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Crossing 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 Science2014

Spatial remapping in the audio-tactile ventriloquism effect: a TMS investigation on the role of the ventral intraparietal area

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel

Previous studies have suggested that the putative human homologue of the ventral intraparietal area (hVIP) is crucially involved in the remapping of tactile information into external spatial coordinates and in the realignment of tactile and visual maps. It ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2013

Force feedback facilitates multisensory integration during robotic tool use

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Jane Aspell, Michiel van Elk, Ali Sengül

The present study investigated the effects of force feedback in relation to tool use on the multisensory integration of visuo-tactile information. Participants learned to control a robotic tool through a surgical robotic interface. Following tool-use train ...

Springer2013

Self-motion leads to mandatory cue fusion across sensory modalities

Olaf Blanke, Steven Gale

When perceiving properties of the world, we effortlessly combine multiple sensory cues into optimal estimates. Estimates derived from the individual cues are generally retained once the multisensory estimate is produced and discarded only if the cues stem ...

Amer Physiological Soc2012

Multisensory experiences influence subsequent memory performance and brain responses. Studies have thus far concentrated on semantically congruent pairings, leaving unresolved the influence of stimulus pairing and memory sub-types. Here, we paired images w ...

Elsevier2012

Extending the body to virtual tools using a robotic surgical interface: evidence from the crossmodal congruency task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Jane Aspell, Michiel van Elk, Ali Sengül

The effects of real-world tool use on body or space representations are relatively well established in cognitive neuroscience. Several studies have shown, for example, that active tool use results in a facilitated integration of multisensory information in ...

Public Library of Science2012

Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience enable improved understanding of embodiment and egocentric space in architecture. From a historical perspective the human body has been inferred as a reference in the debate of architectonic proportion. It was sugg ...

EPFL2012

Multisensory interactions facilitate categorical discrimination of objects

Micah Murray

Object representations within both the auditory and visual systems include partially segregated networks for living and man-made items. Presently, it is unresolved whether/how multisensory interactions impact access to and discrimination of these represent ...

2011

Cortical processing of near-threshold tactile stimuli: an MEG study

Johannes Rüter

In the present study we tested the applicability of a paired-stimulus paradigm for the investigation of near-threshold (NT) stimulus processing in the somatosensory system using magnetoencephalography. Cortical processing of the NT stimuli was studied indi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Dealing with uncertainties and lack of knowledge about problems and situations, there is a perpetual difficulty to evaluate the situations and action values in all time steps. On the other hand, the design of critics which delicately guide the agent even w ...

Elsevier2010