Publications

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Preprints

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

Zickfeld, J., Scigala, K., Elbaek, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. T., Levy, G., et al. (in press). Effectiveness of ex-ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour.

Genovese, F., Fanghella, M., Sinigaglia, C., & Barchiesi, G. (2024). Does experience modulate automatic imitation? A new look. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.589868

Parmigiani, S., Rossi Sebastiano, A., Romeo, M., Cattaneo, L., Garbarini, F., Sinigaglia, C. (2024). Human and clock hands. How biomechanical constraints shape human motion perception. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4514226

2024

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.

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. 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.

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, doi: 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 Sciencehttps://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. DOI: 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.