How do we integrate signals coming from inside our body (i.e., interoception) with signals coming from outside the body (i.e., exteroception) in order to create a coherent sense of self? This project will combine behavioural, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging methods to shed new light on the specific role of skin-mediated signals (i.e., thermal and affective) in the way we become aware of our body as or own. Read more about the Homeothermic Self project here.
Modeling the perception of affective touch across mental health conditions
In collaboration with Dr Marie Chancel
Affective touch, multisensory integration, interoception and body representation in Anorexia Nervosa
In collaboration with Dr Benedetta Demartini, Prof Aikaterini Fotopoulou, and Prof Ana Tajadura-Jimenez
The effect of intransal oxytocin on multisensory integration and interoceptive processing in health and Anorexia Nervosa
In collaboration with Prof Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Dr Paul Jenkinson, Dr Yannis Paloyelis and Prof Lucy Serpell
The Lab at the Centre for Brain & Behaviour
Israt Hossain, PhD student
Peter Ryan, D Clinic Psych (co-supervision)
Francesca Rastelli, Visiting PhD student
MSc students 2024-2025: Bercem Yelogru, Ahmed Toufiq Elahi Tomal, Syed Prakrita Rahman, Oscar Brochwel Bolton
BSc students 2024-2025: Charlie Jayden Mantle, Hugh Brett Warren, Mariam Olukemi Ajike Ullah, Rianna Mary O’Malley, Khalid Abdullahi Sidow
MSc students 2023-2024: Akanksha Bhardwaj, Michael Richmond
BSc students 2023-2024: Giovanni Failoni, Sarah Belilty Melul, Leyre Monserrat Jimenez Penafiel
Collaborators
Dr Marie Chancel, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France
Dr Maria Laura Filippetti, University of Essex, UK
Prof Aikaterini Fotopoulou, University College London, UK
Dr Paul Jenkinson, Institute for Social Neuroscience, Australia
Dr Louise Kirsch, Université Paris Cité, France
Dr Federica Meconi, University of Trento, Italy
Dr Arran Reader, University of Stirling, UK
Dr Lucia Ricciardi, St George’s Hospital, UK
Dr Gerardo Salvato, Universita’ di Pavia, Italy
Prof Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Dr Laura Crucianelli 