Publications de Michiel van Elk

Congruent Visuo-Tactile Feedback Facilitates the Extension of Peripersonal Space

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Ali Sengül, Michiel van Elk

Effective tool use relies on the integration of multisensory signals related to one's body and the tool. It has been shown that active tool use results in an extension of peripersonal space, i. e., the space directly surrounding the human body. In the pres ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Distinct vestibular effects on early and late somatosensory cortical processing in humans

Olaf Blanke, Christian Pfeiffer, Michiel van Elk, Fosco Bernasconi

In non-human primates several brain areas contain neurons that respond to both vestibular and somatosensory stimulation. In humans, vestibular stimulation activates several somatosensory brain regions and improves tactile perception. However, less is known ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016

Changing motor perception by sensorimotor conflicts and body ownership

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk, Roy Salomon, Joan Llobera Mahy, Natalia Fernandez

Experimentally induced sensorimotor conflicts can result in a loss of the feeling of control over a movement (sense of agency). These findings are typically interpreted in terms of a forward model in which the predicted sensory consequences of the movement ...

Nature Research2016

Suppression of the auditory N1-component for heartbeat-related sounds reflects interoceptive predictive coding

Olaf Blanke, Bigna Lenggenhager, Lukas Heydrich, Michiel van Elk

Although many studies have elucidated the neurocognitive mechanisms supporting the processing of externally generated sensory signals, less is known about the processing of interoceptive signals related to the viscera. Drawing a parallel with research on a ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Imagined own-body transformations during passive self-motion

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

Spatial perspective taking is a crucial social skill that underlies many of our everyday interactions. Previous studies have suggested that spatial perspective taking is an embodied process that involves the integration of both motor and proprioceptive inf ...

2014

Visual and Force Feedback Time-Delays Change Telepresence: Quantitative Evidence from Crossmodal Congruecy Task

Hannes Bleuler, Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

In the field of surgical robotics, it is difficult to find objective assessment techniques for evaluating telepresence. In this study we try to merge the concepts from cognitive neuroscience more specifically from the field of tool incorporation (embodimen ...

Ieee2013

The effect of limb crossing and limb congruency on multisensory integration in peripersonal space for the upper and lower extremities

Olaf Blanke, Joachim Jean-Marie Forget, Michiel van Elk

The present study investigated how multisensory integration in peripersonal space is modulated by limb posture (i.e. whether the limbs are crossed or uncrossed) and limb congruency (i.e. whether the observed body part matches the actual position of one's l ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2013

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

How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy

Michiel van Elk

Bidirectional action-effect associations play a fundamental role in intentional action control and the development of the mirror neuron system. However, it has been questioned if infants are able to acquire bidirectional action-effect associations (i.e., a ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

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

Pouring or chilling a bottle of wine: an fMRI study on the prospective planning of object-directed actions

Michiel van Elk

Springer, Springer-Verlag2012

Acquiring functional object knowledge through motor imagery?

Michiel van Elk

A widely investigated question in the research on the acquisition of novel functional object representations is the role of the action system. Whereas most studies so far have investigated the role of active action training on the acquisition of object rep ...

2012

Reconceptualizing second-person interaction

Michiel van Elk

Over the last couple of decades, most neuroscientific research on social cognition has been dominated by a third person paradigm in which participating subjects are not actively engaging with other agents but merely observe them. Recently this paradigm has ...

2012

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

Using Goal- and Grip-Related Information for Understanding the Correctness of Other's Actions: An ERP Study

Michiel van Elk

Detecting errors in other's actions is of pivotal importance for joint action, competitive behavior and observational learning. Although many studies have focused on the neural mechanisms involved in detecting low-level errors, relatively little is known a ...

Public Library of Science2012

Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds

Michiel van Elk

When we are engaged in a joint action, we need to integrate our partner's actions with our own actions. Previous research has shown that in adults the involvement of one's own motor system is enhanced during observation of an action partner as compared to ...

2011

Imitation of hand and tool actions is effector-independent

Michiel van Elk

Following the theoretical notion that tools often extend one's body, in the present study, we investigated whether imitation of hand or tool actions is modulated by effector-specific information. Subjects performed grasping actions toward an object with ei ...

Springer-Verlag2011

Bodily self-consciousness, and the primacy of self related signals such as the 1st person perspective and self-location

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

2011

The relation between body semantics and spatial body representations

Olaf Blanke, Michiel van Elk

The present study addressed the relation between body semantics (i.e. semantic knowledge about the human body) and spatial body representations, by presenting participants with word pairs, one below the other, referring to body parts. The spatial position ...

Elsevier2011