Publications by Nathaniel Evans

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

Depersonalization- and derealization-like phenomena of epileptic origin

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Nathaniel Evans

Objective Depersonalization refers to the sensation of being detached from one's body, often associated with feelings of loss of control over one's own body, actions, or thoughts. Derealization refers to the altered perception of one's surroundings that is ...

2019

Visual Feedback Dominates the Sense of Agency for Brain-Machine Actions

Olaf Blanke, Aaron Schurger, Nathaniel Evans, Steven Gale

Recent advances in neuroscience and engineering have led to the development of technologies that permit the control of external devices through real-time decoding of brain activity (brain-machine interfaces; BMI). Though the feeling of controlling bodily m ...

Public Library of Science2015

Lateralising value of experiential hallucinations in temporal lobe epilepsy

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Nathaniel Evans

Objectives Ever since John Hughlings Jackson first described the so-called 'dreamy state' during temporal lobe epilepsy, that is, the sense of an abnormal familiarity (deja vu) or vivid memory-like hallucinations from the past (experiential hallucinations) ...

Bmj Publishing Group2015

Shared electrophysiology mechanisms of body ownership and motor imagery

Olaf Blanke, Nathaniel Evans

Although we feel, see, and experience our hands as our own (body or hand ownership), recent research has shown that illusory hand ownership can be induced for fake or virtual hands and may useful for neuroprosthetics and brain-computer interfaces. Despite ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2013

Cognitive neuroprosthetics : Body ownership and agency for brain-machine actions

Nathaniel Evans

EPFL2013

Mental perspective transformations: ERP analyses and single trial EEG classification

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Nathaniel Evans

2008