Giovanni Gentile, MSc
(PhD Student)

Research

The focus of Giovanni's research is on the neural mechanisms underlying the representation of the body and its surrounding (peripersonal) space in the human brain, with a special focus on multisensory integration (how the brain combines information from different sensory modalities, such as vision, touch and proprioception), embodiment (the feeling that our self is physically located in our body) and reference frames for the representation of space and objects. To this end, he employs brain imaging techniques (fMRI, including BOLD-adaptation and multi-voxel analysis) in combination with established behavioral paradigms (rubber hand and full-body illusions).

Sample Publications

Petkova, V.I., Björnsdotter M., Gentile G., Jonsson T., Li T.Q., & Ehrsson H.H. From part to whole-body ownership in the multisensory brain. Current Biology (2011) 21 1-5. PDF

Brozzoli C. & Gentile G., Petkova V.I. and Ehrsson H.H. fMRI-adaptation reveals a cortical mechanism for the coding of space near the hand. J. Neurosci. (2011) 31(24) 9023-9031. PDF

Gentile G, Petkova V, Ehrsson HH. Integration of visual and tactile signals from the hand in the human brain: An fMRI study. J Neurophysiology (2011) 105(2):910-22. PDF

van der Zwaag W, Gentile G, Gruetter R, Spierer L, Clarke S. Where sound position influences sound object representations: a 7-T fMRI study. Neuroimage 54(3):1803-11, 2011. PDF

Contact

Giovanni Gentile, MSc
PhD Student
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet
Retzius väg 8, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

email: giovanni.gentile @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 08 524 87 989