3. Catherine Preston: Bodily illusions, eating disorders, and pregnancy

Catherine Preston is a cognitive neuroscientist, studying body perception and self-awareness. Catherine and I first met in Stockholm in 2014 when I was doing an internship in Henrik Ehrsson's lab. Catherine was my day-to-day supervisor, and our project investigated full-body illusions viewed in a mirror. Catherine has since moved to York, where she works as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor).In this conversation, we talk about Catherine's recent research on bodily illusions, including applications to eating disorders and pregnancy. We also talk more broadly about her experiences of starting her own lab and work as a new faculty member. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. New long-form conversations every other Friday. You can find the podcast on all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Apple/Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc.) and on YouTube. Timestamps0:00:05 How Catherine got into studying body perception0:03:55 Rubber hands, monkey hands, and invisible hands0:16:12 Catherine's postdoc with Henrik Ehrsson0:20:33 Eating disorders, body satisfaction, and bodily illusions0:41:09 Pregnancy and bodily illusions1:10:13 Starting a lab and teaching (at York University)1:22:57 Mentorship and learning as a faculty member1:35:12 Who Catherine would like to work with (BSc, MSc & PhD students, postdocs) Links Podcast linksWebsite: https://bjks.buzzsprout.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BjksPodcastCatherine's linksYork profile: www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/cp1039/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=vwu2AvgAAAAJTwitter: https://twitter.com/cejprestonBen's linksWebsite: www.bjks.blog/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-nWNfvcAAAAJ General info - Rubber hand illusion Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DphlhmtGRqI Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisensory_integration#Rubber_hand_illusion - Full-body illusionVideo (about the body swap illusion): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawY2VzN4-c Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_transfer_illusion ReferencesByrne, A., & Preston, C. (2019). Mr Fantastic Meets The Invisible Man: An Illusion of Invisible Finger Stretching. PerceptionKirk, E., & Preston, C. (2019). Development and validation of the Body Understanding Measure for Pregnancy Scale (BUMPS) and its role in antenatal attachment. Psychological AssessmentPreston, C., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2016). Illusory obesity triggers body dissatisfaction responses in the insula and anterior cingulate cortex.Preston, C., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2018). Implicit and explicit changes in body satisfaction evoked by body size illusions: Implications for eating disorder vulnerability in women. PloS One Preston, C., Kuper-Smith, B. J., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2015). Owning the body in the mirror: The effect of visual perspective and mirror view on the full-body illusion. Scientific Reports