BRNet Spring e-Seminar
Friday 31st March 2023

We are delighted to announce the next spring e-Seminar organized by the BRNet Community.
The seminar Bodies interacting in vision will be presented by Dr. Liuba Papeo.
The session will be hosted online on Friday 31st March 2023 at 13.00 CET (12.00 GMT).

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Recording of previous e-Seminars
For those who had not the opportunity to follow the previous e-Seminars, the recordings of the event are available on the BRNet website!

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Public Engagement Events
 

We are please to signpost two public engagement events organized by Jane Aspell’s lab which will take place at this year’s Cambridge Festival:

(1) Why do selves leave bodies? How science explains out of body experiences
Wednesday 22nd March 2023

The talk will explore fascinating case studies of neurological patients who experience profound changes to their sense of self, body and reality: out-of-body experiences (OBEs)

Info on this event can be found here.

 

(2) Living in a dream: a visual exploration of the self in dreams using AI technology
Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April 2023

The exhibit will display a variety of artwork based on dream reports, drawing on traditional media as well as some of the latest visual technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR).

Info on this event can be found here

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Summer School on Bayesian Statistical Analyses
 

The third edition of the Summer School on Bayesian Statistical Analyses for the Human, Social and Cognitive Sciences has been organized by the NPSY-Lab.VR, at the University of Verona, Department of Human Sciences, and the BASIC-NPSY Research Group.

The goal of this Summer School is to start from the basics to more complex analyses, such as Multilevel Hierarchical Models and Stan programming and it will be held in Verona, from Monday, June 5th to Friday, June 9th, 2023.

Applications  from PhD students, post-doc and researchers are open. For more information about the programme, registration and costs, click this link !

 

Workshop: "Pathologies of Self-awareness"

Thursday 13th April and 14th April 2023
Paris, Salle L382/384, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d’Ulm
 

We are pleased to signpost this interesting workshop on Pathologies of Self-awareness: attendance is free but registration is required here. 

Workshop organizers: 
Alexandre Billon (STL, Université de Lille)
Anna Ciaunica (CFCUL, University of Lisbon)
Anthony David (Kings College, Cambridge)
Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
Philip Gerrans (University of Adelaide)
Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez (INNN, Mexico City)
Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)

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What's new? Feed from the community

 

Dr. Dorothy Cowie, Cowie lab, Durham, UK: We are pleased to welcome to our group a new Postdoc, Dr. Leif Johannsen, who will be working on children’s perceptions of virtual bodies.
 

Dr. Valentina Cazzato, Body Image Lab, Liverpool, UK: We are pleased to welcome to our group a visiting PhD student from the University of Trieste - Italy, Niccolò Butti, who will be spending 6 months with us working on a project looking at motor resonance and affective touch.

We are also thrilled to share that Dr. Valentina Cazzato has been awarded an AHRC research networking – UKRI grant to work on a collaborative project which aims at establishing an international network of scholars focused on bridging the contemporary neuroscience of dance performance with therapeutic uses of the arts, and with creative forms of therapies.

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Dr. Sofia Tagini, Department of Neurosciences of the University of Turin, IT : We are enthusiastic of introducing telemedicine as a novel research topic in our lab, as part of the NODES project - Industry for Health and Silver Economy, founded by the Italian PNRR. Any proposal of collaboration for applying telemedicine or new technologies (e.g. virtual reality) in the field of body representation or related topics are very welcome!

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Recent publications

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We are happy to signpost recent papers from our members:

Cowie, D., Gottwald, J.M,  Bird L-A., Bremner, A.J. (2022). The role of hand size in body representation: a developmental investigation. Nature Scientific Reports, 12(1):19281.

Crucianelli, L., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2023). The role of the skin in interoception: A neglected organ?. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(1), 224-238.

Keenaghan, S., Polaskova, M., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R.W., Cowie, D. (2022). Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and bodily awareness in virtual reality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224.

 

Mora, L., Gonzalez Alted, C., & Cocchini, G. (2023). The flubbed body: pathological body size representation in personal neglect. Neuropsychologia (pre-print).

Tajadura-Jiménez, A., Crucianelli, L., Zheng, R., Cheng, C., Ley-Flores, J., Borda-Más, M., ... & Fotopoulou, A. (2022). Body weight distortions in an auditory-driven body illusion in subclinical and clinical eating disorders. Nature Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20031. 

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