Dr Denise Cadete
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Overview
Overview
Office hours
In person: Tuesdays at 4-5 pm, MERLiN labs
Online: Fridays at 11 am, Teams
Post-class drop-in: After every class, I’ll stay back for 20-25 minutes for questions
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology, Birkbeck University of London, 2025
- MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology, Birkbeck, University of London, 2019
- BA in Philosophy, University of Lisbon, 2005
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Embodiment of extra body parts
- Body perception
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Introduction to Neuroscience (PSYC048H4)
- Perception and Attention (SCPS180H5)
- Topics in Cognition: Perception and Awareness (SCPS209H7)
- R for Reproducible Psychological Research (SCPS228H6)
- Understanding Neuroscience (SCPS237H4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2025) Body ownership: a Cephalopod has a sense of self. Current Biology 35 (14), pp. R720-R722. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Cadete, Denise and Young, P. and Hallett, B. and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Longo, Matthew (2025) Underestimation of human hand density. Cortex ISSN 0010-9452. (In Press)
- Monsen, S. and Walsh, Eamonn and Cadete, Denise and Garrido, L. and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Longo, Matthew (2025) The Face Size Illusion is specific to human faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ISSN 1747-0218. (In Press)
- Cadete, Denise and Brusa, F. and Mendolicchio, L. and Sedda, A. and Longo, Matthew (2025) Illusions of supernumerary fingers are not constrained by posture congruency. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ISSN 1747-0218. (In Press)
- Cadete, Denise and Marino, V.P. and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Longo, Matthew (2025) Perceived hand size and perceived hand weight. Cognition 254, ISSN 0010-0277.
- Ferre, Elisa and Joel, Jonathan and Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2023) Systematic Underestimation of Human Hand Weight. Current Biology 33 (14), pp. R758-R759. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2022) Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts: Comment on “Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function”, by Doricchi et al.. Physics of Life Reviews ISSN 1571-0645.
- Cadete, Denise and Alsmith, A.J.T. and Longo, Matthew (2022) Curved sixth fingers: flexible representation of the shape of supernumerary body parts. Consciousness and Cognition 105 (103413), ISSN 1053-8100.
- Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2022) The long sixth finger illusion: the representation of the supernumerary finger is not a copy and can be felt with varying lengths. Cognition 218 (104948), ISSN 0010-0277.
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Business and community
Business and community
Outreach
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-make-a-phantom-sixth-finger-grow-and-shrink/
An unsettling illusion points to both philosophy and robotics
https://www.sciencealert.com/your-hands-probably-weigh-twice-as-much-as-you-think-they-do