2011-2012

Azevedo RT, Macaluso E, Avenanti A, Santangelo V, Cazzato V, Aglioti SM (2012). Their pain is not Our pain: Brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals. Human Brain Mapping, in press.

Borgomaneri S, Gazzola V, Avenanti A (2012). Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language. Brain Stimulation, in press.

Avenanti A Annella L, Candidi M, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM (2012). Compensatory plasticity in the action observation network: virtual lesions of STS enhance anticipatory simulation of seen actions. Cerebral Cortex, in press.

Avenanti A, Coccia M, Ladavas E, Provinciali L, Ceravolo MG (2012). Low-frequency rTMS promotes use-dependent motor plasticity in chronic stroke: a randomized trial. Neurology 78, 256-264. Cover and In Focus mention

Urgesi C, Avenanti A (2011). Functional and epiphenomenal modulation of neural activity in body selective visual areas. Cognitive Neuroscience 2, 212-214.

Avenanti A, Urgesi C (2011). Understanding “what” others do: mirror mechanisms play a crucial role in action perception. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 6, 257-259.

Serino A, Canzoneri E, Avenanti A (2011). Fronto-parietal areas necessary for a multisensory representation of peripersonal space in humans: an rTMS study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience23, 2956-2967.

2009-2010

Avenanti A, Sirigu A, Aglioti SM (2010). Racial bias reduces empathic sensorimotor resonance with other-race pain. Current Biology 20, 1018-1022. Comments In: Chiao JY, Mathur VA (2010). Intergroup empathy: how does race affect empathic neural responses? Current Biology 20, R478-R480.

Bertini, C, Leo F, Avenanti A, Ladavas E (2010). Independent mechanisms for ventriloquism and multisensory integration as revealed by theta-burst stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience 31 1791-1799.

Urgesi C, Maieron M, Avenanti A, Tidoni E, Fabbro F, Aglioti SM (2010). Simulating the future of actions in the human corticospinal system. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 2511-2521.

Serino A, Annella L, Avenanti A (2009). Motor properties of peripersonal space in humans. PLoS One 4, e6582.

Avenanti A, Minio-Paluello I, Sforza A, Aglioti SM (2009). Freezing or escaping? Opposite modulations of empathic reactivity to the pain of others. Cortex 45, 1072-1077.

Schütz-Bosbach S, Avenanti A, Aglioti SM, Haggard P (2009). Don't do it! Cortical inhibition and self-attribution during action observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21, 1215-1227.

Minio-Paluello I, Baron-Cohen S, Avenanti A, Walsh V, Aglioti SM (2009). Absence of embodied empathy during pain observation in Asperger Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 65, 55-62.

Avenanti A, Minio-Paluello I, Bufalari I, Aglioti SM (2009). The pain of a model in the personality of an onlooker: influence of state-reactivity and personality traits on embodied empathy for pain. NeuroImage 44, 275-283.

2007-2008

Urgesi C, Maieron M, Avenanti A, Fabbro F, Aglioti SM (2008). Anticipatory simulation of implied actions in the human motor system. Brain Stimulation 1, 253-254.

Fourkas AD, Bonavolontà V, Avenanti A, Aglioti SM (2008). Kinaesthetic imagery and tool-specific modulation of corticospinal representations in expert tennis players. Cerebral Cortex 18, 2382-2390.

Valeriani M, Betti V, Le Pera D, De Armas L, Miliucci R, Restuccia D, Avenanti A, Aglioti SM (2008). Seeing the pain of others while being in pain: a laser evoked potentials study. NeuroImage 40, 1419-1428.

Avenanti A, Bolognini N, Maravita A, Aglioti SM (2007). Somatic and motor components of action simulation. Current Biology 17, 2129-2135.

Bufalari I, Aprile T, Avenanti A, Di Russo F, Aglioti SM (2007). Empathy for pain and touch in the human somatosensory cortex. Cerebral Cortex 17, 2553-2561.

Avenanti A, Aglioti SM (2007). Il versante sensorimotorio dell’empatia per il dolore. In: Mancia M. (ed.) Psicoanalisi e Neuroscienze. Milan, Springer-Verlag Italia, 249-271 (in Italian).

Avenanti A (2007). Pain in the absence of nociception: example from empathy. Douleurs 8, 1S21-1S22.

2005-2006

Minio-Paluello I, Avenanti A, Aglioti SM (2006). Left hemisphere dominance in reading the sensory qualities of others’ pain? Social Neuroscience 1, 320-333.

Avenanti A, Minio-Paluello I, Bufalari I, Aglioti SM (2006). Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain. Neuroimage 32, 316-324.

Fourkas AD, Avenanti A, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM (2006). Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery. Experimental Brain Research 168, 143-151.

Avenanti A, Aglioti SM (2006). The sensorimotor side of empathy. In: Mancia M. (ed.) Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. Milan: Springer-Verlag Italia, 235-256.

Avenanti A, Aglioti SM (2006). Il tuo dolore nel mio sistema motorio. Uno studio di stimolazione magnetica transcranica. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 33, 151-166 (in Italian).

Aglioti SM, Avenanti A (2006). Risonanze e imitazioni. Mente & Cervello 23, 80-89 (in Italian).

Avenanti A (2006). Empatia e percezione del dolore. DiPAV - quaderni 15, 123-146 (in Italian).

Aglioti SM, Avenanti A, Betti V (2006). Correlati neurofisiologici dell’empatia per il dolore. XXXII seminario sulla Evoluzione biologica e i grandi problemi della Biologia sul tema "Neurobiologia della coscienza". Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, Italia, 135-153 (in Italian).

Avenanti A, Bueti D, Galati G, Aglioti SM (2005). Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain. Nature Neuroscience 8, 955-960. Comments In: Singer T, Frith C (2005) The painful side of empathy. Nature Neuroscience 8, 845-846.