Cinzia Cecchetto

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Assistant Professor (RTDa)
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova

Cinzia Cecchetto


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Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems
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  • A quasi-randomised pilot study on the efficacy and perceived usefulness of adding chemosignals to mindfulness practice for women with social anxiety
    Emma T. Eliasson, Elisa Vigna, Elisa Dal Bò, Cinzia Cecchetto, Letizia Zurlo, Claudio Gentili, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Alberto Greco, Fabio Di Francesco, Luca Citi, Nicola Vanello, Johan N. Lundström, Gergö Hadlaczky, Vladimir Carli
    Scientific Reports, 2025
    Body odours (BOs) of individuals in specific emotional states can influence receivers’ responses – referred to as an emotional contagion. To investigate the potential of BOs to enhance the effects of mindfulness practice, this quasi-randomised pilot study tested the hypothesis that participants exposed to emotional BOs during mindfulness meditation would exhibit a steeper decrease in state anxiety symptoms compared to mindfulness alone (clean air control). Ninety-eight women meeting criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) received two mindfulness sessions over two consecutive days, while randomly allocated to one of four conditions: fear BO, joy BO, neutral BO or a clean air control group. No odour × time interaction effect was observed, rejecting the primary hypothesis. Although not statistically significant, effect size estimates suggested a greater reduction in state anxiety for the group receiving fear chemosignals (Day 1 Cohen’s d = 0.26, Day 2 Cohen’s d = 0.54) compared to the clean air control group. Moreover, the BO groups perceived the mindfulness practice as significantly more helpful compared to the control group (p = 0.002). Given the sample size limits, a larger Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) incorporating more mindfulness + BO sessions is recommended to further examine the therapeutic potential of human BOs.
  • Sniffing out a solution: How emotional body odors can improve mindfulness therapy for social anxiety
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Elisa Dal Bò, Emma T. Eliasson, Elisa Vigna, Ludovica Natali, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Alberto Greco, Fabio Di Francesco, Gergö Hadlaczky, Johan N. Lundström, Vladimir Carli, Claudio Gentili
    Journal of Affective Disorders, 2025
    BACKGROUND: Human body odors (BOs) serve as an effective means of social communication, with individuals exposed to emotional BOs experiencing a partial replication of the sender's affective state. This phenomenon may be particularly relevant in conditions where social interactions are impaired, such as social anxiety. Our study aimed to investigate if emotional human BOs could augment the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions. METHODS: We enrolled 48 women with social anxiety symptoms and assigned them to groups exposed to happiness BO, fear BO, or clean air. Participants engaged in mindfulness practice over two consecutive days, which included breathing, meditation, and relaxation exercises. During these interventions, the odor specific to each group was presented. Affective symptoms were assessed at the beginning and end of each day, with heart rate variability (HRV) and skin conductance level (SCL) recorded during the intervention. RESULTS: Self-reported anxiety level revealed a significant reduction in anxiety on the second day for both happiness and fear conditions, but not for the clean air group. However, on a physiological level, fear BO exposure compared to clean air led to decreased HRV, indicating that fear BO may induce a less physiological relaxed state. No significant differences were observed in SCL between odor conditions. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that exposure to BOs triggers the perception of a "social presence", improving the ecological validity of a psychological treatment. If replicated and expanded, these findings could pave the way for using BOs as catalysts in existing therapies.
  • Olfactory dysfunction in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: A comprehensive and updated meta-analysis
    Letizia Zurlo, Elisa Dal Bò, Claudio Gentili, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Schizophrenia Research, 2025
    Olfaction plays a key role in our daily life, influencing food enjoyment, threat detection, mood and social relationships. Numerous studies have provided evidence of abnormal olfactory function in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. This pre-registered meta-analysis was conducted to (a) provide an updated overview of olfactory function in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and (b) examine the modulatory effects of demographic and clinical variables on distinct olfactory abilities. We complied with the PRISMA guidelines, searching throughout PubMed, MEDLINE, and PsycInfo, until the 12th of August 2023. A total of 73 publications were included, comprising data from 3282 patients and 3321 healthy controls. Results revealed that (a) patients performed significantly worse in higher-order olfactory tests (identification and discrimination) compared to healthy controls, while no differences were observed in odor sensitivity; (b) patients' performance in odor identification was moderated by education, as well as disease duration and negative symptoms. Our findings support the presence of olfactory impairments in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, leading to significantly poorer performance in both odor identification and discrimination, but not sensitivity, when compared to healthy controls.
