Papers
15
Total Citations
878
H-Index
7
About
Marieke Rohde is a cognitive scientist and embodied cognition researcher whose work spans bodily self-perception, social interaction dynamics, and sensorimotor learning. She is perhaps best known for her highly influential investigations of the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI), exploring the relationship between body ownership and proprioceptive drift — work that has accumulated nearly 500 citations and fundamentally challenged assumptions about how these phenomena correlate. Her studies probing skin temperature as a physiological marker of the RHI further cemented her contributions to understanding multisensory body ownership. Beyond bodily self-perception, Rohde has made significant contributions to the study of social cognition through her work on perceptual crossing — minimalist paradigms that reveal how two agents dynamically co-construct shared interaction rather than simply observing one another. This research, grounded in enactive and embodied approaches to cognition, is complemented by her earlier theoretical work connecting enaction, evolutionary robotics, and embodiment. More recently, she has turned attention to motor skill acquisition, examining how goal-directed feedback shapes sensorimotor exploration. Across these domains, Rohde's research consistently challenges individualist, observer-centric models of cognition, advocating instead for dynamic, interaction-centered frameworks.
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- 4Perceptual crossing: the simplest online paradigm57 citations · 2012
- 5“You never fail to surprise me”: the hallmark of the Other27 citations · 2011
- 6Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics23 citations · 2010
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- 8Adaptation to Sensory Delays7 citations · 2007
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- 10Embodiment and Perceptual Crossing in 2D6 citations · 2008