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Human self and Neurosurgery: Advances and insights from Geneva

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin

Introduction: The preservation of the human self—a fundamental yet underexplored aspect of neurosurgical practice—has gained increasing attention in recent years. Research question: How can neural correlates of self-consciousness be identified, monitored, ...

2025

Multisensory effects on somatosensation: a trimodal visuo-vestibular-tactile interaction

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Mariia Kaliuzhna

Vestibular information about self-motion is combined with other sensory signals. Previous research described both visuo-vestibular and vestibular-tactile bilateral interactions, but the simultaneous interaction between all three sensory modalities has not ...

Nature Research2016

Modulation of vection latencies in the full-body illusion

Alessandro Nesti, Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Giulio Rognini

Current neuroscientific models of bodily self-consciousness (BSC) argue that inaccurate integration of sensory signals leads to altered states of BSC. Indeed, using virtual reality technology, observers viewing a fake or virtual body while being exposed to ...

2018

Rituals of art and science to decompart(mentalize) knowledge

Bruno Herbelin

We here explore the potential of rituals in order to more fully comprehend the subjective mechanisms of listening, leading to a broader understanding of phenomenal consciousness (why and how do I know that I am experiencing something?). The originality of ...

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and ISEA lnternational2022

Use of Virtual Reality as Therapeutic Tool for Behavioural Exposure in the Ambit of Social

Daniel Thalmann, Bruno Herbelin

We hereby present a study whose aim is to evaluate the efficiency and flexibility of virtual reality as a therapeutic tool in the confines of a social phobia behavioural therapeutic program. Our research protocol, accepted by the ethical commission of the ...

2006

Interferences between breathing, experimental dyspnoea and bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri

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

Turning Body and Self Inside Out. Visualized Heartbeats Alter Bodily Self-Consciousness and Tactile Perception

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

Prominent theories highlight the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness, but it is currently not known whether bodily perception is based on interoceptive or exteroceptive signals or on integrated signals from these anatomically distinct sy ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies – Evidence from two different virtual reality techniques

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

In neurology and psychiatry the detailed study of illusory own body perceptions has suggested close links between bodily processing and self-consciousness. One such illusory own body perception is heautoscopy where patients have the sensation of being redu ...

Frontiers Media2013

Does scaling player size skew one’s ability to correctly evaluate object sizes in a virtual environment?

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Mathias Guy Delahaye

This paper presents the results of a study performed in order to evaluate whether a navigation technique, based on scaling the user’s avatar, impacts the user’s ability to correctly assess the size of virtual objects in a virtual environment. This study wa ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Oscillatory neural responses evoked by natural vestibular stimuli in humans

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Aaron Schurger, Steven Gale

While there have been numerous studies of the vestibular system in mammals, less is known about the brain mechanisms of vestibular processing in humans. In particular, of the studies that have been carried out in humans over the last 30 years, none has inv ...

American Physiological Society2015

The Critical Role of Self-Contact for Embodiment in Virtual Reality

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Eray Molla, Henrique Galvan Debarba, Sidney Bovet

With the broad range of motion capture devices available on the market, it is now commonplace to directly control the limb movement of an avatar during immersion in a virtual environment. Here, we study how the subjective experience of embodying a full-bod ...

2018

An embodied body morphology task for investigating self-avatar proportions perception in Virtual Reality

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Loën Boban

The perception of one's own body is subject to systematic distortions and can be influenced by exposure to visual stimuli showing distorted bodies. In Virtual Reality (VR), echoing such body judgment inaccuracies, avatars with strong appearance dissimilari ...

2025

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

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Bruno Herbelin, 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

GaitSkin system: Wireless vibrotactile skin patch with gait tracker for sensorimotor conflict creation

Olaf Blanke, Stéphanie Lacour, Bruno Herbelin, Ivan Furfaro, Haotian Chen, Emilio Fernández Lavado, Selim Jean Habiby Alaoui

This paper details the development and preliminary testing of GaitSkin, a wearable haptic interface designed for generating sensorimotor conflicts during locomotion. The system leverages real-time gait tracking and a wireless vibrotactile skin patch to pro ...

IEEE2023

Enhancing analgesic spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain with personalized immersive virtual reality

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Giulio Rognini, Marco Solcà, Robin Mange, Pavo Orepic

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an approved treatment for truncal and limb neuropathic pain. However, pain relief is often suboptimal and SCS efficacy may reduce over time, requiring sometimes the addition of other pain therapies, stimulator revision, or ...

2021

Subjective feeling of re‐experiencing past events using immersive virtual reality prevents a loss of episodic memory

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Bruno Herbelin, Robin Mange, Lucie Bréchet

Introduction: Personally meaningful past episodes, defined as episodic memories (EM), are subjectively re-experienced from the natural perspective and location of one's own body, as described by bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Neurobiological mechanisms o ...

2020

Assessing the Impact of Mixed Reality Immersion on Presence and Embodiment

Alexandre Abbey, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

When placed inside an immersive virtual simulation, subjects will tend to experience the feeling of being 'really there' and to respond realistically to their environment, forgetting that it is not real. This behaviour is observed when subjects experience ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2021

The full-body illusion changes visual depth perception

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Knowing where objects are relative to us implies knowing where we are relative to the external world. Here, we investigated whether space perception can be influenced by an experimentally induced change in perceived self-location. To dissociate real and ap ...

Nature Research2023

Pre-movement sensorimotor oscillations shape the sense of agency by gating cortical connectivity

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Nathaniel Evans, Bastien Orset

Our sense of agency, the subjective experience of controlling our actions, is a crucial component of self-awareness and motor control. It is thought to originate from the comparison between intentions and actions across broad cortical networks. However, th ...

2025

The Insula Mediates Access to Awareness of Visual Stimuli Presented Synchronously to the Heartbeat

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

The processing of interoceptive signals in the insular cortex is thought to underlie self-awareness. However, the influence of interoception on visual awareness and the role of the insular cortex in this process remain unclear. Here, we show in a series of ...

Soc Neuroscience2016