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Increased sensory evidence reverses nonconscious priming during crowding

Nathan Quentin Faivre

Sensory adaptation reflects the fact that the responsiveness of a perceptual system changes after the processing of a specific stimulus. Two manifestations of this property have been used in order to infer the mechanisms underlying vision: priming, in whic ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2011

Multi-feature objects elicit nonconscious priming despite crowding

Nathan Quentin Faivre

The conscious representation we build from the visual environment appears jumbled in the periphery, reflecting a phenomenon known as crowding. Yet, it remains possible that object-level representations (i.e., resulting from the binding of the stimulus' dif ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2011

Illusory own body perceptions: case reports and relevance for bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Sebastian Dieguez Falcon

Neurological disorders of body representation have for a long time suggested the importance of multisensory processing of bodily signals for self-consciousness. One such group of disorders--illusory own body perceptions affecting the entire body--has been ...

Elsevier2010

Feeling in control of your footsteps: Conscious gait monitoring and the auditory consequences of footsteps

Martin Vetterli, Olaf Blanke, Christof Faller, Fritz Menzer, Pär Halje

A fundamental aspect of the “I” of conscious experience is that the self is experienced as a single coherent representation of the entire, spatially situated body. The purpose of the present study was to investigate agency for the entire body. We provided ...

2010

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

The Rhythm of Bodily Self-Consciousness

Pär Halje

Recent philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific theories suggest that bodily experience is crucial for the phenomenology of selfhood (i.e. the experience of 'being someone'). In this thesis I have shown that two essential aspects of bodily self-con ...

EPFL2010

The limits of agency in walking humans

Olaf Blanke, Oliver Alan Kannape

An important principle of human ethics is that individuals are not responsible for actions performed when unconscious. Recent research found that the generation of an action and the building of a conscious experience of that action (agency) are distinct pr ...

Elsevier2010

Keeping in touch with one's self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Bigna Lenggenhager

BACKGROUND: The spatial unity between self and body can be disrupted by employing conflicting visual-somatosensory bodily input, thereby bringing neurological observations on bodily self-consciousness under scientific scrutiny. Here we designed a novel par ...

Public Library of Science2009

Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood

Olaf Blanke

We highlight the latest research on body perception and self-consciousness, but argue that despite these achievements, central aspects have remained unexplored, namely, global aspects of bodily self-consciousness. Researchers investigated central represent ...

Elsevier2009

Multisensory mechanisms underlying bodily self-consciousness

Bigna Lenggenhager

Recent philosophical and neuroscientific theories converge on the assumption that the basic foundations of self-consciousness lie in those brain systems that represent the body. Neurological cases in which this basic bodily self-consciousness is disturbed ...

EPFL2009