Publications de Jean-Paul Noel

Rapid Recalibration of Peri-Personal Space: Psychophysical, Electrophysiological, and Neural Network Modeling Evidence

Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Elisa Pellencin, Tommaso Enrico Bertoni

Interactions between individuals and the environment occur within the peri-personal space (PPS). The encoding of this space plastically adapts to bodily constraints and stimuli features. However, these remapping effects have not been demonstrated on an ada ...

2020

Increased Neural Strength and Reliability to Audiovisual Stimuli at the Boundary of Peripersonal Space

Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

The actionable space surrounding the body, referred to as peripersonal space (PPS), has been the subject of significant interest of late within the broader framework of embodied cognition. Neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies have shown the represen ...

2019

Multisensory perceptual awareness: Categorical or graded?

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Nathan Quentin Faivre

Neural evidence suggests that mechanisms associated with conscious access (i.e., the ability to report on a conscious state) are “all-or-none”. Upon crossing some threshold, neural signals are globally broadcast throughout the brain and allow conscious rep ...

2019

Peri-personal space encoding in patients with disorders of consciousness and cognitive-motor dissociation

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Maria Manuela da Silva Marques

Behavioral assessments of consciousness based on overt command following cannot differentiate patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) from those who demonstrate a dissociation between intent/awareness and motor capacity: cognitive motor dissociation ...

2019

Neural adaptation accounts for the dynamic resizing of peripersonal space: evidence from a psychophysical-computational approach

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Interactions between the body and the environment occur within the peripersonal space (PPS), the space immediately surrounding the body. The PPS is encoded by multisensory (audio-tactile, visual-tactile) neurons that possess receptive fields (RFs) anchored ...

2018

From multisensory integration in peripersonal space to bodily self-consciousness: from statistical regularities to statistical inference

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Integrating information across sensory systems is a critical step toward building a cohesive representation of the environment and one's body, and as illustrated by numerous illusions, scaffolds subjective experience of the world and self. In the last year ...

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

Audio-Tactile and Peripersonal Space Processing Around the Trunk in Human Parietal and Temporal Cortex: An Intracranial EEG Study

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Fosco Bernasconi, Hyeongdong Park

Interactions with the environment happen within one's peripersonal space (PPS)-the space surrounding the body. Studies in monkeys and humans have highlighted a multisensory distributed cortical network representing the PPS. However, knowledge about the tem ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2018

Audio-visual sensory deprivation degrades visuo-tactile peri-personal space

Hervé Lissek, Olaf Blanke, Isabella Maria Pasqualini, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Hyeongdong Park

Self-perception is scaffolded upon the integration of multisensory cues on the body, the space surrounding the body (i.e., the peri-personal space; PPS), and from within the body. We asked whether reducing information available from external space would ch ...

2018

Vestibular modulation of peripersonal space boundaries

Olaf Blanke, Christian Pfeiffer, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Human-environment interactions are mediated through the body and occur within the peripersonal space (PPS), the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding the body. The PPS is taken to be a critical interface between the body and the environment, and in ...

2018

EEG paradigms as a supplemental tool to behavioral assessments of DOC

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Introduction Diagnosis and prediction of recovery in the acute phase of disorders of consciousness (DOC) are critical for subsequent medical decisions. However, reliable assessment remains elusive due to the inability of current validated clinical scales t ...

2017

Unconscious integration of multisensory bodily inputs in the peripersonal space shapes bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Marta Lukowska, Nathan Quentin Faivre

Recent studies have highlighted the role of multisensory integration as a key mechanism of self-consciousness. In particular, integration of bodily signals within the peripersonal space (PPS) underlies the experience of the self in a body we own (self-iden ...

Elsevier2017

Interplay between Narrative and Bodily Self in Access to Consciousness: No Difference between Self- and Non-self Attributes

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

The construct of the self is conceived as being fundamental in promoting survival. As such, extensive studies have documented preferential processing of self-relevant stimuli. For example, attributes that relate to the self are better encoded and retrieved ...

Frontiers Media2017

Multisensory simultaneity judgment and proximity to the body

Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Marta Lukowska

The integration of information across different sensory modalities is known to be dependent upon the statistical characteristics of the stimuli to be combined. For example, the spatial and temporal proximity of stimuli are important determinants with stimu ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2016

Peripersonal space as the space of the bodily self

Olaf Blanke, Christian Pfeiffer, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Bodily self-consciousness (BSC) refers to experience of one's self as located within an owned body (self-identification) and as occupying a specific location in space (self-location). BSC can be altered through multisensory stimulation, as in the Full Body ...

Elsevier2015

Body part-centered and full body-centered peripersonal space representations

Hervé Lissek, Olaf Blanke, Patrick Marmaroli, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri

Dedicated neural systems represent the space surrounding the body, termed Peripersonal space (PPS), by integrating visual or auditory stimuli occurring near the body with somatosensory information. As a behavioral proxy to PPS, we measured participants' re ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

The wheelchair as a full-body tool extending the peripersonal space

Olaf Blanke, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri

Dedicated multisensory mechanisms in the brain represent peripersonal space (PPS), a limited portion of space immediately surrounding the body. Previous studies have illustrated the malleability of PPS representation through hand-object interaction, showin ...

Frontiers Media2015

Full body action remapping of peripersonal space: The case of walking

Hervé Lissek, Olaf Blanke, Petr Grivaz, Patrick Marmaroli, Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

The space immediately surrounding the body, i.e. peripersonal space (PPS), is represented by populations of multisensory neurons, from a network of premotor and parietal areas, which integrate tactile stimuli from the body’s surface with visual or auditory ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

I Feel What You Feel if I Like You: The Effect of Attractiveness on Visual Remapping of Touch

Jean-Paul Noel, Andrea Serino

Observing touch being applied to another human's face enhances tactile perception for touch being applied to one's own face. This effect, termed the Visual Remapping of Touch (VRT), is maximal the greater the physical or conceptual similarity between obser ...

Brill Academic Publishers2014