Publications by Javier Bello Ruiz

Mechanisms of the breathing contribution to bodily self‐consciousness in healthy humans: Lessons from machine‐assisted breathing?

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Oliver Alan Kannape, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka

Previous studies investigated bodily self‐consciousness (BSC) by experimentally exposing subjects to multisensory conflicts (i.e., visuo‐tactile, audio‐tactile, visuo‐cardiac) in virtual reality (VR) that involve the participant's torso in a paradigm known ...

Wiley2020

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

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

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

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

Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions

Robin Mange, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Javier Bello Ruiz, Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Andrea Serino, Francesco Maria Petrini, Marco Solcà, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle

2019

Bilateral Rolandic operculum processing underlying heartbeat awareness reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness

Bruno Herbelin, Roberto Martuzzi, Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Roy Salomon, Maria Laura Blefari, Andrea Serino

Exteroceptive bodily signals (including tactile, proprioceptive and visual signals) are important information contributing to self-consciousness. Moreover, prominent theories proposed that visceral signals about internal bodily states are equally or even m ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Self-grounded vision: hand ownership modulates visual location through cortical beta and gamma oscillations

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Roy Salomon, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Fosco Bernasconi, Michele Scandola, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho

Vision is known to be shaped by context, defined by environmental and bodily signals. In the Taylor illusion, the size of an afterimage projected on one's hand changes according to proprioceptive signals conveying hand position. Here, we assessed whether t ...

2017

Interoceptive signals impact visual processing: Cardiac modulation of visual body perception

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Christian Pfeiffer, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Roberta Ronchi, Fosco Bernasconi

Multisensory perception research has largely focused on exteroceptive signals, but recent evidence has revealed the integration of exteroceptive signals with interoceptive information. Such research revealed that heartbeat signals affect sensory (e.g., vis ...

Elsevier2017

Interferences between breathing, experimental dyspnoea and bodily self-consciousness

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Etienne Allard

Dyspnoea, a subjective experience of breathing discomfort, is a most distressing symptom. It implicates complex cortical networks that partially overlap with those underlying bodily self-consciousness, the experience that the body is one's own within a giv ...

Nature Research2017

Transient Modulations of Neural Responses to Heartbeats Covary with Bodily Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Christian Pfeiffer, Roy Salomon, Fosco Bernasconi, Hyeongdong Park

Recent research has investigated self-consciousness associated with the multisensory processing of bodily signals (e.g., somatosensory, visual, vestibular signals), a notion referred to as bodily self-consciousness, and these studies have shown that the ma ...

Soc Neuroscience2016

The Insula Mediates Access to Awareness of Visual Stimuli Presented Synchronously to the Heartbeat

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

The processing of interoceptive signals in the insular cortex is thought to underlie self-awareness. However, the influence of interoception on visual awareness and the role of the insular cortex in this process remain unclear. Here, we show in a series of ...

Soc Neuroscience2016

An invisible touch: Body-related multisensory conflicts modulate visual consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Roy Salomon, Marta Lukowska, Nathan Quentin Faivre

The majority of scientific studies on consciousness have focused on vision, exploring the cognitive and neural mechanisms of conscious access to visual stimuli. In parallel, studies on bodily consciousness have revealed that bodily (i.e. tactile, proprioce ...

Elsevier2016

Right insular damage decreases heartbeat awareness and alters cardio-visual effects on bodily self-consciousness

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Roberta Ronchi, Marta Lukowska

Recent evidence suggests that multisensory integration of bodily signals involving exteroceptive or interoceptive information modulates bodily aspects of self-consciousness such as self-identification and self-location. In the so-called full body illusion ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Modulation of pain through cardio-visual stimulation in CRPS patients

Olaf Blanke, Javier Bello Ruiz, Roberta Ronchi, Thomas Schmidlin, Marco Solcà

Wiley-Blackwell2015