ILARIA BUFALARI

PSICOLOGIA ECONOMICA E DEI CONSUMI a.a. 2021-2022:

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
My research activity aims to understand the how we represent the (bodily, interpersonal and social) self and use those representations to understand (and interact with) the other. In particular, I investigate the psychological and social variables contributing to the building and maintaining the sense of self, and the interpersonal multisensory stimulation (IMS) paradigms able to blur the distinction between self and others, i.e. to induce self-other merging. These themes are investigated in healthy individuals, and in clinical conditions with defective bodily and conceptual self-representations such as Anorexia Nervosa. The research activity is carried over by means of the successful integration of behavioural, electrophysiological, personality measures and social manipulations techniques.

CURRENT POSITION
Since 2019 Associate Professor of Social Psychology - Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processes

EMPLOYMENTS
2016-2019 Assistant Professor of Social Psychology - Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processe
2014-2017 Principal Investigator - IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma (Italy) – Social Neuroscience Lab
- The position was funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (Young Researchers Award, GR-2011-02351798).
- I supervised and coordinated the research activities of a team composed by 2 cognitive neuroscientists (PhD students), 1 psychiatrist, and 2 post-doc researchers on a project titled “Combined behavioral and non-invasive brain stimulation interventions for treating body image distortions in Anorexia Nervosa".
2010-2014 Post-doc Researcher - Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Psychology, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
- The position was funded by EU project TANGO (FP7-ICT-2009-C)
- Coordinator of studies on behavioral and neural correlates of self and other actions, self-other body representation and bodily self plasticity (investigated through TMS, EEG)
2010 - 2012 Associate Researcher - IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma (Italy) – Social Neuroscience Lab
- The position was funded by EU project VERE (FP7-ICT-2009-5)
- Coordinated studies on the psychological and social variables contributing to the building and maintaining the sense of self, and on the interpersonal multisensory stimulation (IMS) paradigms able to blur the distinction between self and others (investigated through EEG and in virtual reality environments)
2008-2010 Post-doc Researcher - University of Ferrara (Italy) - Department of Biomedical Sciences and Advanced Therapies - Section of Human Physiology
- The position was funded by EU project POETICON (FP7-ICT-215843)
- Participated to TMS studies on speech perception, led EEG studies on action observation

2010 Junior Post Doc - Italian Institute of Technology, Genova (Italy) - Brain Robotic Computer Science Department
- Led combined TMS-EEG studies on speech perception

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES
2008 - PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience - Sapienza University, Rome (Italy) – Department of Psychology. Mark: Excellent
- Neural correlates of empathy investigated with EEG, SEPs, LEPs and TMS. I investigated self-other sharing mechanisms, i.e. the simulative processes involved in the first person experience of sensations and emotions, which sub-serve the understanding of others’ sensory and emotional states

2004 - Master Degree in Experimental Psychology - Sapienza University, Rome (Italy) – Department of Psychology Mark: 110 cum laude
- Neural correlates of empathy investigated through SEPs and TMS

TEACHING
Since 2023 - “Experimental Methods in Social Psychology and Neuroscience” (M-PSI/05; CFU: 3) within the international Master Course in “Cognitive Neuroscience” - Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Since 2020 - “Psicologia Sociale” (M-PSI/05; CFU: 3), within the Master Course in “Servizio Sociale” - Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Since 2019 - “Psicologia economica e dei consumi” (M-PSI/05; CFU: 9), within the Master Course in “Psicologia della Comunicazione e del Marketing” - Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARD
Invitations
2023 - Visiting Professor - Guest Researchers Faculty Program 2023 - at the Institut Psychologie Department at Université Paris Cité (Prof. Marco Sperduti)
Awards
Honors and Prizes
2018 Finalist for Premio R.O.S.A. - Risultati Ottenuti Senza Aiuti
XIV Edition (http://www.premiorosa.org/it/c/Anno-2018.html). Awards ceremony held at Camera di Commercio di Roma – Sala del Tempio di Adriano on 28 May 2018.
2017 - IgNobel Prize for Cognition for the research article “Is that me or my twin? Lack of self-face recognition advantage in identical twins” by Martini M., Bufalari I., Stazi M.A., Aglioti S.M. published in PLOSone (2015). Apr 8;10(4):e0120900. Awards ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on 14 September 2017.
Society memberships
2012-2022 AIP – Italian Psychology Association

Editorial activity
Since 2015 Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)

