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  1. What boxing-related stimuli reveal about response behaviour

    Article • Journal of Sports Sciences, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Gabriele Russo

  2. Route selection in action imitation: A matter of strategic choice?

    Article • Cortex, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  3. Just do it: Embodied experiences improve Taekwondo athletes’ sport performance

    Article • Sensoria A Journal of Mind Brain and Culture, July 2014, Swinburne University of Technology

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  4. Modulation of the affordance effect through transfer of learning

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Cristina Iani, Professor Alessia Tessari

  5. Abstract and concrete phrases processing differentially modulates cortico-spinal excitability

    Article • Brain Research, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  6. Please Don't! The Automatic Extrapolation of Dangerous Intentions

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  7. Object Affordances Tune Observers' Prior Expectations about Tool-Use Behaviors

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2012, PLOS

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  8. Can object affordances impact on human social learning of tool use?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  9. Is access to the body structural description sensitive to a body part’s significance for action and cognition? A study of the sidedness effect using feet

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  10. When Motor Attention Improves Selective Attention: The Dissociating Role of Saliency

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  11. The sense of body: A multidisciplinary approach to body representation

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  12. Hand processing depends on the implicit access to a spatially and bio-mechanically organized structural description of the body

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  13. Is the body in the eye of the beholder?Visual processing of bodies in individuals with anomalous anatomical sensory and motor features

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  14. Moving hands, moving entities

    Article • Brain and Cognition, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  15. Body image and body schema: The shared representation of body image and the role of dynamic body schema in perspective and imitation

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  16. Implied Directionality Redefines Sidedness Effect

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  17. Motion and Action in Animate and Inanimate Objects

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  18. Is a Large Nut Like An Apple? Studies with Real and Modified Sized Objects

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Professor Anna M. Borghi

  19. Strategies in Imitation of Action in Predictable and Unpredictable Switches

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  20. Effect of learning on imitation of new actions: implications for a memory model

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  21. Neuropsychological evidence for a multiple-route model of action imitation

    Article • January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  22. Common and Differential Neural Mechanisms Supporting Imitation of Meaningful and Meaningless Actions

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2005, The MIT Press

    Professor Alessia Tessari, Dr. Karl Zilles

  23. Is Handedness Recognition Automatic? A Study Using a Simon-Like Paradigm.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  24. Is Handedness Recognition Automatic? A Study Using a Simon-Like Paradigm.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2005, CrossRef Test Account

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  25. A neuropsychological approach to motor control and imagery

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  26. The Strategic Control of Multiple Routes in Imitation of Actions.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  27. Imitation without awareness

    Article • Neuroreport, December 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  28. Motor distal component and pragmatic representation of objects

    Article • Cognitive Brain Research, August 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  29. Imitation of novel and well-known actions

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, February 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  30. Imitation of novel and well-known actions

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, February 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  31. Hemispheric specialization in quantification processes

    Article • Psychological Research, February 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  32. Two processing routes support action imitation: Evidence from normal subjects

    Article • January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alessia Tessari

  33. Automatic and strategic effects in human imitation

    Article • July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alessia Tessari