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Towards Trustworthy Deep Learning for Image Reconstruction

The remarkable ability of deep learning (DL) models to approximate high-dimensional functions from samples has sparked a revolution across numerous scientific and industrial domains that cannot be overemphasized. In sensitive applications, the good perform ...

EPFL2024

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

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Melissa Faggella, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Pavo Orepic

Background. Inducing hallucinations under controlled experimental conditions in nonhallucinating individuals represents a novel research avenue oriented toward understanding complex hallucinatory phenomena, avoiding confounds observed in patients. Audito ...

2024

Neuroengineering of hallucinations through fMRI neurofeedback: Understanding and modulating neural dynamics for the control of hallucinations in health and disease

Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho

Recent years have seen considerable progress in understanding brain function, and in modulating it through real-time fMRI neurofeedback (NF). Inspired by these advances, paired with the unique possibility of inducing the clinically relevant Presence Halluc ...

EPFL2023

Neuroscience robotics for controlled induction and real-time assessment of hallucinations

Olaf Blanke, Fosco Bernasconi, Jevita Potheegadoo, Herberto Dhanis Pedro De Barros Camacho, Giulio Rognini, Masayuki Hara, Eva Blondiaux, Laurent Frédéric Jenni

Although hallucinations are important and frequent symptoms in major psychiatric and neurological diseases, little is known about their brain mechanisms. Hallucinations are unpredictable and private experiences, making their investigation, quantification a ...

2022

A study model for reconstructing urban ecological niches

Francesco Mondada, Robert Matthew Mills

The Living Arch is a study model that was designed to showcase our ongoing research into bioactive architectural systems to be inhabited by honeybees. The arch is a synergistic combination of 3D printing and active mycelia growth, created for a museum exhi ...

CRC Press2022

Olfactory modulation of barrel cortex activity during active whisking and passive whisker stimulation

Anthony Pierre Robert Renard

Rodents depend on olfaction and touch to meet many of their fundamental needs. However, the impact of simultaneous olfactory and tactile inputs on sensory representations in the cortex remains elusive. To study these interactions, we recorded large populat ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Investigation and modeling of odors release from membrane holes on daily overlay in a landfill and its impact on landfill odor control

Sami Rtimi

In the present work, we studied the NH(3)and H2S odor fluxes between the exposed working area and the HDPE covering film holes of the daily overlay in an actual landfill site with a daily operating area of 1600 m(2)in Hangzhou, China. We showed that the od ...

2021

Shedding light on excessive crying in babies

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, François Lazeyras, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler

Background Excessive and inconsolable crying behavior in otherwise healthy infants (a condition called infant colic (IC)) is very distressing to parents, may lead to maternal depression, and in extreme cases, may result in shaken baby syndrome. Despite the ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2021

Subject-Independent Odor Pleasantness Classification Using Brain and Peripheral Signals

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jean-Marc Vesin, Eleni Kroupi

Enhanced sensation of reality from multimedia contents can be achieved by creating realistic multimedia environments, using visual, auditory, and olfactory information. Although the affective information from video and audio has been extensively studied, t ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns

Dario Floreano, Pavan P Ramdya, Kyle Gustafson, Andrea Maesani

The neural mechanisms determining the timing of even simple actions, such as when to walk or rest, are largely mysterious. One intriguing, but untested, hypothesis posits a role for ongoing activity fluctuations in neurons of central action selection circu ...

2015

Non-Linear EEG Features for Odor Pleasantness Recognition

Touradj Ebrahimi, Eleni Kroupi, Dionisije Sopic

Since olfactory sense is gaining ground in multimedia applications, it is important to understand the way odor pleasantness is perceived. Although several studies have explored the way odor pleasantness perception influences the power spectral density of t ...

2014

Emotion Detection and Recognition based on Brain and Peripheral Physiological Signals

Eleni Kroupi

Emotions affect and determine social relationships and interactions, memory and creativity, and influence the mechanisms of rational thinking and decision making. The influence of emotion on decision making has gained attention in computer science. By d ...

EPFL2014

Graph theory reveals dysconnected hubs in 22q11DS and altered nodal efficiency in patients with hallucinations

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Leila Cammoun, Marie Schaer

Schizophrenia is postulated to be the prototypical dysconnection disorder, in which hallucinations are the core symptom. Due to high heterogeneity in methodology across studies and the clinical phenotype, it remains unclear whether the structural brain dys ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Distinct illusory own-body perceptions caused by damage to posterior insula and extrastriate cortex

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich

Recent research in cognitive neuroscience using virtual reality, robotic technology and brain imaging has linked self-consciousness to the processing and integration of multisensory bodily signals. This work on bodily self-consciousness has implicated the ...

2013

Brain-Computer Interface in Multimedia Systems

Ashkan Yazdani

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a system that allows a user to communicate with the environment only through cerebral activity, without using muscular output channels. To establish a direct link between the brain and a computer, the electroencephalogra ...

EPFL2012

Multivariate Spectral Analysis for Identifying the Brain Activations During Olfactory Perception

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jean-Marc Vesin, Ashkan Yazdani, Eleni Kroupi

Olfactory perception is a complex phenomenon associated with other processes such as cognition and emotion. Due to this complexity, there are still open issues and challenges regarding olfactory psychophysiology. One challenge concerns the investigation of ...

Ieee2012

Alteration of brain glycogen turnover in the conscious rat after 5h of prolonged wakefulness

Rolf Gruetter, Pierre Magistretti, Bernard Lanz, Jean-Marie Petit, Hanne Frenkel

Although glycogen (Glyc) is the main carbohydrate storage component, the role of Glyc in the brain during prolonged wakefulness is not clear. The aim of this study was to determine brain Glyc concentration ([]) and turnover time (tau) in euglycemic conscio ...

Elsevier2009

Dual activities of odorants on olfactory and nuclear hormone receptors

Horst Vogel, Horst Pick, Olivia Baud, Sylvain Etter, Ralf Schmauder

We have screened an odorant compound library and discovered molecules acting as chemical signals that specifically activate both G-protein-coupled olfactory receptors (ORs) on the cell surface of olfactory sensory neurons and the human nuclear estrogen rec ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2009

Analysis of information processing in the olfactory bulb by in vivo experiments and theoretical modelling

Brice Bathellier

Much information is conveyed to animals by the diverse molecules propagated in their environment. This information is transmitted and treated within the olfactory system to be utilized by the rest of the brain. In this process, the sensory flow arriving fr ...

EPFL2007

Wavelet-Based Multi-Resolution Statistics for Optical Imaging Signals: Application to Automated Detection of Odour Activated Glomeruli in the Mouse Olfactory Bulb

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu

Optical imaging techniques offer powerful solutions to capture brain networks processing in animals, especially when activity is distributed in functionally distinct spatial domains. Despite the progress in imaging techniques, the standard analysis procedu ...

Elsevier2007