About the Brain, Body and Self Laboratory
Welcome to the Brain, Body and Self Laboratory home page. We use neuroimaging, neurostimulation, and behavioral methods to study how we come to experience our own body as an object distinct from the environment. Our aim is to characterize the perceptual rules and brain mechanisms whereby a central representation of one's own body is constructed by the integration of signals from the different sensory modalities (vision, touch, proprioception). We also investigate how information from the body influences how we perceive the external world and how we think, feel and remember ourselves. Finally, we study how the human body can be extended by machines and artificial limb devices to design, for example, advanced prosthetic limbs that feel more like real limbs.

News!

[2011-12-07] Nature Magazine covers some of the work in the lab and dubs Henrik a 'Master of Illusion'. Click here to read.

[2011-11-15] "Härnkontoret" visits our lab and creates "giant hot dog illusion". Click here to see.

[2011-11-01] A new study describes how pain can be reduced by pulling phantom-limbs out of the stump in amputees! Click here for paper.
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