Previous lab members

(non-exhaustive)

Harry Proudlove, MSc dissertation and placement student (2025)

Harry’s dissertation project sought to understand the benefits of hand magnification for motor control. He also worked on a placement in the lab studying the kinematics of multiple object handling.


Francesco Marra, visiting MSc student (2025)

Francesco visited the lab for 3 months over summer to collect data for his degree at Sapienza University of Rome. His project focussed on the link between interoception and automatic imitation.


Ben Carswell, MSc placement student (2025)

Ben worked on a placement in the lab studying the kinematics of multiple object handling.


Emily Parry, BSc dissertation student (2025)

In her dissertation, Emily studied whether interoceptive sensibility can predict risk propensity.


Stuart Meadows, MSc dissertation student (2024)

In his dissertation, Stuart examined interoceptive sensibility in individuals who engage in extreme sports.


Zarine Hossain, MSc dissertation student (2024)

In her dissertation, Zarine examined whether interoceptive sensibility can predict impulsiveness.


Alice Wang, MSc dissertation student (2024)

Alice ran a study to examine whether academic risk taking is related to alexithymia.


Emily Cheah Mc Corry, Research assistant (2024)

Following an undergraduate placement in the lab, Emily worked as a research assistant working on a project funded by the Experimental Psychology Society, examining how people grasp multiple objects with a single hand.


Andrew Boden, BSc dissertation student (2023)

Andrew worked on a project examining the discrimination of emotional states from hand postures.


Emily Price, BSc dissertation student (2023)

Emily studied the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and risk propensity.


Finnan Cook, BSc dissertation student (2023)

Finnan studied the relationship between interoceptive sensibility and risk propensity.


Laura Gaile, MSc placement student (2023)

Laura worked on a research placement in the lab, examining how people grasp multiple objects with a single hand.


Wenxi Li, MSc dissertation and placement student (2023)

In her dissertation Wenxi sought to develop a better understanding of the ‘numbness illusion’. She also worked on a research placement in the lab, examining how people grasp multiple objects with a single hand.


Gavin Doyle, MSc dissertation student (2023)

Gavin completed his MSc dissertation in the lab, developing a better understanding of the ‘numbness illusion’.


Debbie Jones, BSc dissertation student (2022)

Debbie worked on a project examining interoception in autism.


Lucía Caballero Arucas, BSc dissertation student (2022)

Lucía studied the role of interoception in alexithymia.


Ena Cesar, BSc dissertation student (2022)

Ena examined links between interoception and emotion regulation in autism.


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.