Prof. Lorenzo Pia
Professore/Professoressa associato/a
- Dipartimento di Psicologia
- SSD: M-PSI/02 - psicobiologia e psicologia fisiologica
- ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0360-3152

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- lorenzo.pia@unito.it
- Via Giuseppe Verdi, 10, 10124 Torino TO
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Presso
- Department of Psychology
- Dipartimento di Psicologia
- Biotechnology for Neuroscience
- Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Psicologia criminologica e forense
- Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze del corpo e della mente
- Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche
- PhD in Neuroscience
Curriculum vitae

Pubblicazioni selezionate
Pyasik M, Fortunato E, Dal Monte O, Schintu S, Garbarini F, Ciorli T, Pia L. (2021) Self-other distinction modulates the social softness illusion. Psychological research [DOI PMID]
Giachero A, Quadrini A, Pisano F, Calati M, Rugiero C, Ferrero L, Pia L, Marangolo P. (2021) Procedural Learning through Action Observation: Preliminary Evidence from Virtual Gardening Activity in Intellectual Disability. Brain sciences 11(6) [DOI PMID]
Tambone R, Poggio G, Pyasik M, Burin D, Dal Monte O, Schintu S, Ciorli T, Luca L, Semino MV, Doricchi F, Pia L. (2021) Changing your body changes your eating attitudes: embodiment of a slim virtual avatar induces avoidance of high-calorie food. Heliyon 7(7) e07515 [DOI PMID]
Tambone R, Giachero A, Calati M, Molo MT, Burin D, Pyasik M, Cabria F, Pia L. (2021) Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients. Psychological science 32(5) 655-667 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Pia L. (2021) Owning a virtual body entails owning the value of its actions in a detection-of-deception procedure. Cognition 212 104693 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Ronga I, Burin D, Salatino A, Sarasso P, Garbarini F, Ricci R, Pia L. (2021) I'm a believer: Illusory self-generated touch elicits sensory attenuation and somatosensory evoked potentials similar to the real self-touch. NeuroImage 229 117727 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Fossataro C, Pia L, Berti A. (2020) What pathological embodiment/disembodiment tell us about body representations. Neuropsychologia 149 107666 [DOI PMID]
Giachero A, Calati M, Pia L, La Vista L, Molo M, Rugiero C, Fornaro C, Marangolo P. (2020) Conversational Therapy through Semi-Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Language Recovery and Psychological Well-Being in Post Stroke Aphasia. Behavioural neurology 2020 2846046 [DOI PMID]
Pia L. (2020) Spatial resolution of SARS-CoV-2 lung infection. Nature reviews. Immunology 20(10) 591 [DOI PMID]
Pansardi O, Pyasik M, Pia L. (2020) Musical expertise affects the sense of agency: Intentional binding in expert pianists. Consciousness and cognition 84 102984 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Fossataro C, Burin D, Bruno V, Spinazzola L, Gindri P, Fotopoulou K, Berti A, Garbarini F. (2020) The anatomo-clinical picture of the pathological embodiment over someone else's body part after stroke. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 130 203-219 [DOI PMID]
Fossataro C, Burin D, Ronga I, Galigani M, Rossi Sebastiano A, Pia L, Garbarini F. (2020) Agent-dependent modulation of corticospinal excitability during painful transcutaneous electrical stimulation. NeuroImage 217 116897 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Tieri G, Pia L. (2020) Visual appearance of the virtual hand affects embodiment in the virtual hand illusion. Scientific reports 10(1) 5412 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Pignolo C, Ales F, Giromini L, Pyasik M, Ghirardello D, Zennaro A, Angilletta M, Castellino L, Pia L. (2019) Relationships Between Personality Features and the Rubber Hand Illusion: An Exploratory Study. Frontiers in psychology 10 2762 [DOI PMID]
