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Publications: DR Laura Crucianelli

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Meconi F, Crucianelli L ( 2025 ) . Referencing the self in empathy for pain . International Journal of Psychophysiology vol. 213 ,
Salvato G, Crottini F, Crotti D, Tajani M, Tarlarini P, Crucianelli L, Fazia T, Corradi E et al. ( 2025 ) . Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa . Translational Psychiatry vol. 15 , ( 1 )
Crucianelli L, Salvato G, Quadt L ( 2025 ) . Sudomotor function, thermoregulation and electrodermal control in the human brain . Encyclopedia of the Human Brain , Elsevier
Stroh A-L, Radziun D, Korczyk M, Crucianelli L, Ehrsson HH ( 2024 ) . Blind individuals’ enhanced ability to sense their own heartbeat is related to the thickness of their occipital cortex . Cerebral Cortex vol. 34 , ( 8 ) bhae324 - bhae324 .
Saramandi A, Crucianelli L, Koukoutsakis A, Nisticò V, Mavromara L, Boido G, Gonidakis F, Demartini B et al. ( 2024 ) . Updating Prospective Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Cardiac Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa: An Experimental and Computational Study . Computational Psychiatry vol. 8 , ( 1 ) 92 - 118 .
Crucianelli L, Salvato G, Nagai Y, Critchley H ( 2024 ) . Sudomotor function, thermoregulation and electrodermal control in the human brain . Encyclopedia of the Human Brain Second Edition Volumes 1 5 ,
Crucianelli L, Ehrsson HH ( 2023 ) . Thermosensation and emotion: Thermosensory accuracy in a dynamic thermal matching task is linked to depression and anxiety symptomatology . Physiology & Behavior vol. 273 , 114407 - 114407 .
Crucianelli L, Reader AT ( 2023 ) . Subcortical contributions to the sense of body ownership . Brain vol. 147 , ( 2 ) 390 - 405 .
Cook C, Filippetti ML ( 2023 ) . Changes in self-other boundaries modulate children’s body image attitudes . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience vol. 17 , 1181395 - 1181395 .
Crucianelli L, Morrison I ( 2023 ) . Skin-Mediated Interoception: The Perception of Affective Touch and Cutaneous Pain . Somatosensory Research Methods , vol. 196 , Springer Nature
Radziun D, Korczyk M, Szwed M ( 2023 ) . Heartbeat Counting Accuracy Is Enhanced in Blind Individuals . Journal of Experimental Psychology General vol. 152 , ( 7 ) 2026 - 2039 .
Navas-León S, Morales Márquez L, Sánchez-Martín M, Crucianelli L, Bianchi-Berthouze N, Tajadura-Jiménez A ( 2023 ) . Exploring multisensory integration of non-naturalistic sounds on body perception in young females with eating disorders symptomatology: a study protocol . Journal of Eating Disorders vol. 11 , ( 1 ) 28 - 28 .
Radziun D, Crucianelli L, Korczyk M ( 2023 ) . The perception of affective and discriminative touch in blind individuals . Behavioural Brain Research vol. 444 , 114361 - 114361 .
Tajadura-Jiménez A, Crucianelli L, Zheng R, Cheng C, Ley-Flores J, Borda-Más M ( 2022 ) . Body weight distortions in an auditory-driven body illusion in subclinical and clinical eating disorders . Scientific Reports vol. 12 , ( 1 ) 20031 - 20031 .
Crucianelli L, Chancel M ( 2022 ) . Modeling affective touch pleasantness across skin types at the individual level reveals a reliable and stable basic function . Journal of Neurophysiology vol. 128 , ( 6 ) 1435 - 1452 .
Crucianelli L ( 2022 ) . The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ? . Perspectives on Psychological Science vol. 18 , ( 1 ) 224 - 238 .
Crucianelli L, Ehrsson HH ( 2022 ) . Visuo-thermal congruency modulates the sense of body ownership . Communications Biology vol. 5 , ( 1 ) 731 - 731 .
Crucianelli L, Enmalm A ( 2022 ) . Interoception as independent cardiac, thermosensory, nociceptive, and affective touch perceptual submodalities . Biological Psychology vol. 172 , 108355 - 108355 .
