Congratulations to Ziliang Xiong for his paper “Costs and benefits of temporal expectations on somatosensory perception and decision-making”, now accepted in Cognition.
Anne is giving a talk on “Sensory attenuation of self-touch and -tickle: Evidence from psychophysics and neuroimaging” in the next IASAT conference. Her talk is part of the symposium Affective touch and sensorimotor processing organized by Dr. India Morisson. Other speakers in the symposium include Dr. Valentina Cazzato, De. Andrew Marshall, and Dr. India Morrison (the symposium organizer).
Where: Normannenhaus, Jena, Germany from Monday, 9th June, 2025
For more info: https://iasat2025.uni-jena.de/
The research of our lab will be presented in a symposium at the ICON 2025 - International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, 15-20th of September 2025, Oporto - Portugal. Stay in touch for updates! The symposium is called Exploring Self-generation Effects Across Sensory Modalities: Neural Mechanisms And Clinical Implications and organized by Dr Iria SanMiguel.
Our symposium “Cancelation of predicted action consequences across species and levels of predictions” has been accepted for SfN 2025. Speakers include Cornelius Schwarz, Kathleen Cullen, David Schneider and Konstantina Kilteni!
See you at San Diego!
Noa will be presenting our research to high school students as a part of Brain Awareness Week, the popular science manifestation aiming to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.
Location: Tekniska museet, The Cell, Hagaplan 4, Stockholm
If you are at the Berlin Mind Brain Body Meeting, don't forget to stop by the poster of Ziliang Xiong to check on his latest research on human ticklishness #MBB25!
If you are at the Berlin Mind Brain Body Meeting, don't forget to stop by the poster of Dr. Tilman Stephani to check on his MEG project (and his MSCA) #MBB25!
Why can’t you tickle ourselves? Konstantina was interviewed by LiveScience. Check the new piece in Live Science by Roberta McLain on why we cannot tickle ourselves!
https://www.livescience.com/health/why-cant-you-tickle-yourself
Konstantina was invited by Assoc. Professor Patrick Forbes to give a talk about the lab’s research at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
New paper out by Noa Cemeljic! Across 2 experiments, Noa observed a gradual attenuation in somatosensory perception as participants reached for their left hand with their right hand, in line w Bays & Wolpert(2005)! Stay in tune! More to come from brilliant Noa!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224028700#sec3
Congratulations to Tilman for getting the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship NeuroSelfTickle!! We are so proud of you!
Tilman is going to investigate self-tickle cancelation in humans using laminar MEG. Stay tuned with his exciting research!
We are on fire here at the Touch and Tickle Lab! We got a Research Project grant from the BIAL Foundation called The Puzzle of Self-Tickling: From Darwin’s observations to modern neuroscience insights.
Our lab at Karolinska is looking for a postdoctoral researcher and a research assistant! The positions are about to open soon. For more info, see Positions !
Konstantina was invited by Assoc. Prof. Matej Hoffmann to give a talk about the lab’s research.
We are also launching a new collaboration with the Technical University of Prague and the University Hospital of Prague. Stay in tune!
We got a 2-year research grant from Karolinska Institute to continue our research!
Congratulations Noa on your first paper ever!
Stay in tune as more exciting research from Noa is coming out soon!
We got a 3-year VR Project grant to continue our research in Karolinska Institute!
Stay in touch - we will open postdoc and RA positions soon!
We warmly welcome Alex Efthimiou in the lab at Donders Institute. Alex will work as a research assistant in our EEG ticklishness project.
More info: https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/the-ticklish-brain
Konstantina gives a keynote lecture about the lab’s work “Self-touch versus externally generated touch: how action influences somatosensory perception” in the BRNet 2024.
For more information: https://bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-4
For the full program: https://9d75ddbb-9aeb-473a-b92b-122933b4bec6.filesusr.com/ugd/9b3fe2_145df715eca3499385109d24559f67f3.pdf
Many congratulations! This grant will allow Xavier to continue his exciting projects for one more year in the lab!
For more information:
https://news.ki.se/stratneuro-funding-for-postdoctoral-researchers-2024
https://news.ki.se/stratneuro-call-2024-funding-for-postdoctoral-researchers
We warmly welcome Dr. Anne Hoffmann at our lab in Donders Institute!
Anne will investigate the role of the cerebellum in the prediction and cancellation of self-tickle and self-generated touch.
Stay in tune to learn more about her exciting research in the lab!
Read his first preprint from his PhD here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.25.600596v1
Read the first computational account of the force matching task (!) here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.20.599826v1
We are excited to have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (https://www.nwo.nl/en) to investigate the ticklish brain!
Stay in tune to find more about our research!
Konstantina presented the work of the lab at the IMPACT team, INSERM, in the beautiful Lyon, invited by Prof. Alessandro Farne.
For more info: https://www.crnl.fr/fr/evenement/conference-crnl-konstantina-kilteni-self-touch-versus-externally-generated-touch-how
Don’t miss Noa Cemeljic presenting his PhD work at Pint of Science in Stockholm!
Just grab a beer and go to the Beautiful Mind session!
For more information see: https://pintofscience.se/event/our-beautiful-mind
Check out our latest fMRI paper on dynamic changes in brain activity during adaptation to delayed self-touches! Will we be able to tickle ourselves soon?
Read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06188-4
Our ERC team meets to discuss our first experiments! From right to left: Ziliang Xiong, Wendy Pletu, Tilman Stephani and Konstantina Kilteni.
Stay tuned to learn what makes us ticklish!
We warmly welcome Dr. Tilman Stephani at our lab in Donders Institute!
Tilman will investigate how movements shape sensory process in the context of gargalesis (ticklish touch) and self-generated somatosensory stimuli.
Stay in tune to learn more about his exciting research in the lab!
We welcome Wendy from Paris Cité University!
Wendy will join efforts to understand “what makes touch ticklish”.
Looking forward to working with you!
Katja Fiehler, Tobias Heed, Matej Hoffman and Konstantina Kilteni had a very engaging panel on “Current debates on movement and touch” at this year’s NCM in Dubrovnik. (We also celebrated it afterwards!)
Organiser: Tobias Heed.
Discussant: Kathleen Cullen.
