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Interoception and Empathy Impact Perspective Taking

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

Adopting the perspective of another person is an important aspect of social cognition and has been shown to depend on multisensory signals from one's own body. Recent work suggests that interoceptive signals not only contribute to own-body perception and s ...

Frontiers Media2021

First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Quentin Antoine Marie Theillaud, Lucie Bréchet, Andrea Serino, Baptiste Gauthier

Episodic memories (EMs) are recollections of contextually rich and personally relevant past events. EM has been linked to the sense of self, allowing one to mentally travel back in subjective time and re-experience past events. However, the sense of self h ...

2019

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

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

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, 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

Visuo-tactile integration and body ownership during self-generated action

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Giulio Rognini, Ali Sengül, Roy Salomon

Although there is increasing knowledge about how visual and tactile cues from the hands are integrated, little is known about how self-generated hand movements affect such multisensory integration. Visuo-tactile integration often occurs under highly dynami ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

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

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 bodily perception is based on interoceptive or exteroceptive signals or on integrated signals from these anatomically distinct sy ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Force feedback facilitates multisensory integration during robotic tool use

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Giulio Rognini, Ali Sengül, Michiel van Elk

The present study investigated the effects of force feedback in relation to tool use on the multisensory integration of visuo-tactile information. Participants learned to control a robotic tool through a surgical robotic interface. Following tool-use train ...

Springer2013

Extending the body to virtual tools using a robotic surgical interface: evidence from the crossmodal congruency task

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Giulio Rognini, Ali Sengül, Michiel van Elk

The effects of real-world tool use on body or space representations are relatively well established in cognitive neuroscience. Several studies have shown, for example, that active tool use results in a facilitated integration of multisensory information in ...

Public Library of Science2012

I feel who I see: visual body identity affects visual-tactile integration in peripersonal space

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Michiel van Elk, Roy Salomon

Recent studies have shown the importance of integrating multisensory information in the body representation for constituting self-consciousness. However, one idea that has received only scant attention is that our body representation is also constituted by ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2012

Multisensory conflicts modulate spatial aspects of bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

Springer Heidelberg2012

Modulation of bodily self-consciousness with proprioceptive alteration at the lower limbs

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

Springer Heidelberg2012

Leg muscle vibration modulates bodily self-consciousness: integration of proprioceptive, visual, and tactile signals

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

Behavioral studies have used visuo-tactile conflicts between a participant's body and a visually presented fake or virtual body to investigate the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness (bodily self-consciousness). Illusory self-identificat ...

2011

Seeing the body modulates audiotactile integration

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Jane Aspell

Audiotactile integration has been studied using various experimental setups but so far crossmodal congruency effects (CCEs) have not been found for tactile targets paired with auditory distractors. In the present study we investigated whether audiotactile ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Lukas Heydrich

The experience of singularity of the conscious self may break down in heautoscopy. In heautoscopy patients see a double or doppelganger of themselves. Moreover, the self may be experienced as reduplicated—existing at two or even more locations simultaneous ...

2010

Keeping in touch with one's self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Jane Aspell

BACKGROUND: The spatial unity between self and body can be disrupted by employing conflicting visual-somatosensory bodily input, thereby bringing neurological observations on bodily self-consciousness under scientific scrutiny. Here we designed a novel par ...

Public Library of Science2009

Embodiment, ego-space and action

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell

2009

Brain technologies raise unprecedented ethical challenges

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell

Nature Publishing Group2009