Gianluca Saetta

Real Bodies Not Required? Placebo Analgesia and Pain Perception in Immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality

This study shows that a virtual placebo can induce analgesia comparable to a physical placebo, suggesting that physical interaction is not necessary for placebo effects in pain management.

The monologue of the double: allocentric reduplication of the own voice alters bodily self perception

The paper investigates if listening to one's own voice from an allocentric perspective can induce a sense of an auditory double and alter spatial self-perception.

Limb apparent motion perception: modification by tDCS, and clinically or experimentally altered bodily states

This study investigates how sensorimotor states affect limb apparent motion perception, finding that changes in these states influence the perception of physically possible versus impossible movements.