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Sara Borgomaneri

Professoressa associata

Dipartimento di Psicologia "Renzo Canestrari"

Settore scientifico disciplinare: PSIC-01/B Neuropsicologia e neuroscienze cognitive

Curriculum vitae

Dati personali

Cognome e nome: Borgomaneri Sara

Indirizzo: Centro di Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Viale Rasi e Spinelli 176, 47521 Cesena, Italia

Telefono : (+39) 0547-338951

Indirizzo e-mail: sara.borgomaneri@unibo.it [mailto:sara.borgomaneri@unibo.it]

Attuale occupazione

Professoressa Associata 

Istruzione e formazione

Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale 2025 come Professore Ordinario settore 11/E01 PSICOLOGIA GENERALE, PSICOBIOLOGIA, PSICOMETRIA.

Gen 2011 - May 2015: Dottorato in Social and Behavioural Sciences, Università di Amsterdam (Olanda). Tesi: "Your Emotion moves into my motor system". Supervisore: Prof. Christian Keysers, Phd

Ott 2007 - Nov 2009: Laurea Magistrale in Neuropsicologia e recupero funzionale nell’arco di vita, Università di Bologna (Cesena, Italia). Voto: 110/110 e lode. Tesi: “Ruolo di aree sensorimotorie nel mappaggio empatico del dolore altrui”. Supervisore: Prof. Alessio Avenanti, PhD

Ott 2004 - Sett 2007: Laurea in Scienze Psicologiche, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele (Milano, Italia). Voto 110/110 e lode. Tesi: “Comunità Deepashram (India) progetto di un intervento di stimolazione cognitiva in soggetti con handicap mentale e/o fisico”. Supervisore: Prof. Cesare Maffei, M.D

 

