Publications
Preprints
Kaufmann, A. & Viera, G. (in press). Temporal Cognition in Apes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Pre-print
Kaufmann, A., Brooks, J., Samuni, L., and Michael, J. (in press). What Holds Groups Together? How Interdependence Shapes Group Living. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Pre-Print
Fanghella, M., Mussini, E., Zazio, A., Genovese, F., Satta, E., Barchiesi, G., Battaglia Mayer, A., Bortoletto, M., Sinigaglia, C. How Acting Jointly Differs from Acting Side-by-Side: A Dual EEG Study. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.18.649548
Genovese, F., Fanghella, M., Sinigaglia, C., & Barchiesi, G. Does experience modulate automatic imitation? A new look. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.589868
2025
Parmigiani, S., Rossi Sebastiano, A., Romeo, M., Cattaneo, L., Garbarini, F., Sinigaglia, C. (2025). How body knowledge shapes motion perception. Scientific Reports.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-00213-0
Kaufmann, A. (2025). Evolutionarily Primitive Social Entities. Philosophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-025-00841-w
Rizzolatti, G., Sinigaglia, C. (2025). Mirroring Emotions and Vitality Forms. In J. Delafield Butt and V. Reddy (eds.), Intersubjective Minds: Rhythm, Sympathy, and Human Being, pp. 284–303, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865373.003.0016
Michael, J., Kaushik, S., Jamaloodeen, B., & Székely, M. (2025). The Sense of Commitment in Joint Action: A Cross-Cultural Study Comparing India and the UK. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00773-0
Michael, J., & Székely, M. (2025). Weighting and Integrating Heterogeneous Behavioral Cues Comment on ‘Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’. Physics of Life Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2025.03.006
Folgieri, R., Lucchiari, C., Gričar, S., Baldigara, T., & Gil, M. (2025). Exploring the Potential of BCI in Education: An Experiment in Musical Training. Information, 16(4), 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/info16040261
Tramacere, A., & Kaufmann, A. (2025). Perception in the mirror: the influence of self-beliefs. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10058-7
Mattei, M. (2025). Joint Guidance: A Capacity to Jointly Guide. Review of Philosophy and Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00766-z
Zickfeld, J., Scigala, K., Elbaek, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. T., Levy, G., et al. (2025). Effectiveness of ex-ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0
Serpico, D. & Guala, F. (2025). Natural Kinds as Homeorhetic Dynamic Systems. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
2024
Torrengo, G. (2024). Temporal Experience. The Atomist Dynamic Model. Oxford University Press.
Torrengo, G. (2024) The Passage of Time. In N. Emery (ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time.
Torrengo, G. (2024). The closed future.Theoria https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12561
Mariani, C., Michels, R., & Torrengo, G. (2024). Plural Metaphysical Supervaluationism. Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 67(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.1982404
Arioli Montanari, F. (2024). Situational Assessment as a Turning Point for Improving Moral Training and Counteracting Ethical Stumbles.
Notizie di Politeia, 40(156), 69-90. [link]
Zickfeld, J. H., Karg, S. T. S., Engen, S. S., Gonzalez, A. S. R., Michael, J., & Mitkidis, P. (2024). Committed (dis)honesty: A systematic meta-analytic review of the divergent effects of social commitment to individuals or honesty oaths on dishonest behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 150(5), 586–620. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000429
Pascarelli, M.T., Quarona, D., Barchiesi, G., Riva, G., Butterfill S.A., & Sinigaglia, C. (2024). Principles of belief acquisition. How we read other minds. Consciousness and Cognition, 117, 103625 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103625
Kaufmann, A. (2024), All Animals are Conscious in their Own Way: Comparing the Markers Hypothesis with the Universal Consciousness Hypothesis, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1405394.
Székely, M., Butterfill, S, & Michael, J. (2024). Effort-Based Decision Making in Joint Action: Evidence of a Sense of Fairness, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, V. 112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104601.
