Meet the researcher: Patrick Haggard

I am interested in how the brain's basic processes of input and output contribute to mental life.

The skin is the largest organ in the body, and provides a rich sensory description of our interaction with the world around us.  I study how the brain combines all these signals to produce a sense of one's own body as a coherent object, and the basis of the self.   Next a distinctive feature of the human mind is its astonishing ability to change the world, sending motor commands that produce desired outcomes in the external environment.  I also investigate the basic processes that bind our voluntary motor commands to their consequences.