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Article: Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy-The Video Game Therapy

Bocci, Francesco / Ferrari, Ambra / Sarini, Marcello

2023 Volume 11, Issue 12

Abstract: Video games have been increasingly used as a form of therapy for various mental health conditions. Research has shown that video games can be used to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. One of the main benefits of video ... ...

Abstract	Video games have been increasingly used as a form of therapy for various mental health conditions. Research has shown that video games can be used to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. One of the main benefits of video games in therapy is that they can provide a sense of engagement and immersion that traditional therapy methods may lack. Additionally, video games can teach valuable skills such as problem solving, decision making, and coping strategies. Video games can also simulate real-life scenarios, allowing individuals to practice and improve social skills in a safe and controlled environment. Furthermore, video games can provide feedback and track progress objectively and quantifiably. This paper proposes an approach, the Video Game Therapy
Language	English
Publishing date	2023-06-15
Publishing country	Switzerland
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2721009-1
ISSN	2227-9032
ISSN	2227-9032
DOI	10.3390/healthcare11121767
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Article: Multimodal processing in face-to-face interactions: A bridging link between psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience.

Benetti, Stefania / Ferrari, Ambra / Pavani, Francesco

Frontiers in human neuroscience

2023 Volume 17, Page(s) 1108354

Abstract: In face-to-face communication, humans are faced with multiple layers of discontinuous multimodal signals, such as head, face, hand gestures, speech and non-speech sounds, which need to be interpreted as coherent and unified communicative actions. This ... ...

Abstract	In face-to-face communication, humans are faced with multiple layers of discontinuous multimodal signals, such as head, face, hand gestures, speech and non-speech sounds, which need to be interpreted as coherent and unified communicative actions. This implies a fundamental computational challenge: optimally binding only signals belonging to the same communicative action while segregating signals that are not connected by the communicative content. How do we achieve such an extraordinary feat, reliably, and efficiently? To address this question, we need to further move the study of human communication beyond speech-centred perspectives and promote a multimodal approach combined with interdisciplinary cooperation. Accordingly, we seek to reconcile two explanatory frameworks recently proposed in psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience into a neurocognitive model of multimodal face-to-face communication. First, we introduce a psycholinguistic framework that characterises face-to-face communication at three parallel processing levels: multiplex signals, multimodal gestalts and multilevel predictions. Second, we consider the recent proposal of a lateral neural visual pathway specifically dedicated to the dynamic aspects of social perception and reconceive it from a multimodal perspective ("lateral processing pathway"). Third, we reconcile the two frameworks into a neurocognitive model that proposes how multiplex signals, multimodal gestalts, and multilevel predictions may be implemented along the lateral processing pathway. Finally, we advocate a multimodal and multidisciplinary research approach, combining state-of-the-art imaging techniques, computational modelling and artificial intelligence for future empirical testing of our model.
Language	English
Publishing date	2023-02-02
Publishing country	Switzerland
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2425477-0
ISSN	1662-5161
ISSN	1662-5161
DOI	10.3389/fnhum.2023.1108354
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Article ; Online: Attention controls multisensory perception via two distinct mechanisms at different levels of the cortical hierarchy.

Ferrari, Ambra / Noppeney, Uta

PLoS biology

2021 Volume 19, Issue 11, Page(s) e3001465

Abstract: To form a percept of the multisensory world, the brain needs to integrate signals from common sources weighted by their reliabilities and segregate those from independent sources. Previously, we have shown that anterior parietal cortices combine sensory ... ...

