Gerardo Salvato

Looking forward to talking about temperature and bodily self-awareness at Campus Biotech in Geneva campusbiotech.ch/events/neuro...

Many thanks to all my co-authors for the depth of expertise and genuinely collaborative work behind this review @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @michelabassolino @maddalendabeccerle @gretavianello @katerinafoto.bsky.social @gabriellabottini & @valentinamoro plus the @CairnillarInstitute & @UoVerona

Delighted to share my first paper of 2026 "Interoception and allostatic load after stroke: A scoping review". Available now, open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research has also started to uncover the role of these thermosensory signals in cognition. Such signals may contribute to the construction of our bodily self-awareness, and specifically the sense of body ownership, which is defined as the feeling that the body and its parts belong to us. This review examines how thermosensory signals travel from the skin to the brain and their impact on body ownership in both healthy and clinical populations. Furthermore, we propose mechanisms that may underlie this interaction and highlight potential clinical and societal applications.

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Warmth and Hugging Strengthen the Feeling of Being You - Neuroscience News Changes in skin temperature play a key role in how strongly we experience our bodies as our own.

We discussed the role of thermal signals on bodily self-awareness in our latest paper with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social published on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Now featured on @neurosciencenews.bsky.social: neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...

How do thermosensory signals contribute to bodily self-awareness?
Our review on this topic with @gerardosalvato.bsky.social has just been published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!
Grateful for the collaborations, the shared curiosity, and the scientific community pushing this conversation forward.

Thanks Nika! 🤗

Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere stroke. Lesion mapping reveals damage to parietal regions and interhemispheric disconnections 👉 buff.ly/cEGwaft

Proprioception as a sensory root for body and motor awareness Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere

The sense of ownership and agency stem from proprioception, the sensory root of self-awareness. In a group of 46 right-brain-damaged patients, the disruption of a bilateral parietal network underlies proprioceptive deficits leading to ownership disorders and anosognosia for hemiplegia.

Great start to #IMRF2025 with Symposium 2 all about body representation and some amazing talks! Really enjoyed hearing about how sounds can affect it, e.g. with the auditory pinocchio illusion 🔊, something quite different than what I work on but so fun!

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings

Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings | Nature Scientific Reports
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025
🗣️Presenting
Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University)

#body #bodyrepresentation
#computationalneurosciences

Day 1 of #EUCAS2025 is a wrap!
We kicked off with our grant-writing pre-event, thanks to our amazing speakers: @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, Francesca Lionetti, Luca Rinaldi & @gerardosalvato.bsky.social for sharing insights.
We closed the day, spirits in hand at the welcome reception. On to Day 2!

@davidecrepaldi.bsky.social at @eucas2025.bsky.social pre-conference event “Submit a grant: from funding opportunities to writing a project”

A comment on our recent study published in Nature Communications. Front Matter Discovery article just published in Temperature #temperature #termoception #bodyownership www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beautifully done! I’m reading it with great curiosity. Super @mattlongo.bsky.social! ✋🤙🫱

Congrats!! Very impressive!

Very cool study!

“Hot stuff”: Behavioural and affective thermal responses to digital and non-digital disruptions during early mother-infant interaction Responsive social exchanges are critical for infants' bio-behavioural regulation and healthy development. Parental smartphone use may disrupt early pa…

📱🌡️👶 Even brief parental distractions (digital and non-digital) can distress infants. Using thermal imaging, we found unique stress responses when moms used smartphones instead of paper. Distraction matters, and the type of distraction might matter more.
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Sensing the Self: The Role of the Insula and Interoception in Body Image - PubMed This chapter explores the insula's role in shaping body image through interoception - the neural process of sensing, interpreting, and integrating internal bodily signals to facilitate a coherent sens...

New paper alert! In this chapter, part of a volume led by the late Bud Craig’s colleagues Alan Simmons, Marc Wittmann, and Irina Strigo, we opine on the role of the insula in interoception and body image processing in anorexia nervosa and other health conditions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40178772/

Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa

👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

Two days left to submit your abstract! (new deadline March 14th). Hope to see you all in Utrecht 🤚🧠

Open Access UCL Research: The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Brilliant talk by @stephforkel.bsky.social about the human disconnectome at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology #EWCN2025 🧠

You can ask by emailing ewcn.bressanone@gmail.com 🙂

The symposium “Metacognition and social cognition: common ground or false equivalence?” organised by @smfleming.bsky.social is about to start! With @mkwittmann.bsky.social @vhsouthgate.bsky.social @joebarnby.bsky.social #EWCN2025

A fantastic keynote lecture by Alfonso Caramazza at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology #EWCN2025

The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...

🧵5/5 This represents the first causal evidence of the contribution of thermosensory signals to bodily self-awareness. Read more at @naturecomms.bsky.social @springernature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...