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Diana Torta - former postdoc (UCL MoveIn)

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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

2016

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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

2016

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Nucleus Accumbens functional connectivity predicts Medication Overuse Headache

Neuroimage: Clinical

Torta DM, Costa T, Luda E, Barisone G, Palmisano P, Duca S, Geminiani G, Duca S, Cauda F.

11:686-93

2015

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The effect of heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation on Ad-, C- and Ab-fiber brain responses in humans

European Journal of Neuroscience

Torta DM, Churyukanov M, Plaghki L, Mouraux A.

42(9):2707-15

2015

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Understanding the mechanisms through which spatial attention acts on nociception

Journal of Neurophysiology

Torta DM.

114(5):2561-3

2015

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Cognitive psychology and neuropsychology of nociception and pain

Pain, Emotion and Cognition: a Complex Nexus

Legrain V, Torta DM.

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2015

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Prisms for pain. Can visuo-motor rehabilitation strategies alleviate chronic pain?

European Journal of Pain

Torta DM, Legrain V, Rossetti Y, Mouraux A.

20(1):64-9

2015

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Looking at the hand modulates the brain responses to nociceptive and non-nociceptive somatosensory stimuli but does not necessarily modulate their perception

Psychophysiology

Torta DM, Legrain V, Mouraux A.

52(8):1010-8

2013

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Theta burst stimulation applied over primary motor and somatosensory cortices produces analgesia unrelated to the changes in nociceptive event-related potentials

PLoS ONE

Torta D, Legrain V, Algoet M, Olivier E, Duqué J, Mouraux A.

20; 8(8): e73263

2013

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The temporal order judgement of tactile and nociceptive stimuli is impaired by crossing the hands over the body midline

Pain

Sambo CF, Torta DM, Gallace A, Liang M, Moseley GL, Iannetti GD.

154(2): 242-7

2013

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Functional anatomy of cortical areas characterized by Von Economo neurons

Brain Structure and Functiont

Cauda F, Torta DM, Sacco K, DAgata F, Geda E, Duca S, Geminiani G, Vercelli A.

218(1): 1-20

2013

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Parcellation of the cingulate cortex at rest and during tasks: a meta-analytic clustering and experimental study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Torta DM, Costa T, Duca S, Fox PT, Cauda F.

0.482638889

2013

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Crossing the line of pain: FMRI correlates of crossed-hands analgesia

The Journal of Pain

Torta DM, Diano M, Costa T, Gallace A, Duca S, Geminiani GC, Cauda F.

14(9): 957-65

2013

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Massive Modulation of Brain Areas After Mechanical Pain Stimulation: A Time-Resolved fMRI Study

Cerebral Cortex

Cauda F, Costa T, Diano M, Sacco K, Duca S, Geminiani G, Torta DM.

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2012

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Cognitive aspects of nociception and pain. Bridging neurophysiology with cognitive psychology

Neurophysiologie Clinique - Clinical Neurophysiology

Legrain V, Mancini F, Sambo CF, Torta DM, Ronga I, Valentini E.

42(5): 325-36

2012

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Shared core areas between the pain and other task-related networks

PLoS One

Cauda F, Torta DM, Sacco K, Geda E, DAgata F, Costa T, Duca S, Geminiani G, Amanzio M.

7(8): e41929

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