Body Representation Network – BRNet
@bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
BRNet is an international network of researchers who investigate the psychology and neuroscience of body representation #BRNet.
https://bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/
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VEC Workshop
VR Embodiment for Children (VEC) Workshop at IEEE VR 2026
This workshop will be part of IEEE VR 2026, March 21st/22nd (TBC) in Daegu, Korea.
VR HMD device ownership at home or in-school is increasing...
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📢 Exciting Announcement!
Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨
🔍 Explore this timely and important topic.
📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026.
🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids
Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨
🔍 Explore this timely and important topic.
📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026.
🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids
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@multisensoryres.bsky.social is pleased to announce a special issue, in collaboration with the @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social, on multisensory mechanisms involved in constructing and deconstructing body representations.
📅 Submission deadline: Friday 2 October 2026
See full Call for Papers below.
📅 Submission deadline: Friday 2 October 2026
See full Call for Papers below.
April 28, 2026 at 10:50 AM
@multisensoryres.bsky.social is pleased to announce a special issue, in collaboration with the @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social, on multisensory mechanisms involved in constructing and deconstructing body representations.
📅 Submission deadline: Friday 2 October 2026
See full Call for Papers below.
📅 Submission deadline: Friday 2 October 2026
See full Call for Papers below.
📢 **Programme Update & Registrations Open!**
We’re excited to share that tentative programme 🎉
Those who expressed interest in the social dinner will be contacted via email with further details. Seating is limited and first come, first served, based on registration!
We’re excited to see you!
We’re excited to share that tentative programme 🎉
Those who expressed interest in the social dinner will be contacted via email with further details. Seating is limited and first come, first served, based on registration!
We’re excited to see you!
April 13, 2026 at 8:37 AM
📢 **Programme Update & Registrations Open!**
We’re excited to share that tentative programme 🎉
Those who expressed interest in the social dinner will be contacted via email with further details. Seating is limited and first come, first served, based on registration!
We’re excited to see you!
We’re excited to share that tentative programme 🎉
Those who expressed interest in the social dinner will be contacted via email with further details. Seating is limited and first come, first served, based on registration!
We’re excited to see you!
🧠 The brain doesn’t just feel the body—it already knows it.
Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard
📅 April 15th |
Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard
📅 April 15th |
Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
BRNet online Seminar, April15th 2025, 3.00 pm, CET - Patrick Haggard
BRNet is pleased to inaugurate the 2026 seminar series with Prof. Patrick Haggard, whose work has been foundational in shaping the field of body representation.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND SOMATOSENSORY PERCE...
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March 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
🧠 The brain doesn’t just feel the body—it already knows it.
Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard
📅 April 15th |
Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our online seminar with Prof. Patrick Haggard
📅 April 15th |
Discover how touch perception relies on an internal body map—and why illusions like Weber’s reveal hidden self-knowledge.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Great news! 📢 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 6th 2026.
If you were still finalising your work, this is the perfect opportunity to submit and share your research. Don’t miss out - we’re looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
If you were still finalising your work, this is the perfect opportunity to submit and share your research. Don’t miss out - we’re looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
Altered body representations are central to many neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. At the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting, we’ll explore these questions under the theme “The Uncanny Body.”
Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026
bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...
Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026
bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...
February 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Great news! 📢 The abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 6th 2026.
If you were still finalising your work, this is the perfect opportunity to submit and share your research. Don’t miss out - we’re looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
If you were still finalising your work, this is the perfect opportunity to submit and share your research. Don’t miss out - we’re looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
🎉 BRNet ECR Pioneer Award winner 🎉
Congrats to Dr Valeria Peviani 🏆
A postdoc at the Donders Institute & UKE Hamburg, Valeria’s work explores how body perception emerged from multisensory signals, combining computational modelling, psychophysics & electrophysiology.
👏 Well deserved!
Congrats to Dr Valeria Peviani 🏆
A postdoc at the Donders Institute & UKE Hamburg, Valeria’s work explores how body perception emerged from multisensory signals, combining computational modelling, psychophysics & electrophysiology.
👏 Well deserved!
February 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
🎉 BRNet ECR Pioneer Award winner 🎉
Congrats to Dr Valeria Peviani 🏆
A postdoc at the Donders Institute & UKE Hamburg, Valeria’s work explores how body perception emerged from multisensory signals, combining computational modelling, psychophysics & electrophysiology.
