Prof. Dr. Jakub Limanowski

Chair of Biological Psychology 
Visiting Scholar at theCeTI Cluster of Excellence 
Member of ‘Junge Akademie’ 
Freigeist Fellow 

Room: 403 
Office hours: by appointment 
Tel.: +49 (0)3834 420 3725 
jakub.limanowskiuni-greifswaldde 

My research motivation stems from a strong interest in the biological foundations of our behavior and experience. I am particularly interested in the question of the neural basis of body and self-representation. Firstly, because these neural “models” (I believe we can call them that) provide an important foundation on which human embodied cognition is built. And secondly, because the “embodied self” faces ever new and greater challenges in our increasingly technological world—with consequences that we can hardly estimate at present. 

 

 

Academic career

since 2022 Professor (W2) Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald
since 2021 Freigeist Fellow (Volkswagen Foundation) Faculty of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology / Institute of Psychology, University of Greifswald
2021-2022 TUD Young Investigator Faculty of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology
2020-2022 Junior Research Group Leader DFG Cluster of Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, Dresden University of Technology
2017-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellow Imaging Neuroscience & Theoretical Neurobiology Group, Welcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London Head: Prof. Karl Friston
2015-2017 Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow) Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging Unit, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Freie Universität Berlin Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Blankenburg

Academic Education

2011-2015 Doctorate in Psychology (Ph.D., scholarship from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain) Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin Thesis title: A generative model of body ownership and minimal selfhood. Grade: Summa cum laude (defense: February 11, 2015) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Blankenburg. Committee: Prof. Dr. Felix Blankenburg, Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer, Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Prof. Dr. Dirk Ostwald, and Dr. Bernhard Spitzer
2008-2009 Graduate Minor in Cognitive Science (Fulbright Scholarship and Cornell-Heidelberg Exchange Scholarship)
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Grade: A
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. James Cutting and Prof. Dr. David Field
2005-2011 Studied psychology (diploma, scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation)
Psychological Institute, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg
Title of diploma thesis: The influence of induced expectations on illusory experience in the rubber hand illusion.
Grade: 1.0 (overall diploma grade: 1.1)
Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Holt. Review Prof. Dr. Joachim Funke and Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht

Selected Publications

Complete list of publications: Google scholar

  • Quirmbach, F., & Limanowski, J. (2024). Visuomotor prediction during action planning in the human frontoparietal cortex and cerebellum. Cerebral Cortex, 34(9), bhae382. PDF
  • Wang, P., & Limanowski, J. (2023). Phasic modulation of beta power at movement-related frequencies during visuomotor conflict. Journal of Neurophysiology, 130(5), 1367-1372.
  • Limanowski, J. (2022). Precision control for a flexible body representation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 134, 1-18. PDF
  • Limanowski, J., Litvak, V., & Friston, K. (2020). Cortical beta oscillations reflect the contextual gating of visual action feedback. NeuroImage, 222, 117267. PDF
  • Limanowski, J., & Blankenburg, F. (2016). Integration of visual and proprioceptive limb position information in human posterior parietal, premotor, and extrastriate cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 2582-2589. PDF

Reviewer and editor activities

  • Editor for Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychology, PLoS Computational Biology (guest editor) and Brain Structure and Function (guest editor) 

  • Reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Israel Science Foundation, as well as for various foundations (including 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’) 

  • Reviewer for MIT Press; as well as various academic journals, including: Brain Imaging and Behavior, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, eLife, Human Brain Mapping, IEEE VR, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience, NeuroImage, Philosophical Psychology, PLOS Computational Biology, PLoS One, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Awards and prizes

  • 2022: Admission as a member of the ‘Junge Akademie’ 

  • 2022: 2nd place in the Teaching Award of the student counsil Psychology, University of Greifswald 

  • 2020: Selected as one of the winners of the MyJobInResearch challenge of the EU Research Executive Agency 

  • 2016: Merit abstract award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 

  • 2015: Dissertation prize from the Barbara Wengeler Foundation 

  • 2013: Trainee abstract award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 

In the media

  • Report on fMRI studies on the “rubber hand illusion” in the Westfälische Nachrichten (link) and the Berliner Morgenpost (link) 

  • Video report on a demonstration of the “rubber hand illusion” during Brain Awareness Week (link) 

  • Video documentary on fMRI studies on the “rubber hand illusion” on 3sat's “nano camp” (link) 

  • Report on theoretical work on the “self” in the student magazine of Freie Universität Berlin (link)