CristoforiTeam

Publications

Preprints

  • Daniele Spica, Bertrand Beffara, Shira Cohen-Zimerman, Alexa Vushaj, Irene Cristofori, Jordan Grafman. Causal Evidence for the Neural Underpinnings of Subjective Happiness. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.06.710111
  • Zahra Zareei, Lara Bardi, Bertrand Beffara, Irene Cristofori. Implicit Effects of the Cyberball Paradigm: Towards a Validation of the Needs-Threat Model of Social Exclusion? A systematic Review. PROSPERO 2025 CRD420251231547. Available from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD420251231547.

2026 

  • Beffara, B., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Ben Hamed, S. et al. (2026). Contrasting the classic effect of reward on attentional priority maps: behavioral evidence for an attentional gating of spatially-specific reward signals. Psychological Research 90, 135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02350-1
  • Lazzaro E, Dubois J, Cristofori I, Lœvenbruck H, Amiez C. (2026). Developmental trajectory of the prefrontal operculum and the consequences of premature birth. Commun Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10645-7.

2025 

  • Beffara, B., Zareei, Z., Adouri, S., Afdjene, M., Machkour, M., & Cristofori, I. (2025). Overt attention to social signals during social exclusion: A pre-registered study. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2026.2645359
  • Beffara, B., Veyrie, M., Mauduit, L., Bardi, L., & Cristofori, I. (2025). No evidence for the efficiency of the eye-tracking-based Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test version at detecting differences of mind-reading abilities across psychological traits. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251326569
  • Veyrie, M., Beffara, B., Richard, N. et al. Causally Mapping the Cerebellum in Children and Young Adults: from Motor to Cognition. Cerebellum 24, 31 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-024-01778-8
  • Shaver, J. H., Sosis, R., Ross, R. M., Watts, J., Price, M., Wildman, W. J., Hoogeveen, S., McKay,  R. T. & Cristofori, I. (2025). Religion’s Hilbert problems, ten years later: progress, pitfalls, and new horizons. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 15(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2025.2464354

2024

  • Wildman, W. J., Ross, R. M., McKay, R. T., Watts, J., Hoogeveen, S., Sosis, R., Cristofori, I., Price, M. E. & Shaver, J. (2024). Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 14(4), 341–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2024.2424031
  • McKay, R., Price, M., Ross, R. M., Watts, J., Cristofori, I., Hoogeveen, S., Shaver, J., Sosis, R. &  Wildman, W. (2024). Replacing the irreplaceable. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 14(2), 111–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2024.2356389
  • Cristofori, I., Cohen-Zimerman, S., Krueger, F., Jabbarinejad, R., Delikishkina, E., Gordon, B., … & Grafman, J. (2024). Studying the social mind: An updated summary of findings from the Vietnam Head Injury Study. cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.03.002 

2023

  • Cohen-Zimerman, S., & Cristofori, I. (2023). An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman, and McNamara. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 14(1), 49–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2143410
  • Bardi, L., Langford, Z. D., & Cristofori, I. (2023). Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth. Comment on “Motor invariants in action execution and perception” by Francesco Torricelli et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 46, 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.06.005
  • Cristofori, I., Hoogeveen, S., Rohr, D., Bulbulia, J., Shaver, J., Sosis, R., & Wildman, W. J. (2023). Introducing our new editors. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2173715

2022

  • Cristofori, I., Cohen-Zimerman, S., Bulbulia, J., Gordon, B., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2022). The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 16, 977600. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.977600
  • Gomez, A., & Cristofori, I. (2022). La solitude et le stress affectent le bien-être des parents d’élèves en France durant le premier confinement. L’éducation en débats: analyse comparée, 12(1), 40-54. https://doi.org/10.51186/journals/ed.2022.12-1.e863 
  • Mo C, Cristofori I, Lio G, Gomez A, Duhamel J-R, Qu C, et al. (2022) Culture-free perceptual invariant for trustworthiness. PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263348. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263348
  • Beuriat, PA., Cristofori, I., Gordon, B. et al. The shifting role of the cerebellum in executive, emotional, and social processing across the lifespan. Behav Brain Funct 18, 6 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12993-022-00193-5

