I'm beyond thrilled, excited, and delighted to announce being awarded a 3-year Tiny Blue Dot Foundation grant to examine body image in adolescent girls & to develop a VR-based embodiment intervention for body image issues. Expect more info and post-doc and PhD adverts in the coming months 😀

🚨New preprint alert🚨 Presence is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness In which we argue that 'presence' as defined and discussed in the field of computer science, is mechanistically and conceptually identical to 'reality' osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/🧵

1/3 New preprint alert! 🚨 doi.org/10.31219/osf... Are you studying interoception in a developmental or parental context? We introduce the Parental Interoception Questionnaire (PIQ), a new tool to assess how parents perceive and respond to their child’s bodily signals.

I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11

The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications

Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...

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Gerardo Salvato@gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU

Are you based in London? We are recruiting participants for our study. We need to test 400 people so would appreciate sharing. Thank you!

@embodystudy.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re recruiting participants for the Em-Body study! Check your eligibility and sign up here: shorturl.at/AEelF

Exciting new job opportunity at the IoN, UCL, London. The post is based at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience. It is a 70-30%research to teaching split. If anyone requires more information on the teaching part then please do get in contact with me. Please repost www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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I'm excited to be co-leading a course on Interoception and Brain disorders with Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social on the beautiful academic island of San Servolo, Venice, in May 2025 www.neurosas.org/advanced-cou...

Despite the radio silence, things have been brewing! Passed my PhD viva and went travelling. While on the road, a couple of publications dropped (links below) and got a DClinPsy offer! So, now I’m back at UCL/NHS - working, training & gearing up for more..Stay tuned! 🚀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

➡️Join the parent-child interoception study, an opportunity for children to participate in a science experiment AND learn about their body signals. Parents complete a novel task about their child's body signals!🫀 Slots available 23rd April to 6th May! Sign up: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

New preprint 👇🏻 Do you like using emoticons on social media? What if they were tactile? We show that people report greater perceived social support when they receive (digitally) mediated tactile rather than visual emoticons during social media interactions. osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky

1/5 Preprint 🚨 psyarxiv.com/c8mjv We used a cardiac interoception task & a novel computational approach to study metacognitive belief updating in Anorexia Nervosa (AN). 🧵 below #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

London-based friends, a fun, interactive science event with Katlab on the 9th of Nov. Word on the street is that there will also be prizes for a few lucky winners!

Olly Singleton@oliversingleton.bsky.social · 3y ago

You are what you wear! Can you dress well, feel good and save the planet at the same time? Join our interactive workshop at UCL exploring how a textile circular economy can serve our well-being, while also saving the planet #CogSci #AcademicSky #PsycSky #PhDSky www.ucl.ac.uk/research/dom...

Hello bluesky! Thank you @mgallen.bsky.social for the invite code! I’m a Katlab (UCL) PhD student and ready to see what 🟦 is all about! Will use this post’s comments section to talk about some past research from my BSc, MSc and early PhD days. Will then progress onto posting about our current work!