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Illusory hand ownership in a patient with personal neglect for the upper limb, but no somatoparaphenia
Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Lukas Heydrich
The symptoms of patients with left personal neglect are characterized by inattention towards contralesional (left) body parts while at the same time explicitly ascertaining ownership for the neglected hemibody. It is currently unknown if personal neglect i ...
British Psychological Society2017Pointing at the Moon: the civic dimension of exhibitions
An overview of the essay 'Do It Yourself: from individual sovereignty to civic design', and a report on Taliesin apprenticeship as pertains to future museum programming. ...
2016A novel manipulation method of human body ownership using an fMRI-compatible master-slave system
Olaf Blanke, Tobias Kober, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Masayuki Hara
Bodily self-consciousness has become an important topic in cognitive neuroscience aiming to understand how the brain creates a unified sensation of the self in a body. Specifically, full body illusion (FBI) in which changes in bodily self-consciousness are ...
Elsevier2014How vestibular stimulation interacts with illusory hand ownership
Olaf Blanke, Christophe Lopez, Bigna Lenggenhager
Artificial stimulation of the peripheral vestibular system has been shown to improve ownership of body parts in neurological patients, suggesting vestibular contributions to bodily self-consciousness. Here, we investigated whether galvanic vestibular stimu ...
Elsevier2010Representation of body identity and body actions in extrastriate body area and ventral premotor cortex
Although inherently linked, body form and body action may be represented in separate neural substrates. Using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy individuals, we show that interference with the extrastriate body area impairs the discrim ...
Nature Publishing Group2006