Are you the parent or guardian of an autistic child? Are you aged 18+? Is your child aged 11-16? If you answered YES to all of the above… WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU AND YOUR CHILD! Why? This study aims to improve understanding of pain in autistic children by exploring how autistic Read more…
Participants Wanted For Neuroscience Research We are seeking women, aged at least 18 years old, to participate in a study that aims to understand more about our perception of touch – and how this is altered by cosmetics, like skin creams. Participants will need to attend a two hour laboratory Read more…
This year’s Ig Nobel Peach Prize was jointly awarded to: Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn G. Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Gil Yosipovitch, for trying to measure the pleasurability of scratching an itch. The researchers represent the UK, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the USA. REFERENCE: Read more…
Just published, and already making headlines, is our new open-access paper in Current Biology. SomAffect’s Francis McGlone and Susannah Walker (LJMU) have been working closely in collaboration with Rebecca Slater’s lab (University of Oxford) on this study which shows that stroking touch reduces infant neural (EEG) responses to pinpricks & clinical Read more…
Professor Francis McGlone, & SomAffect collaborator Professor Annett Schirmer have published a research report in Cortex – titled: A touching Sight: EEG/ERP correlates for the vicarious processing of affectionate touch. The article is available online now, and SomAffect is able to grant open access to the full article & PDF until 29th Read more…
LJMU’s press office has announced the news of our MRC grant award:
A three-year Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study (£~700K) is being led by Dr Sue Francis (PI) at Nottingham University’s Sir Peter Mansfield Brain Imaging Centre and Professor Francis McGlone (Co-I) from the School of Natural Sciences & Psychology at LJMU. (more…)
Participants Wanted.
We are looking for healthy participants – aged 18-60.
1 Sona Point + £5 Amazon Vouchers Per Hour.
One lab session – up to ~6 hours
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New article in Consciousness & Cognition by Somaffect team members Francis McGlone & David Moore with LJMU collaborator Ruth Ogden
Participants Wanted.
We are looking for healthy participants – aged 18-60.
Amazon vouchers paid (£10/hour).
One lab session – up to 6 hours. (more…)
This week Ralph, Paula and myself will be presenting posters at the annual BPS conference , in Liverpool. One of the key topics at the conference this year is the social brain. This will be an excellent opportunity for members of our group to showcase our work in CT afferents Read more…
A three-year Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study (£~700K) is being led by Dr Sue Francis (PI) at Nottingham University’s Sir Peter Mansfield Brain Imaging Centre and Professor Francis McGlone (Co-I) from the School of Natural Sciences & Psychology at LJMU.