Ricci R, Salatino A, Caldano M, Perozzo P, Cerrato P, Pyasik M, Pia L, Berti A. (2019) Phantom touch: How to unmask sensory unawareness after stroke. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 121 253-263 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Furlanetto T, Pia L. (2019) The Role of Body-Related Afferent Signals in Human Sense of Agency. Journal of experimental neuroscience 13 1179069519849907 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Garbarini F, Kalckert A, Wong HY. (2019) Editorial: Owning a Body + Moving a Body = Me? Frontiers in human neuroscience 13 88 [DOI PMID]
Ronga I, Garbarini F, Neppi-Modona M, Fossataro C, Pyasik M, Bruno V, Sarasso P, Barra G, Frigerio M, Chiotti VC, Pia L. (2018) 'See Me, Feel Me': Prismatic Adaptation of an Alien Limb Ameliorates Spatial Neglect in a Patient Affected by Pathological Embodiment. Frontiers in psychology 9 2726 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Salatino A, Burin D, Berti A, Ricci R, Pia L. (2019) Shared neurocognitive mechanisms of attenuating self-touch and illusory self-touch. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 14(2) 119-127 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Kilteni K, Rabuffetti M, Slater M, Pia L. (2019) Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements. PloS one 14(1) e0209899 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Capozzi F, Sigaudo M, Cardillo S, Pia L, Rocca P, Garbarini F. (2019) I do not know whether you did that: Abnormal implicit attribution of social causality in patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia research 210 291-293 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Salatino A, Pia L. (2019) Do movements contribute to sense of body ownership? Rubber hand illusion in expert pianists. Psychological research 83(1) 185-195 [DOI PMID]
Dell'Anna A, Fossataro C, Burin D, Bruno V, Salatino A, Garbarini F, Pia L, Ricci R, Leman M, Berti A. (2018) Entrainment beyond embodiment. Neuropsychologia 119 233-240 [DOI PMID]
Tinti C, Chiesa S, Cavaglia R, Dalmasso S, Pia L, Schmidt S. (2018) On my right or on your left? Spontaneous spatial perspective taking in blind people. Consciousness and cognition 62 1-8 [DOI PMID]
Iani F, Burin D, Salatino A, Pia L, Ricci R, Bucciarelli M. (2018) The beneficial effect of a speaker's gestures on the listener's memory for action phrases: The pivotal role of the listener's premotor cortex. Brain and language 180-182 8-13 [DOI PMID]
Pyasik M, Burin D, Pia L. (2018) On the relation between body ownership and sense of agency: A link at the level of sensory-related signals. Acta psychologica 185 219-228 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Bisio A, Biggio M, Pia L, Bove M. (2018) Motor sequence learning and intermanual transfer with a phantom limb. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 101 181-191 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Pyasik M, Ronga I, Cavallo M, Salatino A, Pia L. (2018) "As long as that is my hand, that willed action is mine": Timing of agency triggered by body ownership. Consciousness and cognition 58 186-192 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Garbarini F, Bruno V, Fossataro C, Destefanis C, Berti A, Pia L. (2017) Movements and body ownership: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion after mechanical limb immobilization. Neuropsychologia 107 41-47 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Battaglini A, Pia L, Falvo G, Palombella M, Salatino A. (2017) Comparing intensities and modalities within the sensory attenuation paradigm: Preliminary evidence. Journal of advanced research 8(6) 649-653 [DOI PMID]
Fossataro C, Bruno V, Gindri P, Pia L, Berti A, Garbarini F. (2018) Feeling touch on the own hand restores the capacity to visually discriminate it from someone else' hand: Pathological embodiment receding in brain-damaged patients. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 104 207-219 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Pyasik M, Salatino A, Pia L. (2017) That's my hand! Therefore, that's my willed action: How body ownership acts upon conscious awareness of willed actions. Cognition 166 164-173 [DOI PMID]
