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Polona Pozeg
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Related publications (8)
Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically-controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states
Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Andrea Serino, Fosco Bernasconi, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Masayuki Hara, Marco Solcà, Giedre Stripeikyte, Pierre Progin, Polona Pozeg
Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one’s mind, are not one’s own, but the thoughts of somebody else and suggestive of a psychotic disorder. We report a robotics-based method able to investigate the ...
2020Motor imagery in spinal cord injured people is modulated by somatotopic coding, perspective taking, and post-lesional chronic pain
Polona Pozeg, Michele Scandola
Motor imagery (MI) allows one to mentally represent an action without necessarily performing it. Importantly, however, MI is profoundly influenced by the ability to actually execute actions, as demonstrated by the impairment of this ability as a consequenc ...
Wiley2017Virtual reality improves embodiment and neuropathic pain caused by spinal cord injury
Olaf Blanke, Roberta Ronchi, Marco Solcà, Estelle Palluel, Polona Pozeg
Objective: To investigate changes in body ownership and chronic neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) using multisensory own body illusions and virtual reality (VR). Methods: Twenty patients with SCI with paraplegia and 20 healthy cont ...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2017Multisensory and sensorimotor origins of the sense of self
Cognitive neuroscience has increasingly focused on studying the subject, i.e. the self, of conscious experience. In order to be the subject of an experience, we generally experience owning a physical body, being located within that body, and being able to ...
EPFL2016Voluntary self-touch increases body ownership
Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Masayuki Hara, Polona Pozeg
Experimental manipulations of body ownership have indicated that multisensory integration is central to forming bodily self representation. Voluntary self touch is a unique multisensory situation involving corresponding motor, tactile and proprioceptive si ...
Frontiers Research Foundation2015Those are Your Legs: The Effect of Visuo-Spatial Viewpoint on Visuo-Tactile Integration and Body Ownership
Experiencing a body part as one's own, i.e., body ownership, depends on the integration of multisensory bodily signals (including visual, tactile, and proprioceptive information) with the visual top down signals from peripersonal space. Although it has bee ...
Frontiers Research Foundation2015Crossing the hands increases illusory self-touch
Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Polona Pozeg
Manipulation of hand posture, such as crossing the hands, has been frequently used to study how the body and its immediately surrounding space are represented in the brain. Abundant data show that crossed arms posture impairs remapping of tactile stimuli f ...
Public Library of Science2014Neurological and Robot-Controlled Induction of an Apparition
Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Lukas Heydrich, Masayuki Hara, Polona Pozeg
Tales of ghosts, wraiths, and other apparitions have been reported in virtually all cultures. The strange sensation that somebody is nearby when no one is actually present and cannot be seen (feeling of a presence, FOP) is a fascinating feat of the human m ...
Cell Press2014