  • Emotion perception through the nose: how olfactory emotional cues modulate the perception of neutral facial expressions in affective disorders
    Elisa Dal Bò, Cinzia Cecchetto, Alejandro Luis Callara, Alberto Greco, Francesca Mura, Nicola Vanello, Fabio Di Francesco, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Claudio Gentili
    Translational Psychiatry, 2024
    Humans can decode emotional states from the body odors of the conspecifics and this type of emotional communication is particularly relevant in conditions in which social interactions are impaired, as in depression and social anxiety. The present study aimed to explore how body odors collected in happiness and fearful conditions modulate the subjective ratings, the psychophysiological response and the neural processing of neutral faces in individuals with depressive symptoms, social anxiety symptoms, and healthy controls (N = 22 per group). To this aim, electrocardiogram (ECG) and HD-EEG were recorded continuously. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) was extracted from the ECG as a measure of vagal tone, event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related spectral perturbations (ERPSs) were extracted from the EEG. The results revealed that the HRV increased during the fear and happiness body odors conditions compared to clean air, but no group differences emerged. For ERPs data, repeated measure ANOVA did not show any significant effects. However, the ERPSs analyses revealed a late increase in delta power and a reduced beta power both at an early and a late stage of stimulus processing in response to the neutral faces presented with the emotional body odors, regardless of the presence of depressive or social anxiety symptoms. The current research offers new insights, demonstrating that emotional chemosignals serve as potent environmental cues. This represents a substantial advancement in comprehending the impact of emotional chemosignals in both individuals with and without affective disorders.
  • Combining electrodermal activity analysis and dynamic causal modeling to investigate the visual-odor multimodal integration during face perception
    Gianluca Rho, Alejandro Luis Callara, Francesco Bossi, Dimitri Ognibene, Cinzia Cecchetto, Tommaso Lomonaco, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Alberto Greco
    Journal of Neural Engineering, 2024
    Objective. This study presents a novel methodological approach for incorporating information related to the peripheral sympathetic response into the investigation of neural dynamics. Particularly, we explore how hedonic contextual olfactory stimuli influence the processing of neutral faces in terms of sympathetic response, event-related potentials and effective connectivity analysis. The objective is to investigate how the emotional valence of odors influences the cortical connectivity underlying face processing and the role of face-induced sympathetic arousal in this visual-olfactory multimodal integration. Approach. To this aim, we combine electrodermal activity (EDA) analysis and dynamic causal modeling to examine changes in cortico-cortical interactions. Results. The results reveal that stimuli arising sympathetic EDA responses are associated with a more negative N170 amplitude, which may be a marker of heightened arousal in response to faces. Hedonic odors, on the other hand, lead to a more negative N1 component and a reduced the vertex positive potential when they are unpleasant or pleasant. Concerning connectivity, unpleasant odors strengthen the forward connection from the inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) to the middle temporal gyrus, which is involved in processing changeable facial features. Conversely, the occurrence of sympathetic responses after a stimulus is correlated with an inhibition of this same connection and an enhancement of the backward connection from ITG to the fusiform face gyrus. Significance. These findings suggest that unpleasant odors may enhance the interpretation of emotional expressions and mental states, while faces capable of eliciting sympathetic arousal prioritize identity processing.
