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Brain, Body, and Self Lab @BrainSelf

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

Joined November 2018
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Sara Coppi@coppi_sara
Jun 8
See you at #BRNET2026! I'll be giving a short talk today (~16:20, Palazzo Bo, Padova) on the role of body ownership in visuo-nociceptive interactions within peripersonal space. 🧠✨
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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@Renzo_Lanfranco
Apr 1
What makes a body feel like our own? Body ownership is a core aspect of self-awareness, & it depends on the integration of multiple sensory signals. What role do visual predictions play in body ownership? See our paper out in Royal Society Open Science: doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252132
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Congratulations to 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-research…

Eight KI researchers receive Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants in record competition

Eight 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 sharpens the temporal window for vision–touch integration, yielding a more precise sense of one’s own body. Slower alpha widens it. Nature Communications. Link and thread by @DAngeloMariano below
Mariano D'Angelo@DAngeloMariano
Jan 12
Happy to share our new study on the role of alpha frequency in integrating self-related sensory information into a coherent perceptual experience of one’s body! With @BrainSelf at @karolinskainst, out now in Nature Communications @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Mariano D'Angelo @DAngeloMariano presents a new study at this year's Karolinska Department of Neuroscience retreat (in press).
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Brain, Body & Self lab celebrating 2025 with a traditional Julbord at Hasselbacken, Stockholm
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The body might be doing more for consciousness than you think. In this The Conversation article, @RenzoLanfranco breaks down our new PNAS study: theconversation.com/why-our-…

Why our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience – new research

The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

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Our new PNAS study shows that bodily self-perception has privileged access to consciousness. While vision and hearing often involve unconscious processing, the sense of one’s own body appears to emerge directly in awareness. See link and thread below.
Renzo Lanfranco@Renzo_Lanfranco
5 Dec 2025
Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @BrainSelf at @karolinskainst and out in PNAS @PNASNews : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
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New preprint!
Renzo Lanfranco@Renzo_Lanfranco
19 Nov 2025
Happy to share our new preprint on bodily self-perception! Here, we show that tactile predictions in the rubber hand illusion are as important as feeling touch on the hand to elicit the feeling of ownership: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jb…
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Check out the symposium “Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research” hosted by @coppi_sara at ICON 2025 in Porto tomorrow!
Sara Coppi@coppi_sara
18 Sep 2025
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!
Arvid Guterstam@arvidguterstam
4 Sep 2025
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. cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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Octopuses feel the rubber hand illusion—or at least their behaviour suggests they do. science.org/content/article/…

Octopuses fall for the ‘rubber arm’ illusion, just like us

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. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4054…
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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. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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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 ki.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:…

Postdoctoral studies in Cognitive Neuroscience (scholarship)

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
Mariano D'Angelo@DAngeloMariano
23 Feb 2025
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 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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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/what:job/jobID:…

Postdoctoral studies in Cognitive Neuroscience (scholarship)

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 #Perception
Renzo Lanfranco@Renzo_Lanfranco
6 Jan 2025
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.io/e6td…
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Lecture on multisensory perception of body ownership by Henrik Ehrsson December 12, 2023 for the @bodyrepnetwork community: ehrssonlab.se/videos/Ehrsson…
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