Diana Torta - former postdoc (UCL MoveIn)
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.
Publications
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Torta DME, Ninghetto M, Ricci R, Legrain V.
Rating the Intensity of a Laser Stimulus, but Not Attending to Changes in Its Location or Intensity Modulates the Laser-Evoked Cortical Activity
van den Broeke EN, de Hemptinne P, Mercken M, Torta DM, Lambert J, Mouraux A.
Central sensitization of nociceptive pathways demonstrated by robot-controlled pinprick-evoked brain potentials
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Torta DME, Ninghetto M, Ricci R, Legrain V.
Rating the intensity of a laser stimulus, but not attending to changes in its location or intensity modulates the laser-evoked cortical activity
Torta DME, De Laurentis M, Eichin KN, Von Leupoldt A, van den Broeke EN, Vlaeyen J.
A highly cognitive demanding working memory task may prevent the development of nociceptive hypersensitivity
Experimental Brain Research
De Keyser R, Mouraux A, Quek GL, Torta DM, Legrain V.
Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation to study tool-selective processing in the human brain
Clinical Psychological Science
van den Broeke EN, Torta DM, Van den Bergh O.
Central sensitization: explanation or phenomenon?
Nature: Scientific Reports
Torta D, Filbrich L, van den Broeke E, Legrain V.
No perceptual prioritization of non-nociceptive vibrotactile and visual stimuli presented on a sensitized body part
Clauwaert A, Torta DM, Danneels L, Van Damme S.
Attentional Modulation of Somatosensory Processing During the Anticipation of Movements Accompanying Pain: An Event-Related Potential Study
van den Broeke EN, de Vries B, Lambert J, Torta DM, Mouraux A.
Phase-locked and non-phase-locked EEG responses to pinprick stimulation before and after experimentally-induced secondary hyperalgesia
Torta D, Legrain V, Mouraux A, Valentini E.
Attention to pain! A neurocognitive perspective on attentional modulation of pain in neuroimaging studies
Torta DM, van den Broeke EN, Filbrich L, Jacob B, Lambert J, Mouraux A.
Intense pain influences the cortical processing of visual stimuli projected onto the sensitized skin
Vizzari V, Barba S, Gindri P, Duca S, Giobbe D, Cerrato P, Geminiani G, Torta DM.
Mechanical pinprick pain in patients with unilateral spatial neglect: The influence of space representation on the perception of nociceptive stimuli
Consciousness and Cognition
Filbrich L, Torta DM, Vanderclausen C, Azanon E, Legrain V.
Using temporal order judgments to investigate attention bias towards pain and threat-related information. Methodological and theoretical issues
Torta DM, Costa T, Luda E, Barisone G, Palmisano P, Duca S, Geminiani G, Duca S, Cauda F.
Nucleus Accumbens functional connectivity predicts Medication Overuse Headache
European Journal of Neuroscience
Torta DM, Churyukanov M, Plaghki L, Mouraux A.
The effect of heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation on Ad-, C- and Ab-fiber brain responses in humans
