Publications de Sebastian Dieguez Falcon

Distinct contributions of Brodmann areas 1 and 2 to body ownership

Rolf Gruetter, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Roberto Martuzzi, Sebastian Dieguez Falcon

Although body ownership – i.e. the feeling that our bodies belong to us – modulates activity within the primary somatosensory cortex (S1), it is still unknown whether this modulation occurs within a somatotopically defined portion of S1. We induced an illu ...

Oxford University Press2015

Bodily Ownership : Tactile, Visual and Motor Mechanisms

Sebastian Dieguez Falcon

How do we know that our body and its parts belong to us? Observations from neurological syndromes and recent experiments in the cognitive neurosciences suggest that the sense of bodily ownership is a crucial component underlying self-consciousness in human ...

EPFL2011

My face through the looking-glass: The effect of mirror reversal on reflection size estimation

Olaf Blanke, Sebastian Dieguez Falcon, Jakob Scherer

People tend to grossly overestimate the size of their mirror-reflected face. Although this overestimation bias is robust, not much is known about its relationships to self-face perception. In two experiments, we investigated the overestimation bias as a fu ...

2011

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

Seeing the phantom: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of a supernumerary phantom limb

Olaf Blanke, Sebastian Dieguez Falcon, François Lazeyras

OBJECTIVE: Supernumerary phantom limb (SPL) is a rare neurological manifestation where patients with a severe stroke-induced sensorimotor deficit experience the illusory presence of an extra limb that duplicates a real one. The illusion is most often exper ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009