Publications by Bruno Herbelin

Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Nathaniel Evans, Bastien Orset

Our sense of agency, the subjective experience of controlling our actions, is a crucial component of self-awareness and motor control. It is thought to originate from the comparison between intentions and actions across broad cortical networks. However, th ...

2025

Human self and Neurosurgery: Advances and insights from Geneva

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Introduction: The preservation of the human self—a fundamental yet underexplored aspect of neurosurgical practice—has gained increasing attention in recent years. Research question: How can neural correlates of self-consciousness be identified, monitored, ...

2025

An embodied body morphology task for investigating self-avatar proportions perception in Virtual Reality

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Loën Boban

The perception of one's own body is subject to systematic distortions and can be influenced by exposure to visual stimuli showing distorted bodies. In Virtual Reality (VR), echoing such body judgment inaccuracies, avatars with strong appearance dissimilari ...

2025

Meditation in the third-person perspective modulates minimal self and heartbeat-evoked potentials

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Experienced meditation practitioners often report altered states of their sense of self, including decentering and distancing the self from the body and one's current concerns. Altered states of the sense of self, such as disembodiment and distancing of th ...

Elsevier BV2025

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction

Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Fumiaki Iwane, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Objective. A key challenge of virtual reality (VR) applications is to maintain a reliable human-avatar mapping. Users may lose the sense of controlling (sense of agency), owning (sense of body ownership), or being located (sense of self-location) inside th ...

2024

Numerosity estimation of virtual humans as a digital-robotic marker for hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Fosco Bernasconi, Jevita Potheegadoo, Louis Philippe Albert

Nature Research2024

Embodiment in episodic memory through premotor-hippocampal coupling

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Jevita Potheegadoo, Mariana Babo Rebelo, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Baptiste Gauthier, Florian Lance

Episodic memory (EM) allows us to remember and relive past events and experiences and has been linked to cortical-hippocampal reinstatement of encoding activity. While EM is fundamental to establish a sense of self across time, this claim and its link to t ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Numerosity estimation impairment measurement system

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Fosco Bernasconi, Jevita Potheegadoo, Louis Philippe Albert

Numerosity estimation impairment measurement system for diagnostic/prognosis of a neurologi- cal disorder comprising an electronic display device configured to present 3D scene representa- tions/images comprising a plurality of 3D virtual visual stimulus t ...

2024

Virtual Reality for inward contemplation

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

When performed at a high level, meditation and contemplative practices can give rise to altered states of consciousness, the study of which is key for cognitive neurosciences. Those effects indeed can help to better understand the underlying mechanisms of ...

ACM2024

In case of doubt, one follows one's self: the implicit guidance of the embodied self-avatar

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Loën Boban

The sense of embodiment in virtual reality (VR) is commonly understood as the subjective experience that one's physical body is substituted by a virtual counterpart, and is typically achieved when the avatar's body, seen from a first-person view, moves lik ...

2024