Michael, J. (2024). Using TMS to test hypotheses about the causal roles of specific brain regions. Advances in Neurophilosophy, 133. 10.5040/9781350349513.0011
Calbi M., & Cappelletto, C. (2024). How face mask wearing affects the sense of self: breathing as a case of disrupted bodily self-consciousness. Philosophical Psychology, 1-25. doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2341791
Vanutelli, M. E., Grigis, C., & Lucchiari, C. (2024). Breathing Right… or Left! The Effects of Unilateral Nostril Breathing on Psychological and Cognitive Wellbeing: A Pilot Study. Brain Sciences, 14(4), 302. 10.3390/brainsci14040302
Folgieri, R., Gil, M., Bait, M., & Lucchiari, C. (2024). AI-Powered Personalised Learning Platforms For EFL Learning: Preliminary Results. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (Vol. 2, pp. 1-7). Science and Technology Publications. 10.5220/0012672000003693
Lucchiari, C., Vanutelli, M. E., Ferrara, V., Folgieri, R., & Banzi, A. (2024). Promoting Well-Being in the Museum: The ASBA Project Research Protocol. The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society, 14(4), 73-88. https://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2156-8960/cgp/v14i04/73-88
Folgieri, R., Banzi, A., Vanutelli, M. E., Ferrara, V., & Lucchiari, C. (2024, July). Can Brain-Computer Interface Predict Change in Anxiety During an Art Experience? Preliminary data from the ASBA project. In Proceedings of EVA London 2024 (pp. 165-167). BCS Learning & Development. 10.14236/ewic/EVA2024.29
2023
Guala, F. (2023). Social Kinds: Historical and Multi-functional. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 13, 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-023-00534-9
Guala, F. & Hindriks, F. (2023). The Nature and Significance of Social Ontology. Synthese, 201, 145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04142-1
Colombo, C. & Guala, F. (2023). Rational Coordination without Beliefs. Erkenntnis 88, 3163–3178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00496-5
Derchi, C. C., Mikulan, E., Mazza, A., Casarotto, S., Comanducci, A., Fecchio, M., Navarro, J., Devalle, G., Massimini, M., & Sinigaglia, C. (2023). Distinguishing intentional from nonintentional actions through EEG and kinematic markers. Scientific Reports, 13, 8496. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34604-y
Butterfill, S., & Sinigaglia, C. (2023). Towards a mechanistically neutral account of acting jointly: The notion of a collective goal. Mind. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzab096
Rizzolatti, G., & Sinigaglia, C. (2023). Mirroring brains. Oxford University Press.
Kaufmann, A., Parmigiani, S., Kawagoe, T., et al. (2023). Two Models of Mind Blanking. European Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16164.
Kaufmann, A. (2023). Introducing individual sentience profiles in non-human primate neuroscience research. Current Research in Neurobiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100104
Kaufmann, A., & Newen, A. (2023). Animal Thought Exceeds Language of Thought. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002017.