Borghi M, Carletto S, Ostacoli L, Scavelli F, Pia L, Pagani M, Bertolotto A, Malucchi S, Signori A, Cavallo M. (2016) Decline of Neuropsychological Abilities in a Large Sample of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study. Frontiers in human neuroscience 10 282 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Garbarini F, Fossataro C, Burin D, Berti A. (2016) Sensing the body, representing the body: Evidence from a neurologically based delusion of body ownership. Cognitive neuropsychology 33(1-2) 112-9 [DOI PMID]
Fossataro C, Gindri P, Mezzanato T, Pia L, Garbarini F. (2016) Bodily ownership modulation in defensive responses: physiological evidence in brain-damaged patients with pathological embodiment of other's body parts. Scientific reports 6 27737 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Mastropasqua A, Sigaudo M, Rabuffetti M, Piedimonte A, Pia L, Rocca P. (2016) Abnormal Sense of Agency in Patients with Schizophrenia: Evidence from Bimanual Coupling Paradigm. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 10 43 [DOI PMID]
Piedimonte A, Garbarini F, Pia L, Mezzanato T, Berti A. (2016) From intention to perception: The case of anosognosia for hemiplegia. Neuropsychologia 87 43-53 [DOI PMID]
Ansuini C, Cavallo A, Pia L, Becchio C. (2016) The Role of Perspective in Mental Time Travel. Neural plasticity 2016 3052741 [DOI PMID]
Capozzi F, Becchio C, Garbarini F, Savazzi S, Pia L. (2016) Temporal perception in joint action: This is MY action. Consciousness and cognition 40 26-33 [DOI PMID]
Livelli A, Orofino GC, Calcagno A, Farenga M, Penoncelli D, Guastavigna M, Carosella S, Caramello P, Pia L. (2015) Evaluation of a Cognitive Rehabilitation Protocol in HIV Patients with Associated Neurocognitive Disorders: Efficacy and Stability Over Time. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 9 306 [DOI PMID]
Folegatti A, Pia L, Berti A, Cubelli R. (2015) Stress Assignment Errors in Surface Dyslexia: Evidence from Two Italian Patients with a Selective Deficit of the Orthographic Input Lexicon. Behavioural neurology 2015 769013 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Garbarini F, Burin D, Fossataro C, Berti A. (2015) A predictive nature for tactile awareness? Insights from damaged and intact central-nervous-system functioning. Frontiers in human neuroscience 9 287 [DOI PMID]
Burin D, Livelli A, Garbarini F, Fossataro C, Folegatti A, Gindri P, Pia L. (2015) Are movements necessary for the sense of body ownership? Evidence from the rubber hand illusion in pure hemiplegic patients. PloS one 10(3) e0117155 [DOI PMID]
Giglia G, Pia L, Folegatti A, Puma A, Fierro B, Cosentino G, Berti A, Brighina F. (2015) Far Space Remapping by Tool Use: A rTMS Study Over the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex. Brain stimulation 8(4) 795-800 [DOI PMID]
Piedimonte A, Garbarini F, Rabuffetti M, Pia L, Montesano A, Ferrarin M, Berti A. (2015) Invisible grasps: Grip interference in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Neuropsychology 29(5) 776-81 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Spinazzola L, Garbarini F, Bellan G, Piedimonte A, Fossataro C, Livelli A, Burin D, Berti A. (2014) Anosognosia for hemianaesthesia: a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 61 158-66 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Fossataro C, Berti A, Gindri P, Romano D, Pia L, della Gatta F, Maravita A, Neppi-Modona M. (2015) When your arm becomes mine: pathological embodiment of alien limbs using tools modulates own body representation. Neuropsychologia 70 402-13 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Fornia L, Fossataro C, Pia L, Gindri P, Berti A. (2014) Embodiment of others' hands elicits arousal responses similar to one's own hands. Current biology : CB 24(16) R738-9 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Pia L. (2013) Bimanual coupling paradigm as an effective tool to investigate productive behaviors in motor and body awareness impairments. Frontiers in human neuroscience 7 737 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, D'Agata F, Piedimonte A, Sacco K, Rabuffetti M, Tam F, Cauda F, Pia L, Geminiani G, Duca S, Graham SJ, Berti A. (2014) Drawing lines while imagining circles: Neural basis of the bimanual coupling effect during motor execution and motor imagery. NeuroImage 88 100-12 [DOI PMID]
