M, Salomon R, Martuzzi R, Blefari ML, Canzoneri E, Rognini G, van der Zwaag W, Iakova M, Luthi F, Amoresano S, Kuiken T, Blanke O. Upper limb cortical maps in amputees with targeted muscle and sensory reinnervation: a 7T fMRI study. Bra Perez-Marcos D, Chevalley O, Schmidlin T, Garipelli G, Serino A, Vuadens P, Tadi T, Blanke O, Millán JDR. Increasing upper limb training intensity in chronic stroke using embodied virtual reality: a pilot study. J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2017 Nov 17;14(1):119. Serino A, Noel JP, Mange R, Canzoneri E, Pellencin E, Bello-Ruiz J, Bernasconi F, Blanke O, Herbelin B. Peri-personal space: an index of multisensory body-environment interactions in real, virtual, and mixed realities. 2017. Frontiers in ICT, 4-31.

Book and chapters

Serino A. Peripersonal Space. In: The Routledge handbook of bodily awareness. A.J.T. Alsmith & M.R. Longo (eds). Routledge editions, 2023. De Vignemont F, Wong HY, Farne A. Serino A. The word at our finger tips. Oxford University Press. 2020.

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