About our research

We are interested in how the different senses are combined to make sense of the body and the world around it - and how poor sensory integration can affect health and wellbeing, leading to disorders of body perception and action.

Using the MIRAGE mediated reality device and other illusions, Dr Roger Newport and his colleagues at Loughborough build academic and stakeholder partnerships to better understand pain or investigate deficits in autism as well as trying to understand everyday sensory and motor processes across the lifespan.
Photograph of Roger Newport

Find out more about Roger’s work

"I am fascinated by how our senses help us to understand our bodies and how easily we can change our body perception by giving the brain different sensory information. We don’t trick the brain – we harness the way the brain makes sense of the body all the time."
MRI scan in operation

Rehabilitating the body in the brain

In partnership with the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) and the University of Nottingham, we aim to develop novel mediated-reality interventions and educational resources to treat disturbed body representations following serious injury.