European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
June 23, 2026
Ilaria Bufalari, Lilya Abergel, Andrea Zagaria et al.
Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD) is a proposed mental health condition characterized by compulsive, immersive daydreaming that interferes with daily functioning. Although MD is strongly associated with dissociative experiences, its relation to interoception remains unexplored. In this study, we investigated dissociative symptoms and self-reported interoception in individuals with MD compared to...
Consciousness and Cognition
2019
Dominique Makowski, Marco Sperduti, Samantha Lavallée et al.
Emotional stimuli have been shown to automatically hijack attention, hindering the detection of forthcoming targets. Mindfulness is defined as a present moment non-judgemental attentional stance that can be cultivated by meditation practices, but that may present interindividual variability in the general population. The mechanisms underlying modification in emotional reactivity linked to...
Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement
June 1, 2017
Marco Sperduti, Dominique Makowski, Philippe Blondé et al.
Life expectancy is constantly increasing in the developed countries due to medical, hygiene and socio-economic advances. Unfortunately, a longer life not always corresponds to a healthier life. Indeed, aging is associated with growing risk factors for illness associated with societal conditions (isolation, maltreatment), and neurodegenerative diseases. Even normal aging is associated with a...
Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
November 2016
Marco Sperduti, Dominique Makowski, Pascale Piolino
Life expectancy is constantly increasing. However, a longer life not always corresponds to a healthier life. Indeed, even normal aging is associated with a decline in different cognitive functions. It has been proposed that a central mechanism that could contribute to this widespread cognitive decline is an ineffective inhibitory attentional control. Meditation, to the other hand, has been...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
May 7, 2014
Ursula Debarnot, Marco Sperduti, Franck di Rienzo et al.
174 citations
Skill learning is the improvement in perceptual, cognitive, or motor performance following practice. Expert performance levels can be achieved with well-organized knowledge, using sophisticated and specific mental representations and cognitive processing, applying automatic sequences quickly and efficiently, being able to deal with large amounts of information, and many other challenging task...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 2012
Marco Sperduti, Pénélope Martinelli, Pascale Piolino
Meditation comprises a series of practices mainly developed in eastern cultures aiming at controlling emotions and enhancing attentional processes. Several authors proposed to divide meditation techniques in focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM) techniques. Previous studies have reported differences in brain networks underlying FA and OM. On the other hand common activations across...