Pubblicazioni

  1. Costa, C., Pezzetta, R., Toffalini, E., Grassi, M., Cona, G., Miniussi, C., Bauer, P., Borgomaneri, S., Brysbaert, M., Chambers, C., Edelstyn, N., Eerland, A., Gilbert, S., Nitsche, M., Poldrack, R., Puce, A., Ridderinkhof, K. R., Swaab, T., Umiltà, C., … Scarpazza, C. (In Press). Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive And Neuropsychological Studies—The PECANS statement for human studies. Behavior Research Methods. 4.6 Impact Factor
  2. Battaglia S., di Fazio C., Borgomaneri S., & Avenanti A. (2025). Cortisol Imbalance and Fear Learning in PTSD: Therapeutic Approaches to Control Abnormal Fear Responses. Curr Neuropharmacol. doi: 10.2174/1570159X23666250123142526. Online ahead of print. 4.8 Impact Factor
  3. Ippolito G., Quettier T., Borgomaneri S., Romei V. (2025). Silicon Spike: an Arduino-based low-cost and open-access triggerbox to precisely control TMS devices. Behavior Research Methods. 57:145. doi: 10.3758/s13428-025-02653-y. 4.6 Impact Factor
  4. Cardellicchio P., & Borgomaneri S. (2025). Level of M1 GABAB predicts micro offline consolidation of motor learning during wakefulness. NPJ Sci Learn.10:10. doi: 10.1038/s41539 025-00299-1. 3.6 Impact Factor
  5. Quettier T., Ippolito G., Però L., Cardellicchio P., Battaglia S., & Borgomaneri S. (2024). Individual differences in intracortical inhibition predict action control when facing emotional stimuli. Front Psychol. 12:15:1391723. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1391723. 3.8 Impact factor
  6. Battaglia S., Nazzi C., di Fazio C., & Borgomaneri S. (2024). The role of pre-supplementary motor cortex in action control with emotional stimuli: an rTMS study. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. In press. 5.2 Impact Factor
  7. Battaglia S., Nazzi C., Fullana M.A., di Pellegrino G. & Borgomaneri S. (2024). ‘Nip it in the bud’: Low-frequency rTMS of the prefrontal cortex disrupts threat memory consolidation in humans. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 27:178:104548. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104548. 4.1 Impact Factor
  8. Chiappini E., Turrini S., Zanon M., Marangon M., Borgomaneri S., Avenanti A. (2024). Driving Hebbian plasticity over ventral premotor-motor projections transiently enhances motor resonance. Brain Stimulation. 7:211-220. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.02.011. 9.184 Impact Factor
  9. Breveglieri R., Borgomaneri S., Bosco A., Filippini M., De Vitis M.,Tessari A., Avenanti A., Galletti C., Fattori P. (2023). rTMS over the human medial parietal cortex impairs online reaching corrections. Brain Struct & Funct. 229:297-310. doi: 10.1007/s00429-023-02735-7 3.748 Impact Factor
  10. Borgomaneri S., Vitale F., Battaglia S., de Vega M., Avenanti A. (2023). Task-related modulation of motor response to emotional bodies: A TMS motor-evoked potential study. 171, 235-246. Cortex. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.013. 4.644 Impact Factor
  11. Borgomaneri S., Zanon M., Di Luzio P., Cataneo A., Arcara G., Romei V., Tamietto M., Avenanti A. (2023). Increasing associative plasticity in temporo-occipital back-projections improves visual perception of emotions from facial stimuli. Nature Communications. 14:5720. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41058-3.16.6 Impact Factor
  12. Breveglieri R., Borgomaneri S., Filippini M., Tessari A., Galletti C., Davare M., Fattori P. (2023). Complementary contribution of the medial and lateral human parietal cortex to grasping: a repetitive TMS study. Cerebral Cortex. bhac404. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac404. 4.861 Impact Factor
  13. Breveglieri R., Borgomaneri S., Diomedi S., Tessari A., Galletti C., Fattori P. (2023). A short route for reach planning between human V6A and the motor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 43:2116-2125. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1609-22.2022. 6.709 Impact Factor
  14. Tarasi L., Borgomaneri S., Romei V. (2023). Antivax attitude in the general population along the autism-schizophrenia continuum and the impact of socio-demographic factors. Frontiers in Psychology. 14:1059676. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1059676. eCollection. 4.232 Impact Factor
  15. Battaglia S., Orsolini S., Borgomaneri S., Barbieri R., Diciotti S., di Pellegrino G. (2022). Characterizing cardiac autonomic dynamics of fear learning in humans. Psychophysiology. 59:e14122 doi: 10.1111/psyp.14122. 4.348 Impact Factor
  16. Battaglia S., Cardellicchio P., Di Fazio C., Nazzi C., Fracasso A., Borgomaneri S. (2022). Stopping in (e)motion: Reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli. Front Behavioral Neuroscience. 16:998714. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.998714. 3.617 Impact Factor
  17. Battaglia S., Cardellicchio P., Di Fazio C., Nazzi C., Fracasso A., Borgomaneri S. (2022). The influence of vicarious fear-learning in ‘infecting’ reactive action inhibition. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 16:946263. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.946263. 3.617 Impact Factor
  18. Spaccasassi C., Zanon M., Borgomaneri S., Avenanti A. (2022). Mu rhythm and corticospinal excitability capture two different frames of motor resonance: a TMS/EEG co-registration study. Cortex. 154:197-211. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.04.019. 4.644 Impact Factor
  19. Battaglia S., Fabius J.H., Moravkova K., Fracasso A., Borgomaneri S. (2022). The neurobiological correlates of gaze perception in healthy individuals and neurologic patients. Biomedicines. 10, 627. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10030627. 4.757 Impact Factor
  20. Borgomaneri S., Manuel de Vega. (2022). Editorial: “Neuromodulation of Language, Cognition and Emotion”. Brain Sciences. 12, 136. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020136. 3.333 Impact Factor
  21. Breveglieri R., Borgomaneri S., Filippini M., De Vitis M., Tessari A., Fattori P. (2021). Functional connectivity at rest between the human medial posterior parietal cortex and the primary motor cortex detected by paired-pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Brain Sciences. 11(10), 1357. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11101357. 3.33 Impact Factor
  22. Borgomaneri S., Vitale F., Battaglia S., Avenanti A. (2021). Early right motor cortex response to happy and fearful facial expressions: A TMS Motor-Evoked Potential study. Brain Sciences. 11, 1203. doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091203146:107541 3.333 Impact Factor
  23. Battaglia S., Serio G., Scarpazza C., D’Ausilio A., Borgomaneri S. (2021). Frozen in (e)motion: How reactive motor inhibition is influenced by the emotional content of stimuli in healthy and psychiatric populations. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 146, 103963. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103963 5.321 Impact Factor Q1
