PEER-REVIEWED Publications
2024
Kilteni, K., Ehrsson, H.H. (2024) Dynamic changes in somatosensory and cerebellar activity mediate temporal recalibration of self-touch. Communications Biology.
2023
Job, X., & Kilteni, K. (2023). Action does not enhance but attenuates predicted touch. eLife 12:e90912
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.
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.
2022
Asimakidou, E., Job, X. and Kilteni, K., 2022. The positive dimension of schizotypy is associated with a reduced attenuation and precision of self-generated touch. Schizophrenia, 57 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-022-00264-6
Kilteni, K. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2022. Predictive attenuation of touch and tactile gating are distinct perceptual phenomena. iScience.
2021
Kilteni, K., Engeler, P., Boberg, I., Maurex, L. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2021. No evidence for somatosensory attenuation during action observation of self-touch. European Journal of Neuroscience.
Lalouni, Maria, Jens Fust, Viktor Vadenmark-Lundqvist, H. Henrik Ehrsson, Konstantina Kilteni, and Karin Birgitta Jensen. "Predicting pain: differential pain thresholds during self-induced, externally induced, and imagined self-induced pressure pain." Pain 162, no. 5 (2021): 1539-1544.
Russo, Marta, et al. "Highlights from the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement." Journal of Neurophysiology 126.4 (2021): 967-975.
2020
Kilteni, K., Engeler, P. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2020. Efference copy is necessary for the attenuation of self-generated touch. iScience, 23(2), p.100843.
Kilteni, K. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2020. Functional connectivity between the cerebellum and somatosensory areas implements the attenuation of self-generated touch. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(4), pp.894-906.
2019
Kilteni, K., Houborg, C. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2019. Rapid learning and unlearning of predicted sensory delays in self-generated touch. Elife, 8, p.e42888.
2018
Kilteni, K., Andersson, B.J., Houborg, C. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2018. Motor imagery involves predicting the sensory consequences of the imagined movement. Nature communications, 9(1), pp.1-9.
2017
Kilteni, K. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2017. Body ownership determines the attenuation of self-generated tactile sensations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(31), pp.8426-8431.
Kilteni, K. and Ehrsson, H.H., 2017. Sensorimotor predictions and tool use: Hand-held tools attenuate self-touch. Cognition, 165, pp.1-9.
2012-2016
Maselli A., Kilteni K., López-Moliner J., and Slater M.. "The sense of body ownership relaxes temporal constraints for multisensory integration." Scientific Reports 6 (2016).
Elena Kokkinara, Konstantina Kilteni, Kristopher J. Blom, and Mel Slater. "First Person Perspective of Seated Participants Over a Walking Virtual Body Leads to Illusory Agency Over the Walking." Scientific Reports 6 (2016).
Konstantina Kilteni, Jennifer Grau, Antoni Rodríguez Fornells and Mel Slater. “Decreased corticospinal excitability after the illusion of missing part of the arm” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10 (2016).
Ilias Bergström, Konstantina Kilteni, and Mel Slater. "First-Person Perspective Virtual Body Posture Influences Stress: A Virtual Reality Body Ownership Study." PloS one 11.2 (2016).
Matteo Martini, Konstantina Kilteni, Antonella Maselli, and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives. "When the body fades away: investigating the effects of the vision of an embodied transparent avatar on pain perception and ownership." Scientific Reports (2015).
Konstantina Kilteni, Ilias Bergstrom, and Mel Slater. "Drumming in immersive virtual reality: the body shapes the way we play." Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on 19, no. 4 (2013).
Konstantina Kilteni, Jean-Marie Normand, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, and Mel Slater. "Extending body space in immersive virtual reality: a very long arm illusion." PLoS one 7, no. 7 (2012).
Review articles /Book chapters
2023
Kilteni, K. (2023). Methods of Somatosensory Attenuation. In Somatosensory Research Methods (pp. 35-53). New York, NY: Springer US.
2012-2016
Konstantina Kilteni*, Antonella Maselli*, Konrad P. Kording, and Mel Slater. "Over my fake body: body ownership illusions for studying the multisensory basis of own-body perception." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (2015). [*Equal Contribution]
Spanlang Bernhard, Jean-Marie Normand, David Borland, Konstantina Kilteni, Elias Giannopoulos, Ausiàs Pomés, Mar González-Franco et al. "How to build an embodiment lab: achieving body representation illusions in virtual reality." Frontiers in Robotics and AI 1 (2014).
D'Cruz Mirabelle, Harshida Patel, Laura Lewis, Stephen Cobb, Matthias Bues, Oliver Stefani, Tredeaux Grobler, ... , Konstantina Kilteni, et al. "Demonstration: VR-HYPERSPACE—the innovative use of virtual reality to increase comfort by changing the perception of self and space." In Virtual Reality (VR), 2014 iEEE, pp. 167-168. IEEE (2014).
Konstantina Kilteni, Raphaela Groten, and Mel Slater. "The sense of embodiment in virtual reality." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 21, no. 4 (2012).