  • Consistent social odor representation across 7 languages: the Social Odor Scale translation and validation
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Arnaud Leleu, Roberta P Calce, Sally Arnhardt, Valentina Parma, Jasper H B de Groot, Jessica Freiherr, Claudio Gentili, Laiquan Zou, Evelina Thunell, Florian Ph S Fischmeister, Diane Rekow, Elisa Dal Bò
    Chemical Senses, 2024
    The Social Odor Scale (SOS) is a 12-item questionnaire initially developed and validated in Italian and German to investigate self-reported awareness of social odors, which are odors emanating from the human body that convey diverse information and evoke various emotional responses. The scale includes a total score and 3 subscales representing social odors in the respective categories: romantic partner, familiar, and strangers. Here, we aimed to (i) replicate the validation of the Italian and German versions of the SOS, (ii) translate and validate the SOS into multiple additional languages (French, English, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese), and (iii) explore whether the factor structure of each translated version aligns with the original versions. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) supported the scale’s structure, yielding a good fit across all languages. Notable differences in SOS mean scores were observed among the different languages: Swedish participants exhibited lower social odor awareness compared to the other groups, whereas Chinese participants reported higher social odor awareness compared to Dutch and Swedish participants. Furthermore, SOS scores correlated with respondents’ geographical location, with higher (i.e. northern) latitudes linked to lower social odor awareness. These results corroborate the SOS as a valid and reliable instrument, especially for the SOS total score and the Familiar and Partner factors, emphasizing the influence of individual and geographic factors on social odor awareness.
  • Low odor awareness predicts reduced olfactory abilities in women with depressive symptoms, but not with anxiety symptoms
    Elisa Dal Bò, Ludovica Natali, Claudio Gentili, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Journal of Affective Disorders, 2023
    BACKGROUND: Olfactory disorders and affective symptoms are tightly related. However, the factors underlying this association are not yet understood. One candidate factor is "odor awareness": the degree of attention individuals pays to the odors. However, the association between odor awareness and olfactory abilities in individuals with affective symptoms has not been clarified yet. METHOD: The present study examined whether odor awareness may moderate (a) the relation between olfactory dysfunctions and depressive and anxiety symptoms; (b) the relation between the perceptual ratings of the odors and depressive and anxiety symptoms in a sample of healthy women (n = 214). Self-report measures of depression and anxiety were collected, whereas the Sniffin' Stick test was employed to measure olfactory abilities. RESULTS: Linear regression analysis revealed that individuals with higher depressive symptoms presented lower olfactory abilities and that odor awareness was a significant moderator of the association between depressive symptoms and olfactory abilities. Anxiety symptoms were not related to any of the olfactory abilities considered, and this relationship did not change according to odor awareness. The familiarity rating of the odor was significantly predicted by odor awareness. These results were confirmed by Bayesian statistics. LIMITATIONS: The sample was composed only of women. CONCLUSIONS: In a healthy population of women, only the presence of depressive symptoms is related to reduced olfactory performance. Odor awareness may be implicated in the development and maintenance of olfactory dysfunction; hence it could be used as a useful target for specific treatments in clinical settings.
  • Alexithymia modulates the attitudes towards odors but not the olfactory abilities or the affective reactions to odors
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Elisa Dal Bò, Marilena Aiello, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister, Claudio Gentili, Sofia Adelaide Osimo
    Plos One, 2023
    Although emotion and olfaction are closely linked, only a few studies have investigated olfactory processing in alexithymia, a condition characterized by altered emotional processing. These results do not allow comprehensive conclusions on whether individuals with alexithymia present lower olfactory abilities or only altered affective reactions and awareness of odors. Three pre-registered experiments were conducted to clarify this relation. We assessed olfactory functions, the affective qualities of odors, the awareness of odors, the attitudes towards them, and the ability to form olfactory images in the mind. Bayesian statistics were used to assess differences between low, medium and high alexithymia groups, and Linear Mixed Models (LMMs) were applied to investigate the modulation of the affective and cognitive components of alexithymia. We observed that individuals with a high level of alexithymia presented the same olfactory abilities, and did not show differences in their rating of odors compared to individuals with low alexithymia levels, while they reported lower levels of social and common odor awareness and a more indifferent attitude towards odors. Olfactory imagery was not affected by alexithymia level, and the affective and cognitive components of alexithymia, when considered separately, modulated olfactory perception differently. Learning more about olfactory perception in individuals with alexithymia leads to a better understanding of how alexithymia impacts the perception of hedonic stimuli coming from different sensory modalities. Our results imply that treatment goals for alexithymia should be the enhancement of the conscious perception of odors, supporting the use of mindfulness-based protocols in the alexithymia treatment.