👏 Well deserved!
Congrats to Dr Valeria Peviani 🏆
A postdoc at the Donders Institute & UKE Hamburg, Valeria’s work explores how body perception emerged from multisensory signals, combining computational modelling, psychophysics & electrophysiology.
👏 Well deserved!
Altered body representations are central to many neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. At the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting, we’ll explore these questions under the theme “The Uncanny Body.”
Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026
bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...
Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026
bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...
February 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Altered body representations are central to many neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions. At the 8th Annual BRNet Meeting, we’ll explore these questions under the theme “The Uncanny Body.”
Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026
bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...
Poster deadline: 20.02.2026
Registration: 30.03.2026
bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-...
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Not long to go now until the submission deadline for the BRNet ECR award so get your nominations in! Link to details here: bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-... @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
ECR award | brnet
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December 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Not long to go now until the submission deadline for the BRNet ECR award so get your nominations in! Link to details here: bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/about-... @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
📢 Exciting Announcement!
Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨
🔍 Explore this timely and important topic.
📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026.
🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids
Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨
🔍 Explore this timely and important topic.
📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026.
🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids
VEC Workshop
VR Embodiment for Children (VEC) Workshop at IEEE VR 2026
This workshop will be part of IEEE VR 2026, March 21st/22nd (TBC) in Daegu, Korea.
VR HMD device ownership at home or in-school is increasing...
sites.google.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
📢 Exciting Announcement!
Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨
🔍 Explore this timely and important topic.
📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026.
🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids
Have a look at this VR Embodiment for Children workshop at IEEE VR in Korea, March 2026! ✨
🔍 Explore this timely and important topic.
📝 Submissions are open until January 6, 2026.
🌐 More details: sites.google.com/view/xrkids
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Beyond Likert scales: We introduce a novel self-report method for measuring RHI strength using inverse multidimensional scaling. Ownership scores emerge from arrangements of bodily experiences in psychological bodily space as distances between RHI and baseline cases of no and full body ownership.
Novel method for rubber hand illusion strength measurement based on inverse multidimensional scaling - Behavior Research Methods
In the present study, we developed a novel self-report measurement method for the rubber hand illusion (RHI) strength based on inverse multidimensional scaling (MDS). In the preregistered study consis...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Beyond Likert scales: We introduce a novel self-report method for measuring RHI strength using inverse multidimensional scaling. Ownership scores emerge from arrangements of bodily experiences in psychological bodily space as distances between RHI and baseline cases of no and full body ownership.
✨ Hybrid Event Alert!
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self-Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds | Aalto University
We will bring together interdisciplinary work on human–human and human–machine interactions across both real and virtual environments. The symposium will take place at TU Darmstadt (Germany), in a hybrid format.
www.aalto.fi
December 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
✨ Hybrid Event Alert!
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
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Where & how in the body do you feel political disgust?
What about hope?
..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?
🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪
What about hope?
..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?
🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Where & how in the body do you feel political disgust?
What about hope?
..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?
🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪
What about hope?
..and are these sensations related to how much we know about politics?
🚀 These and other bodily matters are explored in our new preprint below; cool collab. led by great @andreavik.bsky.social 💪
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#embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
#embodiment or #bodyrepresentation researchers - are there any standardised instructions or procedures for describing or showing embodiment concepts like body ownership/dis-ownership, agency etc. to participants? Any resources would be helpful! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
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My clinical trial, PGD-psi: psilocybin for prolonged grief, is live 🤩!
First screening done, several more booked.
The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
First screening done, several more booked.
The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
I'm incredibly grateful to receive funding from
the ERC to investigate self-related processes during grief and to study whether psilocybin could be a novel treatment for those who need support with integrating their loss experiences. 💛🧠🍄💛
#Neuroskyence #PsychSci
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
the ERC to investigate self-related processes during grief and to study whether psilocybin could be a novel treatment for those who need support with integrating their loss experiences. 💛🧠🍄💛
#Neuroskyence #PsychSci
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
October 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
My clinical trial, PGD-psi: psilocybin for prolonged grief, is live 🤩!
First screening done, several more booked.
The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
First screening done, several more booked.
