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.

New paper on a mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness

03.06.21Research

How we perceive the world and ourselves is a major subject of philosophical and scientific enquiry. In a recent study published in Nature Communications we propose that beyond simple cerebral correlates perceptual and self-consciousness involve a common neural mechanism: evidence accumulation.

Juliette Boscheron joins the Blanke Lab

03.06.21EPFL community

Juliette Boscheron joins EPFL for a PhD on the brain mechanisms of autobiographical memory and how it depends on bodily self-consciousness.

Neza Vehar joins the Blanke Lab

03.06.21EPFL

Neza Vehar joins EPFL for a PhD on the sensorimotor and cognitive brain mechanisms of a specific hallucination called presence hallucination, using neuroscience robotics, cognitive psychology, and virtual reality technology.

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