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Olaf Blanke

Swiss Federal institute of Technology
Verified email at mindmaze.ch
Cited by 29791

Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

O Blanke - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
Recent research has linked bodily self-consciousness to the processing and integration of
multisensory bodily signals in temporoparietal, premotor, posterior parietal and extrastriate …

Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood

O Blanke, T Metzinger - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2009 - cell.com
We highlight the latest research on body perception and self-consciousness, but argue that
despite these achievements, central aspects have remained unexplored, namely, global …

The out-of-body experience: disturbed self-processing at the temporo-parietal junction

O Blanke, S Arzy - The Neuroscientist, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Folk psychology postulates a spatial unity of self and body, a “real me” that resides in one’s
body and is the subject of experience. The spatial unity of self and body has been …

Neural basis of embodiment: distinct contributions of temporoparietal junction and extrastriate body area

…, G Thut, C Mohr, CM Michel, O Blanke - Journal of …, 2006 - Soc Neuroscience
Embodiment, the sense of being localized within one's physical body, is a fundamental
aspect of the self. Recently, researchers have started to show that self and body processing …

Out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, and autoscopic hallucination of neurological origin: Implications for neurocognitive mechanisms of corporeal awareness and …

O Blanke, C Mohr - Brain research reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
… The aim of the present review is the extension of a systematic approach used by Blanke
et al. [11] to a larger number of confirmed neurological cases with OBEs, HAS, and AS by …

Body ownership and embodiment: vestibular and multisensory mechanisms

C Lopez, P Halje, O Blanke - Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical …, 2008 - Elsevier
Body ownership and embodiment are two fundamental mechanisms of self-consciousness.
The present article reviews neurological data about paroxysmal illusions during which body …

Spatial aspects of bodily self-consciousness

B Lenggenhager, M Mouthon, O Blanke - Consciousness and cognition, 2009 - Elsevier
Visual, somatosensory, and perspectival cues normally provide congruent information about
where the self is experienced. Separating those cues by virtual reality techniques, recent …

Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions

O Blanke, S Ortigue, T Landis, M Seeck - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
'Out-of-body' experiences (OBEs) are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's
consciousness seems to become detached from the body and take up a remote viewing …

Video ergo sum: manipulating bodily self-consciousness

B Lenggenhager, T Tadi, T Metzinger, O Blanke - Science, 2007 - science.org
Humans normally experience the conscious self as localized within their bodily borders.
This spatial unity may break down in certain neurological conditions such as out-of-body …

Out‐of‐body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin

O Blanke, T Landis, L Spinelli, M Seeck - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
During an out‐of‐body experience (OBE), the experient seems to be awake and to see his
body and the world from a location outside the physical body. A closely related experience is …