Brain, Body, and Self Lab
@BrainSelf
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We study the sense of self, body representation, and the human brain. Based at Karolinska Institutet, led by Henrik Ehrsson.
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined November 2018
Check out the symposium “Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research” hosted by @coppi_sara at ICON 2025 in Porto tomorrow!
Excited to host the symposium “Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research” at ICON 2025, in Porto 🧠 🗓️ Fri 19th | ⏰ 1:30 PM Speakers: @IriyeIriye @DAngeloMariano @Renzo_Lanfranco + me @BrainSelf @Icon2025 #CognitiveNeuroscience
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Congratulations Arvid!
Happy and grateful that my @ERC_Research StG was approved for funding! Goal: understanding the brain mechanisms of spontaneous theory of mind, revealing potential differences between neurotypical and autistic people, and exploring ways to boost theory-of-mind ability
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New study led by @PTacikowski shows that reducing body ownership through a perceptual illusion leads to fragmentation in self-concept. This link between the bodily and conceptual self may shed light on dissociative experiences and mental health. https://t.co/zmz923so1b
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Octopuses feel the rubber hand illusion—or at least their behaviour suggests they do. https://t.co/dn9pJAoTTY
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Experiment shows octopuses feel body ownership, a trait previously seen only in mammals
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New study out in iScience, led by @coppi_sara: During the rubber hand illusion, pain is mislocalized toward the rubber hand, just like touch and proprioception. This nociceptive drift reveals how pain, like other senses, is integrated into the bodily self. https://t.co/ALbZPSZDho
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Feeling fear through a fake body? Our new study, led by @RyuOhata, shows that illusory body ownership amplifies subjective fear in response to nearby fear-relevant animals (spiders) and increases fear of safety-margin violations. https://t.co/ACPTCN5Y5Z
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We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the Brain, Body, and Self Lab at Karolinska Institutet. For details, see the link below. Application deadline: March 17 https://t.co/sjIuYTWevU
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Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Department of Neuroscience includes several research groups working on different aspects of nervous system function, both under normal
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New preprint exploring the role of alpha oscillations in integrating self-related sensory information and distinguishing the bodily self from external events. See link and thread below. Led by @DAngeloMariano
In a new preprint we demonstrated that the frequency of alpha oscillations plays a crucial role in binding self-related sensory information into a coherent perceptual experience of one’s body and distinguishing this bodily self from external sensory events
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We are recruiting a new postdoc to the Brain, Body, and Self Lab at Karolinska Institutet. Check out the link for more information.
ki.varbi.com
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Department of Neuroscience includes several research groups working on different aspects of nervous system function, both under normal
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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, led by @Renzo_Lanfranco, we investigated this question—and the findings surprised us! Link to preprint and thread below. #Science
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👇 https://t.co/Qhc1oOMTEZ
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Lecture on multisensory perception of body ownership by Henrik Ehrsson December 12, 2023 for the @bodyrepnetwork community: https://t.co/FZ4lAMq5AP
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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:
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Do 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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Sono entusiasta di annunciare la pubblicazione del mio primo libro 📚 Perfetto per chi vuole esplorare il tatto, il nostro primo senso ed il più sottovalutato🫳🤌🤝Disponibile dal 12 novembre! @UtetLibri #Tatto #LetturaScientifica #Neuroscienze #Psicologia
https://t.co/Z1mPnyTH2n
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Congratulations to Demis Hassabis on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside David Baker and John M. Jumper! A remarkable achievement in advancing science.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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Using laser pain to induce a bodily illusion – featured on the front cover of PAIN, with commentary. Study led by @coppi_sara
https://t.co/mSUZXRhvwD
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According to a new study in the journal PAIN, the feeling of owning our bodies is created by combining information from multiple senses, such as nociceptive pain, vision, and proprioception. Research by @coppi_sara et al. https://t.co/ujBzPlQg9m
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out how nociception contributes to own-body perception. A classic experimental approach to investigate the perceptual and neural mechanisms involved in the multisensory experience of one's own body...
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When complex information, such as faces, enters our eyes, the brain extracts attributes through a series of steps, with integrated information emerging alongside conscious awareness, according to a study in @NatureComms. Research @Renzo_Lanfranco https://t.co/lqUZ3nFYqB
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Nature Communications - Minimal exposure durations required for visual processing of stimulus attributes can reveal the system’s priorities. Here, the authors show a distinct sequence of...
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In our new @NatureComms paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: https://t.co/aqLOrIKBMP (🧵👇)
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Nature Communications - Minimal exposure durations required for visual processing of stimulus attributes can reveal the system’s priorities. Here, the authors show a distinct sequence of...
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20 years ago, Ehrsson, Spence, & @Dick_retired published a landmark study showing how the premotor and parietal cortex drive the sense of body ownership through multisensory integration in the rubber hand illusion. https://t.co/hZQXq1H65e
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Temporal structure of experience etched on firing of human hippocampal-entorhinal neurons to serve memory & prediction. See our study @Nature at @UCLANsgy, great work by lead author @PTacikowski with @GuldamlaKalendr & @DavideCili support @NIH_NINDS. https://t.co/4wWzb1N4r5
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Nature - Single-neuron recordings from intracranial electrodes inserted into human brains for clinical reasons suggest that the temporal structure of human experience is encoded in human...
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