Laura Crucianelli
@lauracrucianel1
Lecturer/Asst Prof @QMUL - Researcher @karolinskainst & @UCL @Mariecurie_alum - Temperature | Touch | Interoception | Body | Mental health - Secretary @ESCAN_EU
Sono entusiasta di annunciare la pubblicazione del mio primo libro 📚 Perfetto per chi vuole esplorare il tatto, il nostro primo senso ed il più sottovalutato🫳🤌🤝Disponibile dal 12 novembre! @UtetLibri #Tatto #LetturaScientifica #Neuroscienze #Psicologia amzn.eu/d/0Tygn9Y
New paper alert! In this chapter, part of a volume led by the late Bud Craig’s colleagues Alan Simmons, Marc Wittmann, and Irina Strigo, we opine on the role of the insula in interoception and body image processing in anorexia nervosa and other conditions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40178772/
Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @ScienceAdvances: “Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Read the full thread below for details!
🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀 Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡 🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/general-… Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨
What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection We wrote a piece in Psyche Magazine about our research on #empathy in infants :) psyche.co/ideas/were-lea…
If you are looking for a great neuroscience conference, in an amazing location, and part of a fantastic community, we got you covered! Save the date for ESCAN 2026 in Rome 🎉
One of the top events in cognitive & affective neuroscience is heading to Rome! ESCAN 2026 | June 3–6 Great science, great people, and unforgettable food—in one unforgettable city. More details soon. #ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Late breaking abstract deadline extended for BACN. Come join for Cognitive Neuroscience in Edinburgh in September. Cheap student rates & a great lineup
Preliminary program is up! Lots of exciting research. It's not too late to join us and present! Late-breaking poster deadline is 11 July. bacn.co.uk/conferences
Happy to share our new article published in Scientific Reports with Henrik Ehrsson @BrainSelf ! We characterize the functional role of the sense of bodily self in the interplay between fear and threat proximity. nature.com/articles/s4159…
I am so honoured that "Storia naturale del tatto" is one of the 5 books selected for the Premio Galileo for Science Communication! See you in Padova for the book presentation 🤗
👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa | Translational Psychiatry @Transl_Psych @SpringerNature @lauracrucianel1 nature.com/articles/s4139…
Negli anni Sessanta, nei luoghi pubblici, "in Porto Rico le coppie di innamorati si toccavano in media 180 volte all’ora. A Parigi 110 volte, in Florida due volte, a Londra, mai." I racconti di @lauracrucianel1, autrice di "Storia naturale del #tatto" @UtetLibri, qui…
Esperimenti di deprivazione del #tatto mettono in luce la fondamentale importanza di questo senso. "Storia naturale del #tatto" è uscito in italiano per @UtetLibri ed è finalista al #PremioGalileo 2025. L'autrice @lauracrucianel1 ora al microfono di @mottambulo…
Non più un "senso dimenticato": ormai il #tatto è al centro di grande attenzione scientifica. E voi che rapporto avete col tatto? Sapreste dire che differenza c'è tra tatto discriminativo e tatto affettivo? @lauracrucianel1 in collegamento da Londra, in diretta qui…
Il #tatto. Uno dei sensi più naturali al mondo, ma anche il più sottovalutato. Toccarsi è diventato #naturale come respirare. Conosciamo bene l’importanza del respiro, quella del tatto meno. Eppure è il senso attraverso cui incontriamo il mondo, il linguaggio universale per…
Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not, with Bayesian evidence indicating interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/psya…
HOT OFF THE PRESS! New meta-analysis by @ea_quinn Dr Emma Millard & Dr Janelle Jones @QM_SBBS published in @NatMentHealth provides evidence that group arts interventions reduce #depression and #anxiety among older adults @TheNCCH @ace_national @NICEComms nature.com/articles/s4422…
You are all invited to"Meet the team"! We will post regularly to introduce our fantastic staff at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Brain & Behaviour @QM_SBBS. Today, we would like to introduce Gwen Brekelmans and Sevasti Foka @sevastiannafoka
In a new preprint we demonstrated that the frequency of alpha oscillations plays a crucial role in binding self-related sensory information into a coherent perceptual experience of one’s body and distinguishing this bodily self from external sensory events biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Fully funded PhD @QMUL @QM_Psych on ‘Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind’. More details and how to apply here: findaphd.com/phds/project/c…
We’re recruiting participants for the Em-Body study! Check your eligibility and sign up here: shorturl.at/AEelF @DrSFink @DrHannahSavage
Breaking Down Binary Thinking in Neuropsychiatry | The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. @APAPubJournals @BSchildkrout #JosephCooper psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…