Social Cognition & Integrative Neuroscience

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Tomasino, B. & Rumiati, R.I. Introducing the special topic "The when and why of sensorimotor processes in conceptual knowledge and abstract concepts". Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Aug 26;7:498. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00498.  
  • Mengotti, P., Corradi-dell’Acqua, C., Negri G.A.L., Pesavento, V., & Rumiati, R.I. Selective imitation impairments differentially interact with language processing. Brain. 2013 Aug;136(Pt 8):2602-18. doi: 10.1093/brain/awt194.  
  • Tomasino B, Lotto L, Sarlo M, Civai C, Rumiati R, Rumiati RI. Framing the ultimatum game: the contribution of simulation. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013 Jul 9;7:337. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00337. Print 2013.  
  • Civai, C., Rumiati, R.I., & Rustichini, A. (2013). Driving principles in Decision-Making: the role of abstract moral rules. Acta Psychologica, 144(1):12-18.  
  • Tomasino, B. & Rumiati, R.I. (2013). At the mercy of strategies: the role of motor representations in language understanding. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:27. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00027. Epub 2013 Feb 4.  
  • Foroni, F., Pergola, G., Argiris, G. & Rumiati, R.I. (2013). The FoodCast research image database (FRIDa). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7:51. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00051. Epub 2013 Mar 1. PMID: 23459781  
  • De Simone, L., Tomasino, B., Eleopra, R. & Rumiati, R.I. (2013). The effects of healthy aging on mental imagery as revealed by egocentric and allocentric mental spatial transformations. Acta Psychologica, 143(1),146-56.  
  • Bonivento, C., Rumiati, R.I., Biasutti, E. & Humphreys, G.W. (2013). The role of the Basal Ganglia in Action Imitation: Neuropsychological evidence from Parkinson’s disease Patients. Experimental Brain Research, 224(2), 211-20.  
  • Papeo, L., & Rumiati, R.I. (2013). Lexical and gestural symbols in left-damaged patients. Cortex, 49(6),1668-78.  
  • Mengotti, P., Ticini, L. F., Schütz-Bosbach, S. & Rumiati, R. I. (2013). Imitating others’ actions: Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the parietal opercula reveals the processes underlying automatic imitation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37(2), 316-22.  
  • Carmo, J.C., Rumiati R.I., & Vallesi, A. (2012). Understanding and imitating actions: Dissociable neural mechanisms. PlosOne. 7(10):e46939. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046939. Epub 2012 Oct 10. PMID: 23071668  
  • Papeo, L., Rumiati R.I., Cecchetto, C., & Tomasino, B. (2012). Online changing of thinking about words: The effect of cognitive context on neural responses to verb reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(12), 2348-62.  
  • Grecucci, A., Siugzdaite, R., Londero, D., Fabbro, F. & Brambilla, P. & Rumiati, R.I. (2013). Emotional resonance deficits in autistic children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 43(3), 616-28.  
  • Corradi dell’Acqua C., Civai, C., Rumiati, R.I., & Fink, G.R. (2013). Disentangling self- and fairness- related mechanisms in the Ultimatum Game: an fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2012 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]  
  • Vicario, C. & Rumiati, R.I. (2012). “tDCS of the primary Motor Cortex improves the detection of semantic dissonance. Neuroscience Letters, 518, 133-7.  
  • Civai, C., Crescentini, C., Rustichini, A. & Rumiati, R.I. (2012) Equality versus self-interest in the brain: differential roles of anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroimage, 62, 102-12.   Tomasino, B., Guatto, E., Rumiati, R.I., & Fabbro, F. (2012). The role of elite volleyball expertise in motor simulation. Acta Psychologica, 139, 1-6.  
  • Mengotti, P., Corradi dell’Acqua, C., & Rumiati, R.I. (2012). Neural correlates of spatial and anatomical components in action imitation. Neuroimage, 59, 1622-30.  
  • Jordan-Young, R. & Rumiati, R.I. Hardwired for Neurosexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience. Neuroethics. 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s12152-011-9134-4.  
  • Tessari, A., Toraldo, A., Lunardelli, A., Zadini, A., & Rumiati, R.I. (2011). Prova standardizzata per la diagnosi del disturbo aprassico ideomotorio selettivo per tipo di gesto e tipo di effettore. Ricerche di Psicologia.  
  • Crescentini, C. Mengotti, P. Grecucci, A. & Rumiati, R.I. (2011). The effect of observed biological and non-biological movements on action imitation: An fMRI study. Brain Research, 1420, 80-92.   Grecucci, A., & Koch, I. & Rumiati, R.I. (2011). The role of emotional context in facilitating imitative actions. Acta Psychologica, 138, 311-5.  
  • Papeo, L., Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C. & Rumiati, R.I. (2011). “She” is not like “I”: The tie between language and action is in our imagination. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 3939-48.  
  • Tomasino, B., Skrap, M. & Rumiati, R.I. (2011). The role of the human motor hand area in mental rotation: Neuropsychological Evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2068-78.
  • Papeo, L., Negri, G.A.L., Zadini, A. & Rumiati, RI. (2011). Action performance and action-word understanding: Evidence of double dissociations in left-damaged patients. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 428-61.  
  • Tomasino, B., Skrap, M. & Rumiati, R.I. The role of the human motor hand area in mental rotation: Neuropsychological Evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 20849231.
  • Civai, C., Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C. & Rumiati, R.I. (2010). Are irrational reactions to unfairness truly emotionally-driven? Dissociated behavioral and electrodermal responses in the Ultimatum Game task. Cognition. 114, 89-95.
  • Grecucci, A., Soto, D., Rumiati, R.I., Humphreys, G.W. & Rotshein, P. (2010). The inter-relations between verbal working memory and visual selection of emotional faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1189-200.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Papeo, L., & Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C. (2010). Higher-level motor processes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1191, 219-41.
  • Noy, L. Rumiati, R.I. & Flash, T. (2009). In a simple movement imitation task, kinematic features are sufficient to map perceptions into actions. Brain and Cognition, 69, 360-8.
  • Carmo, J.C. & Rumiati, R.I. (2009). Imitation of transitive and Intransitive actions in healthy individuals. Brain and Cognition, 69, 460-4.
  • Papeo, L., Vallesi, A., Isaja, A. & Rumiati, R.I. (2009). Implicit and explicit processing of motor and non-motor verbs and the role of the primary motor cortex: A TMS study. PLOSone. I 4(2):e4508.
  • Rumiati, R.I. Carmo, J.C. & Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C. (2009). Neuropsychological perspectives on the mechanisms of imitation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2337-47.
  • Grecucci, A., Balaban, E., Buiatti, T., Budai, R. & Rumiati, R.I. (2009). The emotional control of action: Evidence from an ERP study. Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 147, 37-49.
  • Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C., Ueno, K., Ogawa, A., Cheng K., Rumiati, R.I. & Iriki, A. (2008). Effects of shifting perspective of the Self: an fMRI study. NeuroImage. 40, 1902-1911.
  • Lunardelli, A., Zadini, A. Gigli, G. & Rumiati, R.I. (2008). Praxic and executive components in tool use learning: The role of imitation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 1077–1098.
  • Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C., Hesse, M.D, Rumiati R.I. & Fink, R.G. (2008). Where is a nose with respect to a foot? The left posterior parietal cortex processes spatial relationships among body parts. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2879-90.
  • Tessari, A., Canessa, N., Ukmar, M. & Rumiati, R.I. (2007). Neuropsychological evidence for a strategic control of multiple routes in imitation. Brain, 130, 1111-1126.
  • Grecucci, A., Cooper, R., & Rumiati, R.I. (2007). A computational model of action resonance and its modulation by emotional stimulation. Cognitive Systems Research, 143-160.
  • Mahon B.Z., Milleville S.C., Negri G.A., Rumiati R.I., Caramazza A. & Martin A. (2007). Action-related properties of objects shape object representations in the ventral stream. Neuron, 55, 507-20.
  • Lesk, V.E., Womble, S.P., & Rumiati R.I. (2007). Testing graceful degradation in a patient with aphasia. Neurocase, 18, 1-8.
  • Negri, G.A.L., Rumiati, R.I., Zadini, A., Ukmar, M., Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2007). What is the role of motor simulation in action and object recognition? Evidence from apraxia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 795-816.
  • Negri, G., Lunardelli, A., Gigli, G.L., & Rumiati, R.I. (2007). Degraded semantic knowledge and accurate object use. Cortex, 2, 376-388.
  • Koch, I. & Rumiati, R.I. (2006). Task-set and memory-consolidation bottleneck in dual tasks. Psychological Research, 8, 1-11.
  • Tessari, A., Bosanac, D., & Rumiati, R.I. (2006). Effect of learning on imitation of new actions: Implications for a memory model. Experimental Brain Research, 3, 507-513.
  • Haddar, U. & Rumiati, R.I. (2006). I gesture, therefore I speak: Cartesian cures. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8, 140-142.
  • Koch, I., Reverberi, C., & Rumiati, R.I. (2006). Learning hierarchically structured action sequences is unaffected by prefrontal cortex lesion. Experimental Brain Research, 4, 667-75.
