Laura Crucianelli

This study finds a positive correlation between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and occipital cortical thickness in congenitally blind individuals.

This study finds that blind individuals have better accuracy in detecting their heartbeat compared to sighted controls, suggesting enhanced cardiac interoception due to visual deprivation.

The paper shows that individual tactile pleasantness follows a velocity-dependent quadratic function across skin types, with stability and trait-like characteristics.

The paper investigates thermosensation across different skin types and interoceptive sub-modalities, finding higher thermosensitivity on hairy skin and no significant relationships between modalities.

This study investigates tactile anhedonia in women with and recovered from Anorexia Nervosa, finding it persists as a trait and is linked to top-down anticipation rather than bottom-up interoceptive deficits.

This study shows that right insula damage affects the perception of pleasant touch, with posterior lesions reducing contralateral sensitivity and anterior lesions reducing ipsilateral sensitivity.

This study investigates whether affective touch can enhance body ownership in patients with right hemisphere stroke by examining its impact on limb ownership and neural correlates.

This study investigates how visual observation of a mannequin body influences subjective embodiment, finding that it can induce embodiment independently of visuotactile integration.

This study investigates how intranasal oxytocin affects multisensory integration in bodily illusions, finding it enhances ownership in the rubber hand illusion and alters the size-weight illusion.

This study investigates how affective congruency between visual and tactile stimuli influences the rubber hand illusion, finding that congruency enhances embodiment compared to uncertainty or incongruency.