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School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

Dr Laura Crucianelli

Dr Laura

Lecturer in Psychology (T&R)

Email: l.crucianelli@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Fogg 2.01, Mile End Campus
Website: https://lauracrucianelli.com/
Twitter: @lauracrucianel1
Office Hours: Please email to arrange a meeting.

Profile

Laura Crucianelli is a Lecturer in the Department of Biological & Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, where she coordinates the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience module. Until August 2023, she was a Research Fellow at the Brain, Body, and Self Lab (Ehrsson lab) in the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden) funded by a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie European Fellowship. Laura is also an affiliated member of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

She completed her PhD in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, and in collaboration with University College London. Between 2016 and 2018, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, as part of Katerina Fotopoulou’s lab. Her project investigated affective touch, interoception, and sense of body ownership in healthy and clinical populations (e.g., anorexia nervosa, functional motor disorders). She also investigated mother-infant tactile interactions and the effect of intranasal oxytocin in multisensory integration and interoceptive perception in healthy women and women with Anorexia Nervosa.

Laura’s background is in Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology. She holds a BSc in Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, and a MSc in Neuroscience and Neuropsychology from University of Bologna, Italy. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, conducting research about awareness of illness following right-hemisphere stroke.

 

 

Undergraduate Teaching

PSY100 - Essential Skills for Psychologists

PSY323 - Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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