  • Effect of EDA-driven sympathetic responses on the central processing of faces cued by hedonic odors: a preliminary ERP study
    Convegno Nazionale Di Bioingegneria, 2023
  • Editorial: The functional connectome of chemosensory perception
    Florian Ph.S Fischmeister, Maria G. Veldhuizen, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
    COPYRIGHT © 2022 Fischmeister, Veldhuizen and Cecchetto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Editorial: The functional connectome of chemosensory perception
  • Olfactory meta-cognition in individuals with depressive and anxiety symptoms: The differential role of common and social odors
    Elisa Dal Bò, Claudio Gentili, Andrea Castellani, Carmen Tripodi, Florian Ph.S Fischmeister, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Journal of Affective Disorders, 2022
  • Future Directions for Chemosensory Connectomes: Best Practices and Specific Challenges
    Maria G. Veldhuizen, Cinzia Cecchetto, Alexander W. Fjaeldstad, Michael C. Farruggia, Renée Hartig, Yuko Nakamura, Robert Pellegrino, Andy W. K. Yeung, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister
    Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
  • Food olfactory cues reactivity in individuals with obesity and the contribution of alexithymia
    C. Cecchetto, E. Pisanu, V. Schöpf, R.I. Rumiati, M. Aiello
    Appetite, 2022
  • Valence, Arousal, and Gender Effect on Olfactory Cortical Network Connectivity: A Study Using Dynamic Causal Modeling for EEG
    Gianluca Rho, Alejandro Luis Callara, Cinzia Cecchetto, Nicola Vanello, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Alberto Greco
    IEEE Access, 2022
  • Human body odors of happiness and fear modulate the late positive potential component during neutral face processing: a preliminary ERP study on healthy subjects
    Alejandro Luis Callara, Cinzia Cecchetto, Elisa Dal Bo, Luca Citi, Claudio Gentili, Nicola Vanello, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Alberto Greco
    Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBS, 2022
  • A follow-up on quantitative and qualitative olfactory dysfunction and other symptoms in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss
    K. Ohla, M.G. Veldhuizen, T. Green, M.E. Hannum, A.J. Bakke, S.T. Moein, A. Tognetti, E.M. Postma, R. Pellegrino, D.L.D. Hwang, J. Albayay, S. Koyama, A.A. Nolden, T. Thomas-Danguin, C. Mucignat-Caretta, N.S. Menger, I. Croijmans, L. Öztürk, H. Yanık, D. Pierron, V. Pereda-Loth, A. Nunez-Parra, A.M. Martinez Pineda, D. Gillespie, M.C. Farruggia, C. Cecchetto, M.A. Fornazieri, C. Philpott, V. Voznessenskaya, K.W. Cooper, P. Rohlfs Dominguez, O. Calcinoni, J. de Groot, S. Boesveldt, S. Bhutani, E.M. Weir, C. Exten, P.V. Joseph, J.E. Hayes, M.Y. Niv
    Rhinology, 2022
  • The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness
    Elisa Dal Bò, Claudio Gentili, Andrea Spoto, Giovanni Bruno, Andrea Castellani, Carmen Tripodi, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Plos One, 2021
  • Assessing the extent and timing of chemosensory impairments during COVID-19 pandemic
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Antonella Di Pizio, Federica Genovese, Orietta Calcinoni, Alberto Macchi, Andreas Dunkel, Kathrin Ohla, Sara Spinelli, Michael C. Farruggia, Paule V. Joseph, Anna Menini, Elena Cantone, Caterina Dinnella, Maria Paola Cecchini, Anna D’Errico, Carla Mucignat-Caretta, Valentina Parma, Michele Dibattista
    Scientific Reports, 2021
  • Metabolic Dynamics in the Prefrontal Cortex during a Working Memory Task in Young Adult Smokers