  24. Borgomaneri S., Battaglia S., Sciamanna G., Tortora F., Laricchiuta D. (2021). Memories are not written in stones: re-writing fear memories by means of non-invasive brain stimulation and optogenetic manipulations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 127, 334-352. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.04.036 9.052 Impact Factor
  25. Borgomaneri S., Battaglia S., Avenanti A., di Pellegrino G. (2021). Don’t Hurt Me No More: State-dependent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the treatment of specific phobia. Journal of Affective Disorders. 286:78-79. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.02.076 6.533 Impact Factor
  26. Di Luzio P., Borgomaneri S., Sanchioni S., Tessari A., Romei V. (2020). Exposure to first-person shooter videogames is associated with multisensory temporal precision and migraine incidence. Cortex. 134: 223-238. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.009 4.027 Impact Factor
  27. Borgomaneri S., Serio G., Battaglia S. (2020). Please, don’t do it! Fifteen years of progress of non-invasive brain stimulation in action inhibition. Cortex. 132:404-422. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.002. 4.027 Impact Factor
  28. Decroix J., Borgomaneri S.*, Kalenine S., Avenanti A (2020). State-dependent TMS of inferior frontal and parietal cortex highlights integration of motor acts and functional goals during action recognition. Cortex. 132:51-62. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.08.004. 4.027 Impact Factor
  29. Breveglieri R., Bosco A., Borgomaneri S.°, Tessari A., Galletti C., Avenanti A., Fattori P (2020).Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the human medial posterior parietal cortex disrupts depth encoding during reach planning. Cerebral Cortex. bhaa224. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa224. 5.357 Impact Factor
  30. Chiappini E., Borgomaneri S.*, Marangon M., Turrini S., Romei V., Avenanti A (2020). Driving associative plasticity in premotor-motor connections though a novel paired associative stimulation based on long-latency cortico-cortical interactions. Brain Stimulation. 13:1461-1463. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2020.08.003. 8.955 Impact Factor
  31. Borgomaneri S., Battaglia S., Garofalo S., Tortora F., Avenanti A., di Pellegrino G (2020). State-dependent TMS over prefrontal cortex disrupts fear memory reconsolidation and prevents the return of fear. Current Biology. 30:3672-3679.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.091. 10.834 Impact Factor
  32. Borgomaneri S., Vitale F., Avenanti A. (2020). Early motor reactivity to observed human body postures is affected by body expression, not gender. Neuropsychologia. 146:107541 doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107541. 3.139 Impact Factor
  33. Borgomaneri S., Bolloni C., Sessa P., Avenanti A. (2020). Blocking facial mimicry affects recognition of facial and body expressions. Plos One. 15: e0229364. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229364. 3.240 Impact factor
  34. Zanon M., Borgomaneri S., Avenanti A. (2018). Action-related dynamic changes in inferior frontal cortex effective connectivity: a TMS/EEG coregistration study. Cortex. 108:193-209. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.004. 4.275 Impact factor
  35. Paracampo R., Pirruccio M., Costa M., Borgomaneri S., Avenanti A. (2018). Visual, sensorimotor and cognitive routes to understanding others' enjoyment: An individual differences rTMS approach to empathic accuracy. Neuropsychologia. 116:86-98. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.043. 2.872 Impact factor
  36. Fiori F., Chiappini E., Candidi M., Romei V., Borgomaneri S., Avenanti A (2017). Long-latency interhemispheric interactions between motor-related areas and the primary motor cortex: a dual site TMS study. Scientific Reports. 7:14936. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13708-2. 4.122 Impact factor
  37. Borgomaneri S., Vitale F., Avenanti A. (2017). Behavioral inhibition system sensitivity enhances motor cortex suppression when watching fearful body expressions. Brain Structure & Function. 222:3267-3282. doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1403-5. 4.231 Impact Factor
  38. Paracampo R., Tidoni E., Borgomaneri S., di Pellegrino G., Avenanti A. (2017). Sensorimotor network crucial for inferring amusement from smiles. Cerebral Cortex. 27:5116-5129. doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw294. 6.308 Impact Factor
  39. Vicario C.M., Rafal R.D., Borgomaneri S., Paracampo R., Kritikos A., Avenanti A. (2017). Pictures of disgusting foods and disgusted facial expressions suppress the tongue motor cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 12:352-362. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw129. 3.500 Impact Factor
  40. Fiori F., Chiappini E., Soriano M., Paracampo R., Romei V., Borgomaneri S., Avenanti A. (2016). Long latency modulation of motor cortex excitability by ipsilateral posterior inferior frontal gyrus and pre-supplementary motor area. Scientific Reports. 6:38396. doi.org/10.1038/srep38396. 4.259 Impact Factor Q1
  41. Borhani K., Borgomaneri S., Làdavas E., Bertini C. (2016). The effect of alexithymia on early visual processing of emotional body postures. Biological Psychology. 115:1-8. doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.12.010. 3.070 Impact Factor
  42. Borgomaneri S., Vitale F., Avenanti A. (2015). Early changes in corticospinal excitability when seeing fearful body expressions. Scientific Reports. 5:14122. doi.org/10.1038/srep14122. 5.228 Impact Factor
  43. Borgomaneri S., Vitale F., Gazzola V., Avenanti A. (2015). Seeing fearful body language rapidly freezes the observer’s motor cortex. Cortex. 65:232-245. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.01.014. 4.314 Impact Factor
  44. Borgomaneri S., Gazzola V., Avenanti A. (2015). Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language. Brain Structure & Function. 220:2765-2781. doi.org/10.1007/s00429-014-0825-6. 5.811 Impact Factor
  45. Avenanti A., Vicario C.M., Borgomaneri S. (2014). Social dimensions of pain: Comment on "Facing the experience of pain: A neuropsychological perspective" by Fabbro and Crescentini. Physics of Life Reviews. 11:558-561. doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2014.06.001. 7.478 Impact Factor
  46. Borgomaneri S., Gazzola V., Avenanti A. (2014). Temporal dynamics of motor cortex excitability during perception of natural emotional scenes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9:1451-1457. doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst139. 7.372 Impact Factor
  47. Tidoni E., Borgomaneri S., di Pellegrino G., Avenanti A. (2013). Action Simulation Plays a Critical Role in Deceptive Action Recognition. Journal of Neuroscience. 33:611-623. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2228-11.2013. 6.747 Impact Factor
  48. Borgomaneri S., Gazzola V., Avenanti A. (2012). Motor mapping of implied actions during perception of emotional body language. Brain Stimulation. 5:70-76. doi:10.1016/j.brs.2012.03.011. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.10.009. 4.538 Impact Factor
 

