
Mariana Babo-Rebelo
Research group
- Systems neuroscience Junior researcher (R2B)
About me
Dr Mariana Babo-Rebelo is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research explores the neural mechanisms of self-consciousness and their link to brain-body coupling. This includes work in memory, spatial representations, subjective experience, bodily perception, brain-heart coupling and the motor system. Dr Babo-Rebelo completed her PhD at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), before undertaking postdoctoral research at the Paris Brain Institute, University College London and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Geneva). In 2025, she became a Ramon y Cajal researcher at IDIBAPS.
Featured publications
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Bodily perception links memory and self: a case study of an amnesic patient
Authors:Reference: 2024. -
Embodiment in episodic memory through premotor-hippocampal coupling
Authors:Reference: 2024. -
Interoception, network physiology and the emergence of bodily self-awareness
Authors:Reference: NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS 2024. -
Single neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus process cardiac and respiratory signals in humans
Authors:Reference: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2024. -
Aesthetic experience enhances first-person spatial representation
Authors:Reference: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2022. -
Visual Information Routes in the Posterior Dorsal and Ventral Face Network Studied with Intracranial Neurophysiology and White Matter Tract Endpoints
Authors:Reference: 2021. -
Neural responses to heartbeats distinguish self from other during imagination
Authors:Reference: NEUROIMAGE 2019. -
The neural monitoring of visceral inputs, rather than attention, accounts for first-person perspective in conscious vision
Authors:Reference: CORTEX 2018. -
Is the cardiac monitoring function related to the self in both the default network and right anterior insula?
Authors:Reference: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2016. -
Neural Responses to Heartbeats in the Default Network Encode the Self in Spontaneous Thoughts
Authors:Reference: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 2016.
Featured Projects
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Ramon y Cajal competitive Spanish program 2023 in Psychology
Principal investigator: Mariana Babo RebeloCode: RYC2023-042702-IDuration: 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2029 -
Space and aesthetics: the interplay between the 'where' and the 'what' in human evaluation and memory
Principal investigator: Mariana Babo RebeloDuration: 01/09/2020 - 30/06/2021