    Deepika Bagga, Cinzia Cecchetto, Christoph Stefan Aigner, Illya Tiraspolski, Karl Koschutnig, Florian P.S. Fischmeister, Veronika Schöpf
    European Addiction Research, 2021
  • Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Marilena Aiello, Claudio Gentili, Silvio Ionta, Sofia Adelaide Osimo
    Appetite, 2021
  • The Influence of Personality, Resilience, and Alexithymia on Mental Health During COVID-19 Pandemic
    Sofia Adelaide Osimo, Marilena Aiello, Claudio Gentili, Silvio Ionta, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
  • Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19 among individuals with recent respiratory symptoms
    Richard C Gerkin, Kathrin Ohla, Maria G Veldhuizen, Paule V Joseph, Christine E Kelly, Alyssa J Bakke, Kimberley E Steele, Michael C Farruggia, Robert Pellegrino, Marta Y Pepino, Cédric Bouysset, Graciela M Soler, Veronica Pereda-Loth, Michele Dibattista, Keiland W Cooper, Ilja Croijmans, Antonella Di Pizio, Mehmet Hakan Ozdener, Alexander W Fjaeldstad, Cailu Lin, Mari A Sandell, Preet B Singh, V Evelyn Brindha, Shannon B Olsson, Luis R Saraiva, Gaurav Ahuja, Mohammed K Alwashahi, Surabhi Bhutani, Anna D’Errico, Marco A Fornazieri, Jérôme Golebiowski, Liang Dar Hwang, Lina Öztürk, Eugeni Roura, Sara Spinelli, Katherine L Whitcroft, Farhoud Faraji, Florian Ph S Fischmeister, Thomas Heinbockel, Julien W Hsieh, Caroline Huart, Iordanis Konstantinidis, Anna Menini, Gabriella Morini, Jonas K Olofsson, Carl M Philpott, Denis Pierron, Vonnie D C Shields, Vera V Voznessenskaya, Javier Albayay, Aytug Altundag, Moustafa Bensafi, María Adelaida Bock, Orietta Calcinoni, William Fredborg, Christophe Laudamiel, Juyun Lim, Johan N Lundström, Alberto Macchi, Pablo Meyer, Shima T Moein, Enrique Santamaría, Debarka Sengupta, Paloma Rohlfs Dominguez, Hüseyin Yanik, Thomas Hummel, John E Hayes, Danielle R Reed, Masha Y Niv, Steven D Munger, Valentina Parma, , Sanne Boesveldt, Jasper H B de Groot, Caterina Dinnella, Jessica Freiherr, Tatiana Laktionova, Sajidxa Marino, Erminio Monteleone, Alexia Nunez-Parra, Olagunju Abdulrahman, Marina Ritchie, Thierry Thomas-Danguin, Julie Walsh-Messinger, Rashid Al Abri, Rafieh Alizadeh, Emmanuelle Bignon, Elena Cantone, Maria Paola Cecchini, Jingguo Chen, Maria Dolors Guàrdia, Kara C Hoover, Noam Karni, Marta Navarro, Alissa A Nolden, Patricia Portillo Mazal, Nicholas R Rowan, Atiye Sarabi-Jamab, Nicholas S Archer, Ben Chen, Elizabeth A Di Valerio, Emma L Feeney, Johannes Frasnelli, Mackenzie E Hannum, Claire Hopkins, Hadar Klein, Coralie Mignot, Carla Mucignat, Yuping Ning, Elif E Ozturk, Mei Peng, Ozlem Saatci, Elizabeth A Sell, Carol H Yan, Raul Alfaro, Cinzia Cecchetto, Gérard Coureaud, Riley D Herriman, Jeb M Justice, Pavan Kumar Kaushik, Sachiko Koyama, Jonathan B Overdevest, Nicola Pirastu, Vicente A Ramirez, S Craig Roberts, Barry C Smith, Hongyuan Cao, Hong Wang, Patrick Balungwe Birindwa, Marius Baguma
    Chemical Senses, 2021
  • Human chemosignals and brain activity: A preliminary meta-analysis of the processing of human body odors
    Elisa Dal Bò, Claudio Gentili, Cinzia Cecchetto
    Chemical Senses, 2020
  • Human body odor increases familiarity for faces during encoding-retrieval task
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister, Sarah Gorkiewicz, Wolfgang Schuehly, Deepika Bagga, Valentina Parma, Veronika Schöpf
    Human Brain Mapping, 2020
  • Body odors (even when masked) make you more emotional: behavioral and neural insights
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Elisa Lancini, Domenica Bueti, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Valentina Parma
    Scientific Reports, 2019
