Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) combine methods, approaches, and concepts derived from
neurophysiology, computer science, and engineering in an effort to establish real-time …

Recent work in human cognitive neuroscience has linked self-consciousness to the
processing of multisensory bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness [BSC]) in fronto-parietal …

This manuscript reviews historical and recent studies that focus on supplementary sensory
feedback for use in upper limb prostheses. It shows that the inability of many studies to …

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) provide a new assistive strategy aimed at restoring mobility
in severely paralyzed patients. Yet, no study in animals or in human subjects has indicated …

Our brain has developed a specific system to represent the space closely surrounding the
body, termed peripersonal space (PPS). This space has a key functional role as it is where …

Introduction Impaired proprioception has been reported as a feature in a number of
musculoskeletal disorders of various body parts, from the cervical spine to the ankle …

Empirical research on the bodily self has only recently started to investigate how the link
between a body and the experience of this body as mine is developed, maintained or …

Our own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow
of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness has attracted little attention in the …

Since the original demonstration that electrical activity generated by ensembles of cortical
neurons can be employed directly to control a robotic manipulator, research on brain …

Watching a rubber hand being stroked, while one's own unseen hand is synchronously
stroked, may cause the rubber hand to be attributed to one's own body, to “feel like it's my …