Zickfeld, J.H., Ścigała, K.A., Weiss, A. et al. (2023). Commitment to honesty oaths decreases dishonesty, but commitment to another individual does not affect dishonesty, Communications Psychology 1, 27 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00028-7
Bonalumi, F., Siposova, B., Christensen, W., Michael, J. (2023). Should I stay or should I go? Three-year-olds’ reactions to appropriate motives to interrupt a joint activity. PLoS ONE 18(7): e0288401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288401
Székely, M., & Michael, J. (2023). Perceiving others’ cognitive effort through movement: Path length, speed, and time. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231183963
Szekely, M., & Michael, J. (2023). In it together: evidence of a preference for the fair distribution of effort in joint action, Evolution and Human Behavior. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513823000429?dgcid=author
Brozzo, C., & Michael, J. (2023). Sense of Commitment to Activity on Facebook: Evidence from a web-based paradigm, PLoS One. 18(4): e0271798.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271798
McEllin, L., Felber, A., & Michael, J. (2023). The fruits of our labour: Interpersonal coordination generates commitment by signalling a willingness to adapt. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(1), 147-159.doi: 10.1177/17470218221079830
Low, J., Butterfill, S. A., & Michael, J. (2023). A view from mindreading on fast-and-slow thinking. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002898
Zarwi, M., Marchand, S., Kennard, B., & Michael, J. (2023). Millennials and organisational commitment: current and future perspectives. Human Resource Development International, 26(5), 642-654. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2022.2157236
Guidali, G., Zazio, A., Lucarelli, D., Marcantoni, E., Stango, A., Barchiesi, G., & Bortoletto, M. (2023). Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) current direction and pulse waveform on cortico-cortical connectivity: A registered report TMS-EEG study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(8), 3785–3809. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16127
Vanutelli, M. E., Salvadore, M., & Lucchiari, C. (2023). BCI Applications to Creativity: Review and Future Directions, from little-c to C2. Brain Sciences, 13(4), 665. 10.14236/ewic/EVA2024.29
Vanutelli ME, Grieco A, Comelli E, Lucchiari C. A Contagious… Smile! Training Emotional Skills of Adults with Intellectual Disability in the Time of COVID-19. Education Sciences. 2023; 13(2):149. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13020149
Spolaore, G., Iaquinto, S., & Torrengo, G. (2023). Taste Fragmentalism, Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00754-8
Torrengo, G.(2023) Temporal Transparency and the Flow of Time. In K. Jaszczolt (ed.) Understanding Human Time (pp. 220-243), Oxford University Press.
Bordini, D., & Torrengo, G. (2023). Fear of the past. Ergo. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article/2269/galley/1656/view/
Torrengo, G., & Cassaghi, D. (2023). The way of presentness. Erkenntnis, 88, 2787-2805 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-021-00477-8)
2022
Torrengo, G. & Iaquinto, S., (2022). Fragmenting Reality: An Essay on Passage, Causality and Time Travel. Bloomsbury.
Torrengo, G., & Cassaghi, D. (2022). Flow and presentness in experience. Analytic Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12264
Iaquinto, S., & Torrengo, G. (2022). Materiality, parthood, and possibility. Erkenntnis, 87:1125–1131 10.1007/s10670-020-00233-4
Cappelletto, C. (2022). Embodying Art: How We See, Think, Feel, and Create. Columbia University Press.
Lucchiari, C., Masiero, M., Mazzocco, K., Veronesi, G., Maisonneuve, P., Jemos, C., … & Pravettoni, G. (2022). Nicotine-Free E-Cigarettes Might Promote Tobacco Smoking Reduction Better Than Nicotine Delivery Devices: Results of a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial at 1 Year. Current Oncology, 29(11), 8579-8590.
Vanutelli M.E, V. Cortinovis & C. Lucchiari (2022). the relationship between creative, cognitive, and emotional competencies in Intellectual Disability. A case report. Life Spand and Disability, 25(1), 121–149.
Vanutelli, M. E., Manfredi, M., Amir, O., & Lucchiari, C. (2022). Editorial: Not Funny! A [Super] Serious Multidisciplinary Exploration of Humor Creativity. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 834558.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.834558
Vanutelli, M. E., & Lucchiari, C. (2022). “Hyperfeedback” as a Tool to Assess and InduceInterpersonal Synchrony: The Role of Applied Social Neurosciences for Research, Training, and Clinical Practice. Sciences, 5(2), 11-18.
