Bio
Manos Tsakiris is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London where he leads the Lab of Action & Body and the INtheSELF ERC-funded project. He is also leading the BIAS (Body & Image in Arts & Science) project, funded by the NOMIS Foundation, at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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Research
What is the link between the body and the self? How do we become aware of ourselves and of others? How do we relate to and respond to the images that power human culture? These are some of the key questions that we research.
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People
Academics are fortunate enough to spend their whole career surrounded by young minds. A privilege that few other professions can give you. These are the people who make our research possible, successful and most enjoyable. The people to whom I am grateful for their creativity, skills and openness.
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Publications
Since 2003, our research has resulted in numerous publications in peer-reviewed international journals. In addition to the research articles we publish, we think it is important to take the time to consolidate our findings in original theoretical and review papers.Several of our papers are among the most-cited articles in our field of research (source: Thomson Reuters Citation Thresholds).
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News
We are trying to stay on top of things, be aware of the most important news in our field and whenever possible to contribute to what is timely and important.
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Media
Our research has attracted interest from media around the world, and has appeared in major international news organizations, such Reuters, BBC, The Times, The Guardian, El Pais, Le Figaro, Wall Street Journal, El Mundo, Huffington Post, and Scientific American.
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Events
Ideas
Engagement
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Ruben Azevedo
After completing my BSc in Psychology at University of Minho I worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Then I as awarded a PhD studentship by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) to pursue my doctoral studies with Prof Salvatore Maria Aglioti at the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, “La Sapienza” University of Rome. I now work with Prof Manos Tsakiris as a post-doc researcher at the Lab of Action and Body, Royal Holloway University of London and at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Research Interests
My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying brain-body communication. I am particularly interested in studying how afferent interoceptive information influences the perception of social stimuli and modulate social attitudes and behaviour. To carry out my research I use behavioural measurements, psychophysiology, fMRI and non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation.
Publications
Azevedo RT, Tsakiris M (in press). Art reception as an interoceptive embodied predictive experience. Behavioral Brain Sciences
Azevedo RT*, Badoud D*, Tsakiris M (2017). Afferent cardiac signals modulate attentional engagement to low spatial frequency fearful faces. Cortex. (*shared authorship) DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.06.016
Azevedo RT, Garfinkel S, Critchley HD & Tsakiris M. (2017) Cardiac afferent activity modulates the expression of racial stereotypes. Nature Communications. 8:13854. DOI:dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13854
Azevedo RT, Bennett N, Bilicki A, Hooper J, Markopoulou F & Tsakiris M (2017). The calming effect of a new wearable device during the anticipation of public speech. Scientific Reports. 7:2285. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-02274-2
Azevedo RT*, Panasiti mS, Maglio R & Aglioti SM (2017). Perceived warmth and competence shape voluntary deceptive behaviour in a morally relevant setting. British Journal of Psychology. (*shared authorship). DOI:10.1111/bjop.12245
Sel A*, Azevedo RT* & Tsakiris M. (2016). Heartfelt Self: Cardio-visual integration affects self-face recognition and interoceptive cortical processing. Cerebral Cortex, 27: 5144–5155. (*shared authorship) DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhw296
Azevedo RT, Aglioti SM, Lenggenhager B (2016). Participants’ above-chance recognition of own-heart sound combined with poor metacognitive awareness suggests implicit knowledge of own heart cardiodynamics. Scientific Reports. 6: 26545. DOI:10.1038/srep26545
Azevedo RT, Ainley V, Tsakiris M (2016). Cardio-visual integration modulates the subjective perception of affectively neutral stimuli. Int J Psychophysiol. 99:10-7. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.11.011
Azevedo RT, Macaluso E, Viola V, Sani G, Aglioti SM (2014). Weighing the stigma of weight: an fMRI study of neural reactivity to the pain of obese individuals. NeuroImage. 91:109-19. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.041
Lenggenhager B*, Azevedo RT*, Mancini A, Aglioti SM (2013). Listening to your heart and feeling yourself: effects of exposure to interoceptive signals during the Ultimatum Game. Experimental Brain Research. 230(2):233-41. (*shared authorship) DOI:10.1007/s00221-013-3647-5
Azevedo RT, Macaluso E, Avenanti A, Santangelo V, Cazzato, Aglioti (2013). Their pain is not our pain: Brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals. Human Brain Mapping. 34(12):3168-8. DOI:10.1002/hbm.22133
Abreu AM, Macaluso E, Azevedo RT, Cesari P, Urgesi C, Aglioti SM (2012). Action anticipation beyond the action observation network: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in expert basketball players. European Journal of Neuroscience. 35(10):1646-54. DOI:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08104.x
Naudts KH, Azevedo RT, David AS, van Heeringen C & Gibbs AA (2011). Influence of COMT val158met and ADRA2B deletion polymorphisms on recollection and familiarity components of human emotional memory. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 26(6):819-29. DOI:10.1177/0269881111416688
Naudts KH, Azevedo RT, David AS, van HeeringenK && Gibbs AA (2011). Epistasis between 5-HTTLPR and ADRA2B polymorphisms influences attentional bias for emotional information in healthy volunteers. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 15(8):1027-36. DOI:doi.org/10.1017/S1461145711001295
Gibbs AA, Naudts KH, Azevedo RT, David AS (2010). Deletion variant of α2b-adrenergic receptor moderates the effect of COMT val158met polymorphism on episodic memory performance. European Neuropsychopharmacology 20(4): 272-275. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2009.12.007
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Manos Tsakiris
Department of Psychology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
tel: +44 (0) 1784 276266
fax: +44 (0) 1784 434347
e-mail: manos.tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk
Manos Tsakiris
Department of Psychology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
tel: +44 (0) 1784 276266
fax: +44 (0) 1784 434347
e-mail: manos.tsakiris@rhul.ac.uk
All rights reserved. Copyright © 2017 Manos Tsakiris