Biological Psychology
April 1, 2022
Sophie Betka, Dan Adler, Thomas Similowski et al.
Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory system to various areas of the brain. It is intimately associated with bodily movements. It bears particular relationships with consciousness as its efferent motor control can be automatic or voluntary. In this review...
Psychophysiology
March 12, 2020
Sophie Betka, Elisa Canzoneri, Dan Adler et al.
Abstract Previous studies investigated bodily self‐consciousness (BSC) by experimentally exposing subjects to multisensory conflicts (i.e., visuo‐tactile, audio‐tactile, visuo‐cardiac) in virtual reality (VR) that involve the participant's torso in a paradigm known as the full‐body illusion (FBI). Using a modified FBI paradigm, we found that synchrony of visuo‐respiratory stimulation (i.e., a...
Scientific Reports
April 12, 2018
Delphine Oudiette, Pauline Dodet, Nahema Ledard et al.
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Scientific Reports
February 8, 2018
Delphine Oudiette, Pauline Dodet, Nahema Ledard et al.
Breathing is irregular during rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep, whereas it is stable during non-REM sleep. Why this is so remains a mystery. We propose that irregular breathing has a cortical origin and reflects the mental content of dreams, which often accompany REM sleep. We tested 21 patients with narcolepsy who had the exceptional ability to lucid dream in REM sleep, a condition in which one...
Scientific Reports
August 24, 2017
Étienne Allard, Elisa Canzoneri, Dan Adler et al.
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Dyspnoea, a subjective experience of breathing discomfort, is a most distressing symptom. It implicates complex cortical networks that partially overlap with those underlying bodily self-consciousness, the experience that the body is one's own within a given location (self-identification and self-location, respectively). Breathing as an interoceptive signal contributes to bodily...