Marilena Aiello

Docente del corso di "Neuropsicologia" presso l'Universitas Mercatorum, a partire da marzo 2025

1.            Terenzi, D, Silvetti, M, Zoccolan, G, Rumiati, R I, & Aiello, M. (2024). The impact of Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms on Delay and Effort discounting: insights from behavioral, computational, and electrophysiological methods. Schizophrenia Research, 271, 271-280.

2.            Cecchetto, C, Dal Bò, E, Aiello, M, Fischmeister, FPS, Gentili, C, & Osimo, SA. (2023). Alexithymia modulates the attitudes towards odors but not the olfactory abilities or the affective reactions to odors. Plos one, 18(6), e0278496.

3.            Coricelli C*, Aiello M*, Lunardelli A, Galli G, & Rumiati RI. (2022). sFEra APP: description and usability of a novel tablet application for executive functions training. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 6(3), 389-401.*equally contributed

4.            Cecchetto C, Pisanu E, Rumiati IR, and Aiello M. (2022). Food olfactory cues reactivity in individuals with obesity and the contribution of alexithymia. Appetite, 169, 105827.

5.            Lasaponara S, D'Onofrio M, Pinto M, Aiello M, Pellegrino M, Scozia G, ... & Doricchi F. (2021). Individual EEG profiling of attention deficits in left spatial neglect: A pilot study. Neuroscience Letters, 761, 136097.

6.            Terenzi D, Catalan M, Polverino P, Bertolotti C, Manganotti P, Rumiati RI, & Aiello M. (2021). Effects of tDCS on reward responsiveness and valuation in Parkinson’s patients with impulse control disorders. Journal of Neurology, 1-9.

7.            Doricchi F, Pinto M, Pellegrino M, Marson F, Aiello M, Campana S, ... & Lasaponara S. (2021). Deficits of hierarchical predictive coding in left spatial neglect. Brain communications, 3(2), fcab111.

8.            Osimo SA, Aiello M, Gentili C, Ionta S, & Cecchetto C. (2021). The Influence of Personality, Resilience, and Alexithymia on Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 341.

9.            Osimo SA, Piretti L, Ionta S, Rumiati RI & Aiello M. (2021). The neural substrates of subliminal attentional bias and reduced inhibition in individuals with a higher BMI: a VBM and resting state connectivity study. NeuroImage, 117725.

10.         Cecchetto C, Aiello M, Gentili C, Ionta S, & Osimo SA. (2021). Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress. Appetite, 105122.

11.         Vignando M, Rumiati RI, Manganotti P, Cattaruzza T, & Aiello M. (2019). Establishing links between abnormal eating behaviours and semantic deficits in dementia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 14(3), 431-448.

12.         Osimo SA, Korb S, & Aiello M. (2019). Obesity, subliminal perception and inhibition: Neuromodulation of the prefrontal cortex. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 119, 103408.

13.         Vignando M, Aiello M, Rinaldi A, Cattarruzza T, Mazzon G, Manganotti P, ... & Rumiati RI. (2019). Food knowledge depends upon the integrity of both sensory and functional properties: a VBM, TBSS and DTI tractography study. Scientific reports, 9(1), 7439.

14.        Lasaponara S, Pinto M, Aiello M, Tomaiuolo F, & Doricchi F. (2019). The hemispheric distribution of α-band EEG activity during orienting of attention in patients with reduced awareness of the left side of space (spatial neglect). Journal of Neuroscience, 39(22), 4332-4343.

15.        Terenzi D, Mainetto E, Barbato M, Rumiati RI, & Aiello M. (2019). Temporal and Effort Cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms. Scientific reports, 9(1), 2151.

16.        Aiello M, Terenzi D, Furlanis G, Catalan M, Manganotti P, Eleopra R, ... & Rumiati, RI. (2019). Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus and the temporal discounting of primary and secondary rewards. Journal of Neurology, 1-7.

