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!

[2013-04-11] A new illusion where people experience having an invisible hand is reported in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Click here to read.

[2013-04-03] A new version of mirror therapy promises relief from phantom limb pain in amputees. Click here to read.

[2012-16-10] A new study in The Journal of Neuroscience describes how the brain represents the space around our body. Click here to read.

[2012-25-07] The Barbie-doll illusion is featured on the American TV series "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman". Click here to have a look.
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