Dr. V. (Valeria) Gazzola
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Brain and Cognition
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
- Room number: 0.09
Postal address
- Postbus 15915
1001 NK Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
2023
Fornari, L., Ioumpa, K., Nostro, A. D., Evans, N. J., De Angelis, L., Speer, S. P. H., Paracampo, R., Gallo, S., Spezio, M., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2023). Neuro-computational mechanisms and individual biases in action-outcome learning under moral conflict. Nature Communications, 14, Article 1218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36807-3 [details]- Speer, S. P. H., Keysers, C., Campdepadrós Barrios, J., Teurlings, C. J. S., Smidts, A., Boksem, M. A. S., Wager, T. D., & Gazzola, V. (2023). A multivariate brain signature for reward. NeuroImage, 271, Article 119990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119990 [details]
2022
- Caspar, E. A., Ioumpa, K., Arnaldo, I., Di Angelis, L., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2022). Commanding or Being a Simple Intermediary: How Does It Affect Moral Behavior and Related Brain Mechanisms? eNeuro, 9(5). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0508-21.2022 [details]
- Cerliani, L., Bhandari, R., De Angelis, L., van der Zwaag, W., Bazin, P-L., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2022). Predictive coding during action observation - A depth-resolved intersubject functional correlation study at 7T. Cortex, 148, 121-138. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.12.008 [details]
- Keysers, C., Knapska, E., Moita, M. A., & Gazzola, V. (2022). Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(8), 688-706. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.05.005 [details]
- Soyman, E., Bruls, R., Ioumpa, K., Müller-Pinzler, L., Gallo, S., Qin, C., van Straaten, E. C. W., Self, M. W., Peters, J. C., Possel, J. K., Onuki, Y., Baayen, J. C., Idema, S., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2022). Intracranial human recordings reveal association between neural activity and perceived intensity for the pain of others in the insula. eLife, 11, Article e75197. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75197 [details]
2021
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2021). Emotional contagion: Improving survival by preparing for socially sensed threats. Current Biology, 31(11), R728-R730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.100 [details]
- Paradiso, E., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2021). Neural mechanisms necessary for empathy-related phenomena across species. Current opinion in neurobiology, 68, 107-115. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.02.005 [details]
2020
- Bhandari, R., Kirilina, E., Caan, M., Suttrup, J., De Sanctis, T., De Angelis, L., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2020). Does higher sampling rate (multiband + SENSE) improve group statistics - An example from social neuroscience block design at 3T. NeuroImage, 213, Article 116731. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116731 [details]
- Borja Jimenez, K. C., Abdelgabar, A. R., De Angelis, L., McKay, L. S., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2020). Changes in brain activity following the voluntary control of empathy. NeuroImage, 216, Article 116529. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116529 [details]
- Caspar, E. A., Ioumpa, K., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2020). Obeying orders reduces vicarious brain activation towards victims' pain. NeuroImage, 222, Article 117251. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117251 [details]
- Gallo, S., Baaijen Thijs, J., Suttrup, J., Fernandes-Henriques, C., Paracampo, R., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2020). Bayesian statistics show a lack of change in excitability following bi-hemispheric HD-TDCS over the primary somatosensory cortices. Brain Stimulation, 13(3), 640-642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2020.02.009 [details]
- Han, Y., Sichterman, B., Carrillo, M., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2020). Similar levels of emotional contagion in male and female rats. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 2763. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59680-2 [details]
- Hernandez-Lallement, J., Attah, A. T., Soyman, E., Pinhal, C. M., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2020). Harm to Others Acts as a Negative Reinforcer in Rats. Current Biology, 30(6), 949-961, e1-e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.017 [details]
- Keysers, C., Gazzola, V., & Wagenmakers, E-J. (2020). Author Correction: Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence. Nature Neuroscience, 23(11), 1453. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-00710-7
- Keysers, C., Gazzola, V., & Wagenmakers, E-J. (2020). Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence. Nature Neuroscience, 23(7), 788-799. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0660-4 [details]
