Consciousness is more than meets the eye: a call for a multisensory study of subjective experience

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Consciousness is more than meets the eye: a call for a multisensory study of subjective experience

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Bodily self and human grid cell-like activity: probing spatial representation with immersive virtual reality

Serial dependence does not originate from low-level visual processing

Neuronal correlates of goal-directed sensorimotor transformation in sensory, motor and higher-order cortical areas

Tuning perception and decisions to temporal context

Target cell-type specificity of a cortico-amygdala long range synaptic connection

First-person body view modulates the neural substrates of episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: A functional connectivity study

Breathing is coupled with voluntary action and the cortical readiness potential

Response to commentaries on 'hard criteria for empirical theories of consciousness'

Breathing affect self-other voice discrimination in a bodily state with increased otherness

Breathing affects self-other voice discrimination in a bodily state associated with somatic passivity

Rituals of art and science to decompart(mentalize) knowledge

Flight of mind: Sensorimotor and multisensory embodiment with aviation robotics, flight simulator, and virtual reality