The Touch and Neuropsychopharmacology Lab
Publications
Daood, M., Peled-Avron, L., Ben-Hayun, R., Nevat, M., Aharon-Peretz, J., Tomer, R., & Admon, R. (2022). Fronto-striatal connectivity patterns account for the impact of methylphenidate on choice impulsivity among healthy adults. Neuropharmacology, 216, 109190.
Peled-Avron, L., & Woolley, J. D. (2022). Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 43, 152-158.
Saporta, N*., Peled-Avron, L*., Scheele, D., Leibertz, J., Hurlemann, R., Shamay-Tsoory., S.G. (2021). Touched by loneliness – how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCs study. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 17(1), 142-150.
Peled-Avron, L., Gelbard Goren, H., Brande-Eilat, N., Dorman-Ilan, S., Segev, A., Feffer, K., Gvirts-Problovski, H., Levkovitz, Y., Barnea, Y., Lewis, Y and Tomer, R. (2021). Methylphenidate reduces orienting bias in healthy individuals. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 0269881121996884.
Peled-Avron, L., Abu-Akel, A & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2020). Exogenous effects of oxytocin in five psychiatric disorders: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and a personalized approach through the lens of the social salience hypothesis. Neuroscience and Bio-behavioral reviews, 114, 70-95.
Peled-Avron, L., Glasner, L., Gvirts, H.Z. & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2019). The role of the inferior frontal gyrus in social touch: a tDCS study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 115-121.
Oren, C., Peled-Avron, L., Shamay-Tsoory, S.G. A scent of romance: Human putative pheromone affects men's sexual cognition. (2019). Accepted for Publication Social, cognitive, affective neuroscience, 14(7), 719-726.
Peled-Avron, L., & Shamay-Tsoory, S.G. (2018). Affiliative or aggressive? The role of oxytocin in antisocial behaviour through the lens of the social salience hypothesis. Chapter 13 in the Routledge Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology edited by – Oliver C. Schultheiss and Pranjal H. Mehta.
Peled‐Avron, L., & Shamay‐Tsoory, S. G. (2018). Don't touch me! autistic traits modulate early and late ERP components during visual perception of social touch. Autism Research, 10(6), 1141-1154.
Peled-Avron, L*., Goldstein, P*., Yellinek, S*., Weissman-Fogel, I., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2017). Empathy during consoling touch is modulated by mu-rhythm: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 116, 68-74.
Peled-Avron, L., Levy-Gigi, E., Richter-Levin, G., Korem, N., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2016). The role of empathy in the neural responses to observed human social touch. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-12.
Peled-Avron, L., Perry, A., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2016). The effect of oxytocin on the anthropomorphism of touch. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 66, 159-165.
Perry, A., Rubinsten, O., Peled, L., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2013). Don't stand so close to me: A behavioral and ERP study of preferred interpersonal distance. NeuroImage, 83, 761-769.
*Equal contribution