Tiziano Furlanetto

Università degli Studi di Torino | UNITO · Center for Cognitive Science

At present, most of the neurocognitive models of human sense of agency (ie, “this action is due to my own will”) have been traditionally rooted in a variety of internal efferent signals arising within the motor system. However, recent neuroscientific evidence has suggested that also the body-related afferent signals that subserve body ownership (ie...

A growing body of work suggests that in some circumstances humans may be capable of ascribing mental states to others in a way that is fast, cognitively efficient, and implicit (implicit mentalising hypothesis). However, the interpretation of this work has recently been challenged on the grounds that the observed effects may reflect 'submentalising...

Recent findings suggest that in dyadic contexts observers rapidly and involuntarily process the visual perspective of others and cannot easily resist interference from their viewpoint. To investigate whether spontaneous perspective taking extends beyond dyads, we employed a novel visual perspective task that required participants to select between...

Human social interactions often require people to take a different perspective than their own. Although much research has been done on egocentric spatial representation in a solo context, little is known about how space is mapped in relation to other bodies. Here we used a spatial perspective-taking paradigm to investigate whether observing a perso...

What makes people spontaneously adopt the perspective of others? Previous work suggested that perspective taking can serve understanding the actions of others. Two studies corroborate and extend that interpretation. The first study varied cues to intentionality of eye gaze and action, and found that the more the actor was perceived as potentially i...

Does the human mind allow for self-locating at more than one place at a time? Evidence from neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental psychology suggests that mental bilocation is a complex, but genuine experience, occurring more frequently than commonly thought. In this article, we distinguish between different components of bilocated se...

Autoscopic phenomena are illusory visual experiences during which subjects have the feeling of seeing and perceiving their own body image in extrapersonal space: the person sees and sometimes experiences a sort of double. Commonly thought of as paranormal, these phenomena have raised long debate on the mind-body connection. Based on evidence from s...