Crucianelli L, Cascio CJ, Salomon R ( 2022 ) . Editorial: When the Body Feels Like Mine: Constructing and Deconstructing the Sense of Body Ownership Through the Lifespan . Frontiers in Human Neuroscience vol. 16 , 854135 - 854135 .
Radziun D, Ehrsson HH ( 2021 ) . Limits of cross-modal plasticity? Short-term visual deprivation does not enhance cardiac interoception, thermosensation, or tactile spatial acuity . Biological Psychology vol. 168 , 108248 - 108248 .
Panagiotopoulou E, Crucianelli L ( 2021 ) . Identifying with the beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self–other distinction . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 75 , ( 7 ) 1314 - 1329 .
Ricciardi L, Nisticò V, Andrenelli E, Cunha JM, Demartini B, Crucianelli L, Fotopoulou A, Edwards MJ ( 2021 ) . Exploring three levels of interoception in people with functional motor disorders . Parkinsonism & Related Disorders vol. 86 , 15 - 18 .
Carey M, Crucianelli L, Preston C ( 2020 ) . The role of affective touch in whole-body embodiment remains equivocal . Consciousness and Cognition vol. 87 , 103059 - 103059 .
Crucianelli L, Demartini B, Nisticò V, Saramandi A, Todisco P ( 2020 ) . The Anticipation and Perception of Affective Touch in Women with and Recovered from Anorexia Nervosa . Neuroscience vol. 464 , 143 - 155 .
Jenkinson PM, Papadaki C, Besharati S, Moro V, Crucianelli L, Kirsch LP, Avesani R ( 2020 ) . Welcoming back my arm: affective touch increases body ownership following right-hemisphere stroke . Brain Communications vol. 2 , ( 1 ) fcaa034 - fcaa034 .
Kirsch LP, Besharati S, Papadaki C, Crucianelli L, Bertagnoli S, Ward N, Fotopoulou A ( 2020 ) . Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch . eLife vol. 9 , e47895 - e47895 .
Reader AT, Crucianelli L ( 2019 ) . A Multisensory Perspective on the Role of the Amygdala in Body Ownership . Journal of Neuroscience vol. 39 , ( 39 ) 7645 - 7647 .
Filippetti ML ( 2019 ) . If I were a grown-up: Children’s response to the rubber hand illusion with different hand sizes . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology vol. 185 , 191 - 205 .
Crucianelli L, Serpell L, Paloyelis Y, Jenkinson P ( 2019 ) . The effect of intranasal oxytocin on the perception of affective touch and multisensory integration in anorexia nervosa: protocol for a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover study . BMJ Open vol. 9 , ( 3 ) e024913 - e024913 .
Carey M, Crucianelli L, Fotopoulou A ( 2019 ) . The Effect of Visual Capture Towards Subjective Embodiment Within the Full Body Illusion . Scientific Reports vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 2889 - 2889 .
Filippetti ML, Kirsch LP, Crucianelli L ( 2019 ) . Affective certainty and congruency of touch modulate the experience of the rubber hand illusion . Scientific Reports vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 2635 - 2635 .
Ciaunica A ( 2019 ) . Minimal self-awareness from within: A developmental perspective . Journal of Consciousness Studies vol. 26 , ( 3-4 ) 207 - 226 .
Crucianelli L, Paloyelis Y, Ricciardi L, Jenkinson PM ( 2018 ) . Embodied Precision: Intranasal Oxytocin Modulates Multisensory Integration . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience vol. 31 , ( 4 ) 592 - 606 .
Crucianelli L, Filippetti ML ( 2018 ) . Developmental Perspectives on Interpersonal Affective Touch . Topoi vol. 39 , ( 3 ) 575 - 586 .
Crucianelli L, Wheatley L, Filippetti ML, Kirk E, Fotopoulou A ( 2018 ) . The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions . Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience vol. 35 , 47 - 56 .
Kirsch LP, Krahé C, Blom N, Moro V, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A ( 2017 ) . Reading the mind in the touch: Neurophysiological specificity in the communication of emotions by touch . Neuropsychologia vol. 116 , ( Pt A ) 136 - 149 .
Crucianelli L, Krahé C, Jenkinson PM ( 2017 ) . Interoceptive ingredients of body ownership: Affective touch and cardiac awareness in the rubber hand illusion . Cortex vol. 104 , 180 - 192 .
