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New ANR Project : LackSocialTouch

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To find out more about the project: check this page! 

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Dr. Louise P. Kirsch

Since 2021, I am an Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité, as a Researcher at the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (INCC). I aim to intertwine research and teaching as well as mentoring, as I believe both go hand in hand.

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My research interests lie squarely within social cognition and focus on how experience shapes perception of the self and others.

 

To do so, I rely on behavioural data, training paradigms, physiological measures and brain imagery.

International Convention of Psychological Science Conference,
Paris
09.03.2019

RECENT ARTICLES

2023

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  • Kirsch, L. P.*, Tanzer, M.*, Filippetti, M. L., von Mohr, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2023). Mothers are more egocentric towards their own child’s bodily feelings. Communications Psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44271-023-00038-5 (link)

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  • Baiano, C., Job, X, Kirsch, L. P.*,  & Auvray, M.* (2023) Interoceptive abilities facilitate taking another’s spatial perspective. Scientific Reports, 13, 10064. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-36173-6 (link)

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  • de Lagarde, A., Pelachaud, C., Kirsch, L. P.*, & Auvray, M.* (2023). Audio-touch: tactile gestures and emotions can be recognised through their auditory counterparts. PsyArXiv. (link)

2024

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  • Samuel, S., Erle, T. M., Kirsch, L. P., Surtees, A., Apperly, I., Bukowski, H., ... & Quesque, F. (2024). Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking. Cognition, 247, 105787. (link)​

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  • Kirsch, L. P., Von Mohr, M., Koukoutsakis, A., & Fotopoulou, A. (2024). Vicarious touch: a potential substitute for social touch during touch deprivation. PsyArXiv. (link)

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2022

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  • Kirsch, L. P., Tanzer, M., Filippetti, M. L., Von Mohr, M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Mother knows best: Mothers are more egocentric towards their own child’s bodily emotions. PsyArXiv. (link)​

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  • Ramasamy, A., Faux, D., Hayward, V., Auvray, M., Job, X., & Kirsch, L. (2022). Human Self-touch vs Other-Touch Resolved by Machine Learning. In International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications (pp. 216-224). Springer (link)

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  • Job, X. E*., Kirsch, L. P*., & Auvray, M. (2022). Spatial perspective-taking: insights from sensory impairments. Experimental brain research, 240, 27-37. (link)

2021

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  • Kirsch, L. P., & Cross, E. S. (2021). Training Effects on Affective Perception of Body Movements. Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics Into Focus, 213. (link)

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  • von Mohr, M.*, Kirsch, L. P.*, & Fotopoulou, A. (2021). Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing and craving interpersonal touch. Royal Society Open Science, 8(9), 210287.(link)

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  • Baiano, C., Job, X., Santangelo, G., Auvray, M., & Kirsch, L. P. (2021). Interactions between interoception and perspective-taking: Current state of research and future directions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. (link)

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  • Kirsch, L.P., Mathys, C., Papadaki, C., Talelli, P., Moro, V., Friston, K., & Fotopoulou, A. (2021) Updating Beliefs Beyond the Here-and-Now: The Counter-factual Self in Anosognoksia for Hemiplegia. Brain Communications, 3(2), fcab098. (link)

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  • Ricciardi, L., Nistico, V., Andrenelli, E., Macedo Cunha, J., Demartini, B., Kirsch, L.P., Crucianelli, L., Yogarajah, M., Morgante, F., Fotopoulou. A., Edwards, M.J. (2021) Exploring three levels of interoception in people with Functional Motor Disorder. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 86, 15-18. (link)

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  • Finisguerra A.*, Ticini, L.F*., Kirsch, L.P., Cross, E.S., Kotz, S.A., Urgesi, C. (2021) Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks. Cognition. 212, 104663. (link)

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  • von Mohr, M.*, Kirsch, L.P.*, & Fotopoulou, A. (2021) Social touch deprivation during COVID-19: effects on psychological wellbeing, tolerating isolation and craving interpersonal touch. PsyArXiv. (link)

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  • Job, X., Arnold, G., Kirsch, L.P., & Auvray, M. (2021) Vision shapes tactile spatial perspective taking. JEHP : General. (link)​

2020

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  • Kirsch, L. P., Mathys, C., Papadaki, C., Talelli, P., Friston, K., Moro, V., & Fotopoulou, A. (2020). Updating Beliefs Beyond the Here-and-Now: The Counter-factual Self in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia. PsyArXiv (link)

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  • Kirsch, L.P., Job, X., Auvray, M., & Hayward, V. (2020) Harnessing Tactile Waves to Measure Skin-to-Skin Interactions. Behavior Research Methods. (link) (pdf)

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  • Kirsch, L.P.*, Job, X.*, & Auvray, M. (2020) Mixing up the Senses: Sensory Substitution is Not a Form of Artificially Induced Synaesthesia. Multisensory Research. (link) (pdf)

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  • Jenkinson, P.M., Papadaki, C., Besharati, S., Moro, V., Gobbetto, V., Crucianelli, L., Kirsch, L.P., Avesani, R., Ward, N.S. and Fotopoulou, A. (2020). Welcoming back my arm: Affective touch increases body ownership following right hemisphere stroke. Brain Communications, fcaa034 (link)

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  • Kirsch, L.P., Besharati, S., Papadaki, C., Crucianelli, L., Bertagnoli, S., Moro, V., Jenkinson, P. & Fotopoulou, A. (2020) Damage to the Right Insula Disrupts the Perception of Affective Touch. eLife, e47895 (link)
2019

  • Jenkinson, P. M., Papadaki, C., Besharati, S., Moro, V., Gobbetto, V., Crucianelli, L., Kirsch, L.P., ... & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). Welcoming back my arm: Affective touch increases body ownership following right hemisphere stroke. bioRxiv, 851055 (link)

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  • von Mohr, M.*, Kirsch, L.P.*, & Fotopoulou, A. (2019). Affective Touch Dimensions: From Sensitivity to Metacognition. bioRxiv, 669259. (link)

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  • Kirsch, L.P., Besharati, S., Papadaki, C., Crucianelli, L., Bertagnoli, S., Moro, V., Jenkinson, P. & Fotopoulou, A. (2019) Damage to the Right Insula Disrupts the Perception of Affective Touch. bioRxiv, 592014. (link)

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  • Job, X., Kirsch, L.P, Inard. S., Arnold, G., & Auvray, M. (2019) Spatial perspective taking is related to social intelligence and attachment style. Personality and Individual Differences, 109726. (link) (pdf)

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  • Ponzo, S., Kirsch, L.P., Fotopoulou, A., & Jenkinson, P.M. (2019). Vestibular modulation of multisensory integration during actual and vicarious tactile stimulation. Psychophysiology. 2019;56:e13430. (link) (pdf)

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  • Filippetti, M., Kirsch, L.P., Crucianelli, L., & Fotopoulou, A. (2019) Affective certainty and congruency of touch modulate the experience of the rubber hand illusion. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 2635. (link) (pdf)

2018

  • Ponzo, S., Kirsch, L.P., Fotopoulou, A., & Jenkinson, P. M. (2018). Balancing body ownership: Visual capture of proprioception and affectivity during vestibular stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 117, 311-321. (link)(pdf)

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  • Kirsch, L.P., Diersch, N., Sumanapala, D.K., & Cross, E.S. (2018). Dance training shapes action perception and its neural implementation within the young and older adult brain. Neural Plasticity. (link) (pdf)

 

  • Kirsch, L.P., Krahé, C., Blom, N., Crucianelli, L., Moro, V., Jenkinson, P.M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2018) Reading the mind in the touch: Neurophysiological specificity in the communication of emotions by touch. Neuropsychologia, 116, 136-149. (link) (pdf)

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  • Kirsch, L.P. & Cross, E.S. (2018) The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the lifespan. In Progress in brain research. Vol. 237. Elsevier. (link) (pdf)

 

  • Sumanapala, D., Walbrin., J., Kirsch, L.P. & Cross, E.S. (2018) Dance learning among adolescents and young adults: Insights from brain imaging and behaviour. In Progress in brain research. Vol. 237. Elsevier. (link) (pdf)

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