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!

[2012-27-04] Blind individuals appear to be "immune" to the rubber hand illusion, a recent study in PLoS ONE reports. Click here to learn more.

[2012-10-04] The out-of-body illusion and body-swap illusions are featured in a new documentary, broadcasted in France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Cyprus, Finland, and Sweden. Click here to watch the Swedish video (41.30 into the film).

[2011-12-07] Nature Magazine writes a feature article on Dr. Henrik Ehrsson featuring several of the recent illusions from our lab. Click here to read.
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