Abstract	To form a percept of the multisensory world, the brain needs to integrate signals from common sources weighted by their reliabilities and segregate those from independent sources. Previously, we have shown that anterior parietal cortices combine sensory signals into representations that take into account the signals' causal structure (i.e., common versus independent sources) and their sensory reliabilities as predicted by Bayesian causal inference. The current study asks to what extent and how attentional mechanisms can actively control how sensory signals are combined for perceptual inference. In a pre- and postcueing paradigm, we presented observers with audiovisual signals at variable spatial disparities. Observers were precued to attend to auditory or visual modalities prior to stimulus presentation and postcued to report their perceived auditory or visual location. Combining psychophysics, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and Bayesian modelling, we demonstrate that the brain moulds multisensory inference via two distinct mechanisms. Prestimulus attention to vision enhances the reliability and influence of visual inputs on spatial representations in visual and posterior parietal cortices. Poststimulus report determines how parietal cortices flexibly combine sensory estimates into spatial representations consistent with Bayesian causal inference. Our results show that distinct neural mechanisms control how signals are combined for perceptual inference at different levels of the cortical hierarchy.
MeSH term(s)	Adolescent ; Adult ; Attention/physiology ; Bayes Theorem ; Cerebral Cortex/physiology ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Multivariate Analysis ; Oxygen/blood ; Sensation/physiology ; Time Factors ; Young Adult
Chemical Substances	Oxygen (S88TT14065)
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-11-18
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZDB-ID	2126776-5
ISSN	1545-7885 ; 1544-9173
ISSN (online)	1545-7885
ISSN	1544-9173
DOI	10.1371/journal.pbio.3001465
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Article ; Online: Updating Contextual Sensory Expectations for Adaptive Behavior.

Ferrari, Ambra / Richter, David / de Lange, Floris P

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

2022 Volume 42, Issue 47, Page(s) 8855–8869

Abstract: The brain has the extraordinary capacity to construct predictive models of the environment by internalizing statistical regularities in the sensory inputs. The resulting sensory expectations shape how we perceive and react to the world; at the neural ... ...

Abstract	The brain has the extraordinary capacity to construct predictive models of the environment by internalizing statistical regularities in the sensory inputs. The resulting sensory expectations shape how we perceive and react to the world; at the neural level, this relates to decreased neural responses to expected than unexpected stimuli ("expectation suppression"). Crucially, expectations may need revision as context changes. However, existing research has often neglected this issue. Further, it is unclear whether contextual revisions apply selectively to expectations relevant to the task at hand, hence serving adaptive behavior. The present fMRI study examined how contextual visual expectations spread throughout the cortical hierarchy as we update our beliefs. We created a volatile environment: two alternating contexts contained different sequences of object images, thereby producing context-dependent expectations that needed revision when the context changed. Human participants of both sexes attended a training session before scanning to learn the contextual sequences. The fMRI experiment then tested for the emergence of contextual expectation suppression in two separate tasks, respectively, with task-relevant and task-irrelevant expectations. Effects of contextual expectation emerged progressively across the cortical hierarchy as participants attuned themselves to the context: expectation suppression appeared first in the insula, inferior frontal gyrus, and posterior parietal cortex, followed by the ventral visual stream, up to early visual cortex. This applied selectively to task-relevant expectations. Together, the present results suggest that an insular and frontoparietal executive control network may guide the flexible deployment of contextual sensory expectations for adaptive behavior in our complex and dynamic world.
MeSH term(s)	Male ; Female ; Humans ; Motivation ; Attention/physiology ; Brain Mapping ; Brain/physiology ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Adaptation, Psychological
Language	English
Publishing date	2022-10-24
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZDB-ID	604637-x
ISSN	1529-2401 ; 0270-6474
ISSN (online)	1529-2401
ISSN	0270-6474
DOI	10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1107-22.2022
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Article ; Online: Skin Conductance as an Index of Alexithymic Traits in the General Population.

Hickman, Lydia J / Keating, Connor T / Ferrari, Ambra / Cook, Jennifer L

Psychological reports

2021 Volume 125, Issue 3, Page(s) 1363–1379

Abstract: Alexithymia concerns a difficulty identifying and communicating one's own emotions, and a tendency towards externally-oriented thinking. Recent work argues that such alexithymic traits are due to altered arousal response and poor subjective awareness of " ...

