Marie Chancel

Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...

#hiring
Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness!

18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France.

⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026.

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

How does the brain adapt to artificial body extensions over time?

With a wearable finger-extension device, we reveal distinct phases of proprioceptive plasticity: during wear, after active use, and even after removal.

Now in @elife.bsky.social:
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

How does the brain make the self feel grounded? In new work with Mariano D’Angelo, @brainself.bsky.social & @mariechancel.bsky.social, we show alpha oscillations set the time window for binding vision & touch, providing causal evidence for how body ownership emerges. Out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧠

How brain waves shape our sense of self A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world...

New results! Faster parietal alpha frequency tightens, and slower alpha widens, the temporal window for vision–touch integration for the sense of one’s own body. Causal and computational evidence. Nature Communications
news.ki.se/how-brain-wa...

Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research has also started to uncover the role of these thermosensory signals in cognition. Such signals may contribute to the construction of our bodily self-awareness, and specifically the sense of body ownership, which is defined as the feeling that the body and its parts belong to us. This review examines how thermosensory signals travel from the skin to the brain and their impact on body ownership in both healthy and clinical populations. Furthermore, we propose mechanisms that may underlie this interaction and highlight potential clinical and societal applications.

Online Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals

Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

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Last weeks to apply for the postdoc position on multisensory integration and self-body perception in Marseille !!

Many interesting discussions ahead at #IMRF2025!
I'm very happy to attend ✨

If you're at #IMRF2025 @imrf.bsky.social and interested in chatting about our newest line of work on body augmentations that we developed at the @bbt-lab.bsky.social, feel free to reach out! Always happy to connect. We have a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦾

Hello ppl at #ASSC2025, we'd love your fb on our work!!
🪧Pauline Laurent's poster (26; doubt in OCD; Mon 12:30)
🪧Shiva Mahdian's poster (210; intracranial NCCs; Tue 4:30)
🪧 @azizac.bsky.social's poster (342; priors & false-alarms; Wed 4:30)
📣My talk on comp. model and intracranial NCCs (Wed 16:10)

Marie Chancel @mariechancel.bsky.social opened the final day of #BRNet2025 with a brilliant keynote: "Probably mine: an uncertainty-based causal inference framework for body ownership". Beautiful science and a real step forward for the entire field!

So much fun doing this ! Thank you @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions? Using a custom-built finger-extending exoskeleton, we show that wearable augmentations are quickly integrated into body representation, with proprioceptive space adapting to the device’s structure and function.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Attending the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. Will be presenting my work on interoception in autism tomorrow. Come and say hi!

And now the second part on model fitting!
@pevianiv.bsky.social

Welcome everyone to the first day of the #BRNet2025 Conference in Utrecht! 🇳🇱
We have just finished the first part of the computational modelling workshop, led by @lukemillerneuro.bsky.social @pevianiv.bsky.social @kkilteni.bsky.social. A lot of important knowledge, great questions and discussions!

On my way to #BRNet2025 !!!

So many great research to learn more about 🤩

(And very happy to be able to go there by train 🛤️)

🌟 Were you planning to join us in #Utrecht but thought you missed the deadline?
Good news, you’ve got extra time! 🕺🎉

Registration is now open until May 7th.
We can’t wait to see you there! 💥
#BRNet

Could be of interest for @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social

Last day tomorrow (15 April) to register at the early-bird rate for the next #IASAT #affective #touch conference on 9-11 June in Jena, Germany. There's already a great program, including keynotes from Patrick Haggard, Uta Sailer, Zhou-Feng Chen & Yoel Fink iasat2025.uni-jena.de/registration/

Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological, and Computational Model of the Sense of Reality An intriguing aspect of the human mind is our knowledge that our perceptions may be false. Our frequent exposure to non-veridical perceptions such as those found in dreams, illusions and hallucination...

🚨 New preprint! How do we know what is real? so...
"Unreal? A Behavioral, Physiological & Computational Model of the Sense of Reality" is out!
The result of 4 years of incredible teamwork👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣

More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !

📢 #PhD available
Are you passionate about #robotics, neural control of movement and #dyspraxia / #DCD? Apply now to this funded position at the University of Surrey. Co-supervised by me!
www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

Leaky evidence accumulation accounts for perceptual confidence and subjective duration Perceptual consciousness is defined as the subjective experience associated with the processing of sensory cues from the environment. Subjective experience unfolds over time and is accompanied by a se...

Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.

Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj

Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

At the Palais Longchamp in Marseille 💪

🚀 Ready for #BRNet7? 🚀

Join us in vibrant Utrecht to explore how the #brain represents the #body using #computational approaches! 🧠💡

🔗 Submit your abstract by March 1st! bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/genera...

Don't miss out on shaping the future of body representation research! 🌍✨

Research jargon 😉 PI is Principal Investigator
(but it would be fun as a back-up carrier)

Sure! Sounds very interesting.