2019
- Abdelgabar, A. R., Suttrup, J., Broersen, R., Bhandari, R., Picard, S., Keysers, C., De Zeeuw, C. I., & Gazzola, V. (2019). Action perception recruits the cerebellum and is impaired in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia. Brain, 142(12), 3791-3805. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz337 [details]
- Carrillo, M., Han, Y., Migliorati, F., Liu, M., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2019). Correction to: Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat's Anterior Cingulate Cortex. Current Biology, 29(12), 2104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.064
- Carrillo, M., Han, Y., Migliorati, F., Liu, M., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2019). Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat's Anterior Cingulate Cortex. Current Biology, 29(8), 1301-1312.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.024 [details]
- Han, Y., Bruls, R., Soyman, E., Thomas, R. M., Pentaraki, V., Jelinek, N., Heinemans, M., Bassez, I., Verschooren, S., Pruis, I., Van Lierde, T., Carrillo, N., Gazzola, V., Carrillo, M., & Keysers, C. (2019). Bidirectional cingulate-dependent danger information transfer across rats. PLoS Biology, 17(12), Article e3000524. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000524 [details]
- Kompier, N. F., Keysers, C., Gazzola, V., Lucassen, P. J., & Krugers, H. J. (2019). Early Life Adversity and Adult Social Behavior: Focus on Arginine Vasopressin and Oxytocin as Potential Mediators. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00143 [details]
- Müller-Pinzler, L., Czekalla, N., Mayer, A. V., Stolz, D. S., Gazzola, V., Keysers, C., Paulus, F. M., & Krach, S. (2019). Negativity-bias in forming beliefs about own abilities. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 14416. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50821-w [details]
- Nastase, S. A., Gazzola, V., Hasson, U., & Keysers, C. (2019). Measuring shared responses across subjects using intersubject correlation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(6), 667-685. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz037 [details]
2018
- Gallo, S., Paracampo, R., Müller-Pinzler, L., Severo, M. C., Blömer, L., Fernandes-Henriques, C., Henschel, A., Lammes, B. K., Maskaljunas, T., Suttrup, J., Avenanti, A., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2018). The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour. eLife, 7, Article e32740. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32740 [details]
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2018). Neural Correlates of Empathy in Humans, and the Need for Animal Models. In K. Z. Meyza, & E. Knapska (Eds.), Neuronal Correlates of Empathy: From Rodent to Human (pp. 37-52). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805397-3.00004-8 [details]
- Keysers, C., Paracampo, R., & Gazzola, V. (2018). What neuromodulation and lesion studies tell us about the function of the mirror neuron system and embodied cognition. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.04.001 [details]
- Thomas, R. M., De Sanctis, T., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2018). Where and how our brain represents the temporal structure of observed action. NeuroImage, 183, 677-697. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.056 [details]
2017
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2017). A Plea for Cross-species Social Neuroscience. In M. Wöhr, & S. Krach (Eds.), Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans: Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications (pp. 179-191). (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences; Vol. 30). Springer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2016_439 [details]
- Valchev, N., Tidoni, E., Hamilton, A. F. D. C., Gazzola, V., & Avenanti, A. (2017). Primary somatosensory cortex necessary for the perception of weight from other people's action: A continuous theta-burst TMS experiment. NeuroImage, 152, 195-206. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.075 [details]
2016
- Broersen, R., Onuki, Y., Abdelgabar, A. R., Owens, C. B., Picard, S., Willems, J., Boele, H-J., Gazzola, V., Van der Werf, Y. D., & De Zeeuw, C. I. (2016). Impaired Spatio-Temporal Predictive Motor Timing Associated with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6. PLoS ONE, 11(8), Article e0162042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162042 [details]
- Etzel, J. A., Valchev, N., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. M. (2016). Is Brain Activity during Action Observation Modulated by the Perceived Fairness of the Actor? PLoS ONE, 11(1), Article e0145350. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145350 [details]
- Valchev, N., Gazzola, V., Avenanti, A., & Keysers, C. (2016). Primary somatosensory contribution to action observation brain activity—combining fMRI and cTBS. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(8), 1205-1217. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw029 [details]
- Zaki, J., Wager, T. D., Singer, T., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2016). The Anatomy of Suffering: Understanding the Relationship between Nociceptive and Empathic Pain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(4), 249-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.02.003 [details]
2015
- Borgomaneri, S., Gazzola, V., & Avenanti, A. (2015). Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language. Brain Structure and Function, 220(5), 2765-2781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-014-0825-6 [details]
- Borgomaneri, S., Vitale, F., Gazzola, V., & Avenanti, A. (2015). Seeing fearful body language rapidly freezes the observer's motor cortex. Cortex, 65, 232-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.01.014 [details]
- Carrillo, M., Migliorati, F., Bruls, R., Han, Y., Heinemans, M., Pruis, I., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2015). Repeated Witnessing of Conspecifics in Pain: Effects on Emotional Contagion. PLoS ONE, 10(9), Article e0136979. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136979 [details]
- Cui, F., Abdelgabar, A-R., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2015). Responsibility modulates pain-matrix activation elicited by the expressions of others in pain. NeuroImage, 114, 371-378. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.034 [details]
- Krach, S., Kamp-Becker, I., Einhäuser, W., Sommer, J., Frässle, S., Jansen, A., Rademacher, L., Müller-Pinzler, L., Gazzola, V., & Paulus, F. M. (2015). Evidence from pupillometry and fMRI indicates reduced neural response during vicarious social pain but not physical pain in autism. Human Brain Mapping, 36(11), 4730-4744. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22949 [details]
- Müller-Pinzler, L., Gazzola, V., Keysers, C., Sommer, J., Jansen, A., Frässle, S., Einhäuser, W., Paulus, F. M., & Krach, S. (2015). Neural pathways of embarrassment and their modulation by social anxiety. NeuroImage, 119, 252-261. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.036 [details]
- Paulus, F. M., Müller-Pinzler, L., Jansen, A., Gazzola, V., & Krach, S. (2015). Mentalizing and the Role of the Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus in Sharing Others' Embarrassment. Cerebral Cortex, 25(8), 2065-2075. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhu011 [details]
- Valchev, N., Zijdewind, I., Keysers, C., Gazzola, V., Avenanti, A., & Maurits, N. M. (2015). Weight dependent modulation of motor resonance induced by weight estimation during observation of partially occluded lifting actions. Neuropsychologia, 66, 237-245. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.030 [details]
- Valchev, N., Ćurčić-Blake, B., Renken, R. J., Avenanti, A., Keysers, C., Gazzola, V., & Maurits, N. M. (2015). cTBS delivered to the left somatosensory cortex changes its functional connectivity during rest. NeuroImage, 114, 386-397. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.017 [details]
2014
- Cui, F., Arnstein, D., Thomas, R. M., Maurits, N. M., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2014). Functional magnetic resonance imaging connectivity analyses reveal efference-copy to primary somatosensory area, BA2. PLoS ONE, 9(1), Article e84367. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084367
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2014). Dissociating the ability and propensity for empathy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(4), 163-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2013.12.011
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2014). Hebbian learning and predictive mirror neurons for actions, sensations and emotions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 369(1644), Article 20130175. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0175
- Keysers, C., Meffert, H., & Gazzola, V. (2014). Reply: Spontaneous versus deliberate vicarious representations: different routes to empathy in psychopathy and autism. Brain, 137(4), Article e273. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awt376
- Keysers, C., Perrett, D. I., & Gazzola, V. (2014). Hebbian Learning is about contingency, not contiguity, and explains the emergence of predictive mirror neurons. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(2), 205-206. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13002343
2013
- Meffert, H., Gazzola, V., den Boer, J. A., Bartels, A. A. J., & Keysers, C. (2013). Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy. Brain, 136(8), 2550-2562. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awt190
- Monfardini, E., Gazzola, V., Boussaoud, D., Brovelli, A., Keysers, C., & Wicker, B. (2013). Vicarious neural processing of outcomes during observational learning. PLoS ONE, 8(9), Article e73879. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073879
2012
