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
2020
- Bhandari, R., Kirilina, E., Caan, M., Suttrup, J., De Sanctis, T., De Angelis, L., ... Gazzola, V. (2020). Does higher sampling rate (multiband + SENSE) improve group statistics - An example from social neuroscience block design at 3T. NeuroImage, 213, 116731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116731
- Borja Jimenez, K. C., Abdelgabar, A. R., De Angelis, L., McKay, L., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2020). Changes in brain activity following the voluntary control of empathy. NeuroImage, 116529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116529
- Caspar, E. A., Ioumpa, K., Keysers, C., & Gazzola, V. (2020). Obeying orders reduces vicarious brain activation towards victims' pain. NeuroImage, 117251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117251
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., Maria, C., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2020). Similar levels of emotional contagion in male and female rats. Scientific Reports, 10(1), [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). 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
2019
- Abdelgabar, A. R., Suttrup, J., Broersen, R., Bhandari, R., Picard, S., Keysers, C., ... Gazzola, V. (2019). Action perception recruits the cerebellum and is impaired in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia. Brain, 142(12), 3791-3805. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz337
- 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., ... Keysers, C. (2019). Bidirectional cingulate-dependent danger information transfer across rats. PLoS Biology, 17(12), [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, [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., ... Krach, S. (2019). Negativity-bias in forming beliefs about own abilities. Scientific Reports, 9, [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., ... Gazzola, V. (2018). The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour. eLife, 7. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32740
- 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. 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). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2016_439 [details]
2016
- Broersen, R., Onuki, Y., Abdelgabar, A. R., Owens, C. B., Picard, S., Willems, J., ... De Zeeuw, C. I. (2016). Impaired Spatio-Temporal Predictive Motor Timing Associated with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6. PLoS ONE, 11(8), [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), [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., ... Keysers, C. (2015). Repeated Witnessing of Conspecifics in Pain: Effects on Emotional Contagion. PLoS ONE, 10(9), [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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.034 [details]
- Krach, S., Kamp-Becker, I., Einhäuser, W., Sommer, J., Frässle, S., Jansen, A., ... 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., ... Krach, S. (2015). Neural pathways of embarrassment and their modulation by social anxiety. NeuroImage, 119, 252-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.036 [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. 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. 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), [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), [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), [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. 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), [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., ... 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., ... Keysers, C. (2011). Experience modulates vicarious freezing in rats: a model for empathy. PLoS ONE, 6(7), [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
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. [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). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26769-2_8 [details]
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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
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.