Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience

The Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (Bertarelli Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics) targets the brain mechanisms of body perception, body awareness and self-consciousness.

Haruki Yusuke joins Blanke Lab as a visiting PhD student

08.12.22EPFL

Haruki Yusuke has joined our Lab, as a visiting PhD student, thanks to support received from the young researcher exchange program, between Japan and Switzerland.

Breathing is coupled with imagined actions

18.11.22EPFL

New findings show that the voluntary initiation of imagined actions is coupled with respiration, suggesting that the breathing system is involved in preparatory processes of voluntary action.

New method for induction and real-time assessment of hallucinations

13.10.22EPFL

Fosco Bernasconi and colleagues report in a new paper, published in Nature Protocols, a new robotic method and procedure allowing to induce and investigate specific hallucinations that affect patients with Parkinson’s disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies or schizophrenia.

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