Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Personal Information
Date of Birth: 26.08.1981
Nationality: Italian
Business address: Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Rome, Italy

E-mail: viviana.betti@uniroma1.it
Web: https://vivianabetti.site.uniroma1.it
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3429-2104
Researcher ID: K-5516-2016

Current position
2020 -present - Junior Research Fellow - International School for Advanced Studies (Ssas) - Sapienza University of Rome
2018 - present - Associate Professor in Psychobiology and Psychophysiology- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome
Previous positions
2017-2018 Assistant Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
2009-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, G. d Annunzio University of Chieti
2005-2007 Research Fellow, Fatebenefratelli Hospital, division of Neurology
Education
2008 Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation, Sapienza University of Rome
2008 Visiting Student University College of London (UCL), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (U.K)
2005 Master of Science in Experimental Psychology (summa cum laude), Sapienza University of Rome
Publication overview
In the last 10 years, results of my studies in the field of social science and humanities have been published in high-impact factor journals, such as Neuron, Nature Methods, Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS), Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, The Neuroscientist. Neuroimage
Google Scholar: 1290 citations, H-index 15, i10=20
Scopus: 880 citations, H-index=13

Award
2014 Best publication in the Psychophysiology (Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia-SIPF)

National and International grants
2021 POR FESR LAZIO 2014-2020 Bando Gruppi di Ricerca 2020 Valutazione Strumentale ad alta tecnologia della stabilità posturale dinamica e del rischio caduta in persone fragili e disabili (Grant numero A0375-2020-36724). Role: Principal Investigator, 148.070,99

2020 Ministero della Salute Bando Ricerca Finalizzata microRNAs-34 and cardiovascular implications of chronic life stress and depression: a potential biomarker and therapeutic target , Role: Co-PI, 410.500,00.
2017 H2020 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant How natural hand usage shapes behavior and intrinsic and task-evoked brain activity (HANDmade), Role: Principal Investigator, 1.494.662,00.

Other fundings
2021- Bandi di Ateneo Sapienza- Rappresentazione di gesti della mano comuni e non comuni nell'attività spontanea del cervello: uno studio EEG ad alta densità Role: Coordinator, 10.000,00.
2020 - Bandi di Ateneo Sapienza- Breaking the rules: how alterations of body statistics reorganize the functional connectivity in individuals with high and low cognitive flexibility Role: Coordinator, 10.000,00.
2019 - Bandi di Ateneo- Sapienza - Identifying the prodromal, pre-clinical signs of neurodegenerative disorders in aging: a neuropsychological study , Role: Collaborator, 40.000,00.
2017 - Bandi di Ateneo- Sapienza - To the heart of the matter: Brain-body pathways to perseverative cognition, Role: Collaborator, 8.000,00.

Research group and Student Supervision
Currently, I am Director of Cosynclab (https://www.cosynclab.it) at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome and I am leading a research group with 5 PostDocs and 3 PhD student. Since 2017, I have been advisor of other 4 PostDocs, 1 visiting student and 13 undergraduate students

Teaching activities
from 2022- Chair of Psicobiologia e Psicologia dell alimentazione (3 CFU)
from 2019-present Chair of Functional Neuronatomy (6 CFU)
from 2019-present Chair of Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory (3 CFU)
2018-2019 Co-Chair of Affective Neuroscience, for MSc students, Sapienza University (3 CFU)
2017-2018 Chair of Social Neuroscience, for MSc students, Sapienza University (9 CFU)
2012-2016 CME - Nouss Institute (Cagliari)
Research Evaluation
from 2019-2020 Grant Evaluation Panel Be-for-ERC (Panel SH) Sapienza University of Rome
2017 Board of Professors of PhD program in Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience CoSAN, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome

Commissions of trust
Expert Reviewer for International Peer Review Journals
Neuroimage, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, PLoS One, European Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuropsychologia, Scientific Reports, Biological Psychology, Experimental Brain Research, Neural Plasticity; Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience; Communication Biology
Expert Reviewer for International Funding Agencies
The French National Research Agency (ANR).

Memberships of scientific societies
Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Italian Society of Psychophysiology (SIPF)
Organisation of scientific meetings
2021 Organizer: Symposium Mente fatta a mano: come la mano influenza chi siamo Roma
2018 Organizer: Symposium Using Magnetoencephalography to study dynamics of brain activity and functional connectivity: method developments and applications, World Congress of Psychophysiology, IMT Lucca, Italy
2015 Organizer: Symposium Spatiotemporal dynamics and emotional responses to artificial and naturalistic stimuli, Annual meeting of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology (SIPF), Lucca, Italy;
2006 Co-Organiser: The Ladies of the Brain, Brain Awareness Week (BAW), Sapienza, University of Rome.

