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Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the e ...

2013

The interplay of conditional NCAM-knockout and chronic unpredictable stress leads to increased aggression in mice

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Jocelin Grosse, Olivia Zanoletti, Orbicia Riccio Wicht, Céline Fournier

Abstract The neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) is a key regulator of brain plasticity. Substantial evidence indicates that NCAM is down-regulated by exposure to sustained stress and chronic stress seems to lead to increased aggression. In addition, cons ...

Informa Healthcare2013

Posing for awareness: Proprioception modulates access to visual consciousness in a continuous flash suppression task

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Roy Salomon, Mei Ling Melanie Lim

The rules governing the selection of which sensory information reaches consciousness are yet unknown. Of our senses, vision is often considered to be the dominant sense, and the effects of bodily senses, such as proprioception, on visual consciousness are ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2013

Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke

Recent research has linked bodily self-consciousness to the processing and integration of multisensory bodily signals in temporoparietal, premotor, posterior parietal and extrastriate cortices. Studies in which subjects receive ambiguous multisensory infor ...

2012

I feel who I see: visual body identity affects visual-tactile integration in peripersonal space

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Jane Aspell, Michiel van Elk

Recent studies have shown the importance of integrating multisensory information in the body representation for constituting self-consciousness. However, one idea that has received only scant attention is that our body representation is also constituted by ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2012

Turning Body and Self Inside Out

Lukas Heydrich

What is the self? This major philosophical question has been considered too complex to be studied in neuroscience. However, during the last 20 years, researchers from different disciplines within the cognitive neurosciences have started investigating the n ...

EPFL2012

Early and late activity in somatosensory cortex reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness: An evoked potential study

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

How can we investigate the brain mechanisms underlying self-consciousness? Recent behavioural studies on multisensory bodily perception have shown that multisensory conflicts can alter bodily self-consciousness such as in the "full body illusion" (FBI) in ...

2012

Key electrophysiological, molecular, and metabolic signatures of sleep and wakefulness revealed in primary cortical cultures

Johan Auwerx, Richardus Houtkooper, Cyril Mikhail

Although sleep is defined as a behavioral state, at the cortical level sleep has local and use-dependent features suggesting that it is a property of neuronal assemblies requiring sleep in function of the activation experienced during prior wakefulness. He ...

Soc Neuroscience2012

Bodily Ownership

Sebastian Dieguez Falcon

How do we know that our body and its parts belong to us? Observations from neurological syndromes and recent experiments in the cognitive neurosciences suggest that the sense of bodily ownership is a crucial component underlying self-consciousness in human ...

EPFL2011

Accurately Classifying Data Races with Portend

George Candea, Cristian Zamfir, Baris Can Cengiz Kasikci

Even though most data races are harmless, the harmful ones are at the heart of some of the worst concurrency bugs. Eliminating all data races from programs is impractical (e.g., system performance could suffer severely), yet spotting just the harmful ones ...

2011

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