Research at Katlab focuses on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology and challenge any rigid distinction between mind and body. The lab is particularly interested in understanding how our embodiment, including the rooting of the mind in our embodied interactions with other people, influence the function of our brain and ultimately shape how we understand ourselves and our new experiences.
The Sustainable Brain
How can individuals and communities best engage with a circular, sustainable economy of textiles, garments and fashion and promote wellbeing?
This project uses mechanistic and cognitive neuroscience research to answer these questions.
Metabody
We live in a socio-economic world that affords us with increasing options and technologies to control and present our bodily appearance to others, including by managing our eating habits, or by digital and even surgical body modification.
How we negotiate the balance between the invariance and invention of our identity?
Bodily Self
How does our acting, sensing and feeling body shape our mind?
An ambitious exploration of the relationship between the body and the mind which spans philosophy, psychology and clinical neuroscience.
Affective Touch
Touch has a unique role in developing a stable sense of self.
Is affective touch capable of soothing our emotional and physical pain?
What does affective touch communicate?
Pain Project
Pain is one of the largest health problems yet a persistent challenge for philosophy and science. This project includes psychophysical and neuroimaging investigations on the social modulation of pain.
How does social attachment and empathy influence pain?
Psychodynamic Neuroscience
Consider how empirical findings and neuroscientific theories can be enhanced by metapsychological knowledge derived from subjective, clinical observation and vice versa.