📢 New paper out: We wrote a protocol for a forthcoming scoping review on the neuroscience of human empathy for pleasure 😍 - now published in Systematic Reviews in Open Access: ⏭️ Stay tuned for the next step.

RT @H_Lee_Masson: ‼️ Preprint alert ‼️.Led by Macy, with collaboration from @KerenMacLennan and @manuel__mello.Autistic Adults Prefer Soci….

I am honoured to have received the Doctoral Thesis Award from @SapienzaRoma, accompanied by the publication of my thesis by Sapienza Università Editrice, available in open access here:

RT @ljuba_pi: The cognitive development and neuropsychology team. @ISC_MJ @CNRS @CNRS_dr07 @UnivLyon1 .Fall version 🍁 🍂 🍄‍🟫🍇.@NaderiSamar @….

RT @H_Lee_Masson: Happy to share my latest work on dynamic functional connectivity changes during social vs. non-social touch in autism. Th….

RT @ljuba_pi: Big shout out to @manuel__mello who received an ANT Neuro Award at the Seeing and Action Workshop @UnivdeCoimbra for his work….

6/6: Excited to see this work published in the near future! 😍. Thanks to my collaborators: M. Fusaro (@MartinaFusaro), I. Mino-Paluello, and S. M. Aglioti (@SAglioti, @SCNL_AgliotiLab).

5/6: These findings suggest that social touch avoidance is a central dimension connecting lower-level touch-related aspects, such as hyper-sensitivity, to higher-level ones, such as erogeneity, pleasantness, and appropriateness of touch.

4/6: Using different analysis approaches, we show the centrality of touch avoidance in the experience of social touch, with important modulations concerning people's biological sex.

3/6: We combined these data with those from a body painting task assessing feelings of appropriateness, pleasantness, and erogeneity for social touch (main results👉

2/6: We collected survey data on social and non-social touch perception, social anxiety, and the ability to recognize and describe one's own feelings in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Interested in the nuances of social touch processing in typical and atypical development? Then our new pre-print suits your needs:. 🧵below 👇. #socialtouch #autism.

RT @H_Lee_Masson: Please help us understand how autistic adults experience touch. We urgently need more male participants (both autistic an….

RT @ljuba_pi: I’m grateful to the @FFyssen for the prize and the recognition of the excellence of our work. I am grateful to my co-authors….

RT @Chiara97523443: 🙌Apply to our SI in Behavior and Information Technology: The call is named: "Social interaction in the Era of Technolog….

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Yo! I got the Doctoral Thesis Award for my thesis entitled "Touch and the body: first-hand and others' tactile experiences reveal the embodied nature of pleasant social touch". Thanks a lot @SapienzaRoma. At least COVID time was spent fruitfully.

RT @MatteLisi: checkout our latest preprint investigating how perspective taking influences the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and ple….

RT @ISC_MJ: ** ! ! HIRING ! ! ** The Neuroprime Team is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to work on spatial navigation in NHPs. Come….

RT @ljuba_pi: New lab summer picture -shamefully missing @DczSara . @ISC_MJ @CNRS_dr07

RT @H_Lee_Masson: We are still looking for participants and have increased the Amazon voucher amount from £20 to £50. The data collection f….