  • Tomasino, B., Borroni P., Isaja, A., & Rumiati, R. (2005). The role of primary motor cortex in mental rotation: A TMS study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 348-363.
  • Shallice, T., Venable, N., & Rumiati, R.I. (2005). Dissociable distal and proximal motor components: Evidence from perseverative errors in three apraxic patients. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 625-639.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Weiss, P.H., Tessari, A., Assmus, A., Zilles, K., Herzog, H. & R. Fink, R.G. (2005). Common and differential neural mechanisms supporting imitation of meaningful and meaningless actions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1420-1431.
  • Tomasino, B., Budai, R., Mondani, M., Skrap, M. & Rumiati, R.I. (2005). Mental rotation in a patient with an implanted electrode grid in the motor cortex. NeuroReport, 16, 1795-1800.
  • Zoia, S., Pelamatti, G., & Rumiati, R.I. (2004). Praxic skills in down and mentally retarded adults: evidence for multiple action routes. Brain and Cognition, 1, 7-17.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Weiss, P.H., Shallice, T., Ottoboni, G., Noth, J., Zilles, K., & Fink G.R. (2004). The neural basis of pantomiming the use of visually presented objects. NeuroImage, 21, 1224-31.
  • Tomasino, B. & Rumiati, R.I. (2004). Effects of strategies on mental rotation and hemispheric lateralization: neuropsychological evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5, 878-888.
  • Tomasino, B., Vorano, L., Skrap, M., Gigli, G, Rumiati, R.I. (2004). Effects of strategies on mental rotation performed by unilateral brain damaged patients. Cortex, 40, 197-199.
  • Tessari, A. & Rumiati R.I. (2004). The strategic control of multiple routes in imitation of actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 1107-1116.
  • Tomasino, B, Toraldo, A., & Rumiati, R.I. (2003). Dissociation between the mental rotation of visual images and motor images in unilateral brain-damaged patients. Brain & Cognition, 51, 368, 371.
  • Tomasino, B., Rumiati, R.I., & Umiltà, C.A. (2003). Selective deficit of motor imagery as tapped by a left-right decision of visually presented hands. Brain and Cognition, 53, 376-380.
  • Rumiati, R.I., & Bekkering, H. (2003). Imitate or not to imitate? Why and how humans do it. Brain and Cognition, 53, 479-482.
  • Rumiati, R.I., & Tessari, A. (2002). Imitation of novel and well-known actions: The role of short-term memory. Experimental Brain Research, 142, 425-433.
  • Shallice, T., Marzocchi, G.M., Meuter, R.F.I., Coser, S., Del Savio, M., & Rumiati, R.I. (2002). Executive function profile of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Developmental Neuropsychology, 21(1), 43-71.
  • Zanini, S., Rumiati, R.I., & Shallice, T. (2002). Action sequencing deficit following frontal lobe lesions. Neurocase, 8, 88-99.
  • Tessari, A., & Rumiati, R.I. (2002). Motor distal component and pragmatic representation of objects. Cognitive Brain Research, 14(2), 218-227
  • Meuter, R.F.I., Humphreys, G.W., & Rumiati, R.I. (2002). Bilingual language switching and the frontal lobes: Modularity control in language selection. International Journal of Bilingualism, 6, 109-124.
  • Tessari, A., Rumiati, R.I., & Haggard, P. (2002). Imitation without awareness. Neuroreport, 13, 2531-35.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Zanini, S., Vorano, L. & Shallice, T. (2001). A form of Ideational Apraxia as a deficit of contention scheduling. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18, 617-642.
  • Toraldo, A., Reverberi, C, & Rumiati, R.I. (2001). Critical dimensions affecting imitation performance of patients with ideomotor apraxia. Cortex, 37, 737-740.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Tomasino, B., Vorano, L., Umiltà, C., & De Luca G. (2001). Selective deficit of imagining finger configurations. Cortex, 37, 730-733.
  • Shallice, T. Rumiati, R.I. & Zadini, A. (2000). The selective impairment of the phonological output buffer. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 517-546.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (2000). Cognitive neuroscience of actions: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Brain and Cognition, 44, 117-123.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (1999). Il riconoscimento visivo di oggetti. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 241-271.
  • Zanini, S., Bearzotti, F., Vorano, L., De Luca, G. & Rumiati, R.I. (1999). The assessment of utilization apraxia. Europa Medico Physica, 35, 119-124.
  • Rumiati, R.I. & Humphreys, G.W. (1998). Recognition by action: dissociating visual and semantic routes to actions in normal observers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 2, 631-647.
  • Luzzatti, C., Rumiati, R.I. & Ghirardi, G. (1998). A functional model of visuo-verbal disconnection and the neuroanatomical constraints of optic aphasia. Neurocase, 4, 71-87.
