Ongoing research and Preprints

Oxytocin Modulation of Spinal Circuits Drives Therapeutic Benefits of Massage.
Bohic M, Salamone PC, Zuo W, Negm A, Fulton SL, Du S, Jayakumar S, Keating J, Soubeyre V, Gradwell MA, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.11.698886

The backbone of the self? Differential spinal cord activity during self-other-object touch.
Kaldewaij R, Enmalm A, Kämpe R, Salamone P, Finsterbusch J, Tinnermann A, Olausson H, Böhme R.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (CNS 2024), Leipzig, Germany, 2024.
https://www.cbs.mpg.de/2107143/c20_kaldewaij.pdf 

D'-tecting the Beat: Refining d' in Heartbeat Detection Tasks.
Fraile-Vazquez ME, Cascio C, Salamone PC, Hazelton J, Emina F, Prinsen J, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4unep 

Peer Reviewed scientific articles

2026

Social touch is associated with disrupted bodily self-concept in people with depersonalization symptoms.
Acta Psychologica
Salamone, P. C., Dowzuk, N. A., Gallo, M. N., & Boehme, R. (2024).
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107307 

2025

Autonomic Modulations to Cardiac Dynamics in Response to Affective Touch: Differences Between Social Touch and Self-Touch.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2025.
Candia-Rivera D, Boehme R, Salamone PC.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3548778 

Altered Processing of Self-Produced Sensations in Psychosis at Cortical and Spinal Levels.
Molecular Psychiatry, 2025.
Salamone PC, Enmalm A, Kaldewaij R, Åman M, Medley C, Pietrzak M, Olausson H, Capusan AJ, Boehme R.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03130-w

Linking Heartbeats with the Cortical Network Dynamics Involved in Self-Social Touch Distinction.
Communications Biology, 2025.
Candia-Rivera D, de Vico Fallani F, Boehme R, Salamone PC.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07448-z 

2024

Interoception, Network Physiology and the Emergence of Bodily Self-Awareness.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024.
Candia-Rivera D, Engelen T, Babo-Rebelo M, Salamone PC.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105864 

Ketamine Reduces the Neural Distinction Between Self- and Other-Produced Affective Touch: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024.
Kaldewaij R, Salamone PC, Enmalm A, Östman L, Pietrzak M, Karlsson H, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01906-2 

2023

Thinking Versus Feeling: How Interoception and Cognition Influence Emotion Recognition in Behavioural-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Parkinson's Disease.
Cortex, 2023.
Hazelton JL, Fittipaldi S, Fraile-Vazquez M, Sourty M, Legaz A, Hudson AL, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.02.009 

2022

The Price of Prosociality in Pandemic Times.
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022.
Santamaría-García H, Burgaleta M, Legaz A, Flichtentrei D, Córdoba-Delgado M, Molina-Paredes J, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-01022-2 

2021

Interoception Primes Emotional Processing: Multimodal Evidence from Neurodegeneration.
Journal of Neuroscience, 2021.
Salamone PC, Legaz A, Sedeño L, Moguilner S, Fraile-Vazquez M, Campo CG, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2578-20.2021 

2020

A Multidimensional and Multi-Feature Framework for Cardiac Interoception. NeuroImage, 2020.
Fittipaldi S, Abrevaya S, de la Fuente A, Pascariello GO, Hesse E, Birba A, Salamone P, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116677 

At the Heart of Neurological Dimensionality: Cross-Nosological and Multimodal Cardiac Interoceptive Deficits.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 2020.
Abrevaya S, Fittipaldi S, García AM, Dottori M, Santamaria-Garcia H, Birba A, Salamone P, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000868 

Dynamic Neurocognitive Changes in Interoception After Heart Transplant. Brain Communications, 2020.
Salamone PC, Sedeño L, Legaz A, Bekinschtein T, Martorell M, Adolfi F, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa095 

Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis Is Associated with Multimodal Interoceptive Abnormalities.
Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2020.
Gonzalez Campo C, Salamone PC, Rodríguez-Arriagada N, Richter F, Herrera E, Bruno D, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/1352458519888881 

2018

Altered Neural Signatures of Interoception in Multiple Sclerosis.
Human Brain Mapping, 2018.
Salamone PC, Esteves S, Sinay VJ, García-Cordero I, Abrevaya S, Couto B, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24319 

Multilevel Convergence of Interoceptive Impairments in Hypertension: New Evidence of Disrupted Body–Brain Interactions.
Human Brain Mapping, 2018.
Yoris A, Abrevaya S, Esteves S, Salamone P, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23933 

Pathophysiology and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Detected After Ischemic Stroke (PARADISE): A Translational, Integrated, and Transdisciplinary Approach. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2018.
Paquet M, Cerasuolo JO, Thorburn V, Fridman S, Alsubaie R, Lopes RD, Salamone P, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2017.09.038 

2017

Reply: Towards a Neurocomputational Account of Social Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disease.
Brain, 2017.
Ibáñez A, Billeke P, de la Fuente L, Salamone P, García AM, Melloni M.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/brain/aww316 

2016

Feeling, Learning From and Being Aware of Inner States: Interoceptive Dimensions in Neurodegeneration and Stroke.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2016.
García-Cordero I, Sedeño L, de la Fuente L, Slachevsky A, Forno G, Klein F, Salamone P, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0006 

2015

Stroke and Neurodegeneration Induce Different Connectivity Aberrations in the Insula.
Stroke, 2015.
García-Cordero I, Sedeño L, Fraiman D, Craiem D, de la Fuente LA, Salamone P, et al.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.009598