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/
From left to right: Konstantina Kilteni, Noa Cemeljic, Xavier Job, and Rihab Mounir.
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.
Dr Xavier Job and Konstantina Kilteni will present two posters at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Washington DC.
Poster 1: Attenuation of self-generated somatosensory responses: An MEG investigation.
Session Title: Tactile Processing: Cortical Mechanisms
Session Date and Time: 11/13/2023 08:00:00 PM - 11/13/2023 12:00:00 PM
Poster 2: Action does not enhance but attenuates predicted touch
Session Title: Reaching Movement Control: Action Execution and Feedback
Session Date and Time: 11/12/2023 1:00:00 PM - 11/12/2023 5:00:00 PM
Konstantina Kileni gives a interview on tickle perception for the Finnish health magazine Hyvä Terveys ("Good Health").
Evridiki Asimakidou will present a poster on how “The positive dimension of schizotypy is associated with a reduced attenuation and precision of self-generated touch” at the XXVI (26th) World Congress of Neurology, in Montreal (https://wcn-neurology.com/).
The poster will be presented in the Neuropsychiatry and Functional Disorders session.
For more information, see: https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcn23/attendee/confcal/session/calendar/2023-10-15
Read our full paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41537-022-00264-6
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”.
Konstantina Kilteni gives a (virtual) CELab PhD Seminar on “Self-touch versus externally generated touch: how action affectssomatosensory perception” at the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (CFCUL), University of Lisbon. For more information: https://interself.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/celab-phd-seminars/
Read our latest paper showing that Aging exerts a limited influence on the perception of self-generated and externally generated touch! Work together with Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry.
For more info:
Timar, L., Job, X., Orban de Xivry, J. J., & Kilteni, K. (2023). Aging exerts a limited influence on the perception of self-generated and externally generated touch. Journal of Neurophysiology.
Read our latest paper showing that brief temporal perturbations in somatosensory reafference disrupt perceptual and neural attenuation and increase supplementary motor area–cerebellar connectivity! Work together with Christian Houborg and H. Henrik Ehrsson.
For more info:
Kilteni, K., Houborg, C., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2023). Brief temporal perturbations in somatosensory reafference disrupt perceptual and neural attenuation and increase supplementary motor area–cerebellar connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience.
Konstantina Kilteni gives a talk on “Self-touch versus externally generated touch: the influence of motor prediction on somatosensory perception” at The Festival of Touch 2023 (https://iasat.org/event/fot23/).
Ziliang Xiong present a poster on how expectations influence somatosensory perception during self-generated and externally generated touches at the Festival of Touch 2023. (https://iasat.org/event/fot23/).
Konstantina Kilteni gives a talk on “Predictive modulation of tactile processing during movements to self-touch” as part of the symposium on “The intimate interplay of movement and touch” organized by Dr. Mattej Hoffmann for the 21st International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF23).
Join us!! For more info: https://imrf2023.sciencesconf.org/data/program/The_intimate_interplay_of_movement_and_touch.pdf
PhD student Ziliang Xiong presents his master thesis on tactile expectations as a poster in the annual Donders Poster Session 2023.
For more information: https://www.ru.nl/donders/@1357345/donders-poster-session/
Konstantina Kilteni gives a talk on “Predictive attenuation of self-touch“ at the NEUTOUCH EU project meeting, in Barcelona Spain. Invited by the project’s coordinator Dr. Chiara Bartolozzi.
Konstantina Kilteni gives a talk on “Predictive attenuation of self-touch“ at the GRASP Retreat of the Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN), Linköping University, Sweden. Invited by Assistant Lecturer Rebecca Boehme.
Konstantina Kilteni gives a talk on “Predictive attenuation of self-touch“ at the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CINET), Japan. Invited by Prof. Nobuhiro Hagura. For more information: https://cinet.jp/english/event/20230307_0309/
We were very happy to hear Dr. Bianca van Kemenade from Justus-Liebig-Universität, Germany to discuss her research on “Neuroimaging of predictive mechanisms in motor control'” in our Cognitive Neuroscience Club of KI.
Noa Cemeljic discusses our recent findings arguing that “Predictive attenuation of touch and tactile gating are distinct perceptual phenomena“ in the KI Journal Club for the Medical Program.
For more information see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222003479
Konstantina Kilteni gives a talk on “Predictive attenuation of self-generated touch in human somatosensory cortex and cerebellum“ at the Institute of Neurosciences , University of Barcelona. Invited by Associate Professor Iria San Miguel Insua.
For more information: http://www.neurociencies.ub.edu/neuroscience-conference-series/.
Dr. Xavier Job gives an overview of recent studies from our group on the attenuation of self-generated touch.
Konstantina Kilteni organizes a symposium on "Cancelation of self-generated sensations: neural mechanisms and functional advantages across species and sensory modalities“ for the annual meeting of the society for the Neural Control of Movement International (NCM22 ).
We have a great line of speakers: David Schneider, Avner Wallach, Kathleen Cullen and Konstantina Kilteni.
Join us!! For more info: https://ncm-society.org/program/