17.        Aiello M, Parma V, De Carlo S, Hummel T, and Rumiati IR. (2018) Cognitive, sensory and affective determinants of body weight in older adults. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.

18.        Aiello M, Vignando M, Foroni F, Pergola G, Rossi P, Silveri MC. & Rumiati RI. (2018). Episodic memory for natural and transformed food. Cortex, 107, 13-20.

19.         Vignando M, Aiello M, Foroni F, Marcon G, Tettamanti M, & Rumiati RI. (2018). How experience modulates semantic memory for food: evidence from elderly adults and centenarians. Scientific reports, 8(1), 6468.

20.         Aiello M, Ambron E, Situlin R, Foroni F, Biolo G, & Rumiati RI. (2018). Body weight and its association with impulsivity in middle and old age individuals. Brain and Cognition, 123, 103-109.

21.         Terenzi D, Rumiati RI, Catalan M, Antonutti L, Furlanis G, Garlasco P, ... & Aiello M. (2018). Reward sensitivity in Parkinson's patients with binge eating. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 51, 79-84.

22.         Mengotti P, Aiello M, Terenzi D, Miniussi C, & Rumiati RI. (2018). How brain response and eating habits modulate food energy estimation. Physiology & behavior, 188, 18-24.

23.         Aiello M, Merola S, Lasaponara S, Pinto M, Tomaiuolo f, Doricchi F. (2018) The influence of visual and phonological features on the hemispheric processing of hierarchical Navon letters. Neuropsychologia, 109, 75-85.

24.         Cecchetto C, Rumiati RI, & Aiello M. (2017). Alexithymia and emotional reactions to odors. Scientific Reports, 7, 14097.

25.        Aiello M, Eleopra R, Foroni F, Rinaldo S, & Rumiati RI. (2017). Weight gain after STN-DBS: The role of reward sensitivity and impulsivity. Cortex, 92, 150.

26.         Cecchetto C, Korb S, Rumiati RI, & Aiello M. (2017). Emotional reactions in moral decision-making are influenced by empathy and alexithymia. Social Neuroscience, 1-15.

27.         Foroni F, Vignando M, Aiello M, Parma V, Paoletti M G, Squartini A & Rumiati RI. (2016). The Smell of Terroir! Olfactory Discrimination between Wines of different Grape Varieties and different Terroir. Food Quality and Preference, 58, 18-23.

28.         Aiello M, Silani V, & Rumiati RI. (2016). You stole my food! Eating alterations in frontotemporal dementia. Neurocase, 22(4), 400-409.

29.         Rotondaro F, Merola S, Aiello M, Pinto M, Doricchi F. (2015). Dissociation between line bisection and mental-number-line bisection in healthy adults. Neuropsychologia, 75, 565-576

30.         Aiello M, Eleopra R, Rumiati IR. (2015). Body weight and food intake in Parkinson's disease. A review of the association to non-motor symptoms. Appetite, 84, 204-211.

31.         Cecchetto C, Aiello M, D’Amico D, Cutuli D, Cargnelutti D, Eleopra R, Rumiati IR. (2014). Facial and bodily emotion recognition in multiple sclerosis: the role of alexithymia and other characteristics of the disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society: JINS, 20(10): 1-11.

32.         Aiello M, Eleopra R, Lettieri C, Mondani M, D’Auria S, Belgrado E, Piani A, De Simone L, Rinaldo S, Rumiati IR. (2014). Emotion recognition in Parkinson’s disease after subthalamic deep brain stimulation: Differential effects of microlesion and STN stimulation. Cortex, 51, 35-45.

33.         Thiebaut De Schotten M, Tomaiuolo F, Aiello M, Merola S, Silvetti M, Lecce F, Bartolomeo P, Doricchi F. (2014). Damage to white matter pathways in subacute and chronic spatial neglect: a group study and 2 single-case studies with complete virtual “in vivo” tractography dissection. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 691-706.