  • Humphreys, G.W. & Rumiati, R.I. (1998). When joys come not in single spies but in battalions: Within-modality identification increases the accessibility of degraded stored knowledge. Neurocase, 4, 111-126.
  • Humphreys, G.W. & Rumiati, R.I. (1998). Agnosia without prosopagnosia or alexia: Evidence for stored visual memories specific to objects. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 243-277.
  • Humphreys, G.W. & Rumiati, R.I. (1995). Recovering recognition: How reactivating degraded memories can facilitate name retrieval in “Representational Deficits”. Brain and Language, 51, 49-51.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Humphreys, G.W., Riddoch, J.M. & Bateman, A. (1994). Visual object agnosia without prosopagnosia or alexia: Evidence for hierarchical theories of visual recognition. Visual Cognition, 1, 181-225.
  • Rumiati, R.I. & Humphreys, G.W. (1997). Visual object agnosia without alexia or prosopagnosia: Arguments for separate knowledge stores. Visual Cognition, 4, 207-218.
  • Forde, E.M.E., Francis, D., Riddoch, J.M., Rumiati, R.I. & Humphreys, G.W. (1997). On the links between visual knowledge and naming: A single study of a patient with a category specific impairment for living things. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14, 403-458.
  • Luzzatti, C., Rumiati, R.I. & Ghirardi, G. (1996). Visuo-verbal disconnection and its anatomical constraints in optic aphasia. Brain & Cognition, 32, 199-202.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (1992). Memoria di ambienti: uno studio sperimentale. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 4, 585-599.

Book chapters, reviews, and commentaries

  • Rumiati, R.I. & Tessari, A. (2007). Automatic and strategic effects in human imitation. In P. Haggard, M. Kawato, & I. Rossetti (Eds.) Sensorimotor foundations of human cognition: Attention and Performance, Vol. XXII. pp. 503-517. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (2007). Aprassie. In G. Vallar and C. Papagno (Eds.) Manuale di Neuropsicologia, Bologna: Il Mulino. pp. 151-169.
  • Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C., & Rumiati, R.I. (2007). What the brain knows about the body: Evidence for dissociable representations. In F. Santoianni, & C. Sabatano (Eds.), Brain Development in Learning Environments Embodied and Perceptual Advancements. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50-64.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (2007). Imitazione. In F. Barale, M. Bertani, V. Gallese, S. Mistura, & A. Zamperini (Eds.), Psiche: Dizionario storico di psicologia, psichiatria, psicoanalisi, neuroscienze. Torino: Einaudi.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (2005). Right, left or both? Brain hemispheres and apraxia of naturalistic actions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9:4, 167-169.
  • Tomasino, B., Corradi-Dell’Acqua, C., Tessari, A., Spiezio, C. & Rumiati, R.I. (2004). A neuropsychological approach to motor control and imagery. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 27(3), 419.
  • Rumiati, R.I. (2002). Perception and imitation of actions. In W. Prinz & B. Hommel (Eds.) Common mechanisms in perception and action: Attention and Performance, Vol. XIX. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 289-293.

Other publications

  • Rumiati, R.I. Quelle scienziate ebree dimenticate due volte. Pagine Ebraiche, n.12, pp. 32-33, 2010
  • Rumiati, R.I. Neuroscienze e razzismo. Sapere. 2010.
  • Rumiati, R.I. Rumiati, R.I. Identità: si nasce o si diventa?. Pagine Ebraiche, n. 6, pp. 32-33, 2010.
  • Rumiati, R.I. Nasce a Trieste il primo manifesto di Neuroetica. Il Piccolo, March 26th, 2008.
  • Rumiati, R.I. Razzismo e Psicologia. Sole 24 Ore, Nov. 2nd 2008.
  • Rumiati, R.I. Valutazione neuropsicologica dei deficit motori. La Stampa, 2007.
  • Rumiati, R.I. Ma l’uomo uccide tre volte di più. Sole 24 Ore, Sept. 29th 2007.
  • Rumiati, R.I., & Coyaud, S. Compagno bonobo. Stupro. Diario del Mese, Oct. 20th, 2006.
  • Rumiati, R.I., & Spiezio, C. Ma allora i primati non umani imitano oppure no? Supplemento culturale del Sole 24 Ore, March 28th 2004-03-30.
  • Spiezio, C., & Rumiati, R.I. Guardando s’impara: il chi, come e quando dell’imitazione. SISSANEWS, year 3, Dec 2003.
  • Rumiati, R.I., Tomasino B., & Isaja, A. Immaginare il movimento. SISSANEWS, year 2, issue 2, June 2003.