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BRNET 3 - Online event

The changing body

Body representations across the lifespan

Monday 12th July, 2021

We are happy to announce that BRNet 3 is going virtual!

Perceiving one’s own body is a complex task, which involves the integration of various sources of information. Research with adults shows that this task is achieved by binding together different signals from senses, such as vision, touch, and proprioception. Nevertheless, despite increasing understanding of body representations in adulthood, fundamental questions remain about the acquisition and development of body representations across the lifespan.

For example, how do we develop and maintain a sense of having a body during the enormous physical and sensory changes of childhood? What are the processes that facilitate or hinder its development? This workshop will give an up-to-date overview of body representations across the lifespan, including both childhood development and ageing, and both typical and atypical development (e.g., following brain injury or limb loss), and also in the ageing process.

The BRNet workshops aim to treat body representation with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach, organising meetings between experts with the aim of communicating findings and sharing paradigms, considering the needs of the different settings, and finally promoting awareness in other disciplines.

The workshop comprises two sessions with short talks and keynote talks. During the day, we will also have poster presentations and a career development session. Check out the program for the day!

This workshop is co sponsored by PsyPAG and will include careers and mentoring sessions for postgraduates in the research area of body representations. The workshop was also supported in part by ESRC Grant ES/P008798/1.

We look forward to seeing you at BRNet 3,

Maria Laura Filippetti, Dorothy Cowie and Valentina Cazzato

Keynote Speakers

Dr Tomoki Arichi

King's College London, UK

Dr Arichi’s research work aims to apply non-invasive imaging techniques (EEG, functional MRI) to characterise the development of functional activity in the human brain, during fetal and preterm life and following brain injury. This is particularly focused on understanding how early somatosensory and motor processing relates to brain development and behaviour.

Prof Bigna Lenggenhager

University of Zurich, CH

Prof Lenggenhager’s work focuses on the empirical investigation of multisensory integration mechanisms, the bodily self, and embodied cognition in both pathology and health. Specifically, she examines the psychological, physiological and neural mechanisms of body representations across the lifespan.