Publications by Manuel Mercier

Somatosensory-visual effects in visual biological motion perception

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier, Pierre Progin, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Wenwen Chang, Kim Do

Social cognition is dependent on the ability to extract information from human stimuli. Of those, patterns of biological motion (BM) and in particular walking patterns of other humans, are prime examples. Although most often tested in isolation, BM outside ...

2020

Dorsal and ventral stream contributions to form-from-motion perception in a patient with form-from motion deficit: a case report

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier

The main model of visual processing in primates proposes an anatomo-functional distinction between the dorsal stream, specialized in spatio-temporal information, and the ventral stream, processing essentially form information. However, these two pathways a ...

2017

The Cognitive And Neural Time Course Of Empathy And Sympathy: An Electrical Neuroimaging Study On Self-Other Interaction

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier

Although extensively investigated in sociocognitive neuroscience, empathy is difficult to study. The first difficulty originates in its multifaceted nature. According to the multidimensional model, empathy combines emotional, automatic (simulation), cognit ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Spatiotemporal dynamics of visual vertical judgments: early and late brain mechanisms as revealed by high-density electrical neuroimaging

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier, Pär Halje, Christophe Lopez

Constructing and updating an internal model of verticality is fundamental for maintaining an erect posture and facilitating visuo-spatial processing. The judgment of the visual vertical (VV) has been intensively studied in psychophysical investigations and ...

Elsevier2011

Mental imagery of self-location during spontaneous and active self-other interactions: an electrical neuroimaging study

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier

Substantial data from the cognitive neurosciences point to the importance of bodily processing for the development of a comprehensive theory of the self. A key aspect of the bodily self is self-location, the experience that the self is localized at a speci ...

2010

When motion takes form : an electrophysiological approach to visual motion perception in humans

Manuel Mercier

When and where is visual motion processed in the human brain? This question is highly relevant considering the importance of motion for our perception of the dynamical world surrounding us. In the present work we studied motion processing, firstly through ...

EPFL2009

EEG-MEG evidence for early differential repetition effects for fearful, happy and neutral faces

Nathalie George, Manuel Mercier

To deter-mine how emotional information modulates subsequent traces for repeated stimuli, we combined simultaneous electro-encephalography (EEG) and magneto-encephalography (MEG) measures during long-lag incidental repetition of fearful, happy, and neutral ...

2009

Non-retinotopic feature integration decreases response-locked brain activity as revealed by electrical neuroimaging

Michael Herzog, Olaf Blanke, Thomas Otto, Manuel Mercier, Gijs Plomp

When presented with dynamic scenes, the brain integrates visual elements across space and time. Such non-retinotopic processing has been intensively studied from a psychophysical point of view, but little is known about the underlying neural processes. Her ...

Elsevier2009

Motion direction tuning in human visual cortex

Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier

A number of electrophysiological studies have been conducted in recent years in order to clarify the dynamics of visual motion processing in the human brain. Using a variety of event-related potential (ERP) measures, several parameters such as onset, offse ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

Gravity and observer's body orientation influence the visual perception of human body postures

Christelle Bachofner, Olaf Blanke, Manuel Mercier, Christophe Lopez

Since human behavior and perception have evolved within the Earth's gravitational field, humans possess an internal model of gravity. Although gravity is known to influence the visual perception of moving objects, the evidence is less clear concerning the ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2009

Non-retinotopic feature integration has a neural pace of its own, as revealed by electrical brain imaging

Michael Herzog, Olaf Blanke, Thomas Otto, Manuel Mercier, Gijs Plomp

When elements appear in quick succession they can integrate across space and time. Using high-density EEG techniques we show that such non-retinotopic feature integration is not time-locked to stimulus onset, but has a timing of its own. We presented a cen ...

2009