34.         Aiello M, Merola S, Doricchi F. (2013). Small numbers in the right brain: evidence from patients without and with spatial neglect. Cortex, 49, 348-351.

35.         Aiello M, Jacquin-Courtois S, Merola S, Ottaviani T, Tomaiuolo F, Bueti D, Rossetti Y, Doricchi F. (2012). No inherent left and right side in human ‘mental number line’: evidence from right brain damage. Brain, 135, 2492-2505.

36.         Binetti N, Aiello M, Merola S, Bruschini M, Lecce F, Macci E, Doricchi F.  (2011). Positive correlation in the bisection of long and short horizontal Oppel–Kundt illusory gradients: Implications for the interpretation of the “cross-over” effect in spatial neglect. Cortex, 47, 608-616.

37.         Doricchi F, Merola S, Aiello M, Guariglia P, Bruschini M, Gevers W, Gasparini M, Tomaiuolo F (2009). Spatial orienting biases in the decimal numeral system. Current Biology, 19, 682-687.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

1.            Book Chapter: Rossetti Y, Jacquin-Courtois S, Aiello M, Ishihara M, Brozzoli C, Doricchi F. (2011). Neglect ‘around the clock’: dissociating number and spatial neglect in right brain damage. Space, time and number in the brain: Searching for the foundations of mathematical thought, pp. 149-173.

2.            Translation from English to Italian: chapters (7, 9, 10, 14, 15) of Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition, Purvè et al., 2014

3.            Cover design for Cortex, 54, May 2014.

TALKS

1.     “Attention and inhibition toward food in individuals with different BMIs”, XXXI Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience (SIPF) National Congress 2023, Siena, 09 - 11, 2023.

2.     Establishing links between abnormal eating behaviours and semantic deficits in dementia. The 42nd Anniversary Meeting of the British Feeding and Drinking Group 12, 13 April Lyon, 2018.

3.     “Executive Functions and Eating Behaviour: Evidence From Neurological Patients” Session: Food, Labels, Norms: What Neuroscience Says About Utility, Executive Control, Food Choice And Social Norm Compliance XV EAAE Congress 2017, Parma, Italy. August 29-September 1, 2017.

4.     “A possible role of reward sensitivity and impulsivity in weight gain after deep brain stimulation”. The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition; Trieste, Italy. November 13, 2014.

5.     “Il ruolo dei processi motivazionali nell’aumento di peso dopo Stimolazione Cerebrale Profonda del Nucleo Subtalamico”. Conference of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology, SINP; Napoli, Italy. October, 23-24, 2014.

6.     “Emotion recognition and subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson’s disease”. Conference of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology (SINP); Roma, Italy. November 9-10, 2012.

7.     “Emotion recognition and subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson’s disease”. Congresso Società Italiana di Neurologia (SIN); Rimini, Italy. October, 6-9, 2012.

8.     “La Linea Mentale Numerica non ha un orientamento intrinseco sinistra-destra: evidenza dallo studio dei pazienti cerebrolesi destri”. Conference of the Italian Society of Neuropsychology, SINP; Bologna, Italy. November 18-19, 2011.

POSTER

1.     Aiello M, Tessari A, Chattat R, Russo C, Ottoboni G. (January 2024). Changes in the implicit and explicit evaluation of food features with age. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Brixen

2.     Tessari A, Umiltà AM, Ottoboni G, Aiello M. Orthorexia and Attentional Bias to Healthy Food (January 2024). European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Brixen

3.     Cecchetto C, Osimo SA, Dal Bò E, Gentili C, Aiello M. (May, 2024). The differential role of alexithymia and interoception in liking and wanting components of reward responsiveness.7TH bi-annual ESCAN meeting, Ghent, Belgium.

