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.

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.

Pierre Progin receives the Incentive Frutiger prize

27.09.22EPFL

The Frutiger Foundation rewards research in neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology. The study was conducted by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and the Blanke Lab at EPFL.

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