Reviewer/Panelist activity
2022 Panel Member for European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants Call – SH4 panel
2018 External Reviewer for European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants Call – SH4 panel
2011 Scientific Reviewer for the Young Researcher Programme funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France)
Since 2008 Scientific Reviewer for International Journals (e.g., PLOSone; Psychological Research; Frontiers in Psychology; Cogent Psychology; Scientific Reports; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; IEEE Access; Cognition; Perception; Journal of Experimental Psychology: HPP; Social Neuroscience; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Psychological Medicine; European Journal of Neuroscience; Cortex; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Cerebral Cortex; Neuropsychologia; Neuroscience; Neuroimage; Biological Psychology; Neuroscience Letters; Experimental Brain Research; Archives Italiennes of Biologie; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Multisensory Research)

Grants
As Principal Investigator (or responsible of research unit):
2022 - Project Title: "The Body as a Source of Evidence (BoSE): Characterizing dysfunctional interoception in Anorexia Nervosa", funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research ( 2022MWZYKT; 255.763,00 €)
2020 - Project Title: “Caratterizzare la plasticità dell'immagine corporea nell'anoressia nervosa: studi comportamentali e neurofisiologici.” funded by Sapienza University of Rome - Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo (RP120172b7bb61ea; 3000 euros)
2017- Project title: “Self-construal and trust: interpersonal and collective implications.” funded by Sapienza University of Rome - Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo (RM11715c82342248; 8000 euros)
2016 - Project title: “Need for cognitive closure and risk decision making: can we change this relationship by changing bodily self?” funded by Sapienza University of Rome - Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo (RG116154ECFB40E0; 36000 euros)
2014 - Project title: “Combined behavioural and non invasive brain stimulation interventions for treating body image distortions in Anorexia Nervosa". - funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. Host Institution: Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome (Italy). Prot. GR-2011-02351798. Duration: 36 months. 342.000 Euros.
Patents
Since 2016 - Board of Professors, PhD Programme in Psychology and Social Neuroscience

PUBBLICATIONS, CONGRESSES
Publications
1. Provenzano L., Ciccarone S., Porciello G., Petrucci M., Cozzani B., Cotugno A., Bufalari I. (2024). Embodiment of underweight and normal-weight avatars affects bodily self-representations in Anorexia Nervosa. Helyon. Available online 11 June 2024, e32834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32834

2. Provenzano L., Gohlke H., Saetta G., Bufalari I., Lenggenhager B., Roel M. (2024). “Fluid face but not gender: enfacement illusion through digital face filters does not affect gender identity.” PlosONE. Apr 3;19(4):e0295342. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295342.
3. Fusco G., Ciccarone S., Petrucci M., Cozzani B., Vercelli G., Cotugno A., Bufalari I. (2023). “Altered processing of conflicting body representations in women with restrictive Anorexia Nervosa”. Psychological Research. Sep;87(6):1696-1709. doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01788-3. Epub 2023 Jan 2.
4. Provenzano L., Porciello G.*, Ciccarone S., Lenggenhager B., Tieri G., Marucci M., Dazzi F., Loriedo C. and Bufalari I. *. (2020). “Characterizing Body Image Distortion and Bodily Self-Plasticity in Anorexia Nervosa via Visuo-Tactile Stimulation in Virtual Reality”. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020, 9, 98; doi:10.3390/jcm9010098. (IF: 5.688). *Corresponding Author.

5. Iodice P., Porciello G., Bufalari I., Barca L., Pezzulo G. (2019). “An interoceptive illusion of effort induced by false heart-rate feedback.” PNAS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 116(28):13897-13902. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821032116. (IF: 9.5804. 5-year IF: 10.6).
6. Schepisi M., Porciello G., Bufalari I., Aglioti S.M., Panasiti M. (2019). “Left Threatened by Right: Political Intergroup Bias in the Contemporary Italian Context”. Frontiers in Psychology. Jan 24;10:26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00026. (IF: 2.129).
7. Ilaria Bufalari *, Anna Laura Sforza, Francesco Di Russo, Lucia Mannetti, Salvatore Maria Aglioti (2019). Malleability of the self: electrophysiological correlates of the enfacement illusion. Scientific Reports Feb 8;9(1):1682. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-38213-y.* Corresponding Author. (IF: 4.011 5-years IF: 4.525).

