Topic: Body representation

Support research on how touch is located in three-dimensional body space at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Work includes collecting and analysing EEG data and studying neural oscillations and sensorimotor transformations, with virtual reality and robotic or finger-extending devices. The appointment is 0.35–0.4 FTE for nine months, with an intended start on 1 November 2026. Apply online by 30 September 2026 using the employer’s linked form.

How the brain represents the body is a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. Experimental studies are difficult because ‘the body is always there’ (William James). In recent years immersive virtual reality techniques have been introduced that deliver apparent changes to the body extending earlier techniques such as the rubber hand illusion, or substituting the whole body by a virtual one visually collocated with the real body, and seen from a normal first person perspective. This talk will introduce these techniques, and concentrate on how changing the body can change the mind and be