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.

LNCO Contributes to the EPFL Open Science Initiative

20.02.20EPFL

The proposal of LNCO, called Open Virtual Psychology, contributes to EPFL's Open Science initiative by tackling the issue of the experimental replication crisis in cognitive research.

Swissnex San Francisco highlights LNCO research

10.02.20EPFL

A delegation of LNCO researchers presented their research on breathing and its link with Virtual Reality (VR) and free will during a special event in San Francisco on Feb 6th.

Hyeong-Donc Park (left) and Olaf Blanke at Campus Biotech in Geneva. EPFL / Jamani Caillet

Breathing may change your mind about free will

06.02.20EPFL

Is free will just an illusion? For decades, a signal from the brain called the “readiness potential” has been interpreted to mean that free will may be an illusion. Backed by signals from the brain and lungs, EPFL scientists have discovered that the readiness potential is in fact coupled to breathing and that acts of free will happen as you exhale – providing an unexpected perspective on free will.

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