That feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and the Department of ...

Olaf Blanke examines patterns of brain activity associated with interacting with an avatar.As Blanke carried out studies that required healthy volunteers to interact with an avatar of themselves ...

Now clues about the role that one area of the brain may play in generating such powerful illusions come from a study by Olaf Blanke of the Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Under normal circumstances the brain is able to form a unified self-perception, but lead researcher Olaf Blanke explained that when this malfunctions the brain creates a second representation of ...

By combining Hummel's expertise in non-invasive brain stimulation with Blanke's cognitive research of spatial navigation in virtual reality environments, the researchers developed a unique neuro ...

Learn what happens in the body and brain when your mind blanks out - a distinct, diverse experience that differs from mind wandering.

A series of experiments provide conclusive evidence that the brain uses a single mechanism (supramodality) to estimate confidence in different senses such as audition, touch, or vision.

Blanke found that electrically stimulating one brain region ? the right angular gyrus ? repeatedly triggers out-of-body experiences. Blanke and his team were using electrodes to excite the brain ...

The Swiss neurosurgeon, Olaf Blanke, and his team were operating on a 43-year-old woman who had been suffering from frequent epileptic fits for 11 years (Blanke et al 2002).

Olaf Blanke & Margitta Seeck Department of Neurology, Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland Olaf Blanke, Stphanie Ortigue & Theodor Landis ...

The team, led by Professor Olaf Blanke, MD, PhD, of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, was able to trace the patients' FoP to damage in any of three brain regions: the ...