Valeria Petkova, MSc PhD
(Alumnus)

Research

Dr. Valeria Petkova is currently a postdoc in Daniel Senkowski's lab at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité, University Medicine Berlin. During her time here in the Brain, Body & Self Lab she used state of the art neuroimaging techniques and behavioral methods to study the perceptual and neural underpinnings of body ownership. Dr. Petkova's PhD Thesis title was, "Do I need a body to know who I am? Neural Mechanisms of body ownership"--click here for pdf.

Sample Publications

Petkova, V.I., Björnsdotter M., Gentile G., Jonsson T., Li T.Q., & Ehrsson H.H. From part to whole-body ownership in the multisensory brain. Current Biology (2011) 21 1-5. PDF

Petkova, V.I. & Ehrsson, H.H. If I were you: perceptual illusion of body swapping. PLoS One (2008), 3(12):e3832, Epub 2008 Dec 3 PDF

Petkova, V.I., & Ehrsson, H. H. Body self-perception. McGraw-Hill 2010 Yearbook of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill Professional, New York (2010), 50-53 PDF

Petkova V.I., Khoshnevis, M. and Ehrsson, H.H., The perspective matters! Multisensory integration in ego-centric reference frames determines full body ownership. Front. Psychology (2011), 2:35 PDF

Contact

Valeria Petkova, MSc PhD
PhD Alumnus
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Charité, University Medicine Berlin
Berlin, Germany

email: Valeria.Petkova @ charite.de