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MEDIA New preprint reveals how alpha oscillations shape bodily self-perception

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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17 February, 2025
MEDIA New Preprint: How consciousness shapes our sense of body

A new OSF preprint explores the relationship between conscious awareness and bodily self-perception.

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1 January, 2025
THE LAB/PEOPLE Lab dinner with traditional Swedish Christmas Smörgåsboard (“julbord”) at restaurant Kung Carl, Stockholm
13 December, 2024
POSITION Our lab is seeking a new PhD student to join our team!

The project focuses on full-body bodily illusions and the sense of body ownership.
Learn more and apply here.

22 November, 2024
GRANTS Renzo Lanfranco is awarded a project grant from the Swedish Research Council


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7 November, 2024
MEDIA Our study on the rubber hand illusion and nociception, led by Sara Coppi, is now out in PAIN.

Discover how nociceptive signals contribute to bodily awareness by reading the press release link, article link, and commentary link

16 October, 2024
GRANTS Renzo Lanfranco is awarded a postdoctoral grant from StratNeuro!

Renzo Lanfranco is awarded 800 000 SEK for his project: "Becoming aware of our own body: unravelling the computational and neural mechanisms of bodily-self awareness".

Read more here.

10 September, 2024
ANNIVERSARY 20 years since an influential neuroimaging study was published in Science

20 years ago, Henrik Ehrsson, Charles Spence, and Richard Passingham published a landmark study showing how the premotor and parietal cortex drive the sense of body ownership through multisensory integration in the rubber hand illusion.

Link to Ehrsson et al (2004) Science  

6 August, 2024
CONFERENCE Renzo gave a talk at ESCAN conference

Renzo gave a talk at the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) conference in Ghent, Belgium.

25 May, 2024
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