Louise P. Kirsch, PhD

Talks  - most recent (2017-2023)

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• de Lagarde A., Pélachaud C., Kirsch L.P.* & Auvray M.* (Dec 2023) Recognizing types of skin-to-skin touch and their emotional content through auditory signals: A study on distant social touch », JSJC 2023, Université de Lille, Lille, France.

 

• Kirsch, L. (September 2023) The importance of socio-tactile interactions. Body Representation Network 2023 Workshop entitled “The interactive body: Multisensory and embodied signatures of bodies interacting in the world”, Palma, Spain

 

• Kirsch, L., Baiano, C., Job, X.,Auvray, M. (September 2023) Interoception and perspective-taking: review and behavioural evidence, as part of the selected Symposium entitled ‘How internal signals inform cognition’. European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Porto, Portugal

 

• Kirsch, L. (July 2023) Impacts of interindividual differences on the perception of social touch. Festival of Touch, Marseille, France

 

• Auvray M.,  de Lagarde A., Pélachaud C., Kirsch L.P. (June 2023) Recognizing types of skin-to-skin touch and their emotional content through auditory signals: A study on distant social touch. EWIC 2023, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

 

• Kirsch, L. (March 2023) Perspective-taking as an embodied process, as part of the co-organised workshop “Integrating current views on perspective-taking”, Brussels, Belgium.

 

• Kirsch, L. (March 2023) Bodily signals influence spatial and emotional perspective taking, in the Symposium ‘How to be in Someone Else’s Shoes? Current Research on the Multifaceted Nature of Perspective-Taking’, 2023 International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium.​

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• Kirsch, L. (Feb 2023) The importance of social touch. Séminaire LICAE, Université Paris Nanterre

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• Kirsch, L. (Jan 2023) The importance of social touch. Conférences de la Salpêtrière, Paris

 

• Kirsch, L. (September 2022) The multifaceted roles of social touch. 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Lille, France

 

• Kirsch, L. (July 2022) Interactions between interoception and perspective-taking: Current state of research and future directions. Presentation and co-chair entitled “My inner feelings vs. yours: the role of interoception on the “me-not me” distinction”. 5th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Vienna, Austria

 

• Kirsch, L. (July 2022) Disruptions of sensorimotor experiences and bodily self-consciousness after right hemisphere stroke. 20th International Multisensory Research Forum, Ulm, Germany

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• Kirsch, L. (April 2022) The importance of Social Touch. Psychology Department Seminar Series, University of the Balearic Islands. Online

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• Kirsch, L. (September, 2021) The sense of Touch - First International Women in Neuroscience Parma Workshop.

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• Kirsch, L. (June, 2021) A Multidimensional Approach to Study Social Touch. TOUCHED: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Paris

 

• Kirsch, L. & von Mohr, M (June, 2021) Social touch deprivation during COVID-19. SocialBRIDGES e-conference on Social distancing & touch

 

• Kirsch, L. (Juin, 2021) What's so special about touch? A multidimensional approach to study social touch. NPSY.Lab-VR meeting

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• Kirsch, L., von Mohr, M, & Fotopoulou, A (June 2021) Social Touch in times of social distancing. 5th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Virtual meeting.

 

• Kirsch, L., Job, X., Hayward, V., & Auvray, M. (June 2021) Measuring tactile interactions through skin-to-skin friction-induced vibrations. 5th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Virtual meeting.

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• Kirsch, L (February 2021) Multisensorialité et plasticités des représentations corporelles. Webinaire Corps et prothèses : « Nouvelles recherches, nouvelles perspectives »

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• Kirsch, L. (October 2020) What's so special about touch? A multidimensional approach to study social touch. MindBrainBody Lecture, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

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• Kirsch, L., von Mohr, M, & Fotopoulou, A (July 2020) Social Touch in times of social distancing. Social BRIDGES e-conference.

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• Kirsch L. (March, 2019) Is the right Insula necessary for affective touch perception? Co-chair for the accepted symposium “Bodily Pleasure and the Self: Experimental, Pharmacological and Clinical Studies on Affective Touch”, International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris​

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• Kirsch L. (February, 2019) Shaping affective perception by multisensory experience. Invited talk at the Psychology Department Seminar, City University, London

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• Kirsch L. (December, 2018) Shaping body movement and perception by multisensory experience. Invited talk at the departmental seminar, IRCAM, Paris.

