Dr. Dalila Burin
Research Fellow, ADAPT
Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub
Research Fellow, School Office - Computer Science & Stats
Biography
I got my PhD in Neuroscience at University of Turin (Italy): main goal of my research was to understand the normal cognitive functioning, starting from a neuropsychological approach; I investigated bodily self identity and body awareness with different paradigms, including subjective, behavioural (e.g., the rubber hand illusion) and physiological measurements (e.g., motor evoked potential), mostly on healthy subjects and also on neurological patients. I spent a period abroad, where I learned the technique of Immersive Virtual Reality. Then, I combined my background on cognitive neuropsychology with this new technique: I mainly explored rehabilitative solutions for motor disorders exploiting the possibilities offered by immersive virtual reality. I have worked at the Smart Aging research Center (IDAC, Tohoku University, Japan) where I developed protocols to improve physical and cognitive functions, on young people as well as elderly, using immersive virtual reality and other ICT based solutions. Currently, I am a MSCA Research Fellow at the Trinity College Dublin: here I expand my project on cognitive and social effects following the somatic manipulation of the virtual body.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Dalila Burin, Gabriele Cavanna, Daniela Rabellino, Yuka Kotozaki, Ryuta Kawashima, Neuroendocrine Response and State Anxiety Due to Psychosocial Stress Decrease after a Training with Subject"s Own (but Not Another) Virtual Body: An RCT Study, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, (10), 2022, p6340
Dalila Burin, Adriana Salatino, Mounia Ziat, Editorial: Virtual, mixed, and augmented reality in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Riccardo Tambone, Giulia Poggio, Maria Pyasik, Dalila Burin, Olga Dal Monte, Selene Schintu, Tommaso Ciorli, Laura Lucà, Maria Vittoria Semino, Fabrizio Doricchi, Lorenzo Pia, Changing your body changes your eating attitudes: embodiment of a slim virtual avatar induces avoidance of high-calorie food, Heliyon, 7, (7), 2021, pe07515
Riccardo Tambone and Alberto Giachero and Melanie Calati and Maria Teresa Molo and Dalila Burin and Maria Pyasik and Francesca Cabria and Lorenzo Pia, Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients, Psychological Science, 32, (5), 2021, p655--667
Innocenzo Rainero and Mathew J Summers and Michaela Monter and Marco Bazzani and Eleftheria Giannouli and Georg Aumayr and Dalila Burin and Paolo Provero and Alessandro E Vercelli and, The My Active and Healthy Aging ICT platform prevents quality of life decline in older adults: a randomised controlled study, Age and Ageing, 2021
Dalila Burin and Ryuta Kawashima, Repeated Exposure to Illusory Sense of Body Ownership and Agency Over a Moving Virtual Body Improves Executive Functioning and Increases Prefrontal Cortex Activity in the Elderly, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 2021
Maria Pyasik, Irene Ronga, Dalila Burin, Adriana Salatino, Pietro Sarasso, Francesca Garbarini, Raffaella Ricci, Lorenzo Pia, I'm a believer: Illusory self-generated touch elicits sensory attenuation and somatosensory evoked potentials similar to the real self-touch, NeuroImage, 229, 2021, p117727
Lorenzo Pia, Carlotta Fossataro, Dalila Burin, Valentina Bruno, Lucia Spinazzola, Patrizia Gindri, Katerina Fotopoulou, Anna Berti, Francesca Garbarini, The anatomo-clinical picture of the pathological embodiment over someone else's body part after stroke, Cortex, 130, 2020, p203--219
C. Fossataro and D. Burin and I. Ronga and M. Galigani and A. Rossi Sebastiano and L. Pia and F. Garbarini, Agent-dependent modulation of corticospinal excitability during painful transcutaneous electrical stimulation, NeuroImage, 217, 2020, p116897
Dalila Burin, Noriki Yamaya, Rie Ogitsu, Ryuta Kawashima, Virtual training leads to real acute physical, cognitive and neural benefits on healthy adults: study protocol for a randomized-controlled trial, 2019
Dalila Burin, Noriki Yamaya, Rie Ogitsu, Ryuta Kawashima, Virtual training leads to real acute physical, cognitive and neural benefits on healthy adults: study protocol for a randomized-controlled trial, 2019
De Pasquale, G., Mastrototaro, L., Pia, L., Burin, D., Wearable system with embedded force sensors for neurologic rehabilitation trainings, Symposium on Design, Test, Integration and Packaging of MEMS/MOEMS, DTIP 2018, 2018, p1-4
Dell'Anna A, Fossataro C, Burin D, Bruno V, Salatino A, Garbarini F, Pia L, Ricci R, Leman M, Berti A, Entrainment beyond embodiment., Neuropsychologia, 2018
Francesco Ianì, Dalila Burin, Adriana Salatino, Lorenzo Pia, Raffaella Ricci, Monica Bucciarelli, The beneficial effect of a speaker"s gestures on the listener"s memory for action phrases: The pivotal role of the listener"s premotor cortex, Brain and Language, 180-182, 2018, p8--13
Rabellino D, Burin D, Harricharan S, Lloyd C, Frewen PA, McKinnon MC, Lanius RA, Altered Sense of Body Ownership and Agency in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Its Dissociative Subtype: A Rubber Hand Illusion Study., Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018
Pyasik M, Burin D, Pia L, On the relation between body ownership and sense of agency: A link at the level of sensory-related signals., Acta psychologica, 2018
Summers MJ, Rainero I, Vercelli AE, Aumayr G, de Rosario H, Mönter M, Kawashima R, My-AHA Consortium, The My Active and Healthy Aging (My-AHA) ICT platform to detect and prevent frailty in older adults: Randomized control trial design and protocol., Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.), 2018
Dalila Burin, Alvise Battaglini, Lorenzo Pia, Giusy Falvo, Mattia Palombella, Adriana Salatino, Comparing intensities and modalities within the sensory attenuation paradigm: Preliminary evidence, Journal of Advanced Research, 8, (6), 2017, p649--653
, That's my hand! Therefore, that's my willed action: How body ownership acts upon conscious awareness of willed actions., Cognition, 2017
, Movements and body ownership: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion after mechanical limb immobilization., Neuropsychologia, 2017
, Sensing the body, representing the body: Evidence from a neurologically based delusion of body ownership., Cognitive neuropsychology, 2016
, "I can't tell whether it's my hand": a pilot study of the neurophenomenology of body representation during the rubber hand illusion in trauma-related disorders., European journal of psychotraumatology, 2016
, A predictive nature for tactile awareness? Insights from damaged and intact central-nervous-system functioning., Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015
, Are movements necessary for the sense of body ownership? Evidence from the rubber hand illusion in pure hemiplegic patients., PloS one, 2015