2021

  • Cristofori, I., Zhong, W., Cohen-Zimerman, S. et al. Brain networks involved in the influence of religion on empathy in male Vietnam War veterans. Sci Rep 11, 11047 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90481-3
  • Lieberoth, A., Lin, S. Y., Stöckli, S., Han, H., Kowal, M., Gelpi, R., … & Dubrov, D. (2021). Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: Relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey. Royal Society Open Science, 8(2), 200589. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200589
  • Yamada, Y., Ćepulić, DB., Coll-Martín, T. et al. COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioral consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Sci Data 8, 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00784-9

2020

  • Cohen-Zimerman, S., Cristofori, I., Zhong, W. et al. Neural underpinning of a personal relationship with God and sense of control: A lesion-mapping study. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 20, 575–587 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00787-4
  • Lohkamp, LN., Beuriat, PA., Desmurget, M. et al. Awake brain surgery in children—a single-center experience. Childs Nerv Syst 36, 967–974 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-020-04522-9
  • Grafman, J., Cristofori, I., Zhong, W., & Bulbulia, J. (2020). The Neural Basis of Religious Cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(2), 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419898183
  • Beuriat, PA., Cristofori, I. et al. (2020). Cerebellar lesions at a young age predict poorer long-term functional recovery, Brain Communications, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2020, fcaa027, https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa027

2019

  • Cristofori, I., Pal, S., Zhong, W., Gordon, B., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2018). The lonely brain: evidence from studying patients with penetrating brain injury. Social Neuroscience, 14(6), 663–675. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2018.1553798
  • Cristofori, Irene, and Jordan Grafman, ‘Traumatic Brain Injury,’ in Michael L. Alosco, and Robert A. Stern (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Adult Cognitive Disorders, Oxford Library of Psychology (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 9 May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190664121.013.24
  • Lohkamp, LN., Mottolese, C., Szathmari, A. et al. Awake brain surgery in children—review of the literature and state-of-the-art. Childs Nerv Syst 35, 2071–2077 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-019-04279-w
  • Cristofori, I., Cohen-Zimerman, S., Grafman, J. (2019). Executive functions.  Handbook of clinical neurology 163, 197-219

2018

2017

  •  Zhong, W., Cristofori, I., Bulbulia, J., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2017). Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism. Neuropsychologia, 100, 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.009
  • Cristofori, I., Grafman, J. (2017). Neural Underpinnings of the Human Belief System. In: Angel, HF., Oviedo, L., Paloutzian, R., Runehov, A., Seitz, R. (eds.) Processes of Believing: The Acquisition, Maintenance, and Change in Creditions. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion , vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50924-2_8

2016

2015

  • Irene Cristofori, Sylvain Harquel, Jean Isnard, François Mauguière, Angela Sirigu, Monetary reward suppresses anterior insula activity during social pain, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 10, Issue 12, December 2015, Pages 1668–1676, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv054
  • Chau, A., Salazar, A. M., Krueger, F., Cristofori, I., & Grafman, J. (2015). The effect of claustrum lesions on human consciousness and recovery of function. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.06.017
  • Irene Cristofori, Vanda Viola, Aileen Chau, Wanting Zhong, Frank Krueger, Giovanna Zamboni, Jordan Grafman, The neural bases for devaluing radical political statements revealed by penetrating traumatic brain injury, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2015, Pages 1038–1044, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu155
  • Cristofori, I., Zhong, W., Chau, A., Solomon, J., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2015). White and gray matter contributions to executive function recovery after traumatic brain injury. Neurology, 84(14), 1394-1401. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000001446
  • Cristofori, I., Harvey, L. (2015) Traumatic brain injury and cognition. Handbook of Clinical Neurology 128

2014

  • Weaver, S.M., Portelli, J.N., Chau, A. et al. Genetic polymorphisms and traumatic brain injury: the contribution of individual differences to recovery. Brain Imaging and Behavior 8, 420–434 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-012-9197-9

2013

  • Irene Cristofori, Laura Moretti, Sylvain Harquel, Andres Posada, Gianluca Deiana, Jean Isnard, François Mauguière, Angela Sirigu, Theta Signal as the Neural Signature of Social Exclusion, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2013, Pages 2437–2447, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs236

2012

  • Moretti, L., Cristofori, I., Weaver, S. M., Chau, A., Portelli, J. N., & Grafman, J. (2012). Cognitive decline in older adults with a history of traumatic brain injury. The Lancet Neurology, 11(12), 1103-1112. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(12)70226-0

2010