Publications related to Near-death experience

Manipulable objects facilitate cross-modal integration in peripersonal space

Previous studies have shown that tool use often modifies one's peripersonal space - i.e. the space directly surrounding our body. Given our profound experience with manipulable objects (e.g. a toothbrush, a comb or a teapot) in the present study we hypothe ...

Public Library of Science2011

People's Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Julia Fink

The study presented in this paper examined people’s perception of domestic service robots by means of an ethnographic study. We investigated initial reactions of nine households who lived with a Roomba vacuum cleaner robot over a two week period. To explor ...

Springer2011

Querypoint : Moving Backwards on Wrong Values in the Buggy Execution

Claude Petitpierre, Salman Mirghasemi

As developers debug, they often have to seek the origins of wrong values they see in their debugger. This search must be performed backwards in time since the code causing the wrong value is executed before the wrong value appears. Therefore, locating the ...

2011

Debugging by lastChange

Claude Petitpierre, Salman Mirghasemi

Developers often seek the origins of wrong values they see in their debugger. Their search must be backwards in time: the code causing the wrong value executed before the wrong value appeared. Searching with breakpoint- or log- based debuggers demands pers ...

2011

First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality

Olaf Blanke, Mel Slater

BACKGROUND: Altering the normal association between touch and its visual correlate can result in the illusory perception of a fake limb as part of our own body. Thus, when touch is seen to be applied to a rubber hand while felt synchronously on the corresp ...

Public Library of Science2010

Design through an incremental approach: the Swiss experience

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

In Switzerland, the current code for structural concrete published in 2003 privileged an incremental approach for design of new members or for assessment of existing structures with respect to a number of topics (shear, buckling, reinforcement detailing th ...

Joint IABSE-fib Conference2010

Feeling in control of your footsteps: Conscious gait monitoring and the auditory consequences of footsteps

Martin Vetterli, Olaf Blanke, Christof Faller, Fritz Menzer, Pär Halje

A fundamental aspect of the “I” of conscious experience is that the self is experienced as a single coherent representation of the entire, spatially situated body. The purpose of the present study was to investigate agency for the entire body. We provided ...

2010

Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Christophe Lopez

We describe the case of a 33-year-old man with complex partial seizures characterized by the feeling of being projected outside his body, including dissociation of "mind and self from body" (disembodiment), followed by vestibular vertigo due to right front ...

Elsevier2010

Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

The experience of singularity of the conscious self may break down in heautoscopy. In heautoscopy patients see a double or doppelganger of themselves. Moreover, the self may be experienced as reduplicated—existing at two or even more locations simultaneous ...

2010

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Near-death experience

Manipulable objects facilitate cross-modal integration in peripersonal space

People's Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?

Querypoint : Moving Backwards on Wrong Values in the Buggy Execution

Debugging by lastChange

The Rhythm of Bodily Self-Consciousness

First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality

Design through an incremental approach: the Swiss experience

Feeling in control of your footsteps: Conscious gait monitoring and the auditory consequences of footsteps

Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies

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Querypoint : Moving Backwards on Wrong Values in the Buggy Execution

The Rhythm of Bodily Self-Consciousness

People's Perception of Domestic Service Robots: Same Household, Same Opinion?

Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy

First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality

Debugging by lastChange

Feeling in control of your footsteps: Conscious gait monitoring and the auditory consequences of footsteps

Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies

Design through an incremental approach: the Swiss experience

Manipulable objects facilitate cross-modal integration in peripersonal space