The first EU-funded psychedelics study btw 😊
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#grief
#psychedelics
#psilocybin
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Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Spontaneous thoughts, occupying much of one’s awake time in daily life, are often colored by emotional qualities. While spontaneous thoughts have been associated with various neural correlates, the re...
www.jneurosci.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
D-4 before our next online seminar! Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#body #touch #interoception #perception #pregnancy
#body #touch #interoception #perception #pregnancy
October 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
D-4 before our next online seminar! Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#body #touch #interoception #perception #pregnancy
#body #touch #interoception #perception #pregnancy
🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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You’re now breathing manually 🌬️
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception
Interoception, the perception and integration of physiological signals, is a fundamental aspect of self-awareness and homeostasis. While previous work has explored interoceptive processing in the card...
www.jneurosci.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
You’re now breathing manually 🌬️
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
What underlies this ability to be consciously aware of own breathing?
In our new Journal of Neuroscience paper, we report the largest study to date linking brain microstructure to respiratory interoception.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 🧵 👇
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Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS
By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al
Thread 👇
osf.io/preprints/os...
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS
By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al
Thread 👇
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
August 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Major news!
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS
By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al
Thread 👇
osf.io/preprints/os...
Exhaustive metaanalysis (N=2706) finding that endogenous opioids play a MINOR role in human pain regulation:
Consistent with 0.3 on 11-point VAS
By @isabellmeier.bsky.social @martintrostheim.bsky.social @marieeikemo.bsky.social @loseth.bsky.social et al
Thread 👇
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Case study: Brain–Body Biofeedback Platform
How can we capture the complexity of brain–body interaction during natural tasks?
Together with @maastrichtu.bsky.social ,we developed a mobile system for synchronized EEG, ECG, voice & event markers — real-time, modular, and research-ready.
#DigitalHealth
How can we capture the complexity of brain–body interaction during natural tasks?
Together with @maastrichtu.bsky.social ,we developed a mobile system for synchronized EEG, ECG, voice & event markers — real-time, modular, and research-ready.
#DigitalHealth
August 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Case study: Brain–Body Biofeedback Platform
How can we capture the complexity of brain–body interaction during natural tasks?
Together with @maastrichtu.bsky.social ,we developed a mobile system for synchronized EEG, ECG, voice & event markers — real-time, modular, and research-ready.
#DigitalHealth
How can we capture the complexity of brain–body interaction during natural tasks?
Together with @maastrichtu.bsky.social ,we developed a mobile system for synchronized EEG, ECG, voice & event markers — real-time, modular, and research-ready.
#DigitalHealth
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[Highlight of the Month] Hermann et al. Brain-heart interactions are associated with mortality and acute encephalopathy in ICU patients with severe COVID-19. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;175:2110745. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
[Highlight of the Month] Hermann et al. Brain-heart interactions are associated with mortality and acute encephalopathy in ICU patients with severe COVID-19. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;175:2110745. doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
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Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements
If you have publications that are relevant for body representation research, tag us!
We want to know and read you! 🤓
#research #bodyrepresentation #body #bodilyself #computational #neuroscience #bodilysignals
We want to know and read you! 🤓
#research #bodyrepresentation #body #bodilyself #computational #neuroscience #bodilysignals
August 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
If you have publications that are relevant for body representation research, tag us!
We want to know and read you! 🤓
#research #bodyrepresentation #body #bodilyself #computational #neuroscience #bodilysignals
We want to know and read you! 🤓
#research #bodyrepresentation #body #bodilyself #computational #neuroscience #bodilysignals
Like our new looks? 😉
BRNet has a new logo.
Contest winner Denise Cadete said her concept featured an “ambiguos silhouette framed like a picture, as an abstraction of representation itself, with the physical body and it’s representation”
BRNet has a new logo.
Contest winner Denise Cadete said her concept featured an “ambiguos silhouette framed like a picture, as an abstraction of representation itself, with the physical body and it’s representation”
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Like our new looks? 😉
BRNet has a new logo.
Contest winner Denise Cadete said her concept featured an “ambiguos silhouette framed like a picture, as an abstraction of representation itself, with the physical body and it’s representation”
BRNet has a new logo.
Contest winner Denise Cadete said her concept featured an “ambiguos silhouette framed like a picture, as an abstraction of representation itself, with the physical body and it’s representation”
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just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis
including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e
including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e
Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels
rdcu.be
July 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis
including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e
including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e