Publications
(2021)
Galli G, Angelucci D, Bode S, De Giorgi C, De Sio L, Paparo A, Di Lorenzo G, Betti V. (2021) Early EEG responses to pre-electoral survey items reflect political attitudes and predict voting behavior Scientific Report Sep 21;11(1):18692. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-96193-y (IF 4.379).

Spadone S, Betti V, Sestieri C, Pizzella V, Corbetta M, Della Penna S. (2021) Spectral signature of attentional reorienting in the human brain Neuroimage 1; 244:118616. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118616 (IF 6.556).

De Bartolo D, De Giorgi C, Compagnucci L, Betti V, Antonucci G, Morone G, Paolucci S, Iosa M. (2021) Effects of cognitive workload on heart and locomotor rhythms coupling. Neurosci Lett. Sep 25;762:136140. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136140. Epub 2021 Jul 27 (IF 3.046).

Rosati G, Cisotto G, Sili D, Compagnucci L, De Giorgi C, Pavone EF, Paccagnella A, Betti V, (2021) Inkjet-printed fully-customizable and low-cost electrodes matrix for gesture recognition, Scientific Report 11 (1): 14938 doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94526-5 (IF 4.379).

Betti V, Della Penna S, de Pasquale F, Corbetta M (2021) Spontaneous beta band rhythms in the predictive coding of natural stimuli, The Neuroscientist 27, 184:201, doi: 10.1177/1073858420928988 (IF. 6.791).

de Pasquale F, Spadone S, Betti V, Corbetta M, Della Penna S. (2021) Temporal modes of hub synchronization at rest. Neuroimage, Jul 15;235:118005. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118005 (IF 6.556)

Marucci M, Di Flumeri G, Borghini G, Sciaraffa N, Scandola M, Pavone EF, Babiloni F, Aricò P., Betti V,
(2021) The impact of multisensory integration and perceptual load in virtual reality settings on performance, workload and presence. Scientific Report 11(1):4831. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84196-8 (IF 4.379).

Favaretto C, Spadone S, Sestieri C, Betti V, Cenedese A, Della Penna S, Corbetta M (2021) Multi-band MEG signatures of BOLD connectivity reorganization during visuospatial attention, Neuroimage, 117781. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117781 (IF 6.556).

Invitto, S, Romano D, Garbarini F, Bruno V, Urgesi C, Curcio G, Grasso A, Pellicciari MC, Koch G, Betti V, Fiorio M, Ricciardi E, de Tommaso M, Valeriani M, (2021) Major Stress-Related Symptoms During the Lockdown: A Study by the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Front Public Health doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.636089. eCollection 2021 (IF 3.709).

Campanella S, Arikan K, Babiloni C, Balconi M, Bertollo M, Betti V and others (2021) Special Report on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinical EEG and Research and Consensus Recommendations for the Safe Use of EEG Clin EEG Neurosci. Jan;52(1):3-28. doi: 10.1177/1550059420954054. doi.org/10.1177/1550059420954054 (IF 1.765).

Less recent publications
de Tommaso M , Betti V , Bocci T, Bolognini N, Di Russo F, Fattapposta F , Ferri R, Invitto S , Koch G , Miniussi C , Piccione F, Ragazzoni A , Sartucci F , Rossi S , Valeriani M (2020) Pearl and pitfalls in brain functional analysis by event-related potentials: a narrative review by the Italian Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Society on methodological limits and clinical reliability-part II, Neurological Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s10072-020-04527-x (IF 2.484)
de Tommaso M, Betti V, Bocci T, Bolognini N, Di Russo F, Fattapposta F, Ferri R, Invitto S, Koch G, Miniussi C, Piccione F, Ragazzoni A, Sartucci F, Rossi S, Arcara G, Berchicci M, Bianco V, Delussi M, Gentile E, Giovannelli F, Mannarelli D, Marino M, Mussini E, Pauletti C, Pellicciari MC, Pisoni A, Raggi A, Valeriani M. (2020) Pearls and pitfalls in brain functional analysis by event-related potentials: a narrative review by the Italian Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Society on methodological limits and clinical reliability-part I, Neurological Sciences (IF 2.484)
Aricò P., Reynal M, Di Flumeri G., Borghini G., Sciaraffa N., Imbert JP., Hurter C., Terenzi M., Ferreira A., Pozzi S., Betti V., Marucci M., Telea AC., Babiloni F. (2019) How Neurophysiological Measures Can be Used to Enhance the Evaluation of Remote Tower Solutions, Front Hum Neurosci, 13:303 (IF 2.870)

Demirta M, Ponce-Alvarez A, Gilson M, Hagmann P, Mantini D, Betti V, Romani GL, Friston K, Corbetta M, Deco G. (2019) Distinct modes of functional connectivity induced by movie-watching, NeuroImage, 184:335-348 (IF 5.812)

