Perceiving Systems Talk Biography
21 November 2019 at 11:00 - 12:00

Body models for research on eating behavior, physical activity and body representation

Simone

The body is one of the most relevant aspects of our self, and we shape it through our eating behavior and physical acitivity. As a psychologist and neuroscientist, I seek to disentangle mutual interactions between how we represent our own body, what we eat and how much we exercise. In the talk, I will give a scoping overview of this approach and present the studies I am conducting as a guest scientist at PS.

Speaker Biography

Simone Behrens (University of Tübingen)

Post Doctroal

I studied psychology and cognitive neuroscience in Heidelberg and Munich. In 2014, I joined the lab of Prof. Katrin Giel at the Dpt. of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy for my PhD project on body representation in eating disorders. During my PhD, I worked closely together with Betty Mohler and Michael Black; and we are now continuing this cooperation for my post-doc projects.