Katerina Fotopoulou

Vicarious Touch: A Potential Substitute for Social Touch During Touch Deprivation Restricted interpersonal touch experiences, for instance due to COVID-19 social distancing measures, result in detrimental effects on anxiety, loneliness and psychological well-being. Yet, interventi...

🎉 Excited to share our paper out in EJSP - showing that vicarious touch, i.e. observing human-pet tactile interactions, can reduce stress, in times of social touch deprivation such as the first COVID lockdown !
Co-led with @marianavonmohr.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @katerinafoto.bsky.social

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 😀

Find out more about the Centre for Equality Research in Brain sciences here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... and the WoW mentor scheme here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Most honored by this and could not have done it without my amazing UCL colleagues at the Faculty of Brain Sciences. We still have a long way to go but proud to belong to a scientific society and an Institution that values diversity and promotes innovative solutions regarding research culture.

🎉 Congratulations to the #DiversityPrize Winner!

🏆 At the 2025 #FENS Regional Meeting in Oslo, Norway, @network-alba.bsky.social and the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence (#FKNE) awarded this year's Diversity Prize to Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou. 🧠

👉 https://loom.ly/dphSwoM

#DiversityInSTEM

Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou Awarded 2025 ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize Professor Aikaterini Fotopoulou from UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences has been awarded the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies meeting.

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. @katerinafoto.bsky.social‬, who has won the ALBA-FKNE Diversity Prize for her outstanding contributions to promoting equality and diversity in the brain sciences. ‪@network-alba.bsky.social‬ @kavlifoundation.org‬

The ESCAN Junior Committee is active and thriving! Join them and their series of workshops, to increase your skills, make new work friends and plan for the Rome conference next year. @escaneu.bsky.social it is all free and friendly.

🔁 Final call!
Join the ESCAN Science Communication Workshop w/ @elodiechabrol (Pint of Science)
🗓 July 3 | 🕓 16:00–18:00 CEST
💻 Online | 🎯 MSc, PhDs, Postdocs
⚠️ ESCAN members only
🧠 for more events, join ESCAN: escaneurosci.eu/membership-f...
#SciComm #PhDlife #ESCAN

And perhaps contrast the brain's estimate of current experience against prior beliefs...

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Anyone I know or should know going to FENS in Oslo this year? Pls dm me

Wonderful stuff Alex and colleagues!!!

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One of the most exciting cognitive and affective neuroscience conferences is happening next summer in Rome. Excellent science, good friends and Italian food in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get ready for the ESCAN congress, June 3-6 2026! #ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social

A joyful and important topic to review. The mechanisms of tickling!

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One of the most exciting cognitive and affective neuroscience conferences is happening next summer in Rome. Excellent science, good friends and Italian food in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get ready for the ESCAN congress, June 3-6 2026! #ESCAN @escaneu.bsky.social

1/3 📢 Want to make your research accessible and engaging?
Join our Science Communication Workshop with Dr. Elodie Chabrol, founder of Pint of Science 🍻🧠
Learn how to talk about your science with clarity and impact.

Yes but it is about time economists and neuroeconomists start understanding metabolic resource allocation...

Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

Finally a book on touch that places our experience of our senses in the context of our collective intentionality throughout history. Excellent book review here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Step 1 of Carolina's outstading PhD on parental interoceptive mentalisation. How do parents 'read' the interoceptive states of their child? How do we know our child is hungry, tired or cold? A careful validation of the 1st questionnaire on this important developmental dimension. Bien Hecho Carolina!

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.

Step 1 of Carolina's outstading PhD on parental interoceptive mentalisation. How do parents 'read' the interoceptive states of their child? How do we know our child is hungry, tired or cold? A careful validation of the 1st questionnaire on this important developmental dimension. Bien Hecho Carolina!

It was wonderful and thought provoking!

Funciones Ejecutivas at the amazing National Congress of Neuropsychology in Spain. Packed with excellent speakers and hundreads of enthousiastic neuropsychologists doing both research and clinical work. We need more of them in european and international events and collaborations. Thank you #Fanpse

Hello, BlueSky! 🌟 ESCAN is thrilled to join this growing platform. Follow us for updates, insights, and discussions on cognitive and affective neuroscience! 🚀 #ESCAN #BlueSky #Academia

A role for respiration in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation Memory consolidation is thought to rely on the interplay of sleep-related brain oscillations. Drawing on recent findings that highlight the influence of respiration on these rhythms, we outline a fram...

In our recent @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social forum article www.cell.com/trends/neuro..., we highlight respiration's potential role in coordinating sleep oscillations and memory consolidation. With the fabulous @tschreiner.bsky.social and @estebanbt.bsky.social

Similarly, this is coming Europe's way soon and if we do not get ready now, it will be worse and it will be fast.

Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade Join us to consider the role of epistemic trust in understanding the relationship between culture, communication and psychopathology at this hybrid event

Great conference coming up on epistemic trust in psychotherapy at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit
22 March - 23 March 2025

Speakers include Liz Allison, Anthony Bateman, Dickon Bevington, Peter Fonagy, George Gergely, Vittorio Lingiardi, Patrick Luyten, Tobias Nolte www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

The Touched Body and the Experience of Self Slow caressing of the skin activates C-tactile fibers in the periphery and the posterior insula cortex. Because of this, Bud Craig considered affective touch to be an interoceptive modality. Through t...

My chapter on touch and the bodily self is now out 🤩 🧠😍

It is a part of a book commemorating the late Bud Craig by @marcwittmann.bsky.social , Irina Strigo, and Alan Simmons

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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#PsychSciSky
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Journalism is a social practice: reporting the news.

The Media is the attention business. The product is audiences.

The Press is an institution that endures over time as people come in and out.

The news industry is a seller of information with recency value.

Announcing this week's Consciousness Club with Ishan Singhal
@singhal.bsky.social
on "Time as a fundamental aspect of consciousness"

Wednesday 12th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time

All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

🕒 less than 24h until the doors to the 12th #MindBrainBody Symposium will open.

Safe travels and very much looking forward to seeing you there!

Please check out day 1 below and find all details at mindbrainbody.de