Arran Reader, PhD
MSCA EF Seal of Excellence VINNOVA Fellowship

Research

When we move to interact with the world, we do so with a clear sensation that the body we see before us is our own. However, the exact role that body ownership plays in guiding movement is yet to be established. Arran's research in the Brain, Body and Self Laboratory focuses on the link between the sense of body ownership and the motor system, using motion-tracking, grip force recording, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Arran has previously worked on the imitation of meaningful and meaningless actions during his PhD at the University of Reading (UK). Since August 2020, Arran has been a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. His new email is arran.reader @ stir.ac.uk. Click here and here to read more.

Sample Publications

Reader, A.T., Ehrsson HH. (2019). Weakening the subjective sensation of own hand ownership does not interfere with rapid finger movements. PLOS ONE (2019) 14(10): e0223580. PDF

Reader, A.T., & Holmes, N.P. (2019). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left posterior middle temporal gyrus reduces wrist velocity during emblematic hand gesture imitation. Brain Topography, 32(2), 332-341. PDF

Reader, A.T., Rao, V.M., Christakou, A., & Holmes, N.P. (2018). A kinematic examination of dual-route processing for action imitation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(8), 2069-2083. PDF

Reader, A.T., & Holmes, N.P. (2018). The left ventral premotor cortex is involved in hand shaping for intransitive gestures: evidence from a two-person imitation experiment. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 181356. PDF

Reader, A.T., & Holmes, N.P. (2016). Examining ecological validity in social interaction: problems of visual fidelity, gaze, and social potential. Culture and Brain, 4(2), 134-146. PDF

Contact

Arran Reader, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institutet, Biomedicum
Solnavägen 9, 171 65 Solna, Sweden

email: arran.reader @ ki.se
office phone: (+46) 8 524 87 217