Brain, Body, and Self Lab

Brain, Body, and Self Lab

@brainself.bsky.social

We study the sense of self, body representation, and the human brain. Based at Karolinska Institutet, led by Henrik Ehrsson.

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New paper: A systematic review and meta-analysis (k = 22) found no evidence that the rubber hand illusion modulates pain in healthy participants (Hedges’ g = 0.036). These findings challenge claims that body ownership illusions attenuate pain. Thread by lead author @saracoppi.bsky.social below.

Sara Coppi@saracoppi.bsky.social

🧵1/10 New paper out! In collaboration with @brainself.bsky.social and Karin Jensen! We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed studies testing whether the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI), the classic body ownership illusion, reduces pain in healthy participants. Short answer: the evidence says no.

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Sara Coppi
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Looking forward to giving a short talk today at ~16:20 at #BRNET2026 in Palazzo Bo, Padova! I'll discuss the influence of body ownership on visuonociceptive interactions in peripersonal space and what it can tell us about how we process potential threats. See you! 🧠 #BodyOwnership #PeripersonalSpace

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New study! SDT used to dissociate body ownership sensitivity from perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion with partial visual occlusion. Disrupting visually-driven tactile predictions shifts perceptual bias but not visuotactile sensitivity. See below.

Renzo Lanfranco@renzolanfranco.bsky.social

What makes a body feel like our own? The sense of body ownership is a core aspect of self-awareness, and it depends on the integration of multiple sensory signals. What role do visual predictions play in body ownership? Check out our new paper in Royal Society Open Science: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

doi.orgDisentangling visually driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownershipAbstract. The sense of owning one’s body is essential for distinguishing internal from external sensations. Research using bodily illusions shows that this
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Congratulations to Dr. Yatong Wen on being awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in record-tough competition! Exciting new experiments on the way! news.ki.se/eight-ki-res...

news.ki.seEight KI researchers receive Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants in record competitionEight young researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been awarded postdoctoral grants within the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). This means strengthened opportunities to conduct research ...
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New results! Faster parietal alpha frequency tightens, and slower alpha widens, the temporal window for vision–touch integration for the sense of one’s own body. Causal and computational evidence. Nature Communications news.ki.se/how-brain-wa...

news.ki.seHow brain waves shape our sense of selfA new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world...
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govParietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals - PubMedAn influential proposal in the field of cognitive neuroscience suggests that alpha-frequency brain oscillations constrain the temporal sampling of external sensory signals, shaping the temporal binding window (TBW)-the interval during which sensory signals are integrated. However, whether alpha freq …
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Body ownership is not constructed unconsciously and then brought to awareness—it emerges directly in consciousness. A fundamental insight for understanding the bodily self, with clear implications for theories of consciousness. See PNAS article and thread below.

Renzo Lanfranco@renzolanfranco.bsky.social

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

pnas.orgConscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNASConscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...
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What is the relationship between conscious awareness and unconscious processing in the multisensory perception of our own bodies? In our new preprint, with @renzolanfranco.bsky.social as the lead author, we investigated this question. Link to the preprint and thread below

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Renzo Lanfranco@renzolanfranco.bsky.social

How does the perception of our bodily self arise in our experience, and to what extent do we process body ownership information unconsciously? In a new study (preprint), we found body ownership information processing cannot occur without awareness. 0/14👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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We are recruiting a PhD student at the Brain, Body, and Self Lab, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. Learn more and apply here: kidoktorand.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

kidoktorand.varbi.comDoctoral (PhD) student position in Cognitive NeuroscienceDo you want to contribute to top quality medical research? To be a doctoral student means to devote oneself to a research project under supervision of experienced researchers and following an individu
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Somatosensory and cerebellar activity reflects learning of predicted sensory delays in self-generated touch. Read the new Communications Biology article led by @kkilteni.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

nature.comDynamic changes in somatosensory and cerebellar activity mediate temporal recalibration of self-touch - Communications BiologyAn fMRI study suggests that adaptation to sensorimotor delays when touching one hand with the other dynamically alters the activity in somatosensory and cerebellar regions.

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