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ReviewNational science review2020

The neural bases of vitality forms.

Giuseppe Di Cesare, Marzio Gerbella, Giacomo Rizzolatti

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Review in National science review, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Bridging feeling and motion: Insula-premotor dynamics in the processing of action vitality forms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Two distinct networks for encoding goals and forms of action: An effective connectivity study.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  9. A handbook forFrontiers in psychology · 2024
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  14. The middle cingulate cortex and dorso-central insula: A mirror circuit encoding observation and execution of vitality forms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Giuseppe Di CesareCognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova 16163, Italy.
Marzio GerbellaDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Neuroscience Unit, University of Parma, Parma 43125, Italy.
Giacomo RizzolattiDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, Neuroscience Unit, University of Parma, Parma 43125, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlike emotions, which are short-lasting events accompanied by viscero-motor responses, vitality forms are continuous internal states that modulate the motor behaviors of individuals and are devoid of the autonomic modifications that characterize real emotions. Despite the importance of vitality forms in social life, only recently have neurophysiological studies been devoted to this issue. The first part of this review describes fMRI experiments, showing that the dorso-central insula is activated during the execution, the perception and the imagination of arm actions endowed with different vitality forms as well as during the hearing and the production of speech conveying vitality forms. In the second part, we address the means by which the dorso-central insula modulates the networks for controlling action execution and how the sensory and interoceptive information is conveyed to this insular sector. Finally, we present behavioral data showing the importance of vitality forms in social interactions.

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action observationemotionsinsulamirror mechanismsocial interactions

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PMID34692032
PMCPMC8288905

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