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Paula Salamone

Postdoc, Docent

I have a background in Psychology and a PhD in Neuroscience. The main focus of my research is to study affective touch, brain-body dynamics, interoception and emotional recognition in cardiac and neuropsychiatric patients.

Publications

2026

Paula Salamone, Nadia Alejandra Dowzuk, Martina Nayla Gallo, Rebecca Böhme (2026) Social touch is associated with disrupted bodily self-concept in people with depersonalization symptoms Acta Psychologica, Vol. 268, Article 107307 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.107307

2025

Diego Candia-Rivera, Rebecca Böhme, Paula Salamone (2025) Autonomic Modulations to Cardiac Dynamics in Response to Affective Touch: Differences Between Social Touch and Self-Touch IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 16, p. 1996-2005 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3548778
Paula Salamone, Adam Enmalm, Reinoud Kaldewaij, Marie Åman, Charlotte Medley, Michal Pietrzak, Håkan Olausson, Andrea Johansson Capusan, Rebecca Böhme (2025) Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels Molecular Psychiatry, Vol. 30, p. 5417-5426 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03130-w
Diego Candia-Rivera, Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, Rebecca Böhme, Paula Salamone (2025) Linking heartbeats with the cortical network dynamics involved in self-social touch distinction Communications Biology, Vol. 8, Article 52 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-07448-z

2024

Diego Candia-Rivera, Tahnee Engelen, Mariana Babo-Rebelo, Paula Salamone (2024) Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Vol. 165, Article 105864 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105864

Research

I am part of the Böhme Lab at CSAN. Read more about the research via the link below.

The Rebecca Böhme research group at Tinnerbäckshuset 2025.

The Böhme Lab

We investigate how the experience of “self” is generated by the brain and body – and what happens if self-other-distinction is altered in psychiatric conditions or through experimental interventions.

Organisation

A researcher is looking at encased samples in a lab.

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.