Assoz. Prof. Giorgia Silani, Privatdoz. PhD
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Quesque, F., Apperly, I., Baillargeon, R., Baron-Cohen, S., Becchio, C., Bekkering, H., Bernstein, D., Bertoux, M., Bird, G., Bukowski, H., Burgmer, P., Carruthers, P., Catmur, C., Dziobek, I., Epley, N., Erle, T. M., Frith, C., Frith, U., Galang, C. M., ... Brass, M. (2024). Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. Communications Psychology, 2, Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6

Massaccesi, C., Korb, S., Götzendorfer, S., Chiappini, E., Willeit, M., Lundström, J. N., Windischberger, C., Eisenegger, C., & Silani, G. (2024). Effects of dopamine and opioid receptor antagonism on the neural processing of social and nonsocial rewards. Human Brain Mapping, 45(4), Article e26645. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26645








Chiappini, E., Silani, G., Lundström, J. N., & Korb, S. (2023). Facial Electromyography in Food Research in a Behavioral and MR Setting. In M. Bensafi (Ed.), Basic Protocols on Emotions, Senses, and Foods (pp. 185-201). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2934-5_15





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Trajectories of fatigue and their influence on stress, anxiety, and mood during the COVID-19 lockdowns: an ecological momentary assessment study

Aljoscha Dreisörner (Speaker), Anja Feneberg (Contributor), Paul Forbes (Contributor), Ekaterina Pronizius (Contributor), Giulio Piperno (Contributor), Ana Stijovic (Contributor), Nadine Skoluda (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor), Giorgia Silani (Contributor) & Urs Markus Nater (Contributor)

15 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reading Emotions in Art: Do autistic traits influence how we perceive emotions through art?

Young Ah Kim (Speaker), Elif Gülen (Contributor), Kamilla Lauer (Contributor), Theresa Demmer (Contributor), Corinna Kühnapfel (Contributor), Giorgia Silani (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

17 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The impact of stress and opioid administration on liking and wanting of affective touch.

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Age-related differences in automatic imitation inhibition: an fMRI study.

Ekaterina Pronizius (Speaker), Federica Riva (Contributor), Melanie Lenger (Contributor), Martin Kronbichler (Contributor), Giorgia Silani (Contributor) & Claus Lamm (Contributor)

21 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effects of the mu-opioid receptor agonist morphine on facial mimicry and emotion recognition.

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker), Sebastian Korb (Contributor), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Boris B. Quednow (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Diurnal Dynamics of Stress and Mood in the Risk Groups during Covid-19 Lockdown - A Large Binational Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Anja Feneberg (Contributor), Paul Forbes (Contributor), Giulio Piperno (Contributor), Ekaterina Pronizius (Speaker), Nadine Skoluda (Contributor), Ana Stijovic (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

20 Sept 202122 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Enhanced motivation and hedonic reactions to social touch under stress following morphine administration

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Boris B. Quednow (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids.

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Regulation of personal space by socio-economical interactions in adults with autism spectrum disorders – an fMRI study.

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding empathy from a clinical perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: An rTMS/fMRI study.

Henryk Bukowski (Speaker), Martin Tik (Speaker), Giorgia Silani (Speaker), Christian Ruff (Speaker), Christian Windischberger (Speaker) & Claus Lamm (Speaker)

21 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The influence of age on emotional egocentrism.

Federica Riva (Speaker), Melanie Tschernegg (Contributor), Martin Kronbichler (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

20 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




Neurochemical modulation of facial mimicry

Sebastian Korb (Speaker), Claudia Massaccesi (Contributor), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Raffaella Rumiati (Contributor), Christoph Eisenegger (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wanting and linking of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Emotional egocentricity bias during social pain in Autism-Spectrum-Disorder (ASD): Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Helena Hartmann (Invited speaker), Hannah Hitz (Contributor), Philipp Stepnicka (Contributor), Lukas Lengersdorff (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

7 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Clinical and Health Psychology

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