LIN Staff

Dr. Elena Azanon

Head of Working Group

Behavioral Neurology

Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Brenneckestr. 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany
Phone: +49 391 6263 92301
Email: Elena.Azanon@lin-magdeburg.de
ORCID: 0000-0001-9543-1222

  • Publications

    Publications

    Azañón E, Pounder Z, Figueroa A, Reeder RR. 2025. Individual Variability in Mental Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict Perceptual Interference With Imagery: A Replication Study of Cui et al. (2007). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 154(7):2043-2057. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001756

    Stenner M-P, Nossa CM, Zaehle T, Azañón E, Heinze H-J, Deliano M, Büntjen L. 2025. Prior knowledge changes initial sensory processing in the human spinal cord. Science advances. 11(3):Article eadl5602. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl5602

    Myga KA, Longo MR, Kuehn E, Azanon E. 2025. Autosuggestion and Mental Imagery Bias the Perception of Social Emotions. bioRxiv. (bioRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.09.632121

    Shahzad I, Occelli V, Giraudet E, Azañón E, Longo MR, Mouraux A, Collignon O. 2025. How visual experience shapes body representation. Cognition. 254:Article 105980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105980

    Das A, Karagiorgis A, Diedrichsen J, Stenner M-P, Azañón E. 2024. "Micro-offline gains" convey no benefit for motor skill learning. bioRxiv. (bioRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.11.602795

    Myga KA, Azañón E, Ambroziak KB, Ferrè ER, Longo MR. 2024. Haptic experience of bodies alters body perception. Perception. 53(10):716-729. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066241270627

    Hidaka S, Tucciarelli R, Yusuf S, Memmolo F, Rajapakse S, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2024. Haptic touch modulates size adaptation aftereffects on the hand.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 50(10):989-999. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001231

    Reeder RR, Pounder Z, Figueroa A, Jüllig A, Azañón E. 2024. Non-visual spatial strategies are effective for maintaining precise information in visual working memory. Cognition. 251:Article 105907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105907

    Klemm L, Kuehn E, Kalyani A, Schreiber S, Reichert C, Azañón E. 2024. Age-related differences in finger interdependence during complex hand movements. Journal of applied physiology. 137(1):181-193. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00606.2023

    Myga KA, Kuehn E, Azañón E. 2024. How the inner repetition of a desired perception changes actual tactile perception. Scientific Reports. 14(1):Article 3072. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53449-7

    Kalyani A, Contier O, Klemm L, Azañon E, Schreiber S, Speck O, Reichert C, Kuehn E. 2023. Reduced dimension stimulus decoding and column-based modeling reveal architectural differences of primary somatosensory finger maps between younger and older adults. NeuroImage. 283:Article 120430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120430

    Tucciarelli R, Ferrè ER, Amoruso E, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2023. Gravitational and Retinal Reference Frames Shape Spatial Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 152(12):3433-3439. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001441

    Monzel M, Dance C, Azañón E, Simner J. 2023. Aphantasia within the framework of neurodivergence: Some preliminary data and the curse of the confidence gap. Consciousness and Cognition. 115:Article 103567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103567

    Ambroziak KB, Bofill MA, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2023. Perceptual aftereffects of adiposity transfer from hands to whole bodies. Experimental Brain Research. 241(9):2371-2379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06686-7

    Ganesan S, Melnik N, Azanon E, Pollmann S. 2023. A gaze-contingent saccadic re-referencing training with simulated central vision loss. Journal of Vision. 23(1):1-25. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.1.13

    Jeschke M, Drewing K, Azanon E. 2023. The Tactile Distance Aftereffect Transfers to Roughness Perception. In 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC). IEEE. pp. 8-13. (2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2023 - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224476

    Hidaka S, Tucciarelli R, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2022. Tilt adaptation aftereffects reveal fundamental perceptual characteristics of tactile orientation processing on the hand. Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance. 48(12):1427-1438. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001056

    Reichert C, Klemm L, Mushunuri RV, Kalyani A, Schreiber S, Kuehn E, Azañón E. 2022. Discriminating Free Hand Movements Using Support Vector Machine and Recurrent Neural Network Algorithms. Sensors. 22(16):1-12. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22166101

    Reichert C, Klemm L, Kalyani A, Schreiber S, Kühn E, Azañón E. 2022. Finger kinematics of natural hand movements recorded by an exoskeleton data glove in younger and elderly persons. Magdeburg: Universitätsbibliothek. [Data sets]. https://doi.org/10.24352/UB.OVGU-2022-080

    Chander BS, Deliano M, Azañón E, Büntjen L, Stenner M-P. 2022. Non-invasive recording of high-frequency signals from the human spinal cord. NeuroImage. 253:Article 119050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119050

    Myga KA, Kuehn E, Azanon E. 2022. Autosuggestion: a cognitive process that empowers your brain?. Experimental Brain Research. 240(2):381-394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06265-8

    Buentjen L, Vicheva P, Chander BS, Beccard S-A, Coutts C, Azañón E, Stenner M-P, Deliano M. 2021. Spatial Filtering of Electroencephalography Reduces Artifacts and Enhances Signals Related to Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS). Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society. 24(8):1317-1326. https://doi.org/10.1111/ner.13266

