Assoz. Prof. Giorgia Silani, Privatdoz. PhD
T: +43-1-4277-47223
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Zanon M, Novembre G, Zangrando N, Chittaro L, Silani G. Brain activity and prosocial behavior in a simulated life-threatening situation. NeuroImage. 2014 Sep;98:134-146. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.04.053

Patil I, Silani G. Alexithymia increases moral acceptability of accidental harms. The Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 2014 Jul 4;26(5):597-614. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2014.929137



Patil I, Cogoni C, Zangrando N, Chittaro L, Silani G. Affective basis of judgment-behavior discrepancy in virtual experiences of moral dilemmas. Social Neuroscience. 2014 Jan;9(1):94-107. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2013.870091

Silani G, Broadbeck C. Gender and Social Emotions: A Review of the Neuroscientific Literature on Empathy and its Link to Psychopathy, Antisocial Behavior and Alexithymia. In Latu I, Schmid Mast M, Kaiser S, editors, Gender and Emotion : An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Bern: Peter Lang. 2014. p. 69-92. 3

Lamm C, Silani G. Insights into collective emotions from the social neuroscience of empathy. In von Scheve C, Salmella M, editors, Collective Emotions: perspectives from psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. p. 63-77 doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659180.003.0005


Seidel E-M, Silani G, Metzler H, Thaler H, Lamm C, Gur RC et al. The impact of social exclusion vs. inclusion on subjective and hormonal reactions in females and males. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Dec;38(12):2925–2932. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.07.021

Silani G, Lamm C, Ruff CC, Singer T. Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments. Journal of Neuroscience. 2013 Sep 25;33(39):15466-15476. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1488-13.2013

Silani G, Zucconi A, Lamm C. Carl Rogers meets the neurosciences: insights from social neuroscience for client-centered therapy. In Cornelius-White JHD, Motschnig-Pitrik R, Lux M, editors, Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Person-Centered Approach: Research and Theory. New York: Springer. 2013. p. 63-78


Woollams AM, Silani G, Okada K, Patterson K, Price CJ. Word or word-like? Dissociating orthographic typicality from lexicality in the left occipito-temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2011 Apr;23(4):992-1002. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21502

Zucconi A, Silani G. L’ecologia relazionale in psicoterapia: insight dalle neuroscienze per la psicoterapia centrata sul cliente di Carl Rogers. In Petrini P, Zucconi A, editors, Psicoterapie e Neuroscienze. ROMA: Alpes Italia. 2011

Hein G, Silani G, Preuschoff K, Batson CD, Singer T. Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping. Neuron. 2010 Oct 6;68(1):149-160. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.003

Bird G, Silani G, Brindley R, White S, Frith U, Singer T. Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism. Brain: a journal of neurology. 2010 May;133(5):1515-1525. doi: 10.1093/brain/awq060

Singer T, Snozzi R, Bird G, Petrovic P, Silani G, Heinrichs M et al. Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain. Emotion. 2008 Dec;8(6):781-791. doi: 10.1037/a0014195


Silani G, Bird G, Brindley R, Singer T, Frith C, Frith U. Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study. Social Neuroscience. 2008;3(2):97-112. doi: 10.1080/17470910701577020

Bird G, Catmur C, Silani G, Frith C, Frith U. Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders. NeuroImage. 2006 Jul 15;31(4):1614-1624. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.037

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Reading Emotions in Art: Do autistic traits influence how we perceive emotions through art?

Young Ah Kim (Speaker), Elif Gülen (Contributor), Kamilla Lauer (Contributor), Theresa Demmer (Contributor), Corinna Kühnapfel (Contributor), Giorgia Silani (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

17 May 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The impact of stress and opioid administration on liking and wanting of affective touch.

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Age-related differences in automatic imitation inhibition: an fMRI study.

Ekaterina Pronizius (Speaker), Federica Riva (Contributor), Melanie Lenger (Contributor), Martin Kronbichler (Contributor), Giorgia Silani (Contributor) & Claus Lamm (Contributor)

21 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effects of the mu-opioid receptor agonist morphine on facial mimicry and emotion recognition.

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker), Sebastian Korb (Contributor), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Boris B. Quednow (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Diurnal Dynamics of Stress and Mood in the Risk Groups during Covid-19 Lockdown - A Large Binational Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

Anja Feneberg (Contributor), Paul Forbes (Contributor), Giulio Piperno (Contributor), Ekaterina Pronizius (Speaker), Nadine Skoluda (Contributor), Ana Stijovic (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

20 Sep 202122 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Enhanced motivation and hedonic reactions to social touch under stress following morphine administration

Claudia Massaccesi (Speaker), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Boris B. Quednow (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids.

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Regulation of personal space by socio-economical interactions in adults with autism spectrum disorders – an fMRI study.

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding empathy from a clinical perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The pharmachology of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


When affect sharing and self-other distinction fail: understanding emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) from a developmental perspective

Giorgia Silani (Invited speaker)

Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: An rTMS/fMRI study.

Henryk Bukowski (Speaker), Martin Tik (Speaker), Giorgia Silani (Speaker), Christian Ruff (Speaker), Christian Windischberger (Speaker) & Claus Lamm (Speaker)

21 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The influence of age on emotional egocentrism.

Federica Riva (Speaker), Melanie Tschernegg (Contributor), Martin Kronbichler (Contributor), Claus Lamm (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

20 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




Neurochemical modulation of facial mimicry

Sebastian Korb (Speaker), Claudia Massaccesi (Contributor), Matthaeus Willeit (Contributor), Raffaella Rumiati (Contributor), Christoph Eisenegger (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wanting and linking of social and non social rewards: The role of dopamine and opioids

Giorgia Silani (Speaker)

Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Emotional egocentricity bias during social pain in Autism-Spectrum-Disorder (ASD): Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Helena Hartmann (Invited speaker), Hannah Hitz (Contributor), Philipp Stepnicka (Contributor), Lukas Lengersdorff (Contributor) & Giorgia Silani (Contributor)

7 Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Clinical and Health Psychology

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1010 Wien
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giorgia.silani@univie.ac.at