- Cerliani, L., Thomas, R. M., Jbabdi, S., Siero, J. C. W., Nanetti, L., Crippa, A., Gazzola, V., D'Arceuil, H., & Keysers, C. (2012). Probabilistic tractography recovers a rostrocaudal trajectory of connectivity variability in the human insular cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 2005-2034. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21338
- Gazzola, V., Spezio, M. L., Etzel, J. A., Cstelli, F., Adolphs, R., & Keysers, C. (2012). Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(25), E1657-E1666. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113211109
2011
- Arnstein, D., Cui, F., Keysers, C., Maurits, N. M., & Gazzola, V. (2011). μ-Suppression during action observation and execution correlates with BOLD in dorsal premotor, inferior parietal and SI cortices. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(40), 14243-14249. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0963-11.2011
- Atsak, P., Orre, M., Bakker, P., Cerliani, L., Roozendaal, B., Gazzola, V., Moita, M., & Keysers, C. (2011). Experience modulates vicarious freezing in rats: a model for empathy. PLoS ONE, 6(7), Article e21855. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021855
- Quadvlieg, S., Etzel, J. A., Gazzola, V., Keysers, C., Schubert, T. W., Waiter, G. D., & Macrae, C. N. (2011). Puddles, parties, and professors: linking word categorization to neural patterns of visuospatial coding. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(10), 2636-2649. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2011.21628
2010
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2010). Social neuroscience: mirror neurons recorded in humans. Current Biology, 20(8), R353-R354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.013
- Keysers, C., Kaas, J. H., & Gazzola, V. (2010). Somatosensation in social perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 417-428. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2833
2009
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2009). Expanding the mirror: vicarious activity for actions, emotions and sensations. Current opinion in neurobiology, 19, 666-671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2009.10.006
- Schippers, M. B., Gazzola, V., Goebel, R., & Keysers, C. (2009). Playing charades in the fMRI: Are mirror and/or mentalizing areas involved in gestural communication? PLoS ONE, 4(8), Article e6801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006801
2008
- Etzel, J. A., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2008). Testing simulation theory with cross-modal multivariate classification of fMRI data. PLoS ONE, 3(11), Article e3690. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003690
2007
- Gazzola, V., Rizzolatti, G., Wicker, B., & Keysers, C. (2007). The anthropomorphic brain: The mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions. NeuroImage, 35(4), 1674-1684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.003
- Gazzola, V., van der Worp, H., Mulder, T., Wicker, B., Rizzolatti, G., & Keysers, C. (2007). Aplasics Born without Hands Mirror the Goal of Hand Actions with Their Feet. Current Biology, 17(14), 1235-1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.045
2006
- Gazzola, V., Aziz-Zadeh, L., & Keysers, C. (2006). Empathy and the Somatotopic Auditory Mirror System in Humans. Current Biology, 16(18), 1824-1829. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.072
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2006). Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition. Progress in Brain Research, 156, 379-401. Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-6123(06)56021-2
2015
- Gallo, S., Lammes, B., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2015). Individual respond to stimulation does matter: Combining bi-hemispheric hd tdcs and sep in empathy for pain. Brain Stimulation, 8(2), 351. Article 146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2015.01.134 [details]
2016
- Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2016). From Vicarious Actions to Moral Behavior. In D. Evers, M. Fuller, A. Runehov, & K-W. Sæther (Eds.), Issues in Science and Theology: Do Emotions Shape the World? (pp. 99-118). (Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology; Vol. 3). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26769-2_8 [details]
Prize / grant
- Keysers, C. & Gazzola, V. (2022). Gravity Grant: Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS).
- Keysers, C. & Gazzola, V. (2022). NWO ENW open competition XL grant “Brain-wide dynamics for socially-mediated memory acquisition”.
2019
- Keysers, C., Gazzola, V., Han, Y. & Maria, C. (2019). Bidirectional cingulate-dependent danger information transfer across rats. Mendeley Data. https://doi.org/10.17632/h8fkyr2z35.1
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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Fornari, L., Ioumpa, K., Nostro, A. D., Evans, N. J., De Angelis, L., Speer, S. P. H., Paracampo, R., Gallo, S., Spezio, M., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2023). Neuro-computational mechanisms and individual biases in action-outcome learning under moral conflict. Nature Communications, 14, Article 1218.