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• Kirsch L. (December, 2018) Shaping body movement and perception by multisensory experience. Invited talk at the departmental seminar, ISIR, Sorbonne University, Paris.

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• Kirsch L. (Sept, 2018) Emotional Embodied Egocentricity Bias – A new approach to the distinction between self and other affective states. The Open Self 2018 Conference – Investigating the Boundaries of the Self: Bodily, Social and Technological, Berlin, Germany

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• Kirsch L. (July, 2018) Co-Chair for the accepted Symposium: The Balance between You and Me: Integrating social, affective and embodied approaches to the self-other distinction. 4th International Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Leiden, Netherlands

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• Kirsch L. (February, 2018) Shaping perception by experience: Insights from brain and behaviour. Invited talk at the Social Cognition Seminar, University College London, UK

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• Kirsch L. (September, 2017) The Bodily Self: Insights from healthy and clinical populations. Invited talk at the Workshop "The Enactive Development of the Self: from self-perception to interaction under uncertainty", 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics. Lisbon, Portugal

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• Kirsch L. (September, 2017) Emotional Embodied Egocentricity Bias – A new approach to the distinction between self and other affective states. 2nd Congress of the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch, Liverpool, UK

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• Kirsch L. (July, 2017) Symposium Co-leader: “From the Self to the Other – Experimental Studies and Perspectives on the Embodied Self” at The 18th International Neuropsychoanalysis Congress “Compulsion to predict The Development of the Self and Its Disorders”, UCL, London

Posters - selection

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• Kirsch, L., Spence, C., & Auvray, M. (Juillet 2022) Impact of imposed physical distancing on multisensory experiences. 20th International Multisensory Research Forum, Ulm, Germany
   

• Kirsch L., Job X., Risch N, Hayward V, Auvray M. (April 2019) The numbness illusion: A new way to look at body plasticity. Skin to Self Meeting, University College London, United Kingdom

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• Kirsch L. (June, 2018) A Bayesian approach to belief updating deficits in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia. Aegina Summer School – New Perspectives & Methods on Social Cognition, Greece

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• Kirsch L. (June, 2018) A Bayesian approach to belief updating deficits in Anosognosia for Hemiplegia. EPS Workshop: Metacognition for Action, Cause, and Effect, London, United Kingdom

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• Kirsch L. & Cross E. (April, 2018) The influence of sensorimotor experience on the aesthetic evaluation of dance across the lifespan. Invited at the Visual Neuroaesthetics conference, MPI for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany

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• Kirsch L., Diersch N., Sumanapala D., Diedrichsen J. & Cross. E. (September, 2015) The impact of physical and visual experience on the aging brain. British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience Conference 2015, Essex, United Kingdom

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• Kirsch L., Diersch N., Sumanapala D., Diedrichsen J. & Cross. E. (August, 2015) The impact ofphysical and visual experience on the aging brain. Workshop on Social Cognition: From Evolution to Applications, Bangor, United Kingdom

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• Kirsch L., Lemon R.N., Rothwell J.C. & Davare M. (May, 2015) Causal interactions between ventralpremotor and primary motor cortex during action observation. Magstim Neuroscience Conference 2015, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Kirsch L., Dawson K., & Cross, E. (April, 2015) The impact of sensorimotor experience on affective  evaluation of movement. Intelligence in Action: Dance Engaging Science – Expanding on the Cognitive Workshop, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany

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• Kirsch L., Snagg A., Heerey E. & Cross E. (April, 2015) The impact of expertise on implicit and explicit affective responses during action observation. Annual Meeting for the Society for Affective Sciences, San Francisco, USA.

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• Kirsch L., Snagg A., Heerey E. & Cross E.S (March, 2015) The impact of expertise on implicit and explicit affective responses during action observation. Annual Meeting for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, USA.

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• Kirsch L., Dawson K., Drommelschmidt K. & Cross, E.S. (November, 2013) The impact of sensorimotor experience on affective evaluation of movement – fMRI insights. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.