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Kalliopi Ioumpa

Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Verified email at nin.knaw.nl
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Intracranial human recordings reveal association between neural activity and perceived intensity for the pain of others in the insula

E Soyman, R Bruls, K Ioumpa, L Müller-Pinzler, S Gallo… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Based on neuroimaging data, the insula is considered important for people to empathize
with the pain of others. Here, we present intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) …

[HTML][HTML] Obeying orders reduces vicarious brain activation towards victims' pain

EA Caspar, K Ioumpa, C Keysers, V Gazzola - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Past historical events and experimental research have shown complying with the orders
from an authority has a strong impact on people's behaviour. However, the mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Neuro-computational mechanisms and individual biases in action-outcome learning under moral conflict

L Fornari, K Ioumpa, AD Nostro, NJ Evans… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Learning to predict action outcomes in morally conflicting situations is essential for social
decision-making but poorly understood. Here we tested which forms of Reinforcement …

Psychological wellbeing during the global COVID-19 outbreak

…, P Figueras, A Kaziboni, A Whiston, K Ioumpa… - 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Around the globe, people are living under the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many
are experiencing curtailed opportunities for sustainable livelihoods and real-world social …

Commanding or being a simple intermediary: how does it affect moral behavior and related brain mechanisms?

EA Caspar, K Ioumpa, I Arnaldo, L Di Angelis… - ENeuro, 2022 - eneuro.org
Psychology and neuroscience research have shown that fractioning operations among
several individuals along a hierarchical chain allows diffusing responsibility between …

Emotional experiences and psychological well-being in 51 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

…, P Figueras, A Kaziboni, A Whiston, K Ioumpa… - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges to psychological well-being, but how can we
predict when people suffer or cope during sustained stress? Here, we test the prediction that …

Neural mechanisms of costly helping in the general population and mirror-pain synesthetes

K Ioumpa, S Gallo, C Keysers, V Gazzola - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Helping others often comes with a cost to ourselves. It has been argued that experiencing
the pain of others motivates helping. Here we investigate how individuals that report …

Enhanced self-reported affect and prosocial behaviour without differential physiological responses in mirror-sensory synaesthesia

K Ioumpa, SA Graham, T Clausner… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mirror-sensory synaesthetes mirror the pain or touch that they observe in other people on
their own bodies. This type of synaesthesia has been associated with enhanced empathy. We …

Intracortical human recordings reveal intensity coding for the pain of others in the insula

E Soyman, R Bruls, K Ioumpa, L Müller-Pinzler, S Gallo… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Based on neuroimaging data, the insula is considered important for people to empathize with
the pain of others, whether that pain is perceived through facial expressions or the sight of …

Endogenous opioid receptor system mediates costly altruism in the human brain

J Chen, V Putkinen, K Seppälä, J Hirvonen, K Ioumpa… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Functional neuroimaging studies suggest that a large-scale brain network transforms others'
pain into its vicarious representation in the observer, potentially modulating helping …