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Hearing structure in music: An empirical inquiry into listening as representation and processing
As a universal expression of human creativity, music is capable of conveying great subtlety and complexity. Crucially, this complexity is not encoded in the score or in the sounds, but is rather construed in the mind of the listener in the form of nuanced ...
EPFL2024Bodily self-consciousness as a framework to link sensory information and self-related components of episodic memory: behavioral, neuroimaging, and clinical evidence
The recollection of sensory information and subjective experience related to a personal past event depends on our episodic memory (EM). At the neural level, EM retrieval is linked with the reinstatement of hippocampal activity thought to recollect the sens ...
EPFL2023The irreducibility of vision: Gestalt, crowding and the fundamentals of vision
What is fundamental in vision has been discussed for millennia. For philosophical realists and the physiological approach to vision, the objects of the outer world are truly given, and failures to perceive objects properly, such as in illusions, are just s ...
2022La mémoire collective et l'espace. Traces, récits et expériences autour d'un paysage urbain romain
This PhD thesis explores the way multiple and tenuous links connect collective memory and space in the contemporary city. It does so through a field enquiry carried out in Rome, Italy. This palimpsest-city has a particular relationship to the past, which c ...
EPFL2020Multisensory perceptual awareness: Categorical or graded?
Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Jean-Paul Noel
Neural evidence suggests that mechanisms associated with conscious access (i.e., the ability to report on a conscious state) are “all-or-none”. Upon crossing some threshold, neural signals are globally broadcast throughout the brain and allow conscious rep ...
2019Underlying mechanisms of episodic autobiographical memory and self-consciousness
Cognitive neuroscience has been examining consciousness associated with the subject, that is the self of the conscious experience and its related multisensory processing of bodily signals, the so-called bodily self-consciousness. Different line of research ...
EPFL2019Spatiotemporal feature integration within discrete time windows provides evidence for discrete perception
Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer
Intuitively, consciousness seems to be a continuous stream of percepts. Here, contrary to intuition, we show evidence for discrete consciousness, occurring only at certain moments of time. We presented a Vernier followed by a sequence of flanking lines on ...
2018Non-invasive brain stimulation of motor cortex induces embodiment when integrated with virtual reality feedback
Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Marco Solcà, Javier Bello Ruiz, Matteo Franza, Thomas Schmidlin, Mattia Pinardi, Marianne Anke Stephan
Previous evidence highlighted the multisensory-motor origin of embodiment - that is, the experience of having a body and of being in control of it - and the possibility of experimentally manipulating it. For instance, an illusory feeling of embodiment towa ...
2018Multisensory interactions in peripersonal space and their contributions to bodily self-consciousness
What is the relevance of the body and body-transformed sensory information for subjective experience? In the last two decades, paradigms from cognitive neuroscience have demonstrated that the subjective sensations of possessing a body (body ownership, BO), ...
EPFL2017Interferences between breathing, experimental dyspnoea and bodily self-consciousness
Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Etienne Allard
Dyspnoea, a subjective experience of breathing discomfort, is a most distressing symptom. It implicates complex cortical networks that partially overlap with those underlying bodily self-consciousness, the experience that the body is one's own within a giv ...
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