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Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNCO)
The team
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The Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics) targets the brain mechanisms of body perception, body awareness and self-consciousness.
Projects rely on the investigation of healthy subjects, neurological, psychiatric, and orthopaedic patients by combining psychophysical and cognitive paradigms, state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques (high resolution fMRI, intracranial and surface EEG, TMS), and engineering-based approaches (virtual reality, vestibular stimulation, and robotics).
Next to studying the brain mechanisms of body perception, cognition, and self-consciousness, we pursue a very active line of research in neuroprosthetics, sensory substitution, neurorehabilitation in interdisciplinary fields of virtual reality, neuroscience, robotics, haptics, and brain-computer interfaces.