Dr. Björnsdotter is currently conducting postdocs in Singapore, Yale, and other places. During Dr. Björnsdotter's time here in the BBS lab as a postdoctoral fellow her research interests included developing and applying machine learning methods for analysis of brain activity patterns.
India Morrison, Malin Björnsdotter & Håkan Olausson, Vicarious responses to social touch in posterior insular cortex are tuned to pleasant caressing speeds, Journal of Neuroscience, in press.
Malin Björnsdotter & Johan Wessberg, Clustered sampling improves random subspace brain mapping, Pattern Recognition, in press.
Petkova, V.I., Björnsdotter M., Gentile G., Jonsson T., Li T.Q., & Ehrsson H.H. From part to whole-body ownership in the multisensory brain. Current Biology (2011) 21 1-5. PDF
Malin Björnsdotter, India Morrison & Håkan Olausson, Feeling good: on the role of C fiber-mediated touch in interoception, Exp Brain Res, 2010, 207(3-4):149-55 (Abstract, PMID: 20963582)
Malin Björnsdotter, Karin Rylander & Johan Wessberg, A Monte Carlo method for locally multivariate brain mapping., Neuroimage, 2010 (in print) (Abstract, PMID: 20674749)
Malin Björnsdotter, Line Löken, Håkan Olausson, Åke Vallbo & Johan Wessberg, Somatotopic organization of gentle touch processing in the posterior insular cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, 2009, 29(29):9314-9320; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0400-09.2009 (Abstract, PMID: 19625521)