Giovanni was a PhD student in the lab and his research focused on the neural mechanisms of the multisensory representation of the body and its immediate surroundings in the human brain. Click here for more information about his research.'
Brozzoli C., Gentile G., Bergouignan L., & Ehrsson, H.H. (2013) A Shared Representation of the Space Near Oneself and Others in the Human Premotor Cortex. Current Biology, 23 (e-pub. ahead of print). PDF
Gentile G., Guterstam A., Brozzoli C., & Ehrsson H.H. Disintegration of Multisensory Signals from the Real Hand Reduces Default Limb Self-Attribution: An fMRI Study. The Journal of Neuroscience (2013) 33(33) 13350-13366. PDF
Guterstam A, Gentile G, & Ehrsson HH. The Invisible Hand Illusion: Multisensory Integration Leads to the Embodiment of a Discrete Volume of Empty Space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2013).PDF
Brozzoli C*, Gentile G*, & Ehrsson HH. (2012) That's near my hand! Parietal and premotor coding of hand-centered space contributes to localization and self-attribution of the hand. J. Neurosci. 32(42):14573-14582. PDF Supplementary materials here *Equal Contribution
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 *Equal Contribution
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 *Equal Contribution
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. LINK