Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in npj women's health! 🪞🤰
Check it out: rdcu.be/dHja6
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Our exploratory findings regarding trimesters showed that the biggest disruption to the sense of self was seen in the 1st tri, which was recovered to a stronger sense of self than controls in the 2nd tri, and returned to a relative pregnancy baseline by the 3rd tri.

Using self-report and tasks we found that overall, compared to women who had never been pregnant (n=102:100), pregnant women reported higher body estrangement, increased body visibility, more often felt out of control, and had poorer performance on a learning task.

Pregnancy involves dramatic changes in the body and mind, but we know little about how the self changes, or the cognitive processes underlying this changing self. Check out my new preprint with @rebeccanineill.bsky.social and Sharna Jamadar where we aim to find out: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵

Reflecting on a week of talks mixing my old and new areas of interest, starting the week with a talk about infant sleep by Doug Teti, the new science of consciousness by Anil Seth, and a series of great presentations on Women’s Health at the Richie Centre Colloquium. Bring on more exciting research!

Wednesday night, Prof Liad Mudrik expertly entwined philosophy and neuroscience for the first Leon Basser Lecture. Thanks to Monash M3CS and a bequest from the Basser family. Especially liked her intuitive argument against determinism as a problem for free will. My kind of evening! 🧠