Publications de Javier Bello Ruiz

Mechanisms of the breathing contribution to bodily self‐consciousness in healthy humans: Lessons from machine‐assisted breathing?

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Oliver Alan Kannape, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Previous studies investigated bodily self‐consciousness (BSC) by experimentally exposing subjects to multisensory conflicts (i.e., visuo‐tactile, audio‐tactile, visuo‐cardiac) in virtual reality (VR) that involve the participant's torso in a paradigm known ...

Wiley2020

Non-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 ...

2018

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Bruno Herbelin, Jonathan Dönz, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roberta Ronchi, Javier Bello Ruiz

Interoceptive signals, such as the heartbeat, are processed in a network of brain regions including the insular cortex. Recent studies have shown that such signals modulate perceptual and cognitive processing, and that they impact visual awareness. For exa ...

2018

Peripersonal Space: An Index of Multisensory Body–Environment Interactions in Real, Virtual, and Mixed Realities

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Bruno Herbelin, Fosco Bernasconi, Jean-Paul Noel, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Robin Mange, Elisa Pellencin

Human–environment interactions normally occur in the physical milieu and thus by medium of the body and within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding the body, the peripersonal space (PPS). However, human interactions increasingly occur with or ...

2018

Heartbeat-enhanced immersive virtual reality to treat complex regional pain syndrome

Olaf Blanke, Marco Solcà, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Javier Bello Ruiz, Thomas Schmidlin

OBJECTIVES: To develop and test a new immersive digital technology for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) that combines principles from mirror therapy and immersive virtual reality and the latest research from multisensory body processing. METHODS: In t ...

2018

Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Silvestro Micera, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle, Marco Solcà

2019

Bilateral Rolandic operculum processing underlying heartbeat awareness reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Roy Salomon, Roberto Martuzzi, Javier Bello Ruiz, Maria Laura Blefari

Exteroceptive bodily signals (including tactile, proprioceptive and visual signals) are important information contributing to self-consciousness. Moreover, prominent theories proposed that visceral signals about internal bodily states are equally or even m ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Self-grounded vision: hand ownership modulates visual location through cortical beta and gamma oscillations

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Roy Salomon, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Javier Bello Ruiz, Michele Scandola

Vision is known to be shaped by context, defined by environmental and bodily signals. In the Taylor illusion, the size of an afterimage projected on one's hand changes according to proprioceptive signals conveying hand position. Here, we assessed whether t ...

2017

Interoceptive signals impact visual processing: Cardiac modulation of visual body perception

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Roberta Ronchi, Christian Pfeiffer, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Javier Bello Ruiz

Multisensory perception research has largely focused on exteroceptive signals, but recent evidence has revealed the integration of exteroceptive signals with interoceptive information. Such research revealed that heartbeat signals affect sensory (e.g., vis ...

Elsevier2017

Interferences 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 ...

Nature Research2017