Gentsch A, Crucianelli L, Fotopoulou A ( 2016 ) . The Touched Self: Affective Touch and Body Awareness in Health and Disease . Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents , Springer Nature
Crucianelli L, Cardi V, Treasure J, Fotopoulou A ( 2016 ) . The perception of affective touch in anorexia nervosa . Psychiatry Research vol. 239 , 72 - 78 .
Demartini B, Ricciardi L, Crucianelli L, Krahé C, Edwards MJ ( 2016 ) . Interoceptive awareness in patients with functional motor disorders . Parkinsonism & Related Disorders vol. 22 , e141 - e141 .
Demartini B, Ricciardi L, Fotopoulou A ( 2015 ) . Sense of body ownership in patients affected by functional motor symptoms (conversion disorder) . Consciousness and Cognition vol. 39 , 70 - 76 .
Ricciardi L, Demartini B, Crucianelli L, Edwards MJ ( 2015 ) . Interoceptive awareness in patients with functional neurological symptoms . Biological Psychology vol. 113 , 68 - 74 .
Crucianelli L, Metcalf NK, Fotopoulou A, Jenkinson PM ( 2013 ) . Bodily pleasure matters: velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion . Frontiers in Psychology vol. 4 , 703 - 703 .
Saramandi A, Crucianelli L, KOUKOUTSAKIS A, Nisticò V, Baiza A, Goeta D, Demartini B, Gambini O et al. . Belief updating about Interoception and Body Size Estimation in Anorexia Nervosa .
Stroh A-L, Radziun D, Korczyk M, Crucianelli L, Ehrsson HH, Szwed M . Blind individuals’ enhanced ability to sense their own heartbeat is related to the thickness of their occipital cortex .
Kirsch LP, Besharati S, Papadaki C, Crucianelli L, Bertagnoli S, Ward N, Moro V, Jenkinson PM et al. . Damage to the Right Insula Disrupts the Perception of Affective Touch .
Crucianelli L, Paloyelis Y, Ricciardi L, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A . Embodied precision: Intranasal oxytocin modulates multisensory integration .
Chen Z, Crucianelli L, Versace E, Jamone L . Exploring Tactile Perception for Object Localization in Granular Media: A Human and Robotic Study . Conference: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning ( Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague ) from: 16/09/2025 to: 19/09/2025 ,
Radziun D, Crucianelli L, Ehrsson HH . Limits of cross-modal plasticity? Short-term visual deprivation does not enhance cardiac interoception, thermosensation, or tactile spatial acuity .
Crucianelli L, Chancel M, Ehrsson HH . Modeling tactile pleasantness across skin types at the individual level reveals a reliable and stable basic function .
Crucianelli L, Enmalm A, Ehrsson HH . Probing interoception via thermosensation: No specific relationships across multiple interoceptive sub-modalities .
Carey M, Crucianelli L, Preston C, Fotopoulou A . The Effect of Visual Capture Towards Subjective Embodiment Within the Full Body Illusion .
Filippetti ML, Kirsch LP, Crucianelli L, Fotopoulou A . The Emotional Glue of the Senses: Affective Certainty and Congruency in the Rubber Hand Illusion .
Crucianelli L, Demartini B, Goeta D, Nisticò V, Saramandi A, Bertelli S, Todisco P, Gambini O et al. . The anticipation and perception of affective touch in women with and recovered from Anorexia Nervosa .
Radziun D, Crucianelli L, Korczyk M, Szwed M, Ehrsson HH . The perception of affective and discriminative touch in blind individuals .
Crucianelli L, Ehrsson HH . The role of the skin in interoception: A neglected organ? .
Saramandi A, Crucianelli L, KOUKOUTSAKIS A, Nisticò V, Mavromara L, Goeta D, Boido G, Gonidakis F et al. . Updating Prospective, Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Cardiac Interoception in Anorexia Nervosa: An Experimental and Computational Study .
Jenkinson PM, Papadaki C, Besharati S, Moro V, Gobbetto V, Crucianelli L, Kirsch LP, Avesani R et al. . Welcoming back my arm: Affective touch increases body ownership following right hemisphere stroke .
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