Konstantina Kilteni
kkilteni.bsky.social
Konstantina Kilteni
@kkilteni.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and PI at Donders and Karolinska Institutes, leading the Somatosensation&Gargalesis lab (a.k.a Touch&Tickle lab). I study actions, touch, and tickles 🧠 (https://www.kiltenilab.org/). Ελληνίδα μάνα who cooks dolmadakia for friends.
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Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL.

Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl

Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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New preprint! tinyurl.com/y6z57dsm

How do people discover an effective strategy when the environment shifts—say, when adapting to an unfamiliar trackpad?

Our take: strategic motor adaptation isn’t a smooth process of error reduction but rather a process of hypothesis testing.

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Hypothesis Testing Governs an Efficiency-Flexibility Trade-off in Strategic Motor Learning
It remains unknown how people discover an effective movement strategy when the environment changes (e.g., when adapting to a new computer trackpad). We propose that strategic adaptation operates throu...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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On a roll with papers this week. PNAS paper with @michealdebarra.bsky.social giving some evidence to the idea that people turn to the supernatural because of uncertainty about causal processes. BONUS of curing whooping cough with donkeys and warts with snails 🐌
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all times, Yes, I teach it to students daily, and refer to it in lots of papers. Sorry. open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
How I contributed to rejecting one of my favorite papers of all time
I believe we should talk about the mistakes we make.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions).
wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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"Neuroscientists need better training in computational methods."

We got you.

Join us in July: neuromatch.io/courses/

Our #ComputationalNeuroscience course is the perfect way to gain practical experience and build a strong foundation in this field.
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system.
#interoception #neuroskyence
How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Come be my colleague!

We are looking for an applicant who can strengthen our research profile in computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or computational modelling of social processes.

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor of Cognitive Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on:

"The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability"

Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT

👀🧠🧲⚡️

Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it!

github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
Meetings
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
github.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Big thanks to this afternoon’s #SfN25 symposium speakers for illuminating mechanisms of sensory cancellation across species and modalities, and especially to @kkilteni.bsky.social for organizing!
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control
👇👇👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/386645
Postdoc Position on Systems Neuroscience, Motor Control at UCLouvain, Belgium
Project Title: Multi-disciplinary, multi-lab investigations of the neural bases of human sensorimotor control Project Description:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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New #preprint on modeling fingertip mechanoreceptor responses to #touch of varying speed, force & texture using #microneurography where information is represented across mechanoreceptor classes, each contributing differently-weighted inputs with Victoria Lang, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg
Single human fingertip mechanoreceptive afferents simultaneously encode multidimensional aspects of touch
Touch using the hands is essential for recognizing surface features and manipulating objects, where different aspects are encoded by four main types of low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMs) in glabrou...
www.biorxiv.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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New lab preprint spearheaded by @xavierjob.bsky.social !!

We used MEG to understand the dynamics of self-touch attenuation 👇👇👇 !!
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)
Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention
Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM