Marcello Costantini

Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency.

This study shows that false cardiac feedback can alter pain perception and anticipatory heart rate, demonstrating the role of interoceptive inference in shaping both perception and physiological responses.

Breathing strategies to influence perception: Evidence for interoceptive and exteroceptive active sensing

This study shows that humans adjust breathing during interoceptive and exteroceptive tasks, with better performance during exhalation.

Cardio-respiratory interactions in interoceptive perception: The role of heartbeat-modulated cortical oscillations

The paper examines cardio-respiratory interactions in interoceptive perception by analyzing heartbeat-modulated cortical oscillations during cardiac and exteroceptive tasks.

Respiration facilitates behaviour during multisensory integration

This study examines how respiration affects reaction times and multisensory integration during a detection task, finding that response timing aligns with respiratory phases and that multisensory integration is strongest during the expiration-to-inspiration transition.

The interplay between focus of attention, respiratory phases, and the Heartbeat Evoked Potential

This study investigates how HEP amplitude relates to attention and respiration during interoceptive and exteroceptive tasks, finding exhalation drives HEP increases during cardiac attention.

Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: illusory perception of heartbeat is induced by pain expectation.

This study shows that expecting pain increases perceived heart rate, even when actual heart rate does not change, revealing an interoceptive illusion driven by threat expectations.

Brain-heart interactions are optimized across the respiratory cycle via interoceptive attention

The paper investigates how respiration modulates cardiac interoception by analyzing HEP amplitude during inhalation and exhalation in two studies with healthy humans.

Cortical Silent Period reflects individual differences in action stopping performance.

The paper examines the relationship between cortical silent period (CSP) length and stop signal reaction time (SSRT) to assess how individual differences in intracortical inhibition relate to inhibitory control performance.

The impact of body posture on intrinsic brain activity: the role of beta power at rest

This study examines how body posture affects intrinsic brain activity, finding increased beta power in the left inferior frontal gyrus when hands are tied behind the back compared to a free hands condition.