In a new preprint, we report how the sense of body ownership in the rubber hand illusion can be quantitatively predicted by uncertainty-based inference of a common cause. This study is a collaboration with Prof. Wei Ji Ma at New York University.
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We welcome the third guest speaker of the Cognitive Neuroscience Club, Dr. Gavin Buckingham (University of Exeter, UK), who will present on "Grasping the virtual world."
Laura gives the talk "The role of skin-mediated interoceptive signals in the sense of body ownership" at the Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience lab, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. The talk was given upon invitation by Professor Salvatore Maria Aglioti.
We welcome the second guest speaker of the Cognitive Neuroscience Club, Dr. Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry (KU Leuven, Belgium), who will present on "Sensory and motor functions that are preserved with aging."
Laura gives the invited talk "Interoceptive contributions to the sense of body ownership" as part of the Cognitive-Neuro Departmental Seminars at the University of Essex, United Kingdom.
Dr. Lanfranco was awarded his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
A new psychophysics study published in Cognition investigates the integration of temporally precise sensory predictions and afferent tactile feedback in the rubber hand illusion.
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Dr. Ryu Ohata starts as a postdoc in the lab. Dr. Ohata previously conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Imamizu at the Department of Psychology, University of Tokyo, Japan.
We welcome the first guest speaker of the Cognitive Neuroscience Club, Dr. Ella Striem-Amit (Georgetown University, USA), who will present on "Sensorimotor-independent brain representations in association cortices."