Piedimonte A, Garbarini F, Rabuffetti M, Pia L, Berti A. (2014) Executed and imagined bimanual movements: a study across different ages. Developmental psychology 50(4) 1073-80 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Garbarini F, Fossataro C, Fornia L, Berti A. (2013) Pain and body awareness: evidence from brain-damaged patients with delusional body ownership. Frontiers in human neuroscience 7 298 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Neppi-Modona M, Rosselli FB, Muscatello V, Rosato R, Ricci R. (2012) The Oppel-Kundt illusion is effective in modulating horizontal space representation in humans. Perceptual and motor skills 115(3) 729-42 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Pia L, Piedimonte A, Rabuffetti M, Gindri P, Berti A. (2013) Embodiment of an alien hand interferes with intact-hand movements. Current biology : CB 23(2) R57-8 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Spinazzola L, Rabuffetti M, Ferrarin M, Garbarini F, Piedimonte A, Driver J, Berti A. (2013) Temporal coupling due to illusory movements in bimanual actions: evidence from anosognosia for hemiplegia. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 49(6) 1694-703 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Piedimonte A, Dotta M, Pia L, Berti A. (2013) Dissociations and similarities in motor intention and motor awareness: the case of anosognosia for hemiplegia and motor neglect. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 84(4) 416-9 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Ricci R, Gindri P, Vallar G. (2013) Drawing perseveration in neglect: effects of target density. Journal of neuropsychology 7(1) 45-57 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Neppi-Modona M, Cremasco L, Gindri P, Dal Monte O, Folegatti A. (2012) Functional independence between numerical and visual space: evidence from right brain-damaged patients. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 48(10) 1351-8 [DOI PMID]
Garbarini F, Rabuffetti M, Piedimonte A, Pia L, Ferrarin M, Frassinetti F, Gindri P, Cantagallo A, Driver J, Berti A. (2012) 'Moving' a paralysed hand: bimanual coupling effect in patients with anosognosia for hemiplegia. Brain : a journal of neurology 135(Pt 5) 1486-97 [DOI PMID]
Becchio C, Del Giudice M, Dal Monte O, Latini-Corazzini L, Pia L. (2013) In your place: neuropsychological evidence for altercentric remapping in embodied perspective taking. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 8(2) 165-70 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Neppi-Modona M, Folegatti A. (2010) Object-centred pseudoneglect for non-verbal visual stimuli. Experimental brain research 200(1) 61-6 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Folegatti A, Guagliardo M, Genero R, Gindri P. (2009) Are drawing perseverations part of the neglect syndrome? Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 45(3) 293-9 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Corazzini LL, Folegatti A, Gindri P, Cauda F. (2009) Mental number line disruption in a right-neglect patient after a left-hemisphere stroke. Brain and cognition 69(1) 81-8 [DOI PMID]
Spinazzola L, Pia L, Folegatti A, Marchetti C, Berti A. (2008) Modular structure of awareness for sensorimotor disorders: evidence from anosognosia for hemiplegia and anosognosia for hemianaesthesia. Neuropsychologia 46(3) 915-26 [DOI PMID]
Ciaramidaro A, Adenzato M, Enrici I, Erk S, Pia L, Bara BG, Walter H. (2007) The intentional network: how the brain reads varieties of intentions. Neuropsychologia 45(13) 3105-13 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Tamietto M. (2006) Unawareness in schizophrenia: neuropsychological and neuroanatomical findings. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 60(5) 531-7 [DOI PMID]
Tamietto M, Latini Corazzini L, Pia L, Zettin M, Gionco M, Geminiani G. (2005) Effects of emotional face cueing on line bisection in neglect: a single case study. Neurocase 11(6) 399-404 [DOI PMID]
