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Heartbeat-evoked cortical responses: Underlying mechanisms, functional roles, and methodological considerations

The heart continuously and cyclically communicates with the brain. Beyond homeostatic regulation and sensing, recent neuroscience research has started to shed light on brain-heart interactions in diverse cognitive and emotional processes. In particular, ne ...

2019

Device, system, and method for robot-controlled induction of the feeling of human presence

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini

A method for inducing the feeling of a presence (FoP) in a subject by using a master-slave robotic system, the method including the steps of altering a visual perception of a surrounding environment of the subject, connecting the subject with a robotic mas ...

2019

You or me? Disentangling perspectival, perceptual, and integrative mechanisms in heterotopagnosia

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Aurélie Bouzerda-Wahlen

Heterotopagnosia-without-Autotopagnosia (HwA) is characterized by the incapacity to point to body parts on others, but not on one's own body. This has been classically interpreted as related to a self-other distinction, with impaired visual representations ...

2019

Sensorimotor Induction of Auditory Misattribution in Psychosis is Linked to Neural Disconnectivity

Patric Hagmann, Olaf Blanke, Alessandra Griffa, Pierre Progin, Giulio Rognini, Silvia Marchesotti, Roy Salomon, Andrea Serino, Kim Do

Background: Schneiderian first rank symptoms (FRS) are characterized by a diminished demarcation of self-other boundaries, causing misattribution of self-generated thoughts and actions to external sources. We have shown that introducing sensorimotor predic ...

2018

The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors

Olaf Blanke, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Maria Laura Blefari, Andrea Serino

The environment shapes our experience of space in constant interaction with the body. Architectonic interiors amplify the perception of space through the bodily senses; an effect also known as embodiment. The interaction of the bodily senses with the space ...

Frontiers Media2018

Common Recruitment of Angular Gyrus in Episodic Autobiographical Memory and Bodily Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Petr Grivaz, Lucie Bréchet, Baptiste Gauthier

Parietal cortex and adjacent parts of the temporal cortex have recently been associated with bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Similarly, growing evidence suggests that the lateral parietal cortex is crucial for the subjective aspects of episodic autobiogra ...

2018

Non-invasive brain stimulation of motor cortex induces embodiment when integrated with virtual reality feedback

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Andrea Serino, Thomas Schmidlin, Marco Solcà, Marianne Anke Stephan, Matteo Franza, Mattia Pinardi

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

Neural adaptation accounts for the dynamic resizing of peripersonal space: evidence from a psychophysical-computational approach

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Interactions between the body and the environment occur within the peripersonal space (PPS), the space immediately surrounding the body. The PPS is encoded by multisensory (audio-tactile, visual-tactile) neurons that possess receptive fields (RFs) anchored ...

2018

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness

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

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

From multisensory integration in peripersonal space to bodily self-consciousness: from statistical regularities to statistical inference

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Integrating information across sensory systems is a critical step toward building a cohesive representation of the environment and one's body, and as illustrated by numerous illusions, scaffolds subjective experience of the world and self. In the last year ...

2018

Bodily self-consciousness and its disorders, The Parietal Lobe

Olaf Blanke, Roberta Ronchi, Hyeongdong Park

Research in clinical and human neuroscience indicates that important brain mechanisms of self-consciousness are based on the integration of multisensory bodily signals (i.e., bodily self-consciousness: BSC), including signals coming from outside our body ( ...

2018

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

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

Optimal visuo-vestibular integration for self-motion perception in patients with unilateral vestibular loss

Olaf Blanke, Steven Gale, Mariia Kaliuzhna

Unilateral vestibular loss (UVL) is accompanied by deficits in processing of visual and vestibular self-motion cues. The present study examined whether multisensory integration of these two types of information is, nevertheless, intact in such patients. Pa ...

2018

Cardio-visual full body illusion alters bodily self-consciousness and tactile processing in somatosensory cortex

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

Prominent theories highlight the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness, but it is currently not known whether this is based on interoceptive or exteroceptive signals or on integrated signals from these anatomically distinct systems, nor wh ...

Nature Research2018

Audio-visual sensory deprivation degrades visuo-tactile peri-personal space

Hervé Lissek, Olaf Blanke, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Hyeongdong Park

Self-perception is scaffolded upon the integration of multisensory cues on the body, the space surrounding the body (i.e., the peri-personal space; PPS), and from within the body. We asked whether reducing information available from external space would ch ...

2018

Differential effects of vestibular processing on orienting exogenous and endogenous covert visual attention

Olaf Blanke, Steve Michel Berger, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Andrea Serino

Recent research highlights the overwhelming role of vestibular information for higher order cognition. Central to body perception, vestibular cues provide information about self-location in space, self-motion versus object motion, and modulate the percepti ...

2019

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

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

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

Temporal Dissociation of Neocortical and Hippocampal Contributions to Mental Time Travel Using Intracranial Recordings in Humans

Olaf Blanke

In mental time travel (MTT) one is "traveling" back-and-forth in time, remembering, and imagining events. Despite intensive research regarding memory processes in the hippocampus, it was only recently shown that the hippocampus plays an essential role in e ...

2018

Vestibular modulation of peripersonal space boundaries

Olaf Blanke, Christian Pfeiffer, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Human-environment interactions are mediated through the body and occur within the peripersonal space (PPS), the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding the body. The PPS is taken to be a critical interface between the body and the environment, and in ...

2018

Self-attribution of distorted reaching movements in immersive virtual reality

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Henrique Galvan Debarba

This study explores the extent to which individuals embodied in Virtual Reality tend to self-attribute the movements of their avatar. More specifically, we tested subjects performing goal-directed movements and distorted the mapping between user and avatar ...

2018

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