8. Porciello G§, Bufalari I.§, Minio-Paluello I., di Pace E., Aglioti S.M. (2018). The ‘Enfacement’ illusion: a window on the plasticity of the self. Cortex. Jul;104:261-275. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.007. (IF: 4.279. 5-Years IF: 4.703). §Co-First Authorship.
9. Mannetti L., Brizi A., Belanger J., Bufalari I. (2016). All We Need is the Candidate's Face: The Irrelevance of Information about Political Coalition Affiliation and Campaign Promises. Cogent Psychology; 3,1: 1268365. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1268365.
10. Porciello G., Minio-Paluello I., Bufalari I.* (2016). Attentional control and the plastic self: a contribution to the Self Attention Network. Frontiers in Psychology. Nov 3;7:1701. Accepted. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01701. (IF: 2.463). *Corresponding Author
11. Bufalari I.*, Porciello G., Aglioti S.M. (2015). Atypical touch perception in MTS may derive from an abnormally plastic self-representation. Cognitive Neuroscience. 29:1-3. (IF: 2.653. 5-Year IF: 2.891). *Corresponding Author
12. Martini M., Bufalari I., Stazi M.A., Aglioti S.M. (2015). Apr 8;10(4):e0120900. Is that me or my twin? Lack of self-face recognition advantage in identical twins. PLOSone. 10(4):e0120900. (IF: 3.53. 5-years IF: 4.24).
13. Bufalari I.*, Porciello G., Sperduti M., Minio-Paluello I. (2014). Self-identification with another person's face: the time relevant role of multimodal brain areas in the enfacement illusion. J Neurophysiol. Jul 2:jn.00872.2013. (IF: 3.041. 5-years IF: 3.446). *Corresponding Author

14. Porciello G., Serra Holmes B., Liuzza MT, Crostella F, Aglioti SM, Bufalari I.* (2014). Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation reduces the overwhelming distracting power of self-gaze: psychophysical evidence for ‘engazement’. Scientific Reports. Oct 20; 4:6669. (IF: 5.078). *Corresponding Author

15. Bufalari I.*, Leggenhager B., Porciello G., Serra-Holmes B., Aglioti S.M. (2014). Enfacing others but only if they are nice to you. Frontiers Behavioural Neuroscience. Mar 28;8:102. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00102. (IF: 4.8). *Corresponding Author

16. Bufalari I.*, Di Russo F., Aglioti S.M. (2014). Illusory and Veridical Mapping of Tactile Objects in the Primary Somatosensory and Posterior Parietal Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 24(7):1867-78. (IF: 8.305; 5-years IF: 8.372). *Corresponding Author
17. Bufalari I.*, Ionta S. (2013). The social and personality neuroscience of empathy for pain and touch. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Jul 26;7:393. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00393. (IF: 2.9). *Corresponding Author
18. D’Ausilio A., Bufalari I., Salmas P., Fadiga L. (2012). The role of the motor system in discriminating degraded speech sounds. Cortex. 48(7):882-7. (IF: 7.251; 5-Years IF: 4.181).
19. D'Ausilio A., Jarmolowska J., Busan P., Bufalari I., Craighero L. (2011). Tongue corticospinal modulation during attended verbal stimuli: priming and coarticulation effects. Neuropsychologia. 49(13):3670-6. (IF: 3.636; 5-Years IF: 4.504).

20. D’Ausilio A., Bufalari I., Salmas P., Busan P., Fadiga L. (2011). Vocal pitch discrimination in the motor system. Brain and Language. 118(1-2):9-14. (IF: 3.115; 5-Years IF: 3.342).
21. Canto S., Bufalari I. D’Ausilio A. (2011). A convenient and accurate parallel Input/Output USB device for E-Prime. Behavior Research Methods. 43(1):292-6. (IF: 2.92).
22. Bufalari I*., Sforza A., Cesari P., Aglioti S.M., Fourkas A. (2010). Motor imagery beyond the joint limits: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Biological Psychology, 85(2):283-90. (IF: 4.363 5-Years IF: 4.337). *Corresponding Author
23. Sforza A.L., Bufalari I., Haggard P., Aglioti S.M. (2010). My face in yours: visuo- tactile facial stimulation influences sense of identity. Social Neuroscience, 5(2):148-62. (IF: 3.172. 5-Years IF: 3.653).
24. DʼAusilio A., Pulvermüller F., Salmas P., Bufalari I., Begliomini C., Fadiga L. (2009). The motor somatotopy of speech perception. Current Biology. 19(5):381-5. IF: 10.992; 5-Years (IF: 11.571).
25. Avenanti A., Minio Paluello I., Bufalari I., Aglioti S.M. (2009). The pain of a model in the personality of an onlooker: Influence of state-reactivity and personality traits on embodied empathy for pain. Neuroimage, 44(1): 275-83. (IF: 5.739; 5-Years IF: 7.168).
26. Bufalari, I., Aprile, T., Avenanti, A., Di Russo, F., Aglioti, S.M. (2007). Empathy for Pain and Touch in the Human Somatosensory Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11): 2553-61. (IF: 6.519; 5-years IF: 7.427).
27. Avenanti A., Minio-Paluello I., Bufalari I., Aglioti S.M., (2006). Stimulus driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of other’s pain. Neuroimage, 32(1): 316-24. (IF: 5.739; 5-Years IF: 7.168).

