Four members of the lab — Sara Coppi, Heather Iriye, Renzo Lanfranco, and Mariano D'Angelo — participated in the ICON 2025 symposium “Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research” in Porto, which was organized by Sara Coppi.
In a new study led by Pawel Tacikowski, it is demonstrated that reducing body ownership through a perceptual illusion leads to fragmentation in self-concept. This connection between the bodily and conceptual self may shed light on dissociative experiences and mental health.
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A new study published in iScience, led by Sara Coppi, demonstrates that during the classic rubber hand illusion, pain is mislocalized toward the rubber hand. Just as touch and proprioception are transferred to the rubber hand, this “nociceptive drift” reveals that pain—like other senses—is integrated into the bodily self.
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In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Ryu Ohata and Henrik Ehrsson show that illusory body ownership amplifies subjective fear in response to nearby fear-relevant animals (spiders) and increases fear of safety-margin violations. These findings offer new insights into the interaction between body ownership and emotional responses to spatially proximal threat events.
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In a preprint, we demonstrate that alpha oscillation frequency plays a crucial role in integrating self-related sensory information into body ownership perception, as well as in distinguishing this bodily self from external sensory events.
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A new OSF preprint explores the relationship between conscious awareness and bodily self-perception.
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The project focuses on full-body bodily illusions and the sense of body ownership.
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