Publications

Selected research outputs.

The full publication record, imported from BibTeX and spanning Flavia Mancini's research career alongside recent NOX Lab work.

  1. 2026

    A theory of how pretraining shapes inductive bias in fine-tuning

    N. Anguita, F. Locatello, A. M. Saxe, M. Mondelli, Flavia Mancini, S. Lippl, C. Domine

    International Conference on Machine Learning

  2. 2026

    Multi-timescale dynamics organize descending pain modulation

    Carl Ashworth, Melissa Martenson, Zhigang Shi, Caitlynn C De Preter, Mary Heinricher, Flavia Mancini

    eLife

  3. 2026

    Moment-to-Moment Pain Variability Predicts Pain Chronification

    Gaia Pantaleo, Carl Ashworth, Maeghal Jain, Flavia Mancini

    bioRxiv

  4. 2026

    Validating a measure of the precision of ascending signals in pain perception

    Aadya Singh, Roi Treister, Christiana Charalambous, Flavia Mancini, Deborah Talmi

    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

  5. 2026

    Exploring neural correlates of emotional and social listening with high-density diffuse optical tomography in the auditory cortex

    S. Srinivasan, E. Butters, D. Acharya, et al.

    Scientific Reports

  6. 2025

    Enhanced behavioural and neural sensitivity to punishments in chronic pain and fatigue

    Flavia Mancini, Pranav Mahajan, Anna Á. V. Guttesen, Jakub Onysk, Ingrid Scholtes, Nicholas Shenker, Michael Lee, Ben Seymour

    Brain

  7. 2025

    Short-term variability of chronic musculoskeletal pain

    X. Zheng, S. Rajwal, Carl Ashworth, S. Y. S. Ho, B. Seymour, N. Shenker, Flavia Mancini

    Frontiers in Pain Research

  8. 2024

    Subject-Specific Information Enhances Spatial Accuracy of High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography

    S. Srinivasan, D. Acharya, E. Butters, L. Collins-Jones, Flavia Mancini, G. Bale

    Frontiers in Neuroergonomics

  9. 2023

    Confidence of probabilistic predictions modulates the cortical response to pain

    D. Mulders, B. Seymour, A. Mouraux, Flavia Mancini

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  10. 2023

    Statistical learning shapes pain perception and prediction independently of external cues

    Jakub Onysk, Nicholas Gregory, Mia Whitefield, Maeghal Jain, Georgia Turner, Ben Seymour, Flavia Mancini

    eLife

  11. 2023

    Towards an Interpretable Functional Image-Based Classifier: Dimensionality Reduction of High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography Data

    S. Srinivasan, E. Butters, Flavia Mancini, G. Bale

    ACAIN 2023

  12. 2022

    Computational and neural mechanisms of statistical pain learning

    Flavia Mancini, S. Zhang, B. Seymour

    Nature Communications

  13. 2021

    A central mechanism of analgesia in mice and humans lacking the sodium channel NaV1.7

    Donald Iain MacDonald, Shafaq Sikandar, Jan Weiss, Martina Pyrski, Ana P. Luiz, Queensta Millet, Edward C. Emery, Flavia Mancini, Gian D. Iannetti, Sascha R. A. Alles, Manuel Arcangeletti, Jing Zhao, James J. Cox, Robert M. Brownstone, Frank Zufall, John N. Wood

    Neuron

  14. 2021

    Prefrontal responses during proactive and reactive inhibition are differentially impacted by stress in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

    M. L. Westwater, Flavia Mancini, A. Gorka, J. Shapleske, J. Serfontein, C. Grillon, M. Ernst, H. Ziauddeen, P. Fletcher

    Journal of Neuroscience

  15. 2020

    Hierarchical models of pain: Inference, information-seeking, and adaptive control

    B. Seymour, Flavia Mancini

    NeuroImage

  16. 2020

    Dissociable hormonal responses to symptoms and stress in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

    M. L. Westwater, Flavia Mancini, J. Shapleske, J. Serfontein, M. Ernst, H. Ziauddeen, P. Fletcher

    Psychological Medicine

  17. 2020

    Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface

    S. Zhang, W. Yoshida, H. Mano, T. Yanagisawa, Flavia Mancini, K. Shibata, M. Kawato, B. Seymour

    Current Biology

  18. 2019

    Fine-grained mapping of cortical somatotopies in chronic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

    Flavia Mancini, A. Wang, M. Schira, Z. J. Isherwood, J. McAuley, G. D. Iannetti, M. I. Sereno, L. Moseley, C. D. Rae

    Journal of Neuroscience

  19. 2019

    Within-finger maps of tactile and nociceptive input in the human parietal cortex

    Flavia Mancini, M. H. Lee, G. D. Iannetti, I. Tracey

    bioRxiv

  20. 2018

    Characterising the short-term habituation of event-related evoked potentials

    Flavia Mancini, A. Pepe, A. Bernacchia, G. Di Stefano, A. Mouraux, G. D. Iannetti

    eNeuro

  21. 2016

    Multisensory integration in hemianopia and unilateral spatial neglect: Evidence from the sound induced flash illusion

