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Описание: Are embodiment experience universal? From brain matter to diversity matters in exploring embodied self-awareness using immersive virtual reality

Dr Sahba Besharati is a neuropsychologist and social-affective neuroscientist. She is the cofounder and joint director of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Neuroscience Research Laboratory – Wits NeuRL – that aims to promote neuroscience research conducted in the South African Context. Sahba is a C1 rated researcher of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and a current Fellow with the new MIND Institute at Wits. She was a previous Global Scholar for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in the Brain, Mind and Consciousness Program. She serves on the Editorial Board for Communications Biology with the Nature Springer group and for the American Psychological Association (APA) journal Neuropsychology. Her research draws on interdisciplinary methods to address the question of how we become aware of ourselves and others in the world, and how our environment influences this construction of the self in clinical and healthy populations over the life course. She is actively involved in capacity building in neuroscience for unrepresented researchers, where she has been invited to talk and participate in UNESCO and WHO consultations on advances in neurotechnology.

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