  • Influence of 4-week multi-strain probiotic administration on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers
    Deepika Bagga, Christoph Stefan Aigner, Johanna Louise Reichert, Cinzia Cecchetto, Florian Ph. S. Fischmeister, Peter Holzer, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Veronika Schöpf
    European Journal of Nutrition, 2019
  • When to collect resting-state data: The influence of odor on post-task resting-state connectivity
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Florian Ph.S Fischmeister, Johanna L. Reichert, Deepika Bagga, Veronika Schöpf
    Neuroimage, 2019
  • Women smelling men's masked body odors show enhanced harm aversion in moral dilemmas
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Elisa Lancini, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Valentina Parma
    Physiology and Behavior, 2019
  • Investigating Sex-Specific Characteristics of Nicotine Addiction Using Metabolic and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    Deepika Bagga, Christoph Stefan Aigner, Cinzia Cecchetto, Florian Ph.S. Fischmeister, Veronika Schöpf
    European Addiction Research, 2019
  • Emotional reactions in moral decision-making are influenced by empathy and alexithymia
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Sebastian Korb, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Marilena Aiello
    Social Neuroscience, 2018
  • Alexithymia and emotional reactions to odors
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Marilena Aiello
    Scientific Reports, 2017
  • Relative contribution of odour intensity and valence to moral decisions
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Valentina Parma
    Perception, 2017
  • Processing of Human Body Odors
    Valentina Parma, Amy R. Gordon, Cinzia Cecchetto, Annachiara Cavazzana, Johan N. Lundström, Mats J. Olsson
    Springer Handbooks, 2017
  • The processing of actions and action-words in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients
    Liuba Papeo, Cinzia Cecchetto, Giulia Mazzon, Giulia Granello, Tatiana Cattaruzza, Lorenzo Verriello, Roberto Eleopra, Raffaella I. Rumiati
    Cortex, 2015
  • Facial and bodily emotion recognition in multiple sclerosis: The role of alexithymia and other characteristics of the disease
    Cinzia Cecchetto, Marilena Aiello, Delia D’Amico, Daniela Cutuli, Daniela Cargnelutti, Roberto Eleopra, Raffaella Ida Rumiati
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2014
  • On-line changing of thinking about words: The effect of cognitive context on neural responses to verb reading
    Liuba Papeo, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Cinzia Cecchetto, Barbara Tomasino
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A quasi-randomised pilot study on the efficacy and perceived usefulness of adding chemosignals to mindfulness practice for women with social anxiety
    ET Eliasson, E Vigna, E Dal Bò, C Cecchetto, L Zurlo, C Gentili, ...
    Scientific Reports 15 (1), 32459 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Sniffing out a solution: How emotional body odors can improve mindfulness therapy for social anxiety
    C Cecchetto, E Dal Bo, ET Eliasson, E Vigna, L Natali, EP Scilingo, ...
    Journal of affective disorders 369, 1082-1089 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • Scented emotions: the role of emotional human chemosignals in social and emotional exchange
    C Cecchetto
    CHEMICAL SENSES 50 , 2025
    2025
  • Neural insights into emotional body odors processing in affective disorders
    E Dal Bo, C Cecchetto, AL Callara, S Ferdowski, A Greco, L Citi, ...
