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Dr Matteo Martini

Senior Lecturer

Psychology

Dr Matteo Martini
    Dr Matteo Martini is psychologist who joined the School of Psychology of UEL as lecturer in late 2014. He got a first-class degree (Bsc+Msc) in Experimental Psychology at the Psychology Department of Sapienza University of Rome working on the effects of sleep deprivation on topographical memory. He then had a training at Fondazione Santa Lucia carrying out assessment and research on adult and elderly patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Back to Sapienza University he joined the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (Cosan) directed by Professor S. M. Aglioti, where he got his Ph.D. with a thesis on the effects of cognitive and emotional processes on pain perception. He moved to London to work on the placebo analgesia effect at the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology of UCL under the supervision of Dr G. D. Iannetti. He later held a post-doc position working with immersive virtual reality scenarios and virtual body ownership, at the EventLab (Universitat de Barcelona), for the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), directed by Dr M. V. Sanchez-Vives. His interests fall within cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology and psychotherapy.


    - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) - UK

    - Professional Habilitation for Clinical Psychologist - Italy

    - Member of the National Register of Psychologists - Italy

    - Agencia Nacional de Evaluacion de la Calidad y Acreditacion (ANECA): Evaluacion
    positiva (SPAIN) para Profesor Ayudante y Contratado Doctor - Spain

    Overview

    TIROCINIO PER PSICOLOGI ITALIANI A LONDRA (POST GRADUATE RESEARCH INTERNSHIP FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS)
    Si offre la possibilita' a tirocinanti italiani, di fare il tirocinio (1 o 2 semestri) presso la UEL, nel mio laboratorio. Per maggiori info si prega di contattarmi via email.



    Selected publications

    Publically available research outputs are available to download from UEL’s Research Open Access Repository (ROAR).

    Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

     

    Zanini, A., Montalti, M., Caola, B., Leadbetter, A., Martini, M. 2017. Pain during illusory own arm movement: a study in immersive virtual reality. European Medical Journal. 2[2]:90-97.

     

    Martini, M. (2017). Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Chronic Pain and Depression: any Possible Applications of Multisensory Feedback Approaches Based on Body Representation? Psychol Behav Sci Int J 2(5): PBSIJ.MS.ID.555599.

     

    Nierula, B., Martini, M., Matamala-Gomez, M., Slater, M., Sanchez-Vives, M.V.  Seeing an embodied virtual hand is analgesic contingent on co-location.  J Pain. 2017 Jan 17. pii: S1526-5900(17)30017-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2017.01.003 |


    Martini, M., Lee, M., Valentini, E., & Iannetti, G. D. (2015). Intracortical modulation, and not spinal inhibition, mediates placebo analgesia. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41(4), 498–504. doi:10.1111/ejn.12807 |


    Martini, M., Bufalari, I., Stazi, M. A., & Aglioti, S. M. (2015). Is that me or my twin? Lack of self-face recognition advantage in identical twins. PLoS ONE, 10(4), e0120900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120900 |


    Martini, M., Kilteni, K., Maselli, A., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2015). The body fades away: investigating the effects of transparency of an embodied virtual body on pain threshold and body ownership. Scientific Reports, 5, 13948. doi:10.1038/srep13948 |


    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2015). Author’s reply to the commentary by Gilpin et al. European Journal of Pain, 19(1), 143–144. doi:10.1002/ejp.606 |


    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2014). Modulation of pain threshold by virtual body ownership. European Journal of Pain, 21, 1040–1048. doi:10.1002/j.1532-2149.2014.00451.x |


    Valentini, E., Martini, M., Lee, M., Aglioti, S. M., & Iannetti, G. D. (2014). Seeing facial expressions enhances placebo analgesia. Pain, 155(4), 666–673. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.11.021 |


    Martini, M., Valentini, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2013). Emotional conflict in a model modulates nociceptive processing in an onlooker: a laser-evoked potentials study. Experimental Brain Research, 225(2), 237–245. doi:10.1007/s00221-012-3365-4|


    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2013). What color is my arm? Changes in skin color of an embodied virtual arm modulates pain threshold. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 31(7), 1–5. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00438|


    Costa, A., Peppe, A., Martini, M., Coletta, K., Oliveri, M., Caltagirone, C., et al. (2012). Parkinsonian patients with deficits in the dysexecutive spectrum are impaired on theory of mind tasks. Behavioral Neurology, 27(4), 523–533. doi:10.1155/2013/903127|


    Conference Papers

    Nierula, B., Martini, M., Matamala, M., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2015). Are body ownership illusions analgesic? Paper presented at the 16th Congress of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience (SENC), Granada, Spain.|


    Sanchez-Vives, M. V., Sañudo, M. I., Bourdin, P., Martini, M., Iruretagoyena, G., & Bergamasco, M. (2013). Un entorno virtual visual y haptico para la rehabilitación remota. Paper presented at the SERMEF congress, Salamanca, Spain.|


    Sanchez-Vives, M. V., Sañudo, M. I., Bourdin, P., Martini, M., Iruretagoyena, G., & Bergamasco, M. (2013). Ingeniería y rehabilitación: Caso de estudio. Paper presented at the SERMEF congress, Salamanca, Spain.|


    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., Fuentes, C., Haggard, P., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2012). Distortion of the perceived body image by asynchronous visuo-tactile stimulation. Paper presented at the 8th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Barcelona, Spain.|


    Perez-Marcos, D., Martini, M., Slater, M., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2012). Spatial differences in auditory memory during the virtual hand illusion. Paper presented at the 120th APA Convention, Orlando, FL, USA.|


    Martini, M., Cannella, D., Ruggiero, A., Porciello, G., & Valentini, E. (2010). Observing emotional facial expressions in a model modulated the pain pathway of an onlooker. A L.E.P. study. Paper presented at the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology (FESN), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Holland.|


    Invited Talks

    Martini, M. (2014). The use of Virtual Body Ownership as a tool for pain modulation. Research data presented to the Multisensory Research Group, Universtitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.|

     

     


    Collaborators

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    Research

     Nierula B, Spanlang B, Martini M, Borrell M, Nikulin VV, Sanchez-Vives MV. (2019). Agency and responsibility over virtual movements controlled through different paradigms of brain-computer interface. J Physiol. doi: 10.1113/JP278167.

     

    Gordon C, Barbullushi A, Tombolini S, Margiotta F, Ciacci A, Yosef LS, Barker L, Martini M. (2019). Visuo-tactile stimulation, but nor type of movement, modulates pain during the vision of a moving limb. Pain Manag. doi: 10.2217/pmt-2019-0019.


    Martini, M.     (2018). Commentary: Mechanical Pain Thresholds and the Rubber Hand Illusion. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01715

     

    Caola, B., Montalti, M., Zanini, A., Leadbetter, A., Martini, M. (2018). The Bodily Illusion in Adverse Conditions: Virtual Arm Ownership During Visuomotor Mismatch. Perception. doi: 10.1177/0301006618758211

     

    Perez-Marcos, D., Martini, M., Fuentes, C.T., Bellido Rivas, A.I., Haggard, P., Sanchez-Vives, M.V. (2018). Selective distortion of body image by asynchronous visuotactile stimulation. Body Image. doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.11.002

     

    Zanini, A., Montalti, M., Caola, B., Leadbetter, A., Martini, M. (2017). Pain during illusory own arm movement: a study in immersive virtual reality. Eur Med J. 2[2]:90-97.

     

    Martini, M. (2017). Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Chronic Pain and Depression: any Possible Applications of Multisensory Feedback Approaches Based on Body Representation? Psychol Behav Sci Int J 2(5): PBSIJ.MS.ID.555599.

     

    Nierula, B., Martini, M., Matamala-Gomez, M., Slater, M., Sanchez-Vives, M.V. (2017). Seeing an embodied virtual hand is analgesic contingent on co-location.  J Pain. pii: S1526-5900(17)30017-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2017.01.003 |

     

    Martini, M. (2016). Real, rubber, virtual. The vision of ‘‘one’s own” body as a means for pain modulation. A narrative review. Conscious Cogn; 43:143-51. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.005


    Martini, M., Lee, M., Valentini, E., & Iannetti, G. D. (2015). Intracortical modulation, and not spinal inhibition, mediates placebo analgesia. Eur J Neurosci, 41(4), 498–504. doi:10.1111/ejn.12807 |

    Martini, M., Bufalari, I., Stazi, M. A., & Aglioti, S. M. (2015). Is that me or my twin? Lack of self-face recognition advantage in identical twins. PLoS ONE, 10(4), e0120900. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120900 |

    Martini, M., Kilteni, K., Maselli, A., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2015). The body fades away: investigating the effects of transparency of an embodied virtual body on pain threshold and body ownership. Sci Rep, 5, 13948. doi:10.1038/srep13948 |

    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2015). Author’s reply to the commentary by Gilpin et al. Eur J Pain, 19(1), 143–144. doi:10.1002/ejp.606 |

    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2014). Modulation of pain threshold by virtual body ownership. Eur J Pain, 21, 1040–1048. doi:10.1002/j.1532-2149.2014.00451.x |

    Valentini, E., Martini, M., Lee, M., Aglioti, S. M., & Iannetti, G. D. (2014). Seeing facial expressions enhances placebo analgesia. Pain, 155(4), 666–673. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2013.11.021 |

    Martini, M., Valentini, E., & Aglioti, S. M. (2013). Emotional conflict in a model modulates nociceptive processing in an onlooker: a laser-evoked potentials study. Exp Brain Res, 225(2), 237–245. doi:10.1007/s00221-012-3365-4|

    Martini, M., Perez-Marcos, D., & Sanchez-Vives, M. V. (2013). What color is my arm? Changes in skin color of an embodied virtual arm modulates pain threshold. Front Hum Neurosci, 31(7), 1–5. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00438|

    Costa, A., Peppe, A., Martini, M., Coletta, K., Oliveri, M., Caltagirone, C., et al. (2012). Parkinsonian patients with deficits in the dysexecutive spectrum are impaired on theory of mind tasks. Behav Neurol, 27(4), 523–533. doi:10.1155/2013/903127|

    Publications

    My research focuses on, but is not limited to, the perception of pain and pain modulation, the psychological and neural mechanisms of body ownership and body representation, face recognition and emotional facial expressions.


    Interests




    Bsc course

    PY4103: Introduction to Cognitive and Developmental Psychology  

    PY5201 Researching Psychological Worlds 2

    PY5205: Cognitive Neuropsychology

    PY5210: Psychology of Ageing (module leader)

    PY5203: Topics in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology (module co-leader)

    Msc course

    PY7152: Individual Differences and Developmental Psychology

     

    BSc (Hons) Psychology
    MSc Psychology

    Teaching