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

Featured Projects

  • Ramon y Cajal competitive Spanish program 2023 in Psychology

    Principal investigator: Mariana Babo Rebelo
    Code: RYC2023-042702-I
    Duration: 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 Rebelo
    Duration: 01/09/2020 - 30/06/2021