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Diana Torta - former postdoc (UCL MoveIn)
Postdoc 2013-2019.
My main research interest is to understand how attention shapes the elaboration and perception of nociceptive and non-nociceptive inputs, both in healthy and in clinical populations. In 2013, Diana Torta joined the NOCIONS group at UCLouvain on an co-funded Marie Curie-Academie UCLouvain scholarship to explore human nociception and its modulation. In 2016, she obtained a Chargé de Recherche grant from the Fondation National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and a post-doc position at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at KULeuven. Using novel techniques based on electroecencephalography, the objective of her postdoctorate research fellowship was to characterize the role of vision and spatial attention on the elaboration of somatosensory stimuli, in particular, nociceptive somatosensory stimuli. In 2019, Diana Torta obtained an academic position at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at KULeuven.
Group members
Publications
2021
High-frequency electrical stimulation of cutaneous nociceptors differentially affects pain perception elicited by homotopic and heterotopic electrical stimuli
J Neurophysiol
van den Broeke EN, Urdi M, Mouraux A, Biurrun Manresa J, Torta DM
126(4):1038-1044.
2020
Perceptual correlates of homosynaptic long term potentiation in human nociceptive pathways: a replication study
Royal Society Open Science
van den Broeke EN, Vanmaele T, Mouraux A, Stouffs A, Biurrun-Manresa J, Torta DM
8(1):200830.
2020
Rating the Intensity of a Laser Stimulus, but Not Attending to Changes in Its Location or Intensity Modulates the Laser-Evoked Cortical Activity
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Torta DME, Ninghetto M, Ricci R, Legrain V.
14:120
2020
Central sensitization of nociceptive pathways demonstrated by robot-controlled pinprick-evoked brain potentials
Clinical Neurophysiology
van den Broeke EN, de Hemptinne P, Mercken M, Torta DM, Lambert J, Mouraux A.
131(10):2491-2498.
2020
Rating the intensity of a laser stimulus, but not attending to changes in its location or intensity modulates the laser-evoked cortical activity
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Torta DME, Ninghetto M, Ricci R, Legrain V.
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2020
A highly cognitive demanding working memory task may prevent the development of nociceptive hypersensitivity
Pain
Torta DME, De Laurentis M, Eichin KN, Von Leupoldt A, van den Broeke EN, Vlaeyen J.
161(7):1459-1469.
2018
Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation to study tool-selective processing in the human brain
Experimental Brain Research
De Keyser R, Mouraux A, Quek GL, Torta DM, Legrain V.
in press
2018
Central sensitization: explanation or phenomenon?
Clinical Psychological Science
van den Broeke EN, Torta DM, Van den Bergh O.
in press
2018
No perceptual prioritization of non-nociceptive vibrotactile and visual stimuli presented on a sensitized body part
Nature: Scientific Reports
Torta D, Filbrich L, van den Broeke E, Legrain V.
8(1):5359
2018
Attentional Modulation of Somatosensory Processing During the Anticipation of Movements Accompanying Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study
The Journal of Pain
Clauwaert A, Torta DM, Danneels L, Van Damme S.
19(2):219-227
2017
Phase-locked and non-phase-locked EEG responses to pinprick stimulation before and after experimentally-induced secondary hyperalgesia
Clinical Neurophysiology
van den Broeke EN, de Vries B, Lambert J, Torta DM, Mouraux A.
128(8):1445-1456
2017
Attention to pain! A neurocognitive perspective on attentional modulation of pain in neuroimaging studies
Cortex
Torta D, Legrain V, Mouraux A, Valentini E.
89:120-134
2017
Intense pain influences the cortical processing of visual stimuli projected onto the sensitized skin
Pain
Torta DM, van den Broeke EN, Filbrich L, Jacob B, Lambert J, Mouraux A.
158(4):691-697
2016
Mechanical pinprick pain in patients with unilateral spatial neglect: The influence of space representation on the perception of nociceptive stimuli
European Journal of Pain
Vizzari V, Barba S, Gindri P, Duca S, Giobbe D, Cerrato P, Geminiani G, Torta DM.
21(4):738-749
2016
Using temporal order judgments to investigate attention bias towards pain and threat-related information. Methodological and theoretical issues
Consciousness and Cognition
Filbrich L, Torta DM, Vanderclausen C, Azanon E, Legrain V.
41:135-8