Publications

2023

Hasenack, B., Meijer, L.L., Van Harmelen, A., Overvliet, K.E., Keizer, A. (2023). Longing for touch post-COVID-19: current observations and future directions. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 22131, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49113-1.

Bijsterbosch, J.M., Hasenack, B., Van Rooijen, B., Sternheim, L.C., Boelen, P.A., Dijkerman, H.C., Keizer, A. (2023). Intolerable feelings of uncertainty within the body: Associations between interoceptive awareness, intolerenace of uncertainty, and body dissatisfaction. Journal of Adolescence, 95(8), 1678-1688, https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12237.

Engel, M.M., Woertman, E.M., Dijkerman, H.C., Keizer, A. (2023). Functionality appreciation is associated with improvements in positive and negative body image in patients with eating disorder and following recovery. Journal of Eating Disoders, 11(1), 179, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00903-y.

De Jong, J.R., Dijkerman, H.C., Keizer, A. (2023). Autistic traits related to the importance of interpersonal touch and appreciation of observed touch during COVID-19 social distancing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(18), 6738, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20186738.

A Dima, L., Jung, M.M., Golmohammadi, L., Huisman, G., Lancel, K., Keizer, A., Parisi, D.,  van Erp, J. (2023). Toolkit for exploring ethical aspects of digital social and affective touch interactions. IEEE World Haptics 2023 conference, Delft, Netherlands.

Keizer, A. & Dijkerman, H.C. (2023). Motor skills and action. In: R. Kessels, E. Van den Berg, R. Ponds, J. Spikman, M. Van Zandvoort, Clinical Neuropsychology. Amsterdam: Boom.

Meijer, L.L., Hasenack, B., Kamps, J.C.C., Mahon, A., Titone, G., Dijkerman. H.C., & Keizer, A. (2023). Longing for touch and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(5), 3855, doi:10.3390/ijerph20053855.

2022

Meijer, L.L., Hasenack, B., Kamps, J.C.C., Mahon, A., Titone, G., Dijkerman. H.C., & Keizer, A. (2022). Huidhonger: de COVID-19 pandemie en de impact op interpersoonlijk fysiek contact. Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie, 17, 3, 145-156.

Behrens, S.C., Streuber, S., Keizer, A., Giel, K.E. (2022). How immersive virtual reality can become a key tool to advance research and psychotherapy of eating and weight disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry, doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1011620.

Keizer, A. & Engel, M.M. (2022). Body representation in anorexia nervosa. In: A.J.T. Alsmith, M.R. Longo, The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness. Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis.

Keizer, A. & Dijkerman, H.C. (2022). Motoriek en actie. In: R. Kessels, E. Van den Berg, R. Ponds, J. Spikman, M. Van Zandvoort, Klinische neuropsychologie. Amsterdam: Boom.

Bijsterbosch, J.M., Keizer, A., Boelen, P.A., Van den Brink, F., Sternheim, L.C. (2022). Understanding relations between intolerance of uncertainty and body checking and body avoiding in anorexia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 10, 122.

Engel, M.M., Ainley, V., Tsakiris, M., Dijkerman, H.C., Keizer, A. (2022). Sense of agency during and following recovery from anorexia nervosa. Consciousness and Cognition, 103, 103369.

Meijer, L.L,, Hasenack, B., Kamps, J.C.C., Mahon, A., Titone, G., Dijkerman, H.C. & Keizer, A. (2022). Affective touch perception and longing for touch during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 12, 3887.

Keizer, A., Heijman, J.O., Dijkerman, H.C. (2022). Do transdiagnostic factors influence affective touch perception in psychiatric populations? Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, 43, 125-130.

2021

Bijsterbosch, J.M., Keizer, A., Boelen, P.A., Van den Brink, F., Danner, U.N., Sternheim, L.C. (2021). How deep is your thought? The relations between intolerance of uncertainty, worry and weight and shape concerns in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 164.

