Konstantina summarised the existing literature on tickling in her paper “The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience”.
Find the paper here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0350
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!
Congrats to Noa for getting this highly competitive grant from Karolinska Institutet! The grant will be used to fund his participation at ICON 2025 - International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, where he will present a poster titled “Sensorimotor Predictions Dynamically Modulate Somatosensory Perception During Movements to Self-touch”
Wendy will be presenting a poster on her exciting research into the psychophysiology of human tickle sensations at NeuroFrance 2025. Catch her session on Friday, May 16th — don’t forget to stop by!
Konstantina presents the lab’s work in drawings at the Neuromorphic Computing workshop at Capocaccia 2025. For more information: https://capocaccia.cc/en/event/ccnw25/program/
Congratulations to Ziliang Xiong for his paper “Costs and benefits of temporal expectations on somatosensory perception and decision-making”, now published in Cognition.
Find the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725000861?via%3Dihub
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
