What happens when your brain sees the world not as it really is? This week, the scientific effort to simulate out-of-body experiences to probe the limits of the self. And, remarkable stories of vision gone heywire—what they reveal about our 'seeing brain'. Two scientists join Natasha Mitchell with extraordinary insights into how your brain creates your mind...Here is the video of the research from Olaf Blanke's laboratory, from New Scientist.
Listen Now - 28062008 |Download AudioGuests
Professor Olaf Blanke
Director,
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNCO) and the Neural Correlates of Self Consciousness.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Lausanne
http://lnco.epfl.ch/Professor Melvyn Goodale
Director, Centre for Brain and Mind
Canada Research Professor in Visual Neuroscience
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canadahttp://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/goodale/
Further Information
All in the Mind Blog with Natasha Mitchell -- comment, discuss, read about the show and other matters of the psyche!
Click on "Comments" under the relevant post you want to comment about, and then follow the prompts.Publications by Olaf Blanke's laboratory
Publications by Melvyn Goodale
The Out of Body Experience virtual reality experiment run by Olaf Blanke and colleagues
See a video of the set-up they used.Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?
Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National.The Nature of Consciousness Debate (Part 1 of 2)
Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National.The Nature of Consciousness Debate (Part 2 of 2)
Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National.2008 International Human Brain Mapping Conference
Held in Melbourne, Australia.Publications
Title: Induction of an illusory shadowy person [Brief Communication]
Author: Shahar Arzy, Margitta Seeck, Stephanie Ortigue, Laurent Spinelli and Olaf Blanke.
Publisher: Nature 443, 287 (21 September 2006)
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7109/abs/443287a.htmlTitle: Neural Basis of Embodiment: Distinct Contributions of Temporoparietal Junction and Extrastriate Body Area
Author: Shahar Arzy, Margitta Seeck, Stephanie Ortigue, Laurent Spinelli and Olaf Blanke
Publisher: The Journal of Neuroscience, August 2, 2006, 26(31):8074-8081
URL: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/31/8074Title: Out of body experiences and their neural basis
Author: Olaf Blanke
Publisher: British Medical Journal, 2004;329:1414-1415 (18 December),
URL: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/329/7480/1414Title: Phenomenology as another toolbox for neuroscientists?
Author: Lars Schwabe and Olaf Blanke
Publisher: Abstracta SPECIAL ISSUE II, pp. 71 - 85, 2008
URL: http://www.abstracta.pro.br/revista/SpecialIssueII/schwabe_blanke.pdfTitle: Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin
Author: Olaf Blanke, Theodor Landis, Laurent Spinelli1, and Margitta Seeck.
Publisher: Brain, Vol. 127, No. 2, 243-258, 2004
URL: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/127/2/243Title: Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision
Author: Melvyn Goodale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
ISBN-10: 019856807XTitle: The Visual Brain in Action
Author: Melvyn Goodale
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996.
ISBN-10: 0198524080
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Brain Hijinks: Out-of-body Experiences and Other Tricks of Consciousness
A great episode of All in the Mind.
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