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.

Deconstructing the sense of self with VR-enhanced meditation

02.06.25EPFL

Using a newly developed VR platform, our study shows that VR-guided third-person perspective meditation reduces body ownership and self-identification, linking these changes in bodily self-consciousness to interoceptive and neural variations.

Maham Cheema joins the Blanke Lab as research assistant

02.06.25EPFL community

Maham joins the hallucination engineering group in our Lab to investigate hallucination sensitivity and its relation to cognitive decline patients with Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

Seeing what isn't there: how Parkinson's affects social perception

06.05.25Research

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease are associated with deficits in social perception

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