Body Representation Network – BRNet

📢 Exciting Announcement! Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨ 🔍 Explore this timely and important topic. 📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026. 🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids

@multisensoryres.bsky.social is pleased to announce a special issue, in collaboration with the @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social, on multisensory mechanisms involved in constructing and deconstructing body representations. 📅 Submission deadline: Friday 2 October 2026 See full Call for Papers below.

📢 **Programme Update & Registrations Open!** We’re excited to share that tentative programme 🎉 Those who expressed interest in the social dinner will be contacted via email with further details. Seating is limited and first come, first served, based on registration! We’re excited to see you!

🧠 The brain doesn’t just feel the body—it already knows it. Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard 📅 April 15th | Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great news! 📢 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 6th 2026. If you were still finalising your work, this is the perfect opportunity to submit and share your research. Don’t miss out - we’re looking forward to seeing your abstracts!

🎉 BRNet ECR Pioneer Award winner 🎉 Congrats to Dr Valeria Peviani 🏆 A postdoc at the Donders Institute & UKE Hamburg, Valeria’s work explores how body perception emerged from multisensory signals, combining computational modelling, psychophysics & electrophysiology. 👏 Well deserved!

Altered body representations are central to many neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. At the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting, we’ll explore these questions under the theme “The Uncanny Body.” Poster deadline: 20.02.2026 Registration: 30.03.2026 bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...

Happy holidays! #Holiday reminder: you can subscribe to our newsletter to hear more about the upcoming #BRNet #event

Not long to go now until the submission deadline for the BRNet ECR award so get your nominations in! Link to details here: bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-... @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Beyond Likert scales: We introduce a novel self-report method for measuring RHI strength using inverse multidimensional scaling. Ownership scores emerge from arrangements of bodily experiences in psychological bodily space as distances between RHI and baseline cases of no and full body ownership.

✨ Hybrid Event Alert! The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏 For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️ www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...

Where & how in the body do you feel political disgust? 
 What about hope? ..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?

 🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪

#embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

My clinical trial, PGD-psi: psilocybin for prolonged grief, is live 🤩! First screening done, several more booked. The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #grief #psychedelics #psilocybin

Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought

D-4 before our next online seminar! Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #body #touch #interoception #perception #pregnancy

🚨Do you want to join our online seminars? Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa! Register to join, it’s free 🤓 #somatosensation #interoception #sensory #body #science #neuroscience docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You’re now breathing manually 🌬️ What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing? In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇

Major news! Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation: Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al Thread 👇 osf.io/preprints/os...

Case study: Brain–Body Biofeedback Platform How can we capture the complexity of brain–body interaction during natural tasks? Together with @maastrichtu.bsky.social ,we developed a mobile system for synchronized EEG, ECG, voice & event markers — real-time, modular, and research-ready. #DigitalHealth

[Highlight of the Month] Hermann et al. Brain-heart interactions are associated with mortality and acute encephalopathy in ICU patients with severe COVID-19. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;175:2110745. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements

If you have publications that are relevant for body representation research, tag us! We want to know and read you! 🤓 #research #bodyrepresentation #body #bodilyself #computational #neuroscience #bodilysignals

Like our new looks? 😉 BRNet has a new logo. Contest winner Denise Cadete said her concept featured an “ambiguos silhouette framed like a picture, as an abstraction of representation itself, with the physical body and it’s representation”

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e

Paula C. Salamone @paulasalamone.bsky.social presenting her talk "Brain-spinal alterations of self-produced sensations in psychosis".

Brilliant time at BRNet 2025 - always grateful for such a great community of body researchers! Inspiring chats with old and new friends & going home with many exciting new ideas :) Here's my poster on children's body map accuracy 🕺 Thank you @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social !

What a lovely 3 days in Utrecht for #BRNet2025. Thanks everyone for the thought-provoking talks and chats. I think the computational modelling theme for this year was spot-on, congrats to the organisers @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social ! Looking forward to seeing some of you again at #IMRF in Durham!

On my way home after an amazing #BRNet2025 in Utrecht. Such a wonderful community with excellent research. I can’t wait until next year! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Do you Like our new BRNet logo 🎉 #BRNet2025

Congrats to our poster winner Ziliang Xiong on ticklish sensations of humans 🎉 #BRNet2025

Next talk: Paula Salamone on bodily self alterations in Psychosis at #brain and #spine. At #BRNet2025

Next at #BRNet: short talks, starting with Reinoud Kaldewaij on TMS treatment for altered body image in patients with Anorexia

🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025 🗣️Presenting Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University) #body #bodyrepresentation #computationalneurosciences

Discussing our results on brain-heart interactions during motor imagery in brain-computer interfaces, at @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social in lovely Utrecht 🇳🇱

Great talk by Matej Hoffman starting off Day 2 of #BRNet2025. Really exciting to see our BOLDkids research on congenital limb difference mentioned as well! Also - what an amazing venue 😊

Our first #ECR #award winner Jean-Paul Noel is presenting now self-location research at #BRNet2025 👏🏼👏🏼

It’s time to listen to Dennis Larsson talk about #heartbeat sensations in #autism at #BRNet2025 🧠🫀

More short talks at #BRNet2025. Valeria C. Peviani from Donders Institute starting to talk about her EEG study! 🧠

Having a great time in Utrecht at #BRNet2025! Today, our very talented postdoc @celiafoster.bsky.social and amazing PhD student Ema Jugovic presented their posters. Really great work showcasing our new Third Thumb studies 🧠

🤓Starting our afternoon short talk session. Here Alice Rossi Sebastiano opening this session 🙌🏼 at #BRNet2025

🤩Did you vote for your favorite poster? #BRNet2025

On my way to Utrecht for #BRnet2025! Excited to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.

Here in beautiful Utrecht for the first time at #BRNet2025, ready to present our poster on co-production in body representation research today!

On my way to #BRNet2025 !!! So many great research to learn more about 🤩 (And very happy to be able to go there by train 🛤️)

Can #BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? If you're in Utrecht in the next few days and even if you're not coming, feel free to share and, most of all, comment! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social thomaschazelle.fr/en/the-carto...

So excited to welcome so many brilliant researchers to the Netherlands for #BRNet2025! 🇳🇱 Looking forward to great talks, posters, and conversations in Utrecht. Don’t miss the conference booklet and final schedule! 👇

Chris Dijkerman officially opening the second day of the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht 🇳🇱 What a venue!