Publications

Published:

Ciaunica, A.; Shmeleva, E. V.; Levin, M. (2023). The Brain is not Mental: Coupling Neuronal and Immune Cellular Processing in Human Organisms. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.  https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fgcy5. 

Ciaunica, A. (2023). Da autoconsciência às interações sociais em agentes humanos e artificiais: o impacto na mente humana e na vida social. Vozes pela Inteligencia Artificial. (forthcoming) Edição. Lisboa: João Pombeiro, Monica Bello (eds).

Mazor, Matan; Brown, Simon; Ciaunica, Anna; Demertzi, Athena; Fahrenfort, Johannes; Faivre, Nathan; Francken, Jolien; Lamy, Dominique; Lenggenhager, Bigna; Moutoussis, Michael; Nizzi, Marrie-Christine; Salomon, Roy; Soto, David; Stein, Timo; Lubianiker, Nitzan. The scientific study of consciousness cannot, and should not, be morally neutral. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691622111022 .  Perspectives on Psychological Science. 

Ciaunica A., Bhat A. Friston K. (forthcoming) Nested Selves: Self-Organization and Immunoceptive Inference in Prenatal Development – TopiCS  – Special Issue Developing Models of the Mind

Ciaunica, A (forthcoming). Minimal Selves in Humans and Artificial Agents. Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Ciaunica, A., Safron, A., Delafield-Butt, J. (2021), Back to square one: the bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2021, Issue 2, 2021, niab037. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab037

Ciaunica, A., McEllin, L., Kiverstein, J. et al. (2022). Zoomed out: digital media use and depersonalization experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown. Nature Sci Rep 12,3888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07657-8

Ciaunica, A. (2022). The Map, the Territory and the Cartographer – Linking the ‘Pure’ Formal Models to the ‘Murky’ Material World. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/483pw

Ciaunica, A., Seth, A., Limanowski, J., Hesp, C., & Friston, K. (2021). I overthink—therefore I am not: An Active Inference Account of Altered Sense of Self and Agency in Depersonalisation Disorder. Consciousness and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k9d2n

Ciaunica, A., & Safron, A. (accepted, in press 2022, March 13). Disintegrating and Reintegrating the Self – (In)Flexible Self-Models in Depersonalisation and Psychedelic Experiences. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mah78 In Lethaby, C & Gerrans, P. (forthcoming). Philosophy and the Psychedelic Renaissance. Oxford University Press


Preprints, under review, and in preparation:

Becattini, V., Ciaunica, A. (2023). Selfless Minds, Unlimited Bodies? Homeostatic Bodily Self-regulation in Meditative Experiences.

Ciaunica, A. (forthcoming). Proximity in Humans and Artificial Agents. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Ciaunica, A., & Schaal, B. (submitted). The First Senses: Developing Self-Awareness in Humans and Artificial Agents

Ciaunica, A., & Hamilton, A. (in prep). Linking Brain, Behaviour and Intersubjectivity: The relevance of a philosophical toolkit to advance neuroscience. European Journal of Neuroscience

Ciaunica, A., Mathew, J. M., Deroy, O., & Fairhurst, M. T. Getting in Touch with the Lost Self: Vicarious and Affective Touch in Depersonalisation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4pnyq (under review in Nature, Scientific Repports)

Ciaunica. A & Gallagher S. (in prep) . Self Consciousness and Self-Recognition in Humanoid Robots. Frontiers in Robotics.

Ferroni, F., Arcuri, E., Ardizzi, M., Chinchella, N., Gallese, V., & Ciaunica, A. (2023, May 19). Lost in time and space? Multisensory processing of peripersonal space and time perception in Depersonalisation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t8h6a

Fich, B., Tenna Doktor Olsen Tvedebrink, Ciaunica, A. Zakaria Djebbara (submitted). Architecture, emotion, and the formation of collective memory, culture, and consciousness.

Gwyther, M., Lenggenhager, B., Windt, J., Aspell, J. E., & Ciaunica, A. (2023, preprint). Living in a bad dream–examining the association between depersonalisation traits and the bodily self in waking and dreaming.

Rørvig, J.; Severs, L.; Faria, M.; Correia, F.; Oliveira, R.; Hamilton, A., Paiva, A.*; Ciaunica*, A. (in prep). Time perception and the sense of agency during human-robot interaction.

Severs, L.; Rørvig, J.; Faria, M.; Correia, F.; Oliveira, R.; Hamilton, A., Paiva, A.*; Ciaunica*, A. (in prep). Embodiment and joint agency during human-robot interaction.

Schoeller, F., Ashur, P., Larralde, J., Le Couedic, C., Mylapalli, R., Krishnanandan, K., Ciaunica, A. Miller, M. (2021, July 19, under review). Auditory feedback on proprioception increases bodily awareness. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ycdnt

Stroe, A., Ciaunica A. ( in prep). (In)Flexible Grips: Connecting the Self to Real and Virtual Bodies and Worlds. 

Wozniak, M., McEllin, L., Hohwy, J., & Ciaunica, A. (2022, April 7). Depersonalization affects self-prioritization of bodily, but not abstract self-related information. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gsfy3