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The EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics is an interdisciplinary research center hosting over 220 scientists, engineers, and clinicians. They focus on designing and implementing innovative neurotechnologies to diagnose, treat, and assist individuals with neurological disorders and trauma. Research areas include bioinspired neural interfaces, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces, machine learning, biomedical signal processing, robotics, and neuroscience. The Center aims to restore vision, enable sensorimotor control after spinal cord injury, stroke, or amputation, and alleviate cognitive and psychiatric disorders. They work on developing non-invasive, wearable, or implantable interfaces to communicate with the nervous system for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of neurological disorders. The Center is known for its world-class research integrating knowledge in neuroscience, engineering, and medicine, with a focus on translational research. They collaborate with health institutions along the Lemanic coast and have expertise in materials science, microfabrication, neuroimaging, robotics, and cognitive neuroscience.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), education (such as medical or military training) and business (such as virtual meetings). Other distinct types of VR-style technology include augmented reality and mixed reality, sometimes referred to as extended reality or XR, although definitions are currently changing due to the nascence of the industry.

Multisensory integration

Multisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities (such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion, and taste) may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent representation of objects combining modalities enables animals to have meaningful perceptual experiences. Indeed, multisensory integration is central to adaptive behavior because it allows animals to perceive a world of coherent perceptual entities.

Consciousness

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguists, and scientists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition.

Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering

Olaf Blanke, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory system to various ar

2022

Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback: Methods and Application to Chronic Tinnitus

Nicolas Gninenko

In the last twenty years, advances in real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) have offered exciting new tools to study the human brain. One of them, termed rt-fMRI neurofeedback (NF)

EPFL2022

Preventing Breaks in Embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality

Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Virtual reality (VR) is immersive not only because of visual integration, but because we can act and perform in a virtual environment (VE). Beyond the mere fact that a VR system provides images comput

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