4.     Cecchetto, C., Gentili, C., Aiello, M., Fischmeister, F.P.S., Osimo, S., Dal Bò, E. (April 2022). Olfactory abilities in alexithymic individuals. AChemS 44th Annual Meeting, April 20-23, 2022, Bonita Springs (Fort Myers), Florida

5.     Cecchetto, C., V., Pisanu, E., Schöpf, V., Rumiati, R., Aiello, M. (September 2021). Food olfactory cues reactivity in individuals with obesity and the contribution of alexithymia. ECRO XXXI Annual Meeting, September 13-16, 2021, Cascais (Lisbon), Portugal

6.     Aiello M, Terenzi D, Furlanis G, Cattalan M, Manganotti P, Belgrado E, Rumiati IR. (Oral presentation, January 2019). Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus and the temporal discounting of primary and secondary rewards. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

7.     Terenzi D, Mainetto E, Barbato MP, Rumiati RI and Aiello M (November, 2018). Temporal and Effort cost decision-making in healthy subjects with psychosis-like symptoms. Riunione annuale Società Italiana Neuropsicologia (SINP); Roma

8.     Osimo AS, Korb S, Aiello M (November, 2018). Effetti della stimolazione della corteccia prefrontale sui meccanismi attentivi e inibitori legati al cibo in individui affetti da obesità. Riunione annuale Società Italiana Neuropsicologia (SINP); Roma

9.     Aiello M, Terenzi D, Eleopra R Rumiati RI (November, 2017) Discounting of primary and secondary delayed rewards in Parkinson’s disease after STN-DBS. 48th annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience (SfN); Washington

10.  Terenzi D, Mainetto E, Barbato MP, Rumiati RI and Aiello M (November 2017). Temporal and Effort cost decision-making in healthy subjects with high levels of psychosis-like symptoms. The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition; Trieste.

11.  Aiello M, Terenzi D, Eleopra R Rumiati RI. (September 2017) Discounting of primary and secondary delayed rewards in Parkinson’s disease after STN-DBS. 6th Scientific Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, 13-15 September 2017, Maastricht, The Netherlands

12.  Terenzi D, Rumiati R, Catalan M, Antonutti L, Furlanis G, Manganotti P, Aiello M (September 2017). Reward sensitivity in impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease. 6th Scientific Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology, 13-15 September 2017, Maastricht, The Netherlands

13.  Vignando M, Aiello M, Eleopra R, Manganotti P, Rumiati RI. (January 2017) Brain Signatures of Food Semantic Knowledge. Thirty-fifth European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

14.  Vignando M, Aiello M, Eleopra E, Rumiati RI. (December 2016) Brain signatures of food semantic knowledge.  Riunione annuale Società Italiana Neuropsicologia (SINP); Milano

15.  Terenzi D, Catalan M, Antonutti L, Furlanis G, Manganotti P, Rumiati RI, and Aiello M. (December 2016) Reward sensitivity in impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s Disease. Riunione annuale Società Italiana Neuropsicologia (SINP); Milano

16.  Vignando M, Aiello M, Eleopra R, Manganotti P, Rumiati RI. (November 2016) Brain Signatures of Food Semantic Knowledge. The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition; Trieste.

17.  Terenzi D, Catalan M, Antonutti L, Furlanis G, Manganotti P, Rumiati RI, Aiello M. (November 2016) Reward sensitivity in impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease. The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition; Trieste.

18.  Aiello M, Foroni F, Eleopra E, Pergola G, and Rumiati RI. (Oral presentation, January 2016) A possible role of reward sensitivity and impulsivity in weight gain after deep brain stimulation. Thirty-four European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

19.  Cecchetto C, Korb S, Rumiati RI.  Aiello M. (November 2015) Moral decision-making in alexithymic participants. The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition; Trieste.

20.  Cecchetto C, Korb S, Rumiati RI. Aiello M. (November 2015) La presa di decisione morale in individui alessitimici. Riunione annuale Società Italiana Neuropsicologia (SINP); Padova.

