renzo.lanfranco@ki.se
(+46) 8 524 87 989
Karolinska Institutet, Biomedicum, D4
Department of Neuroscience
Solnavägen 9
171 65 Solna, Sweden
Our senses are constantly bombarded with information from both the external world and our own bodies. How does the brain process all this input to form a coherent and meaningful subjective experience?
Renzo’s research explores consciousness, high-level perception, and perceptual awareness. His work focuses on the computational and neural mechanisms underlying the sense of body ownership, and on the role of conscious awareness in shaping the sense of self. He employs psychophysics, computational modelling, machine learning, psychophysiology, and EEG methods to address these questions.
Renzo completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. He has since held postdoctoral positions in the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and at the Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences at Université libre de Bruxelles. Renzo was a postdoc in the Brain, Body, and Self Lab, from 2020 to 2025 and is currently an honorary member of the lab and Principal Researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, where he is now formally based (click here to read more).
He was also trained in cognitive behavioural therapy and clinical psychology in Chile.
Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Rabagliati H., Cleeremans A., Carmel D. (2024) “Minimal exposure durations reveal visual processing priorities for different stimulus attributes” Nature Communications PDF
Lanfranco RC., Katyal S., Hägerdal A., Luan X., Nos V., Ehrsson HH. (2025) “Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Accepted). PDF
Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Ehrsson HH. (2023) “Quantifying body ownership information processing and perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion” Cognition PDF
Lanfranco RC., Rivera-Rei A., Huepe D., Ibanez A., Canales-Johnson A (2021) “Beyond imagination: Hypnotic visual hallucination induces greater lateralised brain activity than visual imagery” NeuroImage PDF