We’ve co-edited a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology on body representations. This includes several interesting articles, including one authored by myself and H. Branch Coslett (U Penn) on what error patterns can tell us about body representations

I really enjoyed my visit to Beijing Normal University, where I gave a talk on using evidence from brain-damaged individuals to study how the mind represents the body.  Then we traveled to Suzhou for the 17th International Multisensory Research Forum.  Yuqi presented her research on the mirror box illusion, and I gave a talk on body model representations.

I had a great time in Dublin at the UK Synaesthesia Association conference on Synaesthesia and Cross-modal Perception, where I gave a talk on interactions between mirror touch synesthesia and the body schema.

We have been awarded a pilot grant from the Delaware Center for Translational Research. We will use fMRI to examine somatosensory plasticity in individuals with brain damage due to stroke.

Simon Fischer-Baum (Rice) and I led a symposium on “Single-case cognitive neuropsychology in the 21st century” at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology in Bressanone, Italy.  We had a great group of speakers, including Michael McCloskey (Johns Hopkins), Tim Shallice (SISSA), Danny Dilks (Emory) and Marina Laganaro (University of Geneva).

Our paper describing a peculiar case of crossmodal synchiria is now out in Neuropsychologia.  In it, we describe a case study who report seeing visual stimuli on both sides when presented with a visual stimulus on the ipsilesional side.  Interestingly, this deficit occurs primarily when a) the visual stimulus is brief (<250 msec) and b) when visual stimuli are presented on her hands (versus off her hands).  It’s a very interesting case study – please read!

Our paper on embodiment and multisensory integration using the mirror box illusion is now out in Consciousness and Cognition. In it, we use the mirror box illusion to examine the relationship between measures of embodiment and multisensory integration.