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Barchiesi, G., Zazio, E., Marcantoni, M., Bulgari, M., Barattieri di San Pietro, C., Sinigaglia, C., & Bortoletto, M. (2022). Sharing motor plans while acting jointly: A TMS study. Cortex, 151, 224-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.007
Zazio, A., Barchiesi, G., Ferrari, C., Marcantoni, E., & Bortoletto, M. (2022). M1-P15 as a cortical marker for transcallosal inhibition: A preregistered TMS-EEG study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 16, ISSN: 1662-5161, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.937515
Sinigaglia, C., & Butterfill, S. (2022). Motor representation in acting together. Synthese. 10.1007/s11229-022-03539-8
McEllin, L. & Michael, J. (2022) Sensorimotor communication fosters trust and generosity: The role of effort and signal utility, Cognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027722000543?via%3Dihub
Michael, J., Green, A., Siposova, B., Jensen, K., & Kita, S. (2022), Finish what you started: Two-year-olds motivated by a preference for completing others’ unfinished actions in instrumental helping contexts. Cognitive Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13160.
Chennells, M. & Michael, J. (2022). Breaking the Right Way: A Closer Look at How We Dissolve Commitments. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s11097-022-09805-x
Hattersley M., Brown, G., Michael, J., Ludvig, E. (2022), Of Tinfoil Hats and Thinking Caps: Reasoning is More Strongly Related to Implausible than Plausible Conspiracy Beliefs. Cognition, Volume 218, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104956
Michael, J. & Butterfill, S. (2022), Intuitions about Joint Action. Philosophical Psychology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2153659
Bonalumi, F., Michael, J., & Heintz, C. (2022). Perceiving commitments: When we both know that you are counting on me. Mind & Language, 37(4), 502-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12333
Scarafone, A., & Michael, J. (2022). Getting Ready to Share Commitments. Philosophical Topics, 50(1), 135-160. DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20225017
Chennells, M., Woźniak, M., Butterfill, S., Michael, J. (2022). Coordinated decision-making boosts altruistic motivation—But not trust. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0272453. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272453
Zhang, N., Michael, J., Bogart, K., & McEllin, L. (2022). Web-Based Sensitivity Training for Interacting with Facial Paralysis”. PLoS One, 17(1), e0261157. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261157
Fanghella, M., Colombo, C. F., Pascarelli, M. T., Guala, F., & Sinigaglia, C. (2022). Il ruolo dell’informazione motoria e del ragionamento strategico nella coordinazione interpersonale. Sistemi intelligenti, 2, 235–251. https://doi.org/10.1422/105038
Zickfeld, J., Ścigała, K. A., Weiss, A., Michael, J., & Mitkidis, P. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Social Commitment on Dishonest Behavior. PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9drcn
Alhazmi, A.A., & Kaufmann, A. (2022). Phenomenological qualitative methods applied to the analysis of cross-cultural experience in novel educational social contexts, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org /10.3389/fpsyg.2022.785134.
Fanghella, M., Gaigg, S. B., Candidi, M., Forster, B., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2022). Somatosensory evoked potentials reveal reduced embodiment of emotions in autism. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0706-21.2022
Calbi M., Montalti M., Pederzani C., Arcuri E., Umiltà M.A., Gallese, V., Mirabella, G. (2022) Emotional body postures affect inhibitory control only when task-relevant. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1035328. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1035328
Cappelletto, C. (2022). The Mask: How to Perform Expressions and Disembody the Self. In F. Fehrenbach, and M.,Vollgraff, (Eds.), Ökologien des Ausdrucks / Ecologies of Expression. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Guala, F. (2022). Rescuing Ontological Individualism. Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, 89, 471-85.
Colombo, C. & Guala, F. (2022). Coordination without Meta-representation. Philosophical Psychology, 35, 684-717. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2021.2014443
2021
Rossi, S., Salvietti, G., Neri, F., Romanella, S. M., Cinti, A., Sinigaglia, C., Ulivelli, M., Lisini Baldi, T., Santarnecchi, E., & Prattichizzo, D. (2021). Emerging of new bioartificial corticospinal motor synergies using a robotic additional thumb. Scientific Reports, 11, 18487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97876-2
Sarasso, S., Girardi Casali, A., Casarotto, S., Rosanova, M., Sinigaglia, C., & Massimini, M. (2021). Consciousness and complexity: A consilience of evidence. Neuroscience of Consciousness, niab023. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab023
Costantini, M., Quarona, D., & Sinigaglia, C. (2021). Handles and colours. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.628001
Kaufmann, A. (2021). Experience-specific dimensions of consciousness (observable in flexible and spontaneous action planning among animals)”, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2021.741579.