Engel, M.M., Gadsby, S., Corcoran, A.W., Keizer, A., Dijkerman, H.C., Hohwy, J. (2021). Waiting longer, feeling fatter: Effects of response delay on tactile distance estimation and confidence in females with anorexia nervosa. Brain and Behavior, doi: 10.1002/brb3.2422.

Hasenack, B. Sternheim, L., Bijsterbosch, J., Keizer, A. (2021). The link between anxiety and assessment of body attitudes and body size estimation in anorexia nervosa. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, doi.org/10.1177/2043808721997632.

2020

Beltrán, M.I., Dijkerman, H.C., Keizer, A. (2020). Affective touch experience across the lifespan: Development of the Tactile Biography questionnaire and the mediating role of attachment style. Plos One, 15, e0241041.

Engel, M.M., Van Denderen, K., Bakker, A.R., Corcoran, A.W., Keizer, A., Dijkerman, H.C. (2020). Anorexia nervosa and the size-weight illusion: No evidence of impaired visual-haptic object integration. Plose One, 15, e0237421.

Stone, K.D., Kornblad, C.A.E., Engel, M.M., Dijkerman, H.C., Blom, R.M., Keizer, A. (2020). Lower limb peripersonal space and the desire to amputate a leg. Psychological Research, doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01316-1.

Stone, K.D., Kornblad, C.A.E., Engel, M.M., Dijkerman, H.C., Blom, R.M., Keizer, A. (2020). An investigation of lower limb represenations underlying vision, touch, and proprioception in body integrity identity disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00015.

2019

Valtakari, N.V., Hooge, I.T.C., Benjamins, J.S., Keizer, A. (2019). An eye-tracking approach to autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR): The physiology and nature of tingles in relation to the pupil. Plos One, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226692.

Keizer, A., Chang, T.H., O’Mahony, C.J., Schaap, N.S., Stone, K.D. (2019). Individuals who experience autonomous sensory meridian response have higher levels of sensory suggestibility. Perception, doi: 10.1177/0301006619891913.

Scarpina, F., Serino, S., Keizer, A., Chirico, A., Scacchi, S., Castelnuovo, G., Maura, A., Riva, G. (2019). The effect of a virtual-reality full-body illusion on body representation in obesity. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8, doi: 10.3390/jcm8091330.

Stone, K.D., Dijkerman, H.C., Bekrater-Bodmann, R., Keizer, A. (2019). Mental rotation of feet in individuals with body integrity identity disorder, lower-limb amputees, and normally-limbed controls. Plos One, 14, e0221105.

2018

Keizer, A., Engel, M.M., Bonekamp, J., Van Elburg, A. (2018). Hoop training: A pilot study assessing the effectiveness of a multisensory approach to treatment of body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-018-0585-z.

Smit, M., Brummelman, J.T.H., Keizer, A., Van der Smagt, M.J., Dijkerman, H.C., Van der Ham, I.J.M (2018). Body ownership and the absence of touch: Approaching the rubber hand inside and ouside peri-hand space. Experimental Brain Research, doi.org/10.1007/s00221-018-5361-9.

Mergen, J., Keizer, A., Koelkebeck, K., Van den Heuvel, M.R.C., Wagner, H. (2018). Women with anorexia nervosa do not show altered tactile localization compared to healthy controls. Psychiatry Research, 267, 446-454

Stone, K.D., Bullock, F., Keizer, A., Dijkerman, H.C. (2018). The disappearing limb trick and the role of sensory suggestibility in illusion experience. Neuropsychologia, 117, 418-427.

Sinoo, C., Van der Pal, S., Blanson Henkemans, O.A., Keizer, A., Bierman, B.P.B., Looije, R., Neerincx, M.A. (2018). Friendship with a robot: Children’s perception of similarity between a robot’s physical and virtual embodiment that supports diabetes self-management. Patient Education and Counseling, 101, 1248-1255.

Keizer, A. (2018). Innovatie met betrekking tot het lichaamsbeeld. In G. Noordenbos & A. Van Elburg (red.), Handboek eetstoornissen. Utrecht: De Tijdstroom.

