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 Arrival: Hsin-ping Wu joins LNCO

07.10.20EPFL

Hsin-ping Wu is joining the lab as a new PhD student to work on the experimental induction of out-of-body experience using a new approach combining virtual reality and robotics.

Seeing your own body in Virtual Reality impacts episodic memory

02.10.20Research

How does the experience of seeing our own body impact our memory? In order to address this question Baptiste Gauthier and colleagues used resting-state fMRI to measure activity changes related to the experience of one’s own body as compared to seeing no body, using immersive virtual reality. They found body view-induced increased connectivity within the right medial temporal lobe (MTL) and MTL-neocortical connectivity changes correlating with the subjective experience of remembering, providing neural evidence linking the bodily self and episodic memory.

EMPIRIS supports neurotechnology research on early signs of dementia

30.06.20Research

Strengthening the existing collaboration with researchers and partner hospitals in Bern, Barcelona, Geneva, and Sion, the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience has been awarded funding for four years to detect early signs of dementia using innovative neurotechnology.

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