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Mello, Manuel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-1817
Fusaro, Martina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-3112
Aglioti, Salvatore Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8175-7563
Minio-Paluello, Ilaria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9197-9749
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
H2020 European Research Council (ERC-2017-AdG – eHONESTY – 789058)
Ministero della Salute (GR 2019-12369761)
European Commission (P2022J52H5)
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Received: 5 March 2025
Accepted: 1 September 2025
First Online: 24 September 2025
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: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: The experimental protocol of this work was approved by the IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation (Rome, Italy) ethics committee and followed the ethical standards of the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki. All participants gave their informed consent to take part in the study and were not compensated for their time. We disclose that this sample of participants took part in a more comprehensive study investigating social touch processing in autism that utilised a body-painting task along with survey methods. An exhaustive report of the body-painting task findings can be found in (Mello et al., ).