Berti A, Bottini G, Gandola M, Pia L, Smania N, Stracciari A, Castiglioni I, Vallar G, Paulesu E. (2005) Shared cortical anatomy for motor awareness and motor control. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5733) 488-91 [DOI PMID]
Walter H, Adenzato M, Ciaramidaro A, Enrici I, Pia L, Bara BG. (2004) Understanding intentions in social interaction: the role of the anterior paracingulate cortex. Journal of cognitive neuroscience 16(10) 1854-63 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Neppi-Modona M, Procopio L, Ricci R, Gindri P, Berti A. (2004) Modulation of space-based and object-based neglect by perceptual parsing. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 40(1) 189-90 [DOI PMID]
Pia L, Neppi-Modona M, Ricci R, Berti A. (2004) The anatomy of anosognosia for hemiplegia: a meta-analysis. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 40(2) 367-77 [DOI PMID]
Ricci R, Pia L, Gindri P. (2004) Effects of illusory spatial anisometry in unilateral neglect. Experimental brain research 154(2) 226-37 [DOI PMID]
Insegnamenti
- Approcci e metodi in scienze e neuroscienze cognitive (PSI0444)
Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze del corpo e della mente - Behavioural and neural principles of bodily self-consciousness
PhD in Neuroscience - Laboratorio di psicologia fisiologica (PSI0580)
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche - La ricerca su pazienti cerebrolesi in neuropsicologia sperimentale (PSI0601)
Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze del corpo e della mente - Neuropsicologia C (studenti O-Z) / Neuropsychology C (students O to Z) (PSI0018)
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche - Psychobiology (NEU0273D)
Biotechnology for Neuroscience - Psychological neurosciences (NEU0273)
Biotechnology for Neuroscience
Temi di ricerca
Visual attention, multisensory perception, spatial awareness, body ownership, sense of agency, neurogastronomy, sport neuroscience, dog cognition
Gruppi di ricerca
Progetti di ricerca
Organi
Terza missione
- La percezione corporeaSunday, October 11, 2020
- Notte di Ricercatori 2019Friday, September 27, 2019
- Azione, libero arbitrio e responsabilità nel nostro cervelloWednesday, June 5, 2019
- Cosa ti dice il cervello?Wednesday, May 17, 2017
- I trucchi del nostro cervelloWednesday, February 8, 2017
- Se batto le mani non faccio rumoreMonday, April 11, 2016
- I trucchi del nostro cervelloMonday, May 13, 2013
- Vedere i profumi e sentire I colori: gli inganni di un cervello in degustazioneSunday, May 5, 2013
- Perché Sirio ha scelto Beta e non Arturo.Friday, October 26, 2012
- Perché Sirio ha scelto Beta e non ArturoFrom Saturday, January 28, 2012 to Friday, January 28, 2022
- Ai confine della coscienzaFrom Friday, March 13 to Friday, March 20, 2009
- Secrets du cerveau et frontières de la penséeFrom Friday, November 14 to Sunday, November 16, 2008
- Lo strano caso dell'uomo che si vestiva solo a metàWednesday, July 23, 2008
- Secrets of the brain and frontiers of the mindFrom Friday, July 18 to Tuesday, July 22, 2008
- Ai confini della coscienzaMonday, June 2, 2008
- Notte Europea dei ricercatori 2021Da venerdì 24 a sabato 25 settembre 2021
- Notte europea dei Ricercatori 2020Venerdì 27 novembre 2020
- La percezione corporeaDomenica 11 ottobre 2020
- Notte europea dei Ricercatori 2019Venerdì 27 settembre 2019
- Azione, libero arbitrio e responsabilità nel nostro cervelloMercoledì 5 giugno 2019
- Cosa ti dice il cervello?Mercoledì 17 maggio 2017
- I trucchi del nostro cervello. F Mercoledì 8 febbraio 2017
- Se batto le mani non faccio rumoreLunedì 11 aprile 2016
- I trucchi del nostro cervelloLunedì 13 maggio 2013
- Vedere i profumi e sentire I colori: gli inganni di un cervello in degustazioneDomenica 5 maggio 2013
- Perché Sirio ha scelto Beta e non ArturoVenerdì 26 ottobre 2012
- Perché Sirio ha scelto Beta e non ArturoSabato 28 gennaio 2012
- Ai confine della coscienzaDa venerdì 13 a venerdì 20 marzo 2009
- Secrets du cerveau et frontières de la penséeDa venerdì 14 a domenica 16 novembre 2008
- Lo strano caso dell'uomo che si vestiva solo a metàMercoledì 23 luglio 2008
- Secrets of the brain and frontiers of the mindDa venerdì 18 a mercoledì 16 luglio 2008
- Ai confini della coscienzaLunedì 2 giugno 2008