Abstract	Alexithymia concerns a difficulty identifying and communicating one's own emotions, and a tendency towards externally-oriented thinking. Recent work argues that such alexithymic traits are due to altered arousal response and poor subjective awareness of "objective" arousal responses. Although there are individual differences within the general population in identifying and describing emotions, extant research has focused on highly alexithymic individuals. Here we investigated whether mean arousal and concordance between subjective and objective arousal underpin individual differences in alexithymic traits in a general population sample. Participants rated subjective arousal responses to 60 images from the International Affective Picture System whilst their skin conductance was recorded. The Autism Quotient was employed to control for autistic traits in the general population. Analysis using linear models demonstrated that mean arousal significantly predicted Toronto Alexithymia Scale scores above and beyond autistic traits, but concordance scores did not. This indicates that, whilst objective arousal is a useful predictor in populations that are both above and below the cut-off values for alexithymia, concordance scores between objective and subjective arousal do not predict variation in alexithymic traits in the general population.
MeSH term(s)	Affective Symptoms/diagnosis ; Affective Symptoms/psychology ; Arousal/physiology ; Emotions ; Humans ; Individuality ; Linear Models
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-03-31
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	205658-6
ISSN	1558-691X ; 0033-2941
ISSN (online)	1558-691X
ISSN	0033-2941
DOI	10.1177/00332941211005118
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Article ; Online: Using the past to estimate sensory uncertainty.

Beierholm, Ulrik / Rohe, Tim / Ferrari, Ambra / Stegle, Oliver / Noppeney, Uta

eLife

2020 Volume 9

Abstract: To form a more reliable percept of the environment, the brain needs to estimate its own sensory uncertainty. Current theories of perceptual inference assume that the brain computes sensory uncertainty instantaneously and independently for each stimulus. ... ...

Abstract	To form a more reliable percept of the environment, the brain needs to estimate its own sensory uncertainty. Current theories of perceptual inference assume that the brain computes sensory uncertainty instantaneously and independently for each stimulus. We evaluated this assumption in four psychophysical experiments, in which human observers localized auditory signals that were presented synchronously with spatially disparate visual signals. Critically, the visual noise changed dynamically over time continuously or with intermittent jumps. Our results show that observers integrate audiovisual inputs weighted by sensory uncertainty estimates that combine information from past and current signals consistent with an optimal Bayesian learner that can be approximated by exponential discounting. Our results challenge leading models of perceptual inference where sensory uncertainty estimates depend only on the current stimulus. They demonstrate that the brain capitalizes on the temporal dynamics of the external world and estimates sensory uncertainty by combining past experiences with new incoming sensory signals.
MeSH term(s)	Adolescent ; Adult ; Auditory Perception/physiology ; Bayes Theorem ; Brain/physiology ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Noise ; Psychophysics ; Uncertainty ; Visual Perception/physiology ; Young Adult
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-12-15
Publishing country	England
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZDB-ID	2687154-3
ISSN	2050-084X ; 2050-084X
ISSN (online)	2050-084X
ISSN	2050-084X
DOI	10.7554/eLife.54172
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Article ; Online: Visual motion processing recruits regions selective for auditory motion in early deaf individuals.

Benetti, Stefania / Zonca, Joshua / Ferrari, Ambra / Rezk, Mohamed / Rabini, Giuseppe / Collignon, Olivier

NeuroImage

2021 Volume 230, Page(s) 117816

Abstract: In early deaf individuals, the auditory deprived temporal brain regions become engaged in visual processing. In our study we tested further the hypothesis that intrinsic functional specialization guides the expression of cross-modal responses in the ... ...

