Lavinia Albanese
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Lavinia Albanese is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research lies at the intersection of multisensory perception, body ownership, and functional brain connectivity. Her work primarily investigates how visual and tactile cues shape our sense of bodily self, with a particular focus on the rubber hand illusion (RHI)—a classic paradigm that reveals the brain’s remarkable plasticity in constructing body ownership. Albanese’s most-cited study (2025, 2 citations) demonstrates that manipulating visual inputs during the RHI can significantly alter both the strength of the illusion and the functional connectivity of key brain regions involved in self-awareness. This finding offers critical insights into how the brain integrates sensory information to maintain a coherent sense of body ownership, with implications for understanding disorders of body perception and developing neurorehabilitation strategies. Though early in her career, Albanese’s work has already contributed to a deeper understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying multisensory integration and bodily self-consciousness. Her research is particularly relevant for students and researchers interested in the neuroscience of perception, consciousness, and the dynamic interplay between sensory modalities in shaping our subjective experience of the body.
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