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About
Dr. Bigna Lenggenhager is a leading researcher at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and robotics, whose work fundamentally explores how the brain constructs the sense of self. Her key research areas include the mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness, embodiment, and the neural underpinnings of self-location and perspective. Her most influential work, a 2011 paper with 474 citations, identified the multisensory mechanisms in the temporo-parietal cortex that support self-location and first-person perspective, providing a foundational understanding of how we experience our body as our own. Dr. Lenggenhager has also made significant contributions to the field of human-machine interaction, authoring influential roadmaps and benchmarking frameworks for wearable and assistive robots. Her work on "feel-good robotics" explores how touch can foster embodiment in assistive devices, while her research on phantom limbs bridges basic science with clinical applications for pain management. By integrating insights from psychology, neuroscience, and robotics, Dr. Lenggenhager is shaping how we understand and technologically extend the human body, with profound implications for rehabilitation and human augmentation.
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