Serino, S., Scarpina, F., Dakanalis, A., Keizer, A., Pedroli, E., Castelnuovo, G., Chirico, A., Catallo, V., di Lernia, D., Giuseppe, R. (2018). The role of age on multisensory bodily experience: An experimental study with a virtual reality full-body illusion. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 21, 304-310.

Stone, K.D., Keizer, A., Dijkerman, H.C. (2018). The influence of vision, touch, and proprioception on body representation of the lower limbs. Acta Psychologica, 185, 22-32.

Cuperus, A.A., Keizer, A., Evers, A.W.M., Van den Houten, M.M.L, Teijink, J.A.W., Van der Ham, I.J.M. (2018). Manipulating spatial distance in virtual reality: Effects on treadmill walking performance in patients with intermittent claudication. Computers in Human Behaviour, 79, 211-216.

Stone, K.D., Kandula, M., Keizer, A., Dijkerman, H.C. (2018). Peripersonal space boundaries around the lower limbs. Eperimental Brain Research, 236, 161-173.

2017

Engel, M.M., Keizer, A. (2017). Body representation disturbances in visual perception and affordance perception persist in eating disorder patients after completing treatment. Scientific Reports, 7, 16184.

Keizer, A., De Jong, J.R., Bartlema, L., Dijkerman, H.C. (2017). Visual perception of the arm manipulates the experienced pleasantness of touch. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.09.004.

De Haan, A.M., Van Stralen, H.E., Smit, M., Keizer, A., Van der Stigchel, S., Dijkerman, H.C. (2017). No consistent cooling of the real hand in the rubber hand illusion. Acta Psychologica, 179, 68-77.

De Jong, J.R., Keizer, A., Engel, M.M., Dijkerman, H.C. (2017). Does affective touch influence the Virtual Reality full-body illusion? Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1781-1791.

2016

Keizer, A., Van Elburg, A., Helms, R., and Dijkerman, C. (2016). A virtual reality full body illusion improves body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa. Plos One, 11, e0263921.

Serino, S., Scarpina, F., Keizer, A., Pedroli, El, Dakanalis, A., Castelnuovo, G., Chirico, A., Novelli, M., and Riva, G. (2016). A novel technique for improving bodily experience in a non-operable super–super obesity case. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 837.

2015

Serino, S., Pedroli, E., Keizer, A., Triberti, S., Dakanalis, A., Pallavicini, F., Chirico, Riva, G. (2015). Virtual Reality Body Swapping: A tool for modifying the allocentric memory of the body. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 19, 127-133.

Keizer, A., Dijkerman, H.C., Van Elburg, A., Postma, A. & Smeets, M.A.M. (2015). Lichaamsbeleving 2.0 – Een neurowetenschappelijke kijk op lichaamsbeleving in anorexia nervosa. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie, 10, 12-26.

2014

Keizer, A., Smeets, M.A.M., Postma, A., Van Elburg, A. & Dijkerman, H.C. (2014). Does the experience of ownership over a rubber hand change body size experience in anorexia nervosa patients? Neuropsychologia, 62, 26-37

2013

Keizer, A., De Bruijn, S.E.M., Smeets, M.A.M., Dijkerman, H.C. & Postma, A. (2013). Walking through apertures: Do you know what you are doing during body scaled action? Perception, 42, 583-585.

Keizer, A., Smeets, M.A.M., Dijkerman, H.C., Uzunbajakau, S.A., Van Elburg, A. & Postma, A. (2013). Too fat to fit through the door: First evidence for disturbed body-scaled action in anorexia nervosa during locomotion. Plos One, 8, E64602.

2012

Keizer, A., Smeets, M.A.M., Dijkerman, H.C., Van Elburg, A., & Postma, A. (2012). Aberrant somatosensory perception in Anorexia Nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 200, 530-537.

2011

Keizer, A., Smeets, M.A.M., Dijkerman, H.C., Van den Hout, M., Klugkist, I., Van Elburg, A. & Postma, A. (2011). Tactile body image disturbances in anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 190, 115-120.