Valeria Bellan
- Position: Behavioural Scientist/Psychologist
- Qualifications:
B Psycholigical Sciences, M Clinical Psychology Pavia Italy, PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience/Experimental Psychology) Milan Italy
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- Phone: 0883136600
- Fax: 0883136601
- Since: 24/10/2022
- Publications:
Book Chapters 1. Gallace, A., & Bellan, V. (2018). The parietal cortex and pain perception: a body protection system. Handbook of clinical neurology, 151, 103-117. 2. Bellan, V., Moseley, G. L., & Gallace, A. (2014). Percezione del dolore (Perception of pain). In Psicobiologia del comportamento normale e patologico (Psychobiology of normal and pathologic behaviour) (I ed.). Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino. Refereed Journal Articles 1. Moore, E., Braithwaite, F. A., Stanton, T. R., Bellan, V., Moseley, G. L., & Berryman, C. (2022). What do I need to know? Essential educational concepts for complex regional pain syndrome. European Journal of Pain. 2. Liebherr, M., Corcoran, A. W., Alday, P. M., Coussens, S., Bellan, V., Howlett, C. A., ... & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2021). EEG and behavioral correlates of attentional processing while walking and navigating naturalistic environments. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-13. [Citations: GoogleScholar 2] 3. Bellan, V., Braithwaite, F. A., Wilkinson, E. M., Stanton, T. R., & Moseley, G. L. (2021). Where is my arm? Investigating the link between complex regional pain syndrome and poor localisation of the affected limb. PeerJ, 9, e11882. 4. Madden, V. J., Kamerman, P. R., Catley, M. J., Bellan, V., Russek, L. N., Camfferman, D., & Moseley, G. L. (2021). Variability in experimental pain studies: nuisance or opportunity?. British journal of anaesthesia, 126(2), e61-e64. [Citations: GoogleScholar 3] 5. Liebherr, Magnus, Andrew W. Corcoran, Phillip M. Alday, Scott Coussens, Valeria Bellan, Caitlin A. Howlett, Maarten A. Immink, Mark Kohler, Matthias Schlesewsky, and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. \\\\\\\"Additive Effects of Cognitive Load, Motor Demand, and Environmental Complexity on Attention: A Real-World EEG-study.\\\\\\\" bioRxiv (2021). 6. Phoon Nguyen, A. H., Balasubramaniam, R., Bellan, V., Newport, R. N., & Stanton, T. R. (2020). The effect of multisensory illusions on pain and perceived burning sensations in patients with Burning Mouth Syndrome: A proof‐of‐concept study. Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine, 49(6), 505-513. [Citations: GoogleScholar 2] 7. Grabherr, L., Russek, L. N., Bellan, V., Shohag, M., Camfferman, D., & Moseley, G. L. (2019). The disappearing hand: vestibular stimulation does not improve hand localisation. PeerJ, 7, e7201. [Citations: GoogleScholar 2] 8. Madden, V. J., Kamerman, P. R., Bellan, V., Catley, M. J., Russek, L. N., Camfferman, D., & Moseley, G. L. (2019). Was that painful or nonpainful? The sensation and pain rating scale performs well in the experimental context. The Journal of Pain, 20(4), 472-e1. [Citations: GoogleScholar 10] 9. Madden, V. J., Kamerman, P. R., Catley, M. J., Bellan, V., Russek, L. N., Camfferman, D., & Moseley, G. L. (2019). Rethinking pain threshold as a zone of uncertainty. bioRxiv, 521302. [Citations: GoogleScholar 1] 10. Dagsdóttir, L. K., Bellan, V., Skyt, I., Vase, L., Baad‐Hansen, L., Castrillon, E., & Svensson, P. (2018). Multisensory modulation of experimentally evoked perceptual distortion of the face. Journal of oral rehabilitation, 45(1), 1-8. [Citations: GoogleScholar 3] 11. Bellan V., Wallwork S.B., Gallace A., Spence C., Moseley G.L. (2017). Integrating Self-Localization, Proprioception, Pain, and Performance. J Dance Med Sci 21:24-35. 10.12678/1089-313x.21.1.24. [Citations: GoogleScholar 20] 12. Wallwork, S. B., Bellan, V., & Moseley, G. L. (2017). Applying Current Concepts in Pain-Related Brain Science to Dance Rehabilitation. Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, 21(1), 13-23. [Citations: GoogleScholar 8] 13. Bellan V., Gilpin H. R., Stanton T. R., Dagsdottir L. K., Gallace A., Moseley G. L. (2017). Relative contributions of spatial weighting, explicit knowledge and proprioception to hand localisation during positional ambiguity. Exp Brain Res, 235(2), 447-455. doi: 10.1007/s00221-016-4782-6. [Citations: GoogleScholar 11] 14. Madden, V. J., Bellan, V., Russek, L. N., Camfferman, D., Vlaeyen, J. W., & Moseley, G. L. (2016). Pain by association? Experimental modulation of human pain thresholds using classical conditioning. The Journal of Pain, 17(10), 1105-1115. [Citations: GoogleScholar 30] 15. Wallwork S.B., Bellan V., Catley M.J., Moseley G.L. (2015) Neural representations and the cortical body matrix: implications for sports medicine and future directions. British journal of sports medicine. Epub 2015/12/20. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-095356. [Citations: GoogleScholar 55]. 16. Bellan V., Wallwork S.B., Stanton T.R., Reverberi C., Gallace A., Moseley G.L . (2016) No Telescoping Effect with Dual Tendon Vibration PloS one 11:e0157351 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157351. [Citations: GoogleScholar 4] 17. Boesch, E., Bellan, V., Moseley, G. L., & Stanton, T. R. (2016). The effect of bodily illusions on clinical pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain, 157(3), 516-529. [Citations: GoogleScholar 71]. 18. Bellan, V. (2016). Pain: Muscles, bones and beyond. Sport Health, 34(1), 7. 19. Bellan, V., Gilpin, H. R., Stanton, T. R., Newport, R., Gallace, A., & Moseley, G. L. (2015). Untangling visual and proprioceptive contributions to hand localisation over time. Experimental brain research, 233(6), 1689-1701. [Citations: GoogleScholar 30]. 20. Gilpin, H. R., Bellan, V., Gallace, a., & Moseley, G. L. (2014). Exploring the roles of body ownership, vision and virtual reality on heat pain threshold. European Journal of Pain, 18(7), 900–901. [Citations: GoogleScholar 7]. 21. Bellan, V., Reverberi, C., Gallace, A. (2012). Watching touch increases people’s alertness to tactile stimuli presented on the body surface. Seeing and Perceiving; 25(0):110. [Citations: GoogleScholar 1]. 22. Bellan, V., Reverberi, C., & Gallace, A. (2012 ). Evidence for ‘Visual Enhancement of Touch’ mediated by visual displays and its relationship with body ownership. Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7282/2012, 58-66. [Citations: GoogleScholar 0]. Accepted for publication Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Sharrad, I., Howlett, C. A., Alday, P., Corcoran, A. W., Bellan, V., Wilkinson, E., Kliegl, R., Lewis, R. L., Small S. L., Schlesewsky, M. (accepted for publication). Rapid adaptation of predictive models during language comprehension: aperiodic EEG slope, individual alpha frequency and idea density modulate individual differences in real-time model updating. Frontiers Psychology. Fully Refereed Conference Proceedings International 1. Bellan V., Wallwork S.B., Stanton T.R., Reverberi C., Gallace A., Moseley G.L. (2016) Understanding experimentally induced body image distortions. World Congress of Pain (Yokohama, Japan) 2. Bellan V., Gilpin H. R., Stanton T. R., Dagsdottir L. K., Gallace A., Moseley G. L. (2016) Experimental modelling of neglect-like aspects of CRPS in humans. World Congress of Pain (Yokohama, Japan) 3. Bellan, V., Gilpin, H., Stanton, T., Newport, R., Gallace, A., & Moseley, G. L. (2014) Where does it hurt? Untangling multisensory inputs for awareness of body location. World Congress of Pain (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 4. Bellan V., Etzi R., Gallace A. (2014) Evaluating the effect of seeing human body images on people’s ability to estimate their own body size and on body satisfaction. International Multisensory Research Forum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 5. Bellan V., Reverberi C., Gallace A. (2012) Watching touch increases people’s alertness to tactile stimuli presented on body surface. International Multisensory Research Forum (Oxford, UK) National 1. Bellan V., Gilpin H. R., Stanton T. R., Dagsdottir L. K., Newport, R., Braithwaite, F., Gallace A., Moseley G. L. (2017) Sensory and non-sensory factors affecting hand localisation under visuo-proprioceptive incongruence. Science of the Self Forum (Sydney, Australia) 2. Bellan V., Reverberi C., Gallace A., G. L. Moseley (2013) Modulation of tactile information processing by ‘visual’ body touch. PainAdelaide (Adelaide, Australia) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS Talks 1. 12th Osteopathic International Symposium (March 2019, University of Nantes, France). International invited speaker: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and the concept of “cortical body matrix” 2. 