    CHEMICAL SENSES 50 , 2025
    2025
  • Effects of olfactory stimuli on the recognition of facial expressions in individuals with depressive symptoms: an event-related potential EEG study
    L Zurlo, E Dal Bo, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    CHEMICAL SENSES 50 , 2025
    2025
  • Olfactory dysfunction in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: A comprehensive and updated meta-analysis
    L Zurlo, E Dal Bo, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    Schizophrenia research 275, 62-75 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 9
  • DISTINGUISHING DEPRESSIVE AND SOCIAL ANXIETY SYMPTOMS THROUGH EEG MICROSTATE ANALYSIS
    E Dal Bo, F Mura, C Cecchetto, L Zurlo, EP Scilingo, C Gentili
    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 61, S225-S225 , 2024
    2024
  • Emotion perception through the nose: how olfactory emotional cues modulate the perception of neutral facial expressions in affective disorders
    E Dal Bò, C Cecchetto, AL Callara, A Greco, F Mura, N Vanello, ...
    Translational psychiatry 14 (1), 342 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Exploring the Brain’s Response to Food Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies
    E Dal Bò, L Zurlo, C Cecchetto, C Gentili
    2024
  • Olfactory Dysfunction in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: A Comprehensive and Updated Meta-Analysis
    L Zurloa, E Dal Bòa, C Gentilia, C Cecchettoa, C Cecchetto
    PsyArXiv , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Catalyst effect of human body odours in social anxiety treatment–a pilot study.
    E Vigna, V Carli, C Cecchetto, E Dal Bò
    European Psychiatry 67 (S1), S9-S9 , 2024
    2024
  • Combining electrodermal activity analysis and dynamic causal modeling to investigate the visual-odor multimodal integration during face perception
    G Rho, AL Callara, F Bossi, D Ognibene, C Cecchetto, T Lomonaco, ...
    Journal of Neural Engineering 21 (1), 016020 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Emotion perception through the nose: How olfactory emotional cues modulate the perception of neutral facial expressions in affective disorders
    ED Bò, C Cecchetto, A Callara, A Greco, F Mura, N Vanello, ...
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Consistent social odor representation across 7 languages: the Social Odor Scale translation and validation
    C Cecchetto, A Leleu, RP Calce, S Arnhardt, V Parma, JHB De Groot, ...
    Chemical senses 49, bjae035 , 2024
    2024
  • Low odor awareness predicts reduced olfactory abilities in women with depressive symptoms, but not with anxiety symptoms
    E Dal Bo, L Natali, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    Journal of affective disorders 338, 171-179 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Multimodal Integration of Olfactory and Visual Processing through DCM analysis: Contextual Modulation of Facial Perception
    G Rho, AL Callara, F Bossi, D Ognibene, C Cecchetto, T Lomonaco, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03536 , 2023
    2023
  • LATE-BREAKING THE PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL BODY ODORS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: A HIGH-DENSITY EEG STUDY
    E Dal Bo, C Cecchetto, A Callara, F Mura, A Greco, N Vanello, E Scilingo, ...
    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 60, S137-S137 , 2023
    2023
  • Alexithymia modulates the attitudes towards odors but not the olfactory abilities or the affective reactions to odors
    C Cecchetto, E Dal Bò, M Aiello, FPS Fischmeister, C Gentili, SA Osimo
    Plos one 18 (6), e0278496 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Affective and physiological responses to human body odors in social anxiety–a pilot study on the possible effects as catalyst for treatment
    E Vigna, C Cecchetto, E Dal Bò, G Hadlaczky, D Wasserman, V Carli
    European Psychiatry 66 (Suppl 1), S73 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • EMOTIONAL CHEMOSIGNALS PROCESSING IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
    E Dal Bo, C Cecchetto, AL Callara, F Mura, A Greco, N Vanello, ...
    CHEMICAL SENSES 48 , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress
    C Cecchetto, M Aiello, C Gentili, S Ionta, SA Osimo
    Appetite 160, 105122 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 367
  • Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19 among individuals with recent respiratory symptoms
    RC Gerkin, K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, PV Joseph, CE Kelly, AJ Bakke, ...
    Chemical senses 46, bjaa081 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 205
  • The influence of personality, resilience, and alexithymia on mental health during COVID-19 pandemic
    SA Osimo, M Aiello, C Gentili, S Ionta, C Cecchetto
    Frontiers in psychology 12, 630751 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 133
  • Influence of 4-week multi-strain probiotic administration on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers
    D Bagga, CS Aigner, JL Reichert, C Cecchetto, FPS Fischmeister, ...
    European Journal of Nutrition 58 (5), 1821-1827 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 121
  • A follow-up on quantitative and qualitative olfactory dysfunction and other symptoms in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss
    K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, T Green, ME Hannum, AJ Bakke, ST Moein, ...
    Rhinology 60 (3), 207 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 112
  • Emotional reactions in moral decision-making are influenced by empathy and alexithymia
    C Cecchetto, S Korb, RI Rumiati, M Aiello
    Social neuroscience 13 (2), 226-240 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 93
  • Facial and bodily emotion recognition in multiple sclerosis: the role of alexithymia and other characteristics of the disease
    C Cecchetto, M Aiello, D D’Amico, D Cutuli, D Cargnelutti, R Eleopra, ...
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 20 (10), 1004-1014 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 74
  • Human Chemosignals and Brain Activity: A Preliminary Meta-analysis of the Processing of Human Body Odors
    E Dal Bò, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    Chemical Senses 45 (9), 855–864 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 69
  • On-line changing of thinking about words: the effect of cognitive context on neural responses to verb reading
    L Papeo, RI Rumiati, C Cecchetto, B Tomasino
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (12), 2348-2362 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 62
  • The processing of actions and action-words in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients
    L Papeo, C Cecchetto, G Mazzon, G Granello, T Cattaruzza, L Verriello, ...
    Cortex 64, 136-147 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 49
  • Alexithymia and emotional reactions to odors
    C Cecchetto, RI Rumiati, M Aiello
    Scientific Reports 7 (1), 14097 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 44
  • Body odors (even when masked) make you more emotional: behavioral and neural insights
    C Cecchetto, E Lancini, D Bueti, RI Rumiati, V Parma
    Scientific Reports 9 (1), 5489 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 41
  • Human body odor increases familiarity for faces during encoding‐retrieval task
    C Cecchetto, FPS Fischmeister, S Gorkiewicz, W Schuehly, D Bagga, ...
    Human Brain Mapping 41 (7), 1904-1919 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 36
  • Assessing the extent and timing of chemosensory impairments during COVID-19 pandemic
    C Cecchetto, A Di Pizio, F Genovese, O Calcinoni, A Macchi, A Dunkel, ...
    Scientific reports 11 (1), 17504 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 32
  • Increasing incidence of parosmia and phantosmia in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss
    K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, T Green, ME Hannum, AJ Bakke, ST Moein, ...
    MedRxiv, 2021.08. 28.21262763 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 29
  • The best COVID-19 predictor is recent smell loss: a cross-sectional study
    RC Gerkin, K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, PV Joseph, CE Kelly, AJ Bakke, ...
    MedRxiv , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 28
  • Relative contribution of odour intensity and valence to moral decisions
    C Cecchetto, RI Rumiati, V Parma
    Perception 46 (3-4), 447-474 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 28
  • When to collect resting-state data: The influence of odor on post-task resting-state connectivity
    C Cecchetto, FPS Fischmeister, JL Reichert, D Bagga, V Schöpf
    Neuroimage 191, 361-366 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 27
  • Olfactory meta-cognition in individuals with depressive and anxiety symptoms: the differential role of common and social odors
    E Dal Bò, C Gentili, A Castellani, C Tripodi, FPS Fischmeister, ...
    Journal of affective disorders 308, 259-267 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 23
  • Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19: a preregistered, cross-sectional study
    RC Gerkin, K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, PV Joseph, CE Kelly, AJ Bakke, ...
    2020
    Citations: 21