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.

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

Primary motor cortex and free will

06.05.25Research

We show how signals in primary motor cortex are related to human free will, developing a new voluntary action paradigm with a brain-machine interface. A step closer to understanding how thoughts become actions — and making brain-controlled tech feel like a body.

Pre-movement alpha oscillations in motor cortex shape sense of agency

22.04.25EPFL

Alpha oscillations in primary motor cortex prior to movement onset modulate sense of agency: new study published in Nature Communications

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