    Mainka T, Azañón E, Zeuner KE, Knutzen A, Bäumer T, Neumann W-J, Borngräber F, Kühn AA, Longo MR, Ganos C. 2021. Intact Organization of Tactile Space Perception in Isolated Focal Dystonia. Movement Disorders. 36(8):1949-1955. https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.28607

    Longo MR, Amoruso E, Calzolari E, Ben Yehuda M, Haggard P, Azañón E. 2020. Anisotropies of tactile distance perception on the face. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 82(7):3636-3647. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02079-y

    Hidaka S, Tucciarelli R, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2020. Tactile distance adaptation aftereffects do not transfer to perceptual hand maps. Acta Psychologica. 208:Article 103090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103090

    Azañón E, Tucciarelli R, Siromahov M, Amoruso E, Longo MR. 2020. Mapping visual spatial prototypes: Multiple reference frames shape visual memory. Cognition. 198:104199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104199

    Ambroziak KB, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2019. Body Size Adaptation Alters Perception of Test Stimuli, Not Internal Body Image. Frontiers in Psychology. 10:Article 2598. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02598

    Romano D, Tamé L, Amoruso E, Azañón E, Maravita A, Longo MR. 2019. The standard posture of the hand. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 45(9):1164-1173. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000662

    Tavacioglu EE, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2019. Perceptual Distortions of 3-D Finger Size. Perception. 48(8):668-684. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619856192

    Azañón E, Longo MR. 2019. Tactile Perception: Beyond the Somatotopy of the Somatosensory Cortex. Current Biology. 29(9):R322-R324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.037

    Tamè L, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2019. A conceptual model of tactile processing across body features of size, shape, side, and spatial location. Frontiers in Psychology. 10(FEB):291. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00291

    Azañón E, Camacho K, Morales M, Longo MR. 2018. The Sensitive Period for Tactile Remapping Does Not Include Early Infancy. Child Development. 89(4):1394-1404. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12813

    Calzolari E, Azañón E, Danvers M, Vallar G, Longo MR. 2017. Adaptation aftereffects reveal that tactile distance is a basic somatosensory feature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114(17):4555-4560. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614979114

    Ambroziak KB, Azañón E, Longo MR. 2017. Eating and body image: Does food insecurity make us feel thinner?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40:14-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1600131X

    Azañón E, Mihaljevic K, Longo MR. 2016. A three-dimensional spatial characterization of the crossed-hands deficit. Cognition. 157:289-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.09.007

    Azañón E, Radulova S, Haggard P, Longo MR. 2016. Does the crossed-limb deficit affect the uncrossed portions of limbs?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42(9):1320-1331. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000206

    Filbrich L, Torta DM, Vanderclausen C, Azañón E, Legrain V. 2016. Using temporal order judgments to investigate attention bias toward pain and threat-related information. Methodological and theoretical issues. Consciousness and Cognition. 41:135-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.008

    Azanõn E, Tamè L, Maravita A, Linkenauger SA, Ferrè ER, Tajadura-Jiménez A, Longo MR. 2016. Multimodal Contributions to Body Representation. Multisensory Research. 29(6):635-661. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-00002531

    Azanon E, Stenner M-P, Cardini F, Haggard P. 2015. Dynamic tuning of tactile localization to body posture.Current Biology. 25(4):512-517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.038

    Heed T, Azañón E. 2014. Using time to investigate space: A review of tactile temporal order judgments as a window onto spatial processing in touch. Frontiers in Psychology. 5(FEB):Article Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00076

    Soto-Faraco S, Azañón E. 2013. Electrophysiological correlates of tactile remapping. Neuropsychologia. 51(8):1584-1594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.04.012

    Overvliet KE, Azañón E, Soto-Faraco S. 2011. Somatosensory saccades reveal the timing of tactile spatial remapping. Neuropsychologia. 49(11):3046-3052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.005

    Lloyd DM, Azañón E, Poliakoff E. 2010. Right hand presence modulates shifts of exogenous visuospatial attention in near perihand space. Brain and Cognition. 73(2):102-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2010.03.006

    Azañón E, Camacho K, Soto-Faraco S. 2010. Tactile remapping beyond space. European Journal of Neuroscience. 31(10):1858-1867. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07233.x

    Longo MR, Azañón E, Haggard P. 2010. More than skin deep: Body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex. Neuropsychologia. 48(3):655-668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.022

    Azañón E, Longo MR, Soto-Faraco S, Haggard P. 2010. The posterior parietal cortex remaps touch into external space. Current Biology. 20(14):1304-1309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.063

    Azañón E, Haggard P. 2009. Somatosensory processing and body representation. Cortex. 45(9):1078-1084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2009.01.006

    Azañón E, Soto-Faraco S. 2008. Changing Reference Frames during the Encoding of Tactile Events. Current Biology. 18(14):1044-1049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.045

    Azañón E, Soto-Faraco S. 2007. Alleviating the 'crossed-hands' deficit by seeing uncrossed rubber hands. Experimental Brain Research. 182(4):537-548. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-007-1011-3

    Sinnett S, Juncadella M, Rafal R, Azañón E, Soto-Faraco S. 2007. A dissociation between visual and auditory hemi-inattention: Evidence from temporal order judgements. Neuropsychologia. 45(3):552-560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.03.006
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