Publications de Michela Bassolino

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation restores upper limb sensory-motor functions and body representations in chronic stroke survivors

Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Maria Colombo

2022

Body and peripersonal space representations in chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor deficits

Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza

The continuous stream of multisensory information between the brain and the body during body-environment interactions is crucial to maintain the updated representation of the perceived dimensions of body parts (metric body representation) and the space aro ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Robot-induced hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease depend on altered sensorimotor processing in fronto-temporal network

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Olaf Blanke, Michel Akselrod, Masayuki Hara, Giulio Rognini, Eva Blondiaux, Stéphanie Konik, Michela Bassolino, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Fosco Bernasconi, Matteo Franza, Jevita Potheegadoo, Giedre Stripeikyte

Hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are disturbing and frequent non-motor symptoms and constitute a major risk factor for psychosis and dementia. We report a robotics-based approach applying conflicting sensorimotor stimulation, enabling the inducti ...

2021

How ageing shapes body and space representations: A comparison study between healthy young and older adults

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza, Giuliana Sorrentino, Charlène Zuber

To efficiently interact with the external world, the brain needs to represent the size of the involved body parts - body representations (BR) - and the space around the body in which the interactions with the environment take place - peripersonal space rep ...

2020

Disownership of body parts as revealed by a visual scale evaluation. An observational study

Dragana Viceic, Olaf Blanke, Roberta Ronchi, Michela Bassolino, Giuseppe Vallar

The disownership of body parts, that most frequently occurs on the left side of the body, contralateral to right-hemispheric lesions, is an infrequent disorder, as usually assessed by interviews asking for dichotomic "yes/no" responses. This observational ...

2020

Effect of tool-use observation on metric body representation and peripersonal space

Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza

In everyday life, we constantly act and interact with objects and with others' people through our body. To properly perform actions, the representations of the dimension of body-parts (metric body representation, BR) and of the space surrounding the body ( ...

2020

Hand perceptions induced by single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation over the primary motor cortex

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza, Giuliana Sorrentino, Matteo Vissani

Background When single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is applied over the primary motor cortex (M1) with sufficient intensity, it evokes muscular contractions (motor-evoked potentials, MEPs) and muscle twitches (TMS-evoked movements). Partic ...

2019

You or me? Disentangling perspectival, perceptual, and integrative mechanisms in heterotopagnosia

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Aurélie Bouzerda-Wahlen

Heterotopagnosia-without-Autotopagnosia (HwA) is characterized by the incapacity to point to body parts on others, but not on one's own body. This has been classically interpreted as related to a self-other distinction, with impaired visual representations ...

2019

Ipsilesional functional recruitment within lower mu band in children with unilateral cerebral palsy, an event-related desynchronization study

Michela Bassolino

2018

Boosting Action Observation and Motor Imagery to Promote Plasticity and Learning

Michela Bassolino

HINDAWI LTD2018

Quantifying the role of motor imagery in brain-machine interfaces

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Silvia Marchesotti, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino

Despite technical advances in brain machine interfaces (BMI), for as-yet unknown reasons the ability to control a BMI remains limited to a subset of users. We investigate whether individual differences in BMI control based on motor imagery (MI) are related ...

Nature Research2016

Moving sounds within the peripersonal space modulate the motor system

Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Michela Bassolino

Interactions between ourselves and the external world are mediated by a multisensory representation of the space surrounding the body, i.e. the peripersonal space (PPS). In particular, a special interplay is observed among tactile stimuli delivered on a bo ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Activating the motor system through action observation: is this an efficient approach in adults and children?

Michela Bassolino

Observing an action performed by another person to learn a new movement is a frequent experience in adult daily life, such as in sports. However, it is an especially common circumstance during the development of motor skills in childhood. Studies on health ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Dissociating effect of upper limb non-use and overuse on space and body representations

Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Michela Bassolino

Accurate and updated representations of the space where the body acts, i.e. the peripersonal space (PPS), and the location and dimension of body parts (body representation, BR) are essential to perform actions. Because both PPS and BR are involved in motor ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Generalization of motor resonance during the observation of hand, mouth, and eye movements

Michela Bassolino

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the motor cortex shows that hand action observation (AO) modulates corticospinal excitability (CSE). CSE modulation alternatively maps low-level kinematic characteristics or higher-level features, like object-dire ...

Amer Physiological Soc2015

Tool-use reshapes the boundaries of body and peripersonal space representations

Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Michela Bassolino

Springer, Springer-Verlag2013