17th International Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET) (June 2019, University of South Australia, Australia). Talk: How we talk when we talk about pain? 3. I Simpósio sobre Evidências no Manejo da Dor (I SEMDOR) (July 2019, University of São Paulo, Brazil). International Invited speaker: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: words and illusions 4. Seminar (December 2017, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy). Talk: Self-localisation and pain: what is the link? 5. Science of the Self: The Agency and Body Representation Research Forum (November 2017, Sydney, Australia). Talk: Sensory and non-sensory factors affecting hand localisation under visuo-proprioceptive incongruence. 6. CRPS mechanisms & management: What’s in fashion now? (November 2017, Adelaide, Australia). Talk: Studying, learning, researching, and understanding CRPS. 7. Australian Pain Association Conference (April 2017, Adelaide, Australia). Exhibition with artist Eugenie Lee: ‘Seeing is believing’. 8. 16th World Congress of Pain (September 2016, Yokohama, Japan). Invited speaker (Pain, Mind and Movement, IASP’s Special Interest Group) and Posters presentation: Experimental modelling of neglect-like aspects of CRPS in humans; Understanding experimentally induced body image distortions. 9. South Australia Hand Pain Special Interest Group meeting (June 2016, Adelaide, Australia). Talk: CRPS: last trend in research. 10. PainAdelaide 2016 (April 2016, Adelaide, Australia). Talk: CRPS: where are we? 11. PainAdelaide 2015 (April 2015, Adelaide, Australia). Poster presentation: Where does it hurt? Untangling multisensory inputs for awareness of body location 12. South Australian Society of Hypnosis’ Annual Meeting (October 2014 Adelaide, Australia). Talk: Bodily illusions and hypnosis: building a bridge? 13. 15th World Congress of Pain (October 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Poster presentation: Where does it hurt? Untangling multisensory inputs for awareness of body location 14. Australian Physiotherapy Association Meeting (August 2014, Adelaide, Australia). Talk: What if…a part of your body suddenly disappears? 15. 15th International Multisensory Forum Research (June 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands). Poster presentation: Evaluating the effect of seeing human body images on people’s ability to estimate their own body size and on body satisfaction 16. 34th Annual Meeting Australasian Neuroscience Society, (January 2014, Adelaide, Australia). Talk: Why do haptics matter? A look at the ‘visual’ body touch 17. PainAdelaide 2013 (April 2013, Adelaide, Australia). Poster presentation: Modulation of tactile information processing by ‘visual’ body touch. 18. 13th International Multisensory Research Forum (June 2012, Oxford, UK). Poster presentation: Watching touch increases people’s alertness to tactile stimuli presented on body surface. 19. EuroHaptics 2012 (June 2012, Tampere, Finland). Poster presentation: Evidence for ‘Visual Enhancement of Touch’ mediated by visual displays and its relationship with body ownership. Poster presentations 1. PainAdelaide 2015 (April 2015, Adelaide, Australia). Poster presentation: Where does it hurt? Untangling multisensory inputs for awareness of body location 2. 15th World Congress of Pain (October 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Poster presentation: Where does it hurt? Untangling multisensory inputs for awareness of body location 3. 15th International Multisensory Forum Research (June 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands). Poster presentation: Evaluating the effect of seeing human body images on people’s ability to estimate their own body size and on body satisfaction 4. PainAdelaide 2013 (April 2013, Adelaide, Australia). Poster presentation: Modulation of tactile information processing by ‘visual’ body touch. 5. 13th International Multisensory Research Forum (June 2012, Oxford, UK). Poster presentation: Watching touch increases people’s alertness to tactile stimuli presented on body surface. 6. EuroHaptics 2012 (June 2012, Tampere, Finland). Poster presentation: Evidence for ‘Visual Enhancement of Touch’ mediated by visual displays and its relationship with body ownership.