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Laura Crucianelli

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

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Lecturer (Asst Prof) & researcher in Psychology & Neuroscience, QMUL, Karolinska Institutet & UCL. Touch, temperature, interoception, body perception, mental health. Secretary of @escaneu.bsky.social - Chair SBBS WHENetwork www.lauracrucianelli.com

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · Oct 21

Very grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (2nd Edition) with a chapter on "Sudomotor function, thermoregulation and electrodermal control in the human brain" with @lisaquadt.bsky.social Gerardo Salvato, Yoko Nagai, and Hugo Critchley!

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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 9d

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

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Giacomo Valle @giacomovalle.bsky.social · 10d

Interested in the current challenges of cortical #somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled #bionic hands 🧠 🦾?
Comment on @NatureReviews Electrical Engineering

SharedIt: rdcu.be/eIk4r
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@springernature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com #NeuralBionicsLab #Chalmers

Cortical somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled bionic hands

Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering - Somatosensory feedback is an essential feature of neural prostheses that aim to restore natural hand dexterity after neurological injuries. This Comment...

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 22d

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you, @nataliepeluso.com! :)

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 15d

Touch is not all the same! #S4SN2025

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations, Dennis 🎉 And all the best for this new adventure!

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Jul 25

Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders — a Review by Charles A. Nelson, Eileen F. Sullivan & Viviane Valdes

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Adverse experiences in early life affect brain development across species. In this Review, Nelson, Sullivan and Valdes discuss neuroimaging evidence for how these adversity-induced changes to human br...

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · Jul 16

Today @nikaradziun.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on cardiac interoception processing in the blind as part of the symposium "Blindness as a window into fundamental principles of brain organisation" #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

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adadamo.bsky.social @adadamo.bsky.social · Jul 16

Amazing opportunity to present "Hearing the Self: Auditory Signatures in Self-Environment Interactions and Body Transformation Experiences" on behalf of @anatajadura.bsky.social, in the @imrf.bsky.social 2025 Conference. I thank @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social.
@imbodylab.bsky.social , @erc.europa.eu

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great talk by @jamoffatt.bsky.social at #IMRF2025 in Durham on virtual extendable arm! Loved the reference to Inspector Gadget 🕵‍♂️

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · Jul 15

Very happy to attend #IMRF2025 this week! Thank you for joining the symposium "Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and embodied signatures of self-enviroment interactions" and for the stimulating discussion @gerardosalvato.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social Amar D'Adamo, Chris Dijkerman

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International Multisensory Research Forum 2025 @imrf.bsky.social · Jul 15

Symposia 1 and 2 are on now! Come and hear about the neural dynamics of temporal processing (Rohe, Senkowski) or multisensory embodied self-environment interactions (Crucianelli)

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Maggie Szymanska @maggieszymanska.bsky.social · Jul 15

Great start to #IMRF2025 with Symposium 2 all about body representation and some amazing talks! Really enjoyed hearing about how sounds can affect it, e.g. with the auditory pinocchio illusion 🔊, something quite different than what I work on but so fun!

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾

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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · Jul 15

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social opening Symposium 2: “Real bodies in a real world: Multisensory and Embodied signatures of Self-Environment interactions” at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social

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WHEN @when-in-science.bsky.social · Jul 6

Our final event was the perfect way to wrap up the season before the summer break, with lots of laughter and just the right company!
We’ll be back in September with fresh energy and a new series of events.
Stay tuned to our channel for other initiatives to support #WomenInAcademia! #AcademicNetwork

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ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social · May 28

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

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WHEN @when-in-science.bsky.social · May 29

Making research accessible and visible is key to empowering women in academia.
Join us for a Public Engagement Workshop with Paul Curzon(@cs4fn.bsky.social),dedicated supporter of #WomenInSTEM.

🗓 13 June | 🕙 10:00–12:30
📍 Queen’s Building, Room 2.03
🔗 forms.gle/82zeHMyoZS8L...

#SciCom #WHENetwork

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Denise Cadete @denisemcadete.bsky.social · Apr 25

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.

The Invisible Hand

The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible pa...

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WHEN @when-in-science.bsky.social · May 26

On Saturday, our @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social rocked at the #SoapboxScience2025 with a felt explanation of the language of touch. She captivated the crowd, showing how science can truly engage and intrigue the public, while championing the visibility of #WomenInScience!
@soapboxscience.bsky.social

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Laura Crucianelli @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social · May 26

We had a great time at the Soapbox Science event last Saturday in London's Southbank with @antorrisi.bsky.social ! Lots of cool science done and explained by women 💪 #womeninscience #soapboxscience2025
@when-in-science.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

soapboxscience.org/soapbox-scie...

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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · Apr 2

Patient priorities for interoception research, just out in Lancet eClinicalMedicine 🧠🫁🫀

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— the first pub from our @wellcometrust.bsky.social Mental Health Award

Led by the brilliant @gabmackie.bsky.social & @lydiajhickman.bsky.social

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Manos Tsakiris @mtsakiris.bsky.social · Mar 24

A stellar line-up at this @royalsociety.org event on the Self, 19-20 May : Garfinkel, Wykowska, Prescott, Verschure, Zavahi, Schectman, , Li, Southgate, Lanillos, Brugger, Addis,Vogeley, Preller,Tsakiris, Blanke. Join us! royalsociety.org/science-even...

From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self | Royal Society

Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

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WHEN @when-in-science.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚀 Calling all undergrad & master’s women looking to break into tech! 💻✨

Join the Byte Queens Networking Event for a CV workshop, networking lunch & panel discussion!

📅 23rd April 2025 | 🏫 QMUL

Sign up now: www.eventbrite.com/e/byte-queen...

#ByteQueens #WomenInTech #STEMCareers #Networking

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Gerardo Salvato @gerardosalvato.bsky.social · Mar 29

👁️✋🌡️ Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social

Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa

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