Publications

Preprints

Davidson, B.C., Turner, G., Palminteri, S., Tomova, L., Eichstaedt, J., Salecha, A., Subrahmanya, S., Gunschera, L.J., Orben, A. (2025). Prolonged Social Isolation is Associated with Increased Behavioural Sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on Social Media.

PsyArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/65tdz_v1

Chang, L.J., Li, X., Nguyen, K., Ranger, M., Begunova, L., Chen, P.-H. A., Castrellon, J.J., Samenez-Larkin, G.R., Fareri, D.S., Delgado, M.R., Tomova, L. (2022). A neural signature of reward.

BioRXiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.23.504939

Peer-reviewed papers

2025

Thomas, K, Towner, E, Tomova, L, Chierchia, G & Blakemore, S-J. (in press). Social Isolation Impacts Risk Perception but not Peer Influence in Mid-Adolescence. Acta Psychologica

Tomova, L., Towner, E., Thomas, K., Zhang, L., Palminteri, S., Blakemore, S-J. (2025). Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents. Communications Psychology. 3: 135.

2024

Towner, E., Thomas, K., Tomova, L.*, Blakemore, S-J.* (2024). Increased threat learning after social isolation in human adolescents. Royal Society Open Science. 11: 240101. *joint senior authors

2023

Stijovic, A. *, Forbes, P.A.G. *, Tomova, L., Skoluda, N., Feneberg, A.A.C., Piperno, G., Pronizius, E., Nater, U.M., Lamm, C., Silani, G.(2023). Disrupted social homeostasis? Consistent effects of social isolation on affect and motivation in both laboratory experiments and field observations. Psychological Science, 34(5), 537-551. *joint first authors

2022

Towner, E.; Tomova, L.; Ladensack, D.; Chu, K.; Callaghan, B. (2022). Virtual Social Interaction and Loneliness Among Emerging Adults Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology,3, 100058.

Towner, E., Grint, J., Levy, T., Blakemore, S-J. & Tomova, L. (2022). Revealing the self in a digital world: A systematic review of adolescent online and offline self-disclosure. Current Opinion in Psychology, 45, 101309.

2021

Tomova, L., Andrews, J., Blakemore, SJ. (2021). The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence. Developmental Review,61, 100981.

Tomova, L., Tye, K., Saxe, R. (2021). The neuroscience of unmet social needs. Social Neuroscience, 16(3), 221-231

2020

Tomova, L., Wang, K. L., Thompson, T., Matthews, G. A., Takahashi, A., Tye, K. M., Saxe, R. (2020). Acute social isolation causes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger. Nature Neuroscience, 23,1597-1605.

Orben, A.*, Tomova, L.*, Blakemore, SJ. (2020). The effects of social deprivation on adolescent social development and mental health. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 4 (8), 634-640. * joint first authors

Tomova, L., Saxe, R., Kloebl, M., Lanzenberger, R., Lamm, C. (2020). Acute stress alters neural patterns of value representation for others. Neuroimage, 209:116497.

2019

Tomova, L., Heinrichs, M., Lamm, C. (2019). The other and me: Effects of oxytocin on self-other distinction. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 136, 49-53.

2018

Tomova, L., Pessoa, L. (2018). Information about peer choices shapes human risky decision-making. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 5129.

2017

Tomova, L., Majdandžić, J., Hummer, A.,Windischberger, C., Heinrichs, M., Lamm, C. (2017). Increased neural responses to empathy for pain might explain how acute stress increases prosociality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12 (3), 401-408.

Tik, M., Hoffmann, A., Sladky, R., Tomova, L.,Hummer, A., Navarro de Lara, L., Biswal, B., Bukowski, H., Pripfl, J., Lamm, C., Windischberger, C. (2017). Towards understanding rTMS mechanisms of action: Stimulation of the DLPFC causes network-specific increase in functional connectivity. Neuroimage, 162, 289-296.

2014

Tomova, L., von Dawans, B., Heinrichs, M., Silani, G., Lamm, C. (2014). Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 43, 95-104.

Pripfl, J. *, Tomova, L.*,Riecansky, I., Lamm, C. (2014). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex decreases both cue-induced nicotine craving and EEG delta frequency mean power. Brain Stimulation, 7(2), 226-233. * joint first authors

2013

Riecansky, I., Tomova, L.,Katina, S., Bauer, H., Fischmeister, F., Lamm, C. (2013). Visual image retention does not contribute to modulation of event-related potentials by mental rotation. Brain and Cognition, 83, 163-170.

Book Chapters

Lamm, C., Tomova, L. (2018). The neural bases of empathy in humans. In: Meyza, K., Knapska, E (Eds.), Neural correlates of empathy – from rodent to man (pp. 25-36). Amsterdam: Elsevier.