Prix de la Fondation Dimitris N. Chorafas 2011 - Tadi Tej
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Neural Mechanisms of the Embodied Self : Merging Virtual Reality and Electrical Neuroimaging. Thèse EPFL, no 4964. Dir. : Prof. Olaf Blanke.
"Dr Tadi est un ingénieur en électronique dont le domaine de spécialité s’étend des sciences cognitives à l’imagerie du cerveau en passent par la réalité virtuelle. Au cours de ses recherches, il a obtenu des avancées majeures dans notre compréhension des processus sous-jacents à la conscience à travers l’analyse des comportements spatiotemporels du cortex parietal et frontal."
Neural Mechanisms of The Embodied Self - Merging Virtual Reality and Electrical Neuroimaging.
What is it like to have a body? The unitary experience of the self and the body accompanied by unambiguous self-location and egocentric visuo-spatial perspective are essential aspects of the embodied self. They play a vital role for dynamic whole body human perception and interactions in our daily lives and help distinguish our body from others and the environment. In the current thesis, we used an amalgam of state of the art virtual reality techniques and methods in cognitive neuroscience in combination with electrical neuroimaging to develop novel procedures and investigate multisensory, sensorimotor, and cognitive processes involved in mental own body imagery, visuo-spatial perspective taking, the feeling of ownership and agency and their contribution to different aspects of the bodily self and bodily processing.