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Body Representation Network – BRNet

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BRNet is an international network of researchers who investigate the psychology and neuroscience of body representation #BRNet. bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet

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Wendel van der Sluis @wendelvandersluis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
@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.
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
📢 **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!
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🧠 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...
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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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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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!
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
🎉 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!
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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-...
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy holidays! #Holiday reminder: you can subscribe to our newsletter to hear more about the upcoming #BRNet #event
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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
📢 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
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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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Piotr Litwin @piolitwin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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.
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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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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
✨ 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...
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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.
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Alex Galvez-Pol @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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 💪
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Jamie Moffatt @jamoffatt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
#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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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
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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...
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
D-4 before our next online seminar! Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #body #touch #interoception #perception #pregnancy
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BRNet online Seminar, October 17th 2025, 11.00am, CET
SOMATOSENSATION: FROM INTEROCEPTION TO EXTEROCEPTION The Body Representation Network is delighted to host the third seminar of 2025, featuring Anna Crossland and Noa Cemeljic. Together, they trace ho...
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨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...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 12/08/2025
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... 🧵 👇
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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...
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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...
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Virgobit @virgobit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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
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IFCN and its Clinical Neurophysiology journal @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
[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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Roy Salomon @royesal.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Very interesting case. Hope this is indeed a framework for future translation of cog-neuro into clinical improvements
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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”
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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
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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
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Paula C. Salamone @paulasalamone.bsky.social presenting her talk "Brain-spinal alterations of self-produced sensations in psychosis".
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Oscar J Sill @oscarsill.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Brilliant time at BRNet 2025 - always grateful for such a great community of body researchers! Inspiring chats with old and new friends & going home with many exciting new ideas :) Here's my poster on children's body map accuracy 🕺 Thank you @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social !
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Thomas Chazelle @thomaschazelle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
What a lovely 3 days in Utrecht for #BRNet2025. Thanks everyone for the thought-provoking talks and chats. I think the computational modelling theme for this year was spot-on, congrats to the organisers @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social ! Looking forward to seeing some of you again at #IMRF in Durham!
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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
On my way home after an amazing #BRNet2025 in Utrecht. Such a wonderful community with excellent research. I can’t wait until next year! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Do you Like our new BRNet logo 🎉 #BRNet2025
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Congrats to our poster winner Ziliang Xiong on ticklish sensations of humans 🎉 #BRNet2025
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Last short talk of the day: Micah Allen on #computational insights into cardiac and respiratory #interoception at #BRNet2025
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Next talk: Paula Salamone on bodily self alterations in Psychosis at #brain and #spine. At #BRNet2025
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Next at #BRNet: short talks, starting with Reinoud Kaldewaij on TMS treatment for altered body image in patients with Anorexia
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🗝️Marie Chancel, first keynote speaker of the day #BRNet2025 🗣️Presenting Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership (Aix-Marseille University) #body #bodyrepresentation #computationalneurosciences
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Diego Candia-Rivera 🏳️‍🌈 @diegocandiar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Discussing our results on brain-heart interactions during motor imagery in brain-computer interfaces, at @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social in lovely Utrecht 🇳🇱
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Maggie Szymanska @maggieszymanska.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Great talk by Matej Hoffman starting off Day 2 of #BRNet2025. Really exciting to see our BOLDkids research on congenital limb difference mentioned as well! Also - what an amazing venue 😊
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our first #ECR #award winner Jean-Paul Noel is presenting now self-location research at #BRNet2025 👏🏼👏🏼
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It’s time to listen to Dennis Larsson talk about #heartbeat sensations in #autism at #BRNet2025 🧠🫀
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
More short talks at #BRNet2025. Valeria C. Peviani from Donders Institute starting to talk about her EEG study! 🧠
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Plasticity Lab @plasticity-lab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Having a great time in Utrecht at #BRNet2025! Today, our very talented postdoc @celiafoster.bsky.social and amazing PhD student Ema Jugovic presented their posters. Really great work showcasing our new Third Thumb studies 🧠
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🤓Starting our afternoon short talk session. Here Alice Rossi Sebastiano opening this session 🙌🏼 at #BRNet2025
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Body Representation Network – BRNet @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🤩Did you vote for your favorite poster? #BRNet2025
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Jamie Moffatt @jamoffatt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
On my way to Utrecht for #BRnet2025! Excited to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.
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Ruth Knight @ruthknight.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Here in beautiful Utrecht for the first time at #BRNet2025, ready to present our poster on co-production in body representation research today!
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Marie Chancel @mariechancel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
On my way to #BRNet2025 !!! So many great research to learn more about 🤩 (And very happy to be able to go there by train 🛤️)
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Thomas Chazelle @thomaschazelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Can #BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? If you're in Utrecht in the next few days and even if you're not coming, feel free to share and, most of all, comment! @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social thomaschazelle.fr/en/the-carto...
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Can BRNet2025 answer the cartographer / tuner question? | Thomas Chazelle
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
So excited to welcome so many brilliant researchers to the Netherlands for #BRNet2025! 🇳🇱 Looking forward to great talks, posters, and conversations in Utrecht. Don’t miss the conference booklet and final schedule! 👇
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Chris Dijkerman officially opening the second day of the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht 🇳🇱 What a venue!
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Dominika Radziun @nikaradziun.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Great first keynote talk at #BRNet2025 by Pieter Medendorp @pmedendorp.bsky.social, featuring work of @pevianiv.bsky.social:
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