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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".
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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
Renzo gave a talk at the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) conference in Ghent, Belgium.
A study by Sara Coppi, Henrik Ehrsson, and Karin Jensen (Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet) demonstrates that the rubber hand illusion can be triggered through laser activation of nociceptive C and Aδ fibers.
Read the article published in Pain.
Renzo gave a talk at the School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, in Santiago, Chile.
Konstantina Kilten's methodological tour-de-force on the brain mechanisms of relearning sensory delays in self-generated touch has been published in Communications Biology.
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Dominika Radziun, a former PhD student has recently been awarded one of the five Glushko Dissertation Prizes for her doctoral thesis entitled ”Body perception and brain plasticity in blind and sighted individuals”.
Read more at Karolinska Institutet
Press Release from The Cognitive Science Society
Dominikas Doctoral Theses while at Ehrsson Lab
Alumni / Dominika Radziun at Ehrsson lab