Delusion

Face your fears: attenuating remote fear memories by reconsolidation-updating

Traumatic events generate some of the most enduring memories, yet little is known about how long-lasting fear memories can be attenuated. In this review, we collect the surprisingly sparse evidence on remote fear memory attenuation from both animal and hum ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON2023

Full body illusion is associated with widespread skin temperature reduction

Olaf Blanke, Roger Gassert, Roy Salomon, Christian Pfeiffer

A central feature of our consciousness is the experience of the self as a unified entity residing in a physical body, termed bodily self-consciousness. This phenomenon includes aspects such as the sense of owning a body (also known as body ownership) and h ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Belief Revision and Delusions: How Do Patients with Schizophrenia Take Advice?

Mariia Kaliuzhna

The dominant cognitive model that accounts for the persistence of delusional beliefs in schizophrenia postulates that patients suffer from a general deficit in belief revision. It is generally assumed that this deficit is a consequence of impaired reasonin ...

Public Library of Science2012

Perceptual aberrations impair mental own-body transformations

Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr, Peter Andreas Brugger

Dysfunctional self and bodily processing have been reported from the schizophrenia spectrum. Here, the authors tested 72 students (40 women) to determine whether performance in a mental own-body transformation task relates to self-rated frequency of sponta ...

American Psychological Association2006