Abstract	In early deaf individuals, the auditory deprived temporal brain regions become engaged in visual processing. In our study we tested further the hypothesis that intrinsic functional specialization guides the expression of cross-modal responses in the deprived auditory cortex. We used functional MRI to characterize the brain response to horizontal, radial and stochastic visual motion in early deaf and hearing individuals matched for the use of oral or sign language. Visual motion showed enhanced response in the 'deaf' mid-lateral planum temporale, a region selective to auditory motion as demonstrated by a separate auditory motion localizer in hearing people. Moreover, multivariate pattern analysis revealed that this reorganized temporal region showed enhanced decoding of motion categories in the deaf group, while visual motion-selective region hMT+/V5 showed reduced decoding when compared to hearing people. Dynamic Causal Modelling revealed that the 'deaf' motion-selective temporal region shows a specific increase of its functional interactions with hMT+/V5 and is now part of a large-scale visual motion selective network. In addition, we observed preferential responses to radial, compared to horizontal, visual motion in the 'deaf' right superior temporal cortex region that also show preferential response to approaching/receding sounds in the hearing brain. Overall, our results suggest that the early experience of auditory deprivation interacts with intrinsic constraints and triggers a large-scale reallocation of computational load between auditory and visual brain regions that typically support the multisensory processing of motion information.
MeSH term(s)	Acoustic Stimulation/methods ; Adult ; Auditory Cortex/diagnostic imaging ; Auditory Cortex/physiology ; Deafness/diagnostic imaging ; Deafness/physiopathology ; Early Diagnosis ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods ; Male ; Motion Perception/physiology ; Photic Stimulation/methods ; Sound Localization/physiology
Language	English
Publishing date	2021-01-29
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
ZDB-ID	1147767-2
ISSN	1095-9572 ; 1053-8119
ISSN (online)	1095-9572
ISSN	1053-8119
DOI	10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117816
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Article: Video Games for Well-Being: A Systematic Review on the Application of Computer Games for Cognitive and Emotional Training in the Adult Population.

Pallavicini, Federica / Ferrari, Ambra / Mantovani, Fabrizia

Frontiers in psychology

2018 Volume 9, Page(s) 2127

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Publishing date	2018-11-07
Publishing country	Switzerland
Document type	Journal Article
ZDB-ID	2563826-9
ISSN	1664-1078
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Article: Validation and Psychometric Evaluation of the Italian Version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale.

Soraci, Paolo / Ferrari, Ambra / Abbiati, Francesco A / Del Fante, Elena / De Pace, Rosanna / Urso, Antonino / Griffiths, Mark D

International journal of mental health and addiction

2020 Volume 20, Issue 4, Page(s) 1913–1922

Abstract: Background: The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear ...

Abstract	Background: The advent of COVID-19 worldwide has led to consequences for people's health, both physical and psychological, such as fear and anxiety. This is the case in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic. Given the heightened fear concerning COVID-19 in Italy., the present study analyzed the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S). Methods: The sample comprised 250 Italian participants who were administered Italian versions of the FCV-19S, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Severity Measure for Specific Phobia-Adult (SMSP-A). Several psychometric tests were performed to investigate the validity and reliability of the test including confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Analysis of the data showed satisfactory psychometric characteristics and confirmed the scale's unidimensional properties. The seven FCV-19S items had acceptable correlations with the test total (from .443 to .784). Furthermore, the loadings on the factor were significant and strong (from .684 to .897). The internal consistency was very good (α = .871). Construct validity for the FCV-19S was supported by significant and positive correlations with the HADS (r=.649) and SMSP-A (r=.703). Conclusions: The Italian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale is valid and reliable in assessing fear of COVID-19 among the general Italian population.
Keywords	covid19
Language	English
Publishing date	2020-05-04
Publishing country	United States
Document type	Case Reports
ZDB-ID	2235886-9
ISSN	1557-1882 ; 1557-1874
ISSN (online)	1557-1882
ISSN	1557-1874
DOI	10.1007/s11469-020-00277-1
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Article: Schauen Sie, was Sie hören - Wie das Gehirn mit allen seinen Sinnen die Welt wahrnimmt

Noppeney, Uta / Jones, Samuel A. / Rohe, Tim / Ferrari, Ambra

Neuroforum

2018 Volume 24, Issue 4, Page(s) 257

Language	German
Document type	Article
ZDB-ID	1238592-x
ISSN	0947-0875
Database	Current Contents Medicine

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