Fanghella, M., Era, V., & Candidi, M. (2021). Interpersonal Motor Interactions Shape Multisensory Representations of the Peripersonal Space. Brain Sciences, 11(2), 255. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020255
Calbi, M., Langiulli, N., Ferroni, F., Montalti M., Kolesnikov A., Gallese, V., Umiltà, M.A. (2021). The consequences of COVID-19 on social interactions: an online study on face covering. Scientific reports, 11, 2601. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81780-w
Calbi, M., Langiulli, N., Siri, F., Umiltà, M. A., & Gallese, V. (2021). Visual exploration of emotional body language: a behavioural and eye-tracking study. Psychological Research, 85(6), 2326-2339. 10.1007/s00426-020-01416-y
Cancer, A. Vanutelli, M. E., Lucchiari, C., & Antonietti, A. (2021). Using Neurofeedback to Restore Inter-Hemispheric Imbalance: A Study Protocol for Adults With Dyslexia. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.768061
Vanutelli, M. E., Pirovano, G., Esposto, C., & Lucchiari, C. (2021). Let’s do the Math… About Creativity and Mathematical Reasoning: A Correlational Study in Primary School Children. Education Quarterly Reviews, Vol.4, No.4, 445-454. 10.31014/aior.1993.04.04.406
Lucchiari, C., Folgieri, R., Gaevskaya, E., & Borisov, N. (2021). Digital humanities competencies development in various learning environments. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 2920, pp. 20-32). RWTH Aahen University.
Hindriks, F. & Guala, F. (2021). The Functions of Institutions: Etiology and Teleology. Synthese 198, 2027-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02188-8
Bordini, D., & Torrengo, G. (2021). Frightening Times. European Journal of Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12633
Mariani, C., & Torrengo, G. (2021) The Indeterminate Present and the Open Future. Synthese 199:3923–3944. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02963-y
Andreoletti, G., Tallant, J., & Torrengo, G. (2021) Purely Theoretical Explanations. Philosophia, 49, 133–154 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00250-1
2020
Guala, F. (2020). Solving the Hi-lo Paradox: Equilibria, Beliefs, and Coordination. In A. Fiebich (Ed.). Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency (pp. 149-168), Springer.
Guala, F. (2020). Money as an Institution and Money as an Object. Journal of Social Ontology 6, 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2020-0028
Quarona, D., Raffuzzi, M., Costantini, M., & Sinigaglia, C. (2020). Preventing action slows down performance in perceptual judgment. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-020-05948-y
Kaufmann, A. (2020). Is that all there is? Or is chimpanzees group hunt “fair” enough? Behavioural and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002309
Casartelli, L., Federici, A., Fumagalli, L., Cesareo, A., Nicoli, M., Ronconi, L., Vitale, A., Molteni, M., Rizzolatti, G., & Sinigaglia, C. (2020). Neurotypical individuals fail to understand action vitality form in children with autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011311117
Casartelli, L., Cesareo, A., Biffi, E., Campione, G. C., Villa, L., Molteni, M., & Sinigaglia, C. (2020). Vitality form expression in autism. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73364-x
Sinigaglia, C., & Butterfill, S. (2020). Motor representation and knowledge of skilled action. In E. Fridland & C. Pavese (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Skill and Expertise (Chapter 22, pp. 292-305). Routledge.
Sinigaglia, C., & Butterfill, S. (2020). Motor representation and action experience in joint action. In A. Fiebich (Ed.), Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency (Chapter 11, pp. 181-193). Springer.
Torrengo, G., Iaquinto, S. (2020) The Invisible Thin Red Line. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101, 354–382 https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12314