A group of students recently explored The Cell’s new educational programme, with KI researcher Henrik Ehrsson’s work on body perception featured throughout their visit. In the exhibition Me, You & We – Exploring Human Behaviour, the class encountered interactive pieces that introduce how we experience ourselves. The visit continued in The Cell’s lab, where the students watched a film of Ehrsson explaining the neuroscience of the bodily self and the principles behind the well-known rubber hand illusion. Guided by their teacher, they tested the illusion themselves—experiencing how readily the brain can accept an artificial hand as its own.
Click here to read more on Karolinska Institutet’s website, and here to explore The Cell’s museum page.