Francesca Fardo

Uncovering the embodied dimension of the wandering mind

The paper investigates body-wandering during rest, finding it linked to negative affect, autonomic arousal, and reduced social thoughts, while correlating with lower ADHD and depression symptoms.

Perceiving less or perceiving unreliably? Disentangling thermosensory sensitivity and precision in the contexts of ageing and neuropathy

This study assesses how ageing and diabetic polyneuropathy affect thermosensory sensitivity and precision, finding similar patterns in cold detection but distinct effects on pain-related parameters.

Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Interoceptive Psychophysics

This paper introduces hierarchical Bayesian models for cardiac and respiratory interoceptive psychophysics to estimate sensitivity, bias, and precision with fewer trials or participants.

Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception

The paper identifies brain microstructural correlates of individual differences in respiratory interoception using imaging and psychophysical models in a human sample.

Modelling perceptual uncertainty in a thermosensory illusion across the lifespan

This study models perceptual uncertainty in a thermosensory illusion across age using hierarchical Bayesian modeling, finding that PHS is often an uncertain experience, not a categorical misperception, with individual variability.

Perturbational complexity of cortical responses to thermal pain

This study quantifies the spatio-temporal complexity of EEG responses to thermal pain using PCI, showing sensitivity to temperature, chemical sensitization, and probabilistic stimulus changes.

The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making

The paper investigates how respiratory cycles influence perceptual and affective decision-making by showing inspiration accelerates responses and biases emotional categorization.

Peripheral Beta-Blockade Differentially Enhances Cardiac and Respiratory Interoception

This study investigates how beta-blockers affect cardiac and respiratory interoception using computational modeling, finding differential impacts on perceptual sensitivity and metacognition.

Supramodal and modality-specific neural information supports multi-feature prediction errors across cortical levels

This study investigates how the brain processes multi-feature prediction errors across different cortical levels using EEG and finds supramodal and modality-specific neural responses.

Assessing Individual Sensitivity to the Thermal Grill Illusion: A Two-Dimensional Adaptive Psychophysical Approach

This paper introduces a 2D-TGC protocol to assess individual thermal sensitivity to the thermal grill illusion, showing that TGI can be thresholded adaptively and varies in temperature combinations and perceived intensity.

Disentangling the spinal mechanisms of illusory heat and burning sensations in the Thermal Grill Illusion

The paper investigates how spinal cord organization influences the perception of the Thermal Grill Illusion, finding that spatial arrangement of warm and cold stimuli affects burning sensations.

Thermal Contrast Enhancement Predicts Paradoxical Heat Sensation

The paper applies contrast enhancement principles to thermosensation, showing that thermal contrast predicts paradoxical heat sensation.

Uncertainty in Thermosensory Expectations Enhances an Illusion of Pain

This study shows that uncertainty in thermosensory expectations enhances the perception of pain in the thermal grill illusion through predictive coding mechanisms.

The Respiratory Resistance Sensitivity Task: An Automated Method for Quantifying Respiratory Interoception and Metacognition

This paper introduces an automated method to measure respiratory interoception and metacognition using a computer-controlled apparatus.

The heart rate discrimination task: a psychophysical method to estimate the accuracy and precision of interoceptive beliefs

The paper introduces a psychophysical task to measure cardiac interoceptive beliefs and finds they are biased, less precise, and linked to poorer metacognitive insight.

Emotional Metacognition: Stimulus Valence Modulates Cardiac Arousal and Metamemory

This study investigates how stimulus valence and arousal affect memory performance and metamemory, finding that negative valence reduces memory and confidence, and influences cardiac activity during recognition.