Harry Farmer, MSc
Biography:
From 2005 to 2008 I studied at the University of Bristol for a joint honours BSc in Psychology and Philosophy. Following this I began an MSc in Psychological Research at the University of Oxford which I completed in September 2009. I then spent a year working as Research and Special Project Officer at City and Hackney Mind, a mental health charity, before beginning my PhD in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Research interests:
My main research interest is the role of the body in both cognition and conscious experience.
My current research focuses on how interactions with other people affect the experience of one’s own body in sensation (e.g. sense of body-ownership) and action (e.g. sense of agency), using behavioral and neuroscientific techniques, in both normal and clinical populations.
I am supervised by Dr Manos Tsakiris and funded by the Volkswagen Foundations “European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and Humanities” as part of the “Narcissus & Echo: Self-Consciousness and the Inter-Subjective Body” project.
Contact details:
Phone: + 44 (0)1784 446627
Postal address: Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey,TW20 0EX
Publications:
- Farmer, H. & Tsakiris, M. (2013) Touching hands: A neurocognitive review of intersubjective touch. In Z. Radman (ed.), The Hand, an Organ of the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Farmer, H., Tajadura-Jiménez, A., & Tsakiris M. (2012). Beyond the colour of my skin: How skin colour affects the sense of body-ownership. Consciousness and Cognition (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.04. click here to view
- Farmer, H. & Tsakiris, M. (2012). The Bodily Social Self: A Link Between Phenomenal and Narrative Selfhood. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 3, pp. 125–144. DOI: 10.1007/s13164-012-0092-5. click here for PDF
- Möttönen, R., Farmer, H. & Watkins, K. E. (2010). Lateralization of motor excitability during observation of bimanual signs. Neuropsychologia. 48, 10, pp. 3173-7.