Publications
My primary research interest concern the relations between perception and action, and the role of the body in structuring these relations. I am exploring new approaches to studying the mind and the brain through the lens of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and evolution.
A key feature of my work is approaching traditional philosophical questions through the lens of empirical work in the cognitive sciences. My aim is to enrich our philosophical conceptions through both challenging and transforming them. I also retain more general interests in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science and technology, and aesthetics.
Topics:
Virtual Reality and Embodiment
Bodily Self-Consciousness and the First Person
Theoretical Psychology and Neuroscience of Action
Reduction, Emergence and Special Science Ontology
Monograph
Embodied Agency, under contract with Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Edited Volumes
de Vignemont F. , Serino A., Wong H. Y., & Farnè A. The World at our Fingertips: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space, Oxford University Press (2021).
Garbarini F., Kalckert A., Pia L., & Wong H. Y. Owning a body + Moving a body = me? , Research Topic, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2016-2019
Embodied Agency
“Agency and the Body”, in L. Ferrero (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Agency, Routledge, forthcoming 2021.
de Vignemont F., Serino A., Wong H. Y., and Farne, A. “Peripersonal space: A special way of representing space” in de Vignemont et al. (eds.) The World at our Fingertips: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space (Oxford, 2021).
Wong H. Y. and Hochstetter G. “Minding the Body”, Review of de Vignemont’s Mind the Body (Oxford 2018), Mind, 2020.
“Embodied Agency”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2018.
“In and Out of Balance”, in F. de Vignemont and A. Alsmith (eds.) The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body, MIT Press, forthcoming 2017.
“On Proprioception in Action: Multimodality versus Deafferentation”, Mind and Language, 2017.
“On the Significance of Bodily Awareness for Action", Philosophical Quarterly 2015, doi: 10.1093/pq/pqv007
"On the Multimodality of Body Perception in Action", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21: 130-139, 2014
[Annual Essay Prize, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, Antwerp, 2012]
“Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency”, in T. O’Connor and C. Sandis (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Blackwell, 2010).
“On the Necessity of Bodily Awareness for Bodily Action”, Psyche, Consciousness in Natural and Cultural Contexts (CNCC) Special Issue, 15 (2009).
[Winner of ESF prize for interdisciplinary work on consciousness: the CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars.
Accompanying commentary by Thomas Goschke “Bodily Awareness and Action-Effect Anticipations in Voluntary Action”.]
Virtual Reality and Embodiment
van der Veer A.H., Alsmith A.J.T., Longo M.R., Wong H.Y., Diers D., Bues M., Giron A.P., & Mohler B.J. (2019) “The influence of the viewpoint in a self-avatar on body part and self-localization”, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception.
van der Veer A.H., Longo M., Alsmith A.J.T., Wong H.Y., Bülthoff H.H., Mohler B.J. (2019) “Self and body part localization in virtual reality”, Frontiers in robotics and AI: Virtual environments, doi: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00033
Karnath H.-O., Mölbert S.C., Klaner K., Tesch J., Giel K.E., Wong H.Y., and Mohler B.J. (2019) “Visual perception of body shape under vestibular stimulation using biometric self-avatars in virtual reality” PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213944.
van der Veer A.H., Alsmith A.J.T., Longo M., Wong H.Y., Bülthoff H.H., Mohler B.J. (2018) “Where am I in virtual reality?” PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204358.
Piryankova I.V., Wong H.Y., Linkenauger S.A., Stinson C., Longo M.R., Bülthoff H.H., and Mohler B.J. (2014) "Owning an Overweight or UnderweightBody: Distinguishing the Physical, Experienced and Virtual Body", PLoS ONE 9(8): e103428.
Body Cognition
Saulton A., Longo, M.R., Wong H.Y., Bülthoff H.H., and de la Rosa S. (2016) “The role of visual similarity and memory in body model distortions”, Acta Psychologica 164: 103-111.
Linkenauger S.A., Wong H.Y., Geuss M., Stefanucci J.K., Proffitt D.R., Bülthoff H.H., and Mohler B.J. (2015) "The Perceptual Homunculus: The Perception of Bodily Proportions”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144: 103-113.
Bodily Self-Consciousness and the First Person
Orbán K. and Wong H. Y. “The Sense of Body Ownership: What are We Studying?”, in M. V. Guillot and M. García-Carpintero (eds.) The Sense of ‘Mineness’, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021.
