Konstantina Kilteni
kkilteni.bsky.social
Konstantina Kilteni
@kkilteni.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and PI at Donders and Karolinska Institutes, leading the Somatosensation&Gargalesis lab (a.k.a Touch&Tickle lab). I study actions, touch, and tickles 🧠 (https://www.kiltenilab.org/). Ελληνίδα μάνα who cooks dolmadakia for friends.
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This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on:

"The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability"

Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT

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Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it!

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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Big thanks to this afternoon’s #SfN25 symposium speakers for illuminating mechanisms of sensory cancellation across species and modalities, and especially to @kkilteni.bsky.social for organizing!
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control
👇👇👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/386645
Postdoc Position on Systems Neuroscience, Motor Control at UCLouvain, Belgium
Project Title: Multi-disciplinary, multi-lab investigations of the neural bases of human sensorimotor control Project Description:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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New #preprint on modeling fingertip mechanoreceptor responses to #touch of varying speed, force & texture using #microneurography where information is represented across mechanoreceptor classes, each contributing differently-weighted inputs with Victoria Lang, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg
Single human fingertip mechanoreceptive afferents simultaneously encode multidimensional aspects of touch
Touch using the hands is essential for recognizing surface features and manipulating objects, where different aspects are encoded by four main types of low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMs) in glabrou...
www.biorxiv.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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New lab preprint spearheaded by @xavierjob.bsky.social !!

We used MEG to understand the dynamics of self-touch attenuation 👇👇👇 !!
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🍲🍲 NEW PAPER 🍰🍰
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Food choices are always a tradeoff between the benefits of energy intake and the risk of accidental contamination. The relative importance of these two varies depending on a person's current metabolic need. (1/3)
Sensitivity to contamination of food odours depends on hunger and attention
Detection of deviant notes in food odours protects against accidental contaminant ingestion, but this risk needs to be weighed against the potential c…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Ziliang is out here crushing it - best poster award! So proud of you! 🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏 #BRNet2025
Congrats to our poster winner Ziliang Xiong on ticklish sensations of humans 🎉 #BRNet2025
July 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The cerebellum helps ensure the speed and accuracy of movements, but its precise contributions to movement control are unclear. Nguyen and Person here evaluate evidence for and against feedforward mot...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the great @jetrach.bsky.social!

"Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations - Nature Human Behaviour
Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...
Neuroscience needs to empower early-career researchers, not fund moon shots
Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration.
www.thetransmitter.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience
Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.
www.science.org
May 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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From #Aristotle to Charles #Darwin, people have pondered the physical and cognitive mechanisms triggered by #tickling. However, despite its triviality, #science has yet to fully understand it.
@elpais.com @dondersinst.bsky.social @kkilteni.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Why tickling makes us laugh even when it annoys us and other mysteries that baffle neuroscience
A study explores key aspects of gargalesis, such as why certain areas of the body are more sensitive, why children tend to be more susceptible, and what its possible evolutionary function might be
english.elpais.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe.

On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe.

This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!)

europa.eu/!6Vdgmp
May 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🧠✨ New insights on motor imagery:
Motor imagery doesn't just mimic actual movement in the brain — it can also enhance the performance of different, linked movements.
Congrats, Magda ;D
Motor imagery enhances performance beyond the imagined action | PNAS
Motor imagery is frequently utilized to improve the performance of specific target movements in sports and rehabilitation. In this study, we show t...
www.pnas.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM