Projects

1. The New Concept of Mind (Templeton Foundation ACT Fellowship 2017-2020)

2. Finding Perspective (VW European Platform 2015-2017)

with Adrian Alsmith (Copenhagen), Matt Longo (Birkbeck), Christophe Lopez (CNRS Marseille), Betty Mohler (MPI Biological Cybernetics)

News release at University of Copenhagen

3. Investigating Body Representation Distortions in Patient Populations using Biometric Self-Avatars in Virtual Reality (CIN 2014-03) (2014-2016)

Betty Mohler (MPI Biological Cybernetics), Steffen Zipfel (UKT Psychosomatic Clinic), Hans-Otto Karnath (UKT Neuropsychology), and Michael Black (MPI Intelligent Systems)

Key words: Body Representation, Biometric Self-Avatars, Virtual Reality, Eating Disorders, Anosognosia for Hemiplegia

4. Sensory Attenuation and Agency Attribution in Voluntary vs. Involuntary Actions (CIN 2012-17) (2012-2014)

with Axel Lindner, Neurbiology of Decision lab of the Hertie Institute for Brain Researc

PONS awarded a 2 year intramural grant (70,000€) for an interdisciplinary project on the sense of agency with Axel Lindner's NoD lab (Hertie) on "Sensory Attenuation and Agency Attribution in Voluntary vs. Involuntary Actions" (awarded October 2012, Feb 2013 project start).
Project description: Sensory Attenuation and Agency Attribution in Voluntary vs. Involuntary Actions
We're pleased to welcome Katia Samoilova (PhD Brown) as the Project's Postdoctoral Fellow! (October 2013)

5. How does visual embodiment influence perception and action? (CIN 2011-16) (2011-2013)

with Betty Mohler, Sally Linkenauger and Heinrich Bülthoffof the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen

For more information about the project click here.
- Wong wins the Multimodality of Perception Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, with an essay on the multimodal character of body perception (July 2012).
We're pleased to welcome Catherine Stinson (ABD Pittsburg HPS) as the Body Perception Postdoctoral Fellow and Ivelina Alexandrova (MSc Tübingen) as the Body Perception Doctoral Fellow! (Jan 2012)
For details of the CIN-MPI Body Perception Seminar series associated with this grant click here.
The Body Perception project has begun a collaboration with Prof Hans-Otto Karnath's Neuropsychology Division at the Centre for Neurology, Tübingen (Jan 2012).

The visual embodiment project in action at the Cyberneum's tracking hall