Tanja C.W. Nijboer

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Dr. Tanja C.W. Nijboer is a leading cognitive neuroscientist whose research bridges the boundaries of body representation, multisensory integration, and neurorehabilitation. Her work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how the brain constructs the sense of embodiment—the feeling of owning, controlling, and inhabiting a body. In her highly influential 2019 study, "The Supernumerary Hand Illusion in Augmented Reality" (24 citations), she extended the classic rubber hand illusion paradigm to demonstrate that the brain can simultaneously embody an additional, artificial limb, revealing the remarkable flexibility of our body schema. More broadly, Dr. Nijboer has been instrumental in dissecting the subcomponents of embodiment—ownership, agency, and self-location—showing they are distinct yet interacting processes. Her contributions have profound implications for neurorehabilitation, particularly in designing therapies for stroke patients with limb neglect or phantom limb pain. With a career spanning over a decade and numerous high-impact publications, Dr. Nijboer continues to shape how we understand the neural foundations of self-awareness and bodily experience.