Publications de Michiel van Elk

Congruent Visuo-Tactile Feedback Facilitates the Extension of Peripersonal Space

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Michiel van Elk, Ali Sengül

Effective tool use relies on the integration of multisensory signals related to one's body and the tool. It has been shown that active tool use results in an extension of peripersonal space, i. e., the space directly surrounding the human body. In the pres ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Distinct vestibular effects on early and late somatosensory cortical processing in humans

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Christian Pfeiffer, Michiel van Elk

In non-human primates several brain areas contain neurons that respond to both vestibular and somatosensory stimulation. In humans, vestibular stimulation activates several somatosensory brain regions and improves tactile perception. However, less is known ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016

Changing motor perception by sensorimotor conflicts and body ownership

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Michiel van Elk, Joan Llobera Mahy, Natalia Fernandez

Experimentally induced sensorimotor conflicts can result in a loss of the feeling of control over a movement (sense of agency). These findings are typically interpreted in terms of a forward model in which the predicted sensory consequences of the movement ...

Nature Research2016

Suppression of the auditory N1-component for heartbeat-related sounds reflects interoceptive predictive coding

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Michiel van Elk, Bigna Lenggenhager

Although many studies have elucidated the neurocognitive mechanisms supporting the processing of externally generated sensory signals, less is known about the processing of interoceptive signals related to the viscera. Drawing a parallel with research on a ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive inf ...

2014

Visual and Force Feedback Time-Delays Change Telepresence: Quantitative Evidence from Crossmodal Congruecy Task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Michiel van Elk

In the field of surgical robotics, it is difficult to find objective assessment techniques for evaluating telepresence. In this study we try to merge the concepts from cognitive neuroscience more specifically from the field of tool incorporation (embodimen ...

Ieee2013

The effect of limb crossing and limb congruency on multisensory integration in peripersonal space for the upper and lower extremities

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk, Joachim Jean-Marie Forget

The present study investigated how multisensory integration in peripersonal space is modulated by limb posture (i.e. whether the limbs are crossed or uncrossed) and limb congruency (i.e. whether the observed body part matches the actual position of one's l ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2013

Force feedback facilitates multisensory integration during robotic tool use

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Michiel van Elk, Jane Aspell, Ali Sengül

The present study investigated the effects of force feedback in relation to tool use on the multisensory integration of visuo-tactile information. Participants learned to control a robotic tool through a surgical robotic interface. Following tool-use train ...

Springer2013

How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy

Michiel van Elk

Bidirectional action-effect associations play a fundamental role in intentional action control and the development of the mirror neuron system. However, it has been questioned if infants are able to acquire bidirectional action-effect associations (i.e., a ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

I feel who I see: visual body identity affects visual-tactile integration in peripersonal space

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Jane Aspell, Michiel van Elk

Recent studies have shown the importance of integrating multisensory information in the body representation for constituting self-consciousness. However, one idea that has received only scant attention is that our body representation is also constituted by ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2012