Arran Reader
Principal Investigator
at.reader <at> pm.me
Arran received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Reading, UK in 2018. He then spent two and a half years working at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling since July 2020.
Student members
Fiona Wesley
MSc dissertation student
Fiona is researching participant free report of experience in the rubber hand illusion.
Lewis Fawcett
MSc dissertation student
Lewis is researching participant expectations in the rubber hand illusion.
Mary Godinho
MSc dissertation student
Mary is studying the effect of postural congruency on the rubber hand illusion.
Julia Gazi
MSc dissertation student
Julia is studying multisensory perception in children using the mirror illusion.
Previous lab members (non-exhaustive)
Daisy Martin
BSc dissertation and placement student (2021)
Daisy worked on a placement with Arran and Dr Laura Schmitz (Leibniz University Hannover) to study the influence of COVID-19 containment measures on joint action. For her dissertation she ran an experiment examining the links between interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation strategies.
Erin Faulds
BSc dissertation student (2021)
Erin worked on a project examining individual differences in body structure representation.
Pheobe MacKenzie
BSc dissertation student (2021)
Pheobe examined preferred interpersonal distance in nursing students working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ryan Doyle
BSc dissertation student (2021)
Ryan examined preferred interpersonal distance in nursing students working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manas Bhoskar
MSc dissertation and placement student (2021)
Manas worked on an MSc project examining how risk for eating disorders alters semantic interpretation bias for food and body words. He also worked on a placement in the lab studying reporting transparency in published TMS studies.
Shuming Zhang
MSc dissertation student (2021)
Shuming worked on an MSc project examining how and why hands attract attention.
The Self/Other Lab 