Marie Loescher

I’m interested in the role of afferent bodily signals in the biological definition of a minimal sense of self, or subjectivity. In my PhD research, which is co-supervised by Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard, I investigate whether and how bodily signals might be used by the brain to mark incoming external information as more or less relevant for the organism, i.e., the self. To this end, I monitor cardiac, gastric and brain activity while presenting auditory and tactile stimuli inside or outside of peripersonal space. More generally, I like to hang out at the intersection between biology and philosophy (and also at the seaside, in my free time).