Betti V, Corbetta M, de Pasquale F, Wens V, Della Penna S. (2018) Topology of Functional Connectivity and Hub Dynamics in the Beta Band As Temporal Prior for Natural Vision in the Human Brain, The Journal of Neuroscience 38(15): 3858-3871 (IF 6.074)

Gilson M, Deco G, Friston KJ, Hagmann P, Mantini D, Betti V, Romani GL, Corbetta M. (2018) Effective connectivity inferred from fMRI transition dynamics during movie viewing points to a balanced reconfiguration of cortical interactions NeuroImage, 180(Pt B): 534-546 (IF 5.812)

De Pasquale F, Corbetta M, Betti V, Della Penna S. (2018) Cortical cores in network dynamics, NeuroImage. 2018;180(Pt B): 370-382 (IF 5.812)

Arico P, Reynal M, Imbert JP, Hurter C, Borghini G, Di Flumeri G, Sciaraffa N, Di Florio A, Terenzi M, Ferreira A, Pozzi S, Betti V, Marucci M, Pavone E, Telea AC, Babiloni F (2018) Human-Machine Interaction Assessment by Neurophysiological Measures: A Study on Professional Air Traffic Controllers. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 4619-4622.

Betti V, Aglioti S.M., (2016) Dynamic construction of the neural networks underpinning empathy for pain
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 63:191-206 (IF 8.802).

Spadone S., Della Penna S., Sestieri C., Betti V., Tosoni A., Perrucci M.G., Romani G.L., Corbetta M. (2015) Dynamic reorganization of human resting-state networks during visuospatial attention. PNAS 112, 8112-8117 (IF 9.674).

Mancini A, Betti V, Panasiti MS, Pavone EF, Aglioti SM. Perceiving monetary loss as due to inequity reduces behavioral and cortical responses to pain. Eur J Neurosci 40, 2378-2388 (IF 3.669).

Betti V, Della Penna S, de Pasquale F, Mantini D, Marzetti L, Romani GL, Corbetta M. (2013) Natural scenes viewing alters the dynamics of functional connectivity in the human brain, Neuron 79, 782-797 (IF 15.982).

Valentini E, Betti V, Hu L, Aglioti SM. (2013) Hypnotic modulation of pain perception and of brain activity triggered by nociceptive laser stimuli, Cortex 49, 446-62 (IF 6.161).

Mantini D, Hasson U, Betti V, Perrucci MG, Romani GL, Corbetta M, Orban GA, Vanduffel W. (2012) Interspecies activity correlations reveal functional correspondence between monkey and human brain areas, Nature Methods 9, 277-282 (IF 19.276).

Mancini A, Betti V, Panasiti MS, Pavone EF, Aglioti SM. (2011) Suffering makes you egoist: acute pain increases acceptance rates and reduces fairness during a bilateral ultimatum game, PlosOne, 6(10):e26008 (IF 4.092).

Betti V, Zappasodi F, Rossini PM, Aglioti S.M., Tecchio F. (2009) Synchronous with Your Feelings: Sensorimotor Gamma-Band and Empathy for Pain, The Journal of Neuroscience 29, 12384-12392 (IF 6.908).

Longo MR, Betti V, Aglioti S.M., Haggard P. (2009), Visually Induced Analgesia: Seeing the Body Reduces Pain, The Journal of Neuroscience 29, 12125-12130 (IF 6.908).

Valentini E, Betti V. Aglioti S.M (2009) Hypnotic modulation of sensory and affective dimensions of pain: a laser evoked potentials study, European Journal of Pain 13, S101b-S101 (IF 2.928).

Valeriani M, Betti V, Le Pera D, De Armas L, Miliucci R, Restuccia D, Avenanti A, Aglioti S.M. (2008) Seeing the pain of others while being in pain: a Laser-evoked potentials study, NeuroImage 15,1419-1428 (IF 6.252).

Valeriani M, Le Pera D, Restuccia D, de Armas L, Miliucci R, Betti V, Vigevano F, Tonali P. (2007) Parallel spinal pathways generate the middle-latency N1 and the late P2 components of the laser evoked potentials, Clin Neurophysiol 118,1097-104 (IF 2.468).

Valeriani M, Betti V, Le Pera D, De Armas L., Miliucci R, Aglioti S.M. (2006), Reduction of the SII area response to painful laser stimuli during the observation of other s pain, Clin Neuropsysiol 117 (IF 2.718)

Capitoli di libro
Betti V, Valentini E. In: DIPAV quaderni, fascicolo 23. MILANO, FrancoAngeli, doi: DOI: 10.1400/112863
La condivisione empatica del dolore altrui (2008)

Betti V (2008). In: Cervello, linguaggio e società. Corisco Edizioni p. 247-258, ISBN: 978-88-88325-15-6
Sincronizzazione in banda gamma ed empatia per il dolore altrui