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India Morrison

Senior Associate Professor

Research

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The Morrison Lab

The Morrison Lab: Embodied Brain Lab investigates emotional and social aspects of both touch and pain, and how these influence - and are influenced by - behavior.

Publications

2025

Marta Vigier, Andreas. R. Schwerdtfeger, India Morrison (2025) Heart rate increases during social isolation: Matter of depressive mood and self-reported infection symptoms Biological Psychology, Vol. 197, Article 109041 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Madeleine Jones, Connor James Haggarty, Gavin N. Petrie, Abigail R. Lunge, India Morrison, Matthew N. Hill, Markus Heilig, Leah Mayo (2025) Endocannabinoid contributions to the perception of socially relevant, affective touch in humans Neuropsychopharmacology, Vol. 50, p. 849-855 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Juulia Suvilehto, Asta Cekaite, India Morrison (2023) The why, who and how of social touch NATURE REVIEWS PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 2, p. 606-621 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
India Morrison (2023) Touching to connect, explore, and explain: how the human brain makes social touch meaningful The Senses & Society, Vol. 18, p. 92-109 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lina Koppel, Giovanni Novembre, Robin Kämpe, Mattias Savallampi, India Morrison (2023) Prediction and action in cortical pain processing Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 33, p. 794-810 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

News

The Morrison Lab: The Embodied Brain Lab.

The brain reacts differently to touch depending on context

The touch of another person may increase levels of the “feelgood” hormone oxytocin. But the context really matters. The situation impacts oxytocin levels not only in the moment, but also later, as is shown in a new study.
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The award winner: “A window to the secret processes in the brain”

India Morrison, senior associate professor in cognitive neuroscience, has won the Onkel Adam Award for her outstanding research at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. One of her research areas is how touch and pain affect our behaviour.
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SEK 35 million for research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Four LiU researchers will receive a total of SEK 18 million in project grants from the Swedish Research Council within humanities and social sciences. A further SEK 17 million has been awarded to a research environment in migration and integration.

Related Research

The Morrison Lab: The Embodied Brain Lab.

The Olausson Lab

Human touch is a powerful way of evoking emotions. What is the functional significance of the system for ultrafast nociceptors that we recently discovered? How does the nervous system distinguish social and self-touch? Our lab is looking for answers.
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Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at LiU

WCMM at LiU focuses on the medicine-technology interface, and build upon our existing strengths in research within medical technology, materials science and bioengineering.

Organisation

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Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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