*equal contribution as first author

° equal contribution as second author

  

Premi

  1. IOP/SIPF Early Career Prize. 22nd World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP 2025), Cracovia, Polania, 8–11/07/2025.
  2.  Brain Sciences 2024 Young Investigator Award.
  3. Migliore presentazione scientifica European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning, 19/05/2022, Online. Titolo del contributo: ‘Nip it in the bud’: rTMS over prefrontal cortex disrupts fear memory consolidation in humans.
  4. Premio casa editrice Pearson, miglior presentazione scientifica, XIX CONGRESSO DI PSICOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE, Roma, 16-18/09/2013.
  5. Travel Grant XXIII CONGRESSO DI PSICOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE,Bari, 20-22 /09/2017.
  6. Finanziamento per proseguimento tesi all’estero, Università di Bologna. Titolo del progetto: "Connettività funzionale del sistema sensorimotorio nell’empatia per il dolore. Uno studio combinato di stimolazione magnetica transcranica (TMS) e risonanza magnetica funzionale (fMRI)." Finanziamento per continuare la tesi magistrale presso un istituto estero, nel caso specifico il Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center of Groningen, Paesi Bassi.

Fondi di Ricerca

  1. Bial Foundation Grant Programme (PI) 2016/2017, Portogallo (45k€).
  2. Bando Giovani Ricercatori 2018, Ministero della Salute. Ruolo: Ricercatore collaboratore, a capo dell'Unità esterna (450k).
  3. Bial Foundation Grant Programme 2022/2023 (PI), Portogallo (60k€).
  4. Prin 2022 (212.5k€).
  5. PRIN PNRR (224.678€)

Attività didattica presso istituti esteri

A.A. 2015-2016 Insegnamento in lingua inglese presso Doctorado en Psicología, Universidad de La Laguna (Spagna). Titolo del corso: “The thousand and one uses of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: from single pulses to synaptic plasticity" presso il Neurocog center, Università La Laguna, Tenerife, Spagna. dal 04-07-2016 al 08-07-2016, Ore complessive: 40.

 

Ai sensi dell’art. 15 co. 1 lett. c) del Decreto Legislativo 33/2013 ed in ottemperanza delle disposizioni del D.P.R. 445/2000 la sottoscritta Sara Borgomaneri nato a Gallarate il 12/08/1985 Dichiara di NON svolgere incarichi, di NON avere titolarità di cariche di diritto privato regolati o finanziati dalla pubblica amministrazione e di NON di svolgere attività professionali.

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