When bodily signals are missing: social interaction under conditions of sensory and motor absence

Chair(s): Arianna Schiano Lomoriello (University of Padova, Italy), Sara Costa (University of Parma, Italy)

Presentations of the Symposium

Cardiac interoception and occipital cortex plasticity in blindness: implications for social engagement

Dominika Radziun¹, Anna-Lena Stroh², Maksymilian Korczyk², Laura Crucianelli³, Marcin Szwed², H. Henrik Ehrsson^4
1(1) Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet (2) Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, ²Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, ³(1) Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet (2) Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, ⁴(1) Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet

The role of bodily experience in actions perception and interpretation: insights from individuals born without hands

Gill Vannuscorps
(1) Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (2) Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

When facial feedback is altered: emotional contagion in Bell’s palsy

Diane Picard-Dubois
Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Cervico-Facial Surgery Department, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.

Interoception and interpersonal motor interaction: the impact of internal bodily signals on  social interactions

Giorgia Mason¹, Ugo Giulio Pesci¹, Alessandro Iannone¹, Francesco Marra¹, Marzieh Maleki Nejad¹, Sarah Boukarras¹, Matteo Candidi¹, Salvatore Maria Aglioti², Vanessa Era^1
1(1) Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy 2) IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy, ²2) IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy 3) Centre for Life Nano- and Neuro-Science, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Sapienza University Rome, Italy