Maria Serena Panasiti

Deep-body feelings: ingestible pills reveal gastric correlates of emotions

This study uses ingestible pills to measure GI tract physiology during emotional video exposure, finding links between gastric pH and reported emotions like disgust and happiness.

The thermoception task: a thermal-imaging based procedure for measuring awareness of changes in peripheral body temperature

The paper introduces a thermal-imaging based task to measure awareness of peripheral body temperature changes and compares it to cardiac interoception, finding distinct contributions and associations with emotional regulation.

Reputation risk during dishonest social decision-making modulates anterior insular and cingulate cortex activity and connectivity

The paper investigates neural activity and connectivity during dishonest decision-making under reputation risk, finding increased involvement of ACC and AI in immoral decisions.