Cognetics: Robotic Interfaces for the Conscious Mind

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Cognetics: Robotic Interfaces for the Conscious Mind

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Probing and modulating inter-areal coupling in the cortical visual motion processing pathway with non-invasive brain stimulation

Robotically-induced auditory-verbal hallucinations: combining self-monitoring and strong perceptual priors

Debates on the dorsomedial prefrontal/dorsal anterior cingulate cortex: insights for future research

Data Transformation in the Processing of Neuronal Signals: A Powerful Tool to Illuminate Informative Contents

Inter-Task Transfer of Prism Adaptation through Motor Imagery

Bone conduction facilitates self-other voice discrimination

Bodily self-consciousness as a framework to link sensory information and self-related components of episodic memory: behavioral, neuroimaging, and clinical evidence

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

Rituals of art and science to decompart(mentalize) knowledge

The irreducibility of vision: Gestalt, crowding and the fundamentals of vision

Emotion Recognition in a Multi-Componential Framework: The Role of Physiology

Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: Toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering

Automatic pathological speech assessment

Determining patterns of post-stroke motor recovery through longitudinal multimodal MRI: A step towards patient stratification

The perspectives of mapping and monitoring of the sense of self in neurosurgical patients

Wearable Haptics for Somatosensory Perception and Self-consciousness

Wearable and Continuous Prediction of Passage of Time Perception for Monitoring Mental Health

Interoception and Empathy Impact Perspective Taking

Cogno-Vest: A Torso-Worn, Force Display to Experimentally Induce Specific Hallucinations and Related Bodily Sensations

Brain connectivity and metacognition in persons with subjective cognitive decline (COSCODE): rationale and study design