Irena Arslanova

I am a postdoctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am starting a Leverhulme early-career fellowship in March 2024.

I’m interested in how we experience time – why it can sometimes pass with a dizzying speed, yet other times take painstakingly long? I examine how our internal bodily signals, like the beating of the heart, cause the time to distort.

My PhD at University College London was on touch and how we piece together distinct inputs from the skin so that our experience of touched objects is unified rather than fragmented.

I’m also interested in attention, emotion and body perception, and embodiment. Specifically, how we engage our own internal body representation when trying to understand others.