We got a 2-year research grant from Karolinska Institute to continue our research!

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

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

For more information, see: https://www.ru.nl/en/donders-institute/agenda/donders-session-poster-session

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.

Konstantina presented the work of the lab at the EMBODIED CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS DISORDERS workshop, at the Lisbon University in the beautiful Portugal.

Konstantina presents the work of the lab in the Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) Exchange Seminars.

For more information: https://uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/cin/news-veranstaltungsreihen/cin-veranstaltungsreihen/cin-exchanges/

New paper out led by Xavier Job where he tested two opposing hypotheses of how action influences somatosensory perception! He shows that action does not enhance but attenuates self-touch compared to identical touch in the absence of action! Congratulations!!

Read more here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/90912

We were very happy to hear Dr. Luigi Tame from University of Kent, UK to discuss his research on “Distorted representations of touch'” in our Cognitive Neuroscience Club of KI.

Our lab is very grateful to have received funding (2024-2025) to continue our research on somatosensory processing during voluntary movements.

Konstantina Kileni gives a interview on tickle perception for the Finnish health magazine Hyvä Terveys ("Good Health").

Xavier Job gives a (virtual) PhD seminar on “Perception in action: Sensorimotor interactions in touch” at the Department of Psychology - University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.