Orbán K. and Wong. H. Y. “On the Possibility of Multimodal Bodily Immunity to Error Through Misidentification”, in F. Calzavarini & M. Viola (eds.) New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience, Springer, 2021.
Theoretical Psychology and Neuroscience of Action
“The Body Schema as a Condition of Possibility for Action”, in Y. Coello and M. Fischer (eds.) From Action to Concepts: Behavioral and Neural Foundations of Embodied Cognition, 2 vols., Psychology Press, forthcoming 2015.
"A Measure of My Agency?" Consciousness and Cognition, Special Issue "Beyond the Comparator Model" 21 (2012).
[Commentary on Synofzik, Vosgerau, and Newen "Beyond the comparator model: A multifactorial two-step account of agency", Consciousness and Cognition, 17 (2008).
Reply by Vosgerau and Synofzik "Weighting models and weighting factors", Consciousness and Cognition 21 (2012).]
Emotion and Action
Hochstetter G. and Wong H.Y. “Affective Control of Action”, Emotion Review, 2017.
Wong H. Y. and Müller J. M. "Acting for Reasons and Acting Out of Emotions", in Scarantino A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory, forthcoming 2021.
Reduction, Emergence and Special Science Ontology
“Personal and Sub-Personal: Overcoming Explanatory Apartheid”, in T.-W. Hung (ed.) Communicative Action (Singapore: Springer, 2014), pp. 93-104.
“Emergent Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind”, S. Gibb, R. F. Hendry and T. Lancaster (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Emergence, 2019.
“The Secret Lives of Emergents”, in A. Corradini and T. O’Connor (eds.) Emergence in Science and Philosophy (Routledge, 2010).
“Cartesian Psychophysics”, in P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman (eds.) Persons (Oxford University Press, 2007).
“Emergents from Fusion”, Philosophy of Science, 73 (2006).
(with Timothy O’Connor) “The Metaphysics of Emergence”, Noûs, 39 (2005).
(with Timothy O’Connor) “Emergent Properties”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published Fall 2002 edition.
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FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
Monograph:
1. Embodied Agency, Oxford University Press (under contract, forthcoming).
Edited Volume:
2. de Vignemont, F., Serino, A., Wong H.Y., and Farne, A. (eds.) The world at your finger tip: a multidisciplinary exploration of peripersonal space, Oxford University Press (2021).
Edited Journal Issue:
3. Garbarini F. Kalckert A., Pia L., and Wong H.Y. (eds.) Owning a body + Moving a body = me? , Research Topic, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2016-2019, www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4005/owning-a-body-moving-a-body-me
Articles:
4. “Not Being like a Pilot in a Ship”, in A. Alsmith and M. Longo (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, Routledge, forthcoming 2021.
5. (with G. Hochstetter) “The Phenomenology of Agency”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, forthcoming 2021.
6. “Agency and the Body”, in L. Ferrero (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Agency, Routledge, forthcoming 2021.
7. (with K. Orbán) “The Sense of Body Ownership: What are We Studying?”, in M. V. Guillot and M. García-Carpintero (eds.) The Sense of ‘Mineness’, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021.
8. (with K. Orbán) “On the Possibility of Multimodal Bodily Immunity to Error Through Misidentification”, in F. Calzavarini & M. Viola (eds.) New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience, Springer, 2021.
9. de Vignemont, F., Serino, A., Wong H.Y., and Farne, A. “Peripersonal space: A special way of representing space” in de Vignemont et al. (eds.) The world at your finger tip: a multidisciplinary exploration of peripersonal space (Oxford, 2021).
10. (with J. M. Müller) “Which Emotional Behaviours are Actions?” in A. Scarantino (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory, Routledge, 2021.
11. (with G. Hochstetter) “Minding the Body”, Review of de Vignemont’s Mind the Body (Oxford 2018), Mind, 2020.
12. Srismith, D., Wider, L., Wong, H.Y., Thiel, A., Giel, K., and Mölbert, S. (2020) “Influence of Physical Activity and Interoceptive Modulations on Body Image”, Frontiers in Psychiatry, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00099
13. van der Veer, A.H., Alsmith, A.J.T., Longo, M.R., Wong, H.Y., Diers, D., Bues, M., Giron, A.P., & Mohler, B.J. (2019) “The influence of the viewpoint in a self-avatar on body part and self-localization”, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception.
