Carolien Gilbers

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Carolien Gilbers is a leading researcher in the cognitive neuroscience of embodiment, with a particular focus on how technology can reshape our sense of self. Her most cited work, "The Supernumerary Hand Illusion in Augmented Reality" (2019), has garnered 24 citations and represents a significant advance in the field. Gilbers extended the classic rubber hand illusion (RHI) paradigm into augmented reality, demonstrating that the brain can not only accept a fake limb as one's own but can also integrate a *third* hand into the body schema. Her research systematically dissects the core subcomponents of embodiment—ownership (the sense of self-attribution), agency (the feeling of motor control), and self-location (the spatial experience of being inside a body)—showing how these can be independently manipulated. This work has profound implications for prosthetics, virtual reality, and our fundamental understanding of bodily self-consciousness. By bridging experimental psychology with cutting-edge AR technology, Gilbers has opened new avenues for exploring the plasticity of the human body representation, making her a key voice in modern embodiment research.