Publications

Preprints

Kaufmann, A. (in press). Temporal Cognition in Animals. Cambridge University Press.

Sykes, J.,  Genovese, F., Mussini, E., Barchiesi, G., Prattichizzo, D., Rossi, S., Sinigaglia, C. Action Enhancement drives the embodiment of a supernumerary robotic digit. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.01.668241

Fanghella, M., D’Asaro, F. A., Quarona, D., Barchiesi, G, Rabuffetti, M., Ferrarin, M., Sinigaglia, C. Early Target Prediction in Action Observation. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.28.667200

Fanghella, M., Colombo, C., Pascarelli, M. T., Barchiesi, G., Rabuffetti, M., Ferrarin, M., Guala, F.,  Sinigaglia, C. Rational Expectations and Kinematic Information in Coordination Games. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.01.668238

Kaufmann, A. & Viera, G. (in press). Temporal Cognition in Apes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Pre-print

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

Kaufmann, A., Brooks, J., Samuni, L., and Michael, J. (2025). What Holds Groups Together? How Interdependence Shapes Group Living. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48:e172. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25101775

Mattei, M. (2025). Beyond the Blink: How Task Complexity, Temporal Crowding, and Ensemble Perception Reframe the Debate on Attention and Action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48, e150. doi:10.1017/S0140525X25000366

Kaufmann, A., Fanghella, M., Michael, J. (2025). The Compass of Commitment: Control Mechanisms Underpinning the Sense of Individual and Joint Commitment. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70136

Stango, A., Zazio, A., Barchiesi, G., Bonfiglio, N.S., Bortoletto, M. (2025). Impact of High-frequency Sampling Rate and Stimulation Intensity on early TMS artifacts: Considerations for Immediate TMS-EEG responses. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121526

Romeo, M.,  Genovese, F., Betta, M., Rossi Sebastiano, A., Teresi, L., Scanferlato, N., Sinigaglia, C., Ricciardi, E., Garbarini, F. (2025). As apparent as real: alpha and beta bands desynchronization unveils apparent motion perception dynamics. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121504

Vincini, S., Butler, M., & Satne, G. (2025). Action and social interaction: embodiment, development, and collectivity. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2573867

Genovese, F. Mussini, E., Zazio, A., Beltrami, F., Bortoletto, M., Cattaneo, L., Rota, P., Negro, F., Fanghella, M., Sinigaglia, C., Barchiesi, G. (2025). Multidimensional Motor Evoked Potentials (MultiMEP): Digging up buried information from single trials. Brain Stimulation. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X25003201

Michael, J., & Tummolini, L. (2025). Intrinsically motivated norm compliance and the sense of obligation. Current opinion in psychology, 65, 102043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102043

Fanghella, M., Mussini, E., Zazio, A., Genovese, F., Satta, E., Barchiesi, G., Battaglia Mayer, A., Bortoletto, M., Sinigaglia, C. (2025). Distinct Neural Dynamics in Joint versus Side-by-Side Actions: Insights from Dual EEG. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.  https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf075

Michael, J., Kabrel, M., Arioli Montanari, F., & Dvorkin, D. (2025). Experiencing coordination and commitment in joint action: a cross-cultural qualitative study. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2523704

Sykes, J. J. (2025). Language and Bodily Space. Sistemi intelligenti doi: 10.1422/117531

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

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

2024

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

2023

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. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16164.

Kaufmann, A. (2023). Introducing individual sentience profiles in non-human primate neuroscience research. Current Research in Neurobiology.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100104

Kaufmann, A., & Newen, A. (2023). Animal Thought Exceeds Language of Thought. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. 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

2022

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 

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

2020

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.