14. van der Veer, A.H., Longo, M., Alsmith, A.J.T., Wong, H.Y., Bülthoff, H.H., Mohler, B.J. (2019) “Self and body part localization in virtual reality”, Frontiers in robotics and AI: Virtual environments, doi: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00033
15. Karnath, H.-O., Mölbert, S.C., Klaner, K., Tesch, J., Giel, K.E., Wong, H.Y., and Mohler, B.J. (2019) “Visual perception of one’s own body under vestibular stimulation using biometric self-avatars in virtual reality” PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213944.
16. “Emergent Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind”, S. Gibb, R. F. Hendry and T. Lancaster (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Emergence, 2019.
17. Pia L., Garbarini F. Kalckert A., and Wong H.Y. “Editorial: Owning a Body + Moving a Body = Me?”, Owning a body + Moving a body = me? , Research Topic, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2019.
18. van der Veer, A.H., Alsmith, A.J.T., Longo, M., Wong, H.Y., Bülthoff, H.H., Mohler, B.J. (2018) “Where am I in virtual reality?” PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204358.
19. “Embodied Agency”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, doi: 10.1111/phpr.12392, 2018.
§ [Top 20 most downloaded articles in PPR since 2016]
20. “On Proprioception in Action: Multimodality versus Deafferentation,” Mind and Language 32(3): 259-282, 2017.
21. “In and Out of Balance”, in F. de Vignemont and A. Alsmith (eds.) The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body, MIT Press, 2017.
22. (with G. Hochstetter) “Affective Control of Action”, Emotion Review 9: 345-348, 2017.
23. “A Puzzle about the Function of Proprioception in Action”, in T. Grünbaum and M. Schram Christensen (eds.) Sensation of Movement, Psychology Press, 2017.
24. Saulton A., Longo M.R., Wong H.Y., Bülthoff H.H., and de la Rosa, S. (2016) “The role of visual similarity and memory in body model distortions”, Acta Psychologica 164: 103-111.
25. “The Body Schema as a Condition of Possibility for Action”, in Y. Coello and M. Fischer (eds.) From Action to Concepts: Behavioral and Neural Foundations of Embodied Cognition, 2 vols., Psychology Press, 2016, pp. 135-148.
26. “On the Significance of Bodily Awareness for Action”, Philosophical Quarterly, 65: 790-812, 2015.
27. Linkenauger S.A., Wong H.Y., Geuss M., Stefanucci J.K., Proffitt D.R., Bülthoff H.H., and Mohler B.J. (2015) “The Perceptual Homunculus: The Perception of Bodily Proportions”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144: 103-113.
28. “On the Multimodality of Body Perception in Action”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21: 130-139, 2014.
§ [Annual Essay Prize, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, Antwerp, 2012]
29. Piryankova I.V., Wong H.Y., Linkenauger S.A., Stinson C., Longo M.R., Bülthoff H.H., & Mohler B.J. (2014) “Owning an Overweight or Underweight Body: Distinguishing the Physical, Experienced and Virtual Body”, PLoS ONE 9(8): e103428.
30. “Personal and Sub-Personal: Overcoming Explanatory Apartheid”, in T.-W. Hung (ed.) Communicative Action (Singapore: Springer, 2014), pp. 93-104.
31. “A Measure of My Agency?” in Consciousness and Cognition 21: 48-51, Special Issue Beyond the Comparator Model (2012).
32. “Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency”, in T. O’Connor and C. Sandis (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), pp. 227-235.
33. “The Secret Lives of Emergents”, in A. Corradini and T. O’Connor (eds.) Emergence in Science and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 7-24.
34. “On the Necessity of Bodily Awareness for Bodily Action”, Psyche, Special Issue Consciousness in Natural and Cultural Contexts (CNCC) 15/1: 31-48 (2009).
§ [CNCC Essay Award for Junior Scholars (European Science Foundation), 2008]
35. “Cartesian Psychophysics”, in P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman (eds.), Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 169-195.
36. “Emergents from Fusion”, Philosophy of Science, vol. 73, pp. 345-367 (2006).
37. (with T. O’Connor) “The Metaphysics of Emergence”, Noûs 39: 658-678 (2005).
38. (with T. O’Connor) “Emergent Properties”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/, first published Fall 2002.
39. Review of S. Priest’s Merleau-Ponty (Routledge 2003), Philosophy TODAY 49:7-8 (2005).