Book chapters
28. Bufalari I., Porciello G., Minio-Paluello I. (2023). “How the Enfacement illusion blurs the thin line between self and other” in Keenan JP, QuevedoK, Hopkins WD editors of “Self-Face Recognition and the Brain: How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition has Changed Psychology, Psychiatry, and Evolution” 1st edition (pp.248). Publisher: Routledge. ISBN 9781032019505. First published: August 18, 2023.
29. Aglioti S.M., Bufalari I., Candidi M. (2014). “Multisensory simulation and aesthetic appreciation” in “The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory and Space“ edited by A. Pascual-Leone and N. Levent. AltaMira Press.
30. Bufalari I, Aglioti SM. (2011). “La linea sottile fra me e l’altro: come una stimolazione visuo-tattile può cambiare il senso di identità personale.“ in “Nuovi Dialoghi tra Teatro e Neuroscienze.” edited by C. Falletti and G. Sofia. Editoria & Spettacolo, Rome (Italy).
31. Bufalari I. (2008). “Lato sensorimotorio dell’empatia per il dolore altrui: studi di stimolazione magnetica transcranica e potenziali evocati somatosensoriali.” in “Cervello, Linguaggio, Società” edited by V. Cardella and D. Bruni Corsico Editore.

Major invited presentations
1. Bufalari I., Porciello G. (2022). Exteroceptive and Interoceptive contribution to bodily self-awareness in Anorexia Nervosa. Invited talk in the Symposium "Bodily and interoceptive dynamics and their roles in affective, linguistic and conscious processes". 22st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Lille (France), 29th August – 1st Spetmeber 2022.
2. Bufalari I. (2022). Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation as a tool to induce plastic changes to self-representation and self-other perception. Invited talk in the symposium “The bodily self: from its development to its influence in social contexts and mental health”. Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP)- Sezione di Psicologia Sperimentale. Padova (Italia), 26-30 Settembre 2022.
3. Bufalari I., Ciccarone S. (2021). Combined behavioral and immersive virtual reality interventions for the treatment of body image distortion in Anorexia nervosa. Congress of the Italian Society of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy. 16-19 September 2021.
4. Bufalari I . (2021). Combined behavioral and immersive virtual reality interventions for the treatment of body image distortion in Anorexia nervosa . XXV Congress of the Italian Society of Psychopathology. 24-27 February 2021.
5. Bufalari I ., Porciello G. (2017). La linea sottile fra sé e l’altro: modificare la fiducia interpersonale, la cooperazione, ed i comportamenti di conformismo attraverso la stimolazione multisensoriale interpersonale. Symposium Title: “Percezione e reazione agli stimoli emotivi: siamo ciecamente guidati dalle emozioni?“ National Congress of National Italian Psychology Association (AIP)- Experimental Psychology Section. Bari (Italy), 20-22 September 2017.
6. Bufalari I., Aglioti S.M. (2015). Plasticity of the self as inferred from the enfacement illusion: behavioral and electrophysiological studies. National Congress of National Italian Psychology Association (AIP)- Clinical Psychology Section. Milazzo (ME), Italy, 25-27 September 2015.
7. Bufalari I ., Porciello G., Aglioti S.M. (2014). The Plastic Self: neural and behavioral correlates of the enfacement illusion. 22nd Annual meeting of the European Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Noto (SR), Italy, 16th-19th September 2014.
8. Bufalari I (2010). My Face in Yours: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates of the Enfacement Effect. International Multisensory Research Forum. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 16-19 June 2010.
9. Bufalari I . (2009). Neural correlates of Empathy for Pain. III Annual Conference of European Health Psychology Society. Pisa, Italy, 23-26 September 2009.