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Consciousness

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Neuroscience robotics to investigate multisensory integration and bodily awareness

Olaf Blanke, Dominique Chapuis, Roger Gassert, Roberto Martuzzi, Silvio Ionta, Christian Pfeiffer, Julio Duenas

Humans experience the self as localized within their body. This aspect of bodily self-consciousness can be experimentally manipulated by exposing individuals to conflicting multisensory input, or can be abnormal following focal brain injury. Recent technol ...

2012

Sleep paralysis in narcolepsy: more than just a motor dissociative phenomenon?

Francesco Manni

Sleep paralyses are viewed as pure motor phenomena featured by a dissociated state in which REM-related muscle atonia coexists with a wakefulness state of full consciousness. We present a 59-year-old man diagnosed with narcolepsy experiencing sleep paralys ...

2012

Experimental changes in bodily self-consciousness are tuned to the frequency sensitivity of proprioceptive fibres

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

Several lines of evidence suggest an important implication of proprioceptive signals in bodily self-consciousness. By manipulating proprioceptive signals using muscle vibration, here, we investigated whether such effects depend on the vibration frequency b ...

2012

Remission of anosognosia for right hemiplegia and neglect after caloric vestibular stimulation

Roberta Ronchi

Neglect and related phenomena, as anosognosia for hemiplegia and somatoparaphrenia, are often associated to right-hemisphere lesions. These deficits can be alleviated by caloric vestibular stimulation, but little is known about the efficacy of this physiol ...

IOS Press2012

Nonconscious influences from emotional faces: a comparison of visual crowding, masking, and continuous flash suppression

Nathan Quentin Faivre

In the study of nonconscious processing, different methods have been used in order to render stimuli invisible. While their properties are well described, the level at which they disrupt nonconscious processing remains unclear. Yet, such accurate estimatio ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2012

Neuroscience of Bodily Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Christian Pfeiffer, Estelle Palluel

We review recent research about human subjectivity and self-consciousness that has focused on cognitive psychology and neuroimaging of bodily self-consciousness. Multidisciplinary research on the fields of neurology, cognitive neuroscience and virtual real ...

2011

Multi-feature objects elicit nonconscious priming despite crowding

Nathan Quentin Faivre

The conscious representation we build from the visual environment appears jumbled in the periphery, reflecting a phenomenon known as crowding. Yet, it remains possible that object-level representations (i.e., resulting from the binding of the stimulus' dif ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2011

Seeing and identifying with a virtual body decreases pain perception

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Roland von Känel

Pain and the conscious mind (or the self) are experienced in our body. Both are intimately linked to the subjective quality of conscious experience. Here, we used virtual reality technology and visuo-tactile conflicts in healthy subjects to test whether ex ...

2011

Multisensory mechanisms in temporo-parietal cortex support self-location and first-person perspective

Olaf Blanke, Dominique Chapuis, Roger Gassert, Lukas Heydrich, Silvio Ionta, Bigna Lenggenhager, Michaël Mouthon

Self-consciousness has mostly been approached by philosophical enquiry and not by empirical neuroscientific study, leading to an overabundance of diverging theories and an absence of data-driven theories. Using robotic technology, we achieved specific bodi ...

2011

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

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