21.  Aiello M, Foroni F, Eleopra E, Pergola G, and Rumiati RI. (November 2014) A possible role of reward sensitivity and impulsivity in weight gain after deep brain stimulation. 44th annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience (SfN); Washington.

22.  Cecchetto C, Aiello M, Eleopra R, Carneglutti D, Rumiati RI (May 2014) Emotion Recognition in Multiple Sclerosis: Investigating the Role of Alexithymia and of other Characteristics of the Disease. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ESCAN, Dortmund, Germany.

23.  Aiello M, Cecchetto C, Eleopra R, Cargnelutti D, Rumiati IR. (Oral presentation, January 2014) Facial emotional recognition in Parkinson’s disease and Multiple sclerosis. Thirty-Second European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

24.  Merola S, Aiello M, Doricchi F. (January 2014) Role of the superior parietal lobule in the mental bisection of number intervals. Thirty-Second European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

25.  Merola S, Rotondaro F, Aiello M, Pinto Aglietti, Doricchi F. (January 2013) No correlation between visual line bisection and the mental bisection of number intervals: further evidence from normal participants and right brain-damaged patients (RBD). Thirty-First European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

26.  Aiello M, Jacquin Courtrois S, Merola S, Guariglia P, Tomaiuolo F, Palermo L, Bueti D,  Rossetti Y and Doricchi F. (Oral presentation, January 2011) No inherent left and right side in human mental number line. The 29th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone

27.  Aiello M, Jacquin Courtois S, Merola S, Tomaiuolo F, Bueti D, Rossetti Y and Doricchi F. (October 2011) No inherent left and right side in human “mental number line”: evidence from right brain damage. Rovereto Attention Workshop; Rovereto.

28.  Aiello M, Jacquin-Courtois S, Merola S, Ottaviani T, Guariglia P, Palermo L, Tomaiuolo F, Rossetti Y, and Doricchi F. (September 2010) Right brain damage: bias towards higher numbers in the bisection of number intervals is spatially and attentionally independent. Second Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN); Amsterdam

29.  Aiello M, Merola S, Guariglia P, Palermo L, and Doricchi F. (Oral presentation, January 2010) Representational neglect and number interval bisection: a correlation study. The 28th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone

30.  Gasparini S, Merola S, Aiello M, Tomaiuolo F and Doricchi F. (January 2010) Selective neglect for Mental Number Line in a patient with a lesion of the right superior parietal lobule. The 28th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology. Bressanone.

31.  Merola S, Aiello M, Gevers W, Tomaiuolo F and Doricchi F. (January 2009) Functional and anatomical correlates of number interval bisection. Twenty-seventh European Workshops on Cognitive Neuropsychology; Bressanone.

32.  Aiello M, Merola S, Guariglia P, Palermo L and Doricchi F. (September 2009) Representational Neglect and number line bisection: a correlational study.  Associazione Italiana di Psicologia. XV meeting, sezione di psicologia sperimentale; Chieti.

33.  Merola S, Guariglia P, Aiello M, Bruschini M, Gevers W, Tomaiuolo F & Doricchi F. (September 2008) Functional and anatomical correlates of number interval bisection: the organisation of the decimal system in the brain. First Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN); Edinburgh.

Il suo principale interesse di ricerca riguarda le neuroscienze del comportamento alimentare, con particolare attenzione alle alterazioni motivazionali, cognitive e neurali alla base dei disturbi alimentari. Ha approfondito queste tematiche in pazienti affetti da sindromi neurodegenerative, come la malattia di Parkinson e la demenza frontotemporale, nonché in soggetti adulti e anziani con sovrappeso e obesità, combinando tecniche comportamentali, di neurostimolazione (come la tDCS) e di neuroimaging. Un recente interesse di ricerca si concentra sugli aspetti cognitivi implicati nell'ortoressia nervosa, un disturbo caratterizzato da una preoccupazione patologica verso il cibo “puro” e sano, con rilevanti implicazioni per la comprensione dei comportamenti alimentari e della salute mentale.