Arran Reader
Principal Investigator
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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
Laura Gaile
MSc placement student
Laura is working on a research placement in the lab, examining how people grasp multiple objects with a single hand.
Wenxi Li
MSc dissertation and placement student
In her dissertation, Wenxi is developing a better understanding of the ‘numbness illusion’. She is also working on a research placement in the lab, examining how people grasp multiple objects with a single hand.
Gavin Doyle
MSc dissertation student
Gavin is doing an MSc dissertation in the lab, developing a better understanding of the ‘numbness illusion’.
Debbie Jones
BSc dissertation student
Debbie is working on a project examining interoception in autism.
Lucía Caballero Arucas
BSc dissertation student
Lucía is studying the role of interoception in alexithymia.
Ena Cesar
BSc dissertation student
Ena is examining links between interoception and emotion regulation in autism.
Previous lab members (non-exhaustive)
Fiona Wesley
MSc dissertation student (2022)
In her dissertation Fiona examined participant free report of experience in the rubber hand illusion.
Lewis Fawcett
MSc dissertation student (2022)
Lewis studied participant expectations in the rubber hand illusion.
Mary Godinho
MSc dissertation student (2022)
Mary examined the effect of postural congruency on the rubber hand illusion.
Julia Gazi
MSc dissertation student (2022)
Julia studied multisensory perception in children using the mirror illusion.
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 