    N. Bolognini, S. Convento, C. Casati, Flavia Mancini, F. Brighina, G. Vallar

    Neuropsychologia

  22. 2016

    Perceptual learning to discriminate the intensity and spatial location of nociceptive stimuli

    Flavia Mancini, K. Dolgevica, J. Steckelmacher, P. Haggard, K. Friston, G. D. Iannetti

    Scientific Reports

  23. 2015

    Implicit body representations and tactile spatial remapping

    M. R. Longo, Flavia Mancini, P. Haggard

    Acta Psychologica

  24. 2015

    Poor perception of distance between two nociceptive stimuli

    Flavia Mancini, H. Steinitz, J. Steckelmacker, G. D. Iannetti, P. Haggard

    Cognition

  25. 2015

    Touch inhibits subcortical and cortical nociceptive responses

    Flavia Mancini, A. L. Beaumont, L. Hu, P. Haggard, G. D. Iannetti

    Pain

  26. 2015

    Endogenous opioids contribute to insensitivity to pain in humans and mice lacking sodium channel Nav1.7

    M. S. Minett, V. Pereira, S. Sikandar, A. Matsuyama, S. Lolignier, A. H. Kanellopoulos, Flavia Mancini, G. D. Iannetti, Y. D. Bogdanov, S. Santana-Varela, Q. Millet, G. Baskozos, R. MacAllister, J. J. Cox, J. Zhao, J. N. Wood

    Nature Communications

  27. 2015

    Modulation of pain via expectation of its location

    T. Stanton, H. Gilpin, E. Reid, Flavia Mancini, C. Spence, L. G. Moseley

    European Journal of Pain

  28. 2014

    Pain relief by touch: A quantitative approach

    Flavia Mancini, T. Nash, G. D. Iannetti, P. Haggard

    Pain

  29. 2014

    Perception: A motion after-effect for voluntary actions

    Flavia Mancini, P. Haggard

    Current Biology

  30. 2014

    Whole-body mapping of spatial acuity for pain and touch

    Flavia Mancini, A. Bauleo, J. Cole, F. Lui, C. A. Porro, P. Haggard, G. D. Iannetti

    Annals of Neurology

  31. 2013

    Changes in cortical oscillations linked to multisensory modulation of nociception

    Flavia Mancini, M. R. Longo, E. Canzoneri, G. Vallar, P. Haggard

    European Journal of Neuroscience

  32. 2013

    Focus on pain in the blind

    Flavia Mancini

    Pain

  33. 2013

    A fovea for pain at the fingertips

    Flavia Mancini, C. F. Sambo, J. D. Ramirez, D. L. H. Bennett, P. Haggard, G. D. Iannetti

    Current Biology

  34. 2013

    Subcortical and neocortical mechanisms of visual-somatosensory interplay

    Flavia Mancini

    Journal of Neuroscience

  35. 2012

    Listening to numbers affects visual and haptic bisection in healthy individuals and neglect patients

    Z. Cattaneo, M. Fantino, Flavia Mancini, F. C. Mattioli, G. Vallar

    Neuropsychologia

  36. 2012

    Cognitive aspects of nociception and pain. Bridging neurophysiology and neuropsychology

    V. Legrain, Flavia Mancini, C. F. Sambo, D. M. Torta, I. Ronga, E. Valentini

    Clinical Neurophysiology

  37. 2012

    Linking pain and the body: Neural correlates of visually induced analgesia

    M. R. Longo, G. D. Iannetti, Flavia Mancini, J. Driver, P. Haggard

    Journal of Neuroscience

  38. 2012

    Fine-grained maps of nociceptive input in primary somatosensory cortex

    Flavia Mancini, P. Haggard, G. D. Iannetti, M. R. Longo, M. I. Sereno

    Journal of Neuroscience

  39. 2012

    tDCS modulation of visually-induced analgesia

    Flavia Mancini, N. Bolognini, P. Haggard, G. Vallar

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

  40. 2011

    Neuromodulation of Multisensory Perception: a tDCS study of the sound-induced flash illusion

    N. Bolognini, A. Rossetti, C. Casati, Flavia Mancini, G. Vallar

    Neuropsychologia

  41. 2011

    Cross-modal processing in the occipito-temporal cortex: a TMS study of the Müller-Lyer illusion

    Flavia Mancini, N. Bolognini, E. Bricolo, G. Vallar

    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

  42. 2011

    A supramodal representation of the body surface

    Flavia Mancini, M. R. Longo, G. D. Iannetti, P. Haggard

    Neuropsychologia

  43. 2011

    Visual distortion of body size modulates pain perception

    Flavia Mancini, M. R. Longo, M. Kammers, P. Haggard

    Psychological Science

  44. 2011

    Visuo-haptic interactions in unilateral spatial neglect: the crossmodal Judd illusion

    Flavia Mancini, E. Bricolo, F. C. Mattioli, G. Vallar

    Frontiers in Psychology

  45. 2010

    Multisensory integration in the Müller-Lyer illusion: From vision to haptics

    Flavia Mancini, E. Bricolo, G. Vallar

    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

  46. 2010

    Mapping the neglect syndrome onto neurofunctional streams

    G. Vallar, Flavia Mancini

    Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems