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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

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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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escaneu.bsky.social
The ESCAN 2026 website is now live! → escan2026.eu

Join us in Rome, 3–6 June 2026, for the next European meeting in cognitive and affective neuroscience.

Find the registration info, venue details, and updates all in one place.

More news soon.
#ESCAN2026 #Neuroscience #Rome2026
Home - ESCAN 2026
ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
escan2026.eu
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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elisabettaversace.bsky.social
we discovered remote touch in humans! a moving hand detects objects under the sand without touching them!
clip: youtu.be/6hpuLojesyQ?...
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
team: @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone + me @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Our new study on remote touch .....✋
Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - neurosciencenews.com/remote-touch... @zhengqichen.bsky.social @lauracrucianelli.bsky.social @elisabettaversace.bsky.social #LorenzoJamone ✋
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Touching Without Contact: We Physically Sense Objects Before Feeling Them - Neuroscience News
A new study shows that humans possess a form of “remote touch,” allowing them to detect hidden objects in sand before making direct contact.
neurosciencenews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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queenmarycbb.bsky.social
Our School @qmulsbbs.bsky.social successfully renewed its Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising its commitment to gender equality! Special thanks to @nadinelavan.bsky.social, Guifen Chen, and all the EDI committee for being the driving forces behind the application 👏

www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/news/it...
School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences achieves prestigious gender equality award
www.qmul.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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queenmarycbb.bsky.social
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!
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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giacomovalle.bsky.social
Interested in the current challenges of cortical #somatosensory feedback for brain-controlled #bionic hands 🧠 🦾?
Comment on @NatureReviews Electrical Engineering

SharedIt: rdcu.be/eIk4r
Link: nature.com/articles/s44...

@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...
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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skhalsa.bsky.social
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.
September 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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s4sn.bsky.social
Touch is not all the same! #S4SN2025
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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natrevneuro.nature.com
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...
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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
July 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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adadamo.bsky.social
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
July 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
lauracrucianelli.bsky.social
Great talk by @jamoffatt.bsky.social at #IMRF2025 in Durham on virtual extendable arm! Loved the reference to Inspector Gadget 🕵‍♂️
July 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
lauracrucianelli.bsky.social
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
July 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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imrf.bsky.social
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)
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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maggieszymanska.bsky.social
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!
July 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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nikaradziun.bsky.social
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... 🦾
July 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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nikaradziun.bsky.social
@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
July 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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when-in-science.bsky.social
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
July 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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escaneu.bsky.social
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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May 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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when-in-science.bsky.social
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
May 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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denisemcadete.bsky.social
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...
mitpress.mit.edu
April 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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when-in-science.bsky.social
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
May 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
lauracrucianelli.bsky.social
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...
May 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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camillanord.bsky.social
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
April 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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mtsakiris.bsky.social
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.
royalsociety.org
March 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM