European Journal of Neuroscience
September 11, 2024
Simone Denzer, Sarah Diezig, Peter Achermann et al.
6 citations
Monitoring the reality status of conscious experience is essential for a human being to interact successfully with the external world. Despite its importance for everyday functioning, reality monitoring can systematically become erroneous, for example, while dreaming or during hallucinatory experiences. To investigate brain processes associated with reality monitoring occurring online during an...
Brain Topography
March 1, 2024
Sarah Diezig, Simone Denzer, Peter Achermann et al.
19 citations
Consciousness always requires some representational content; that is, one can only be conscious about something. However, the presence of conscious experience (awareness) alone does not determine whether its content is in line with the external and physical world. Dreams, apart from certain forms of hallucinations, typically consist of non-veridical percepts, which are not recognized as false,...
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology
June 1, 2023
Sarah Diezig, Melissa Spaar, Simone Denzer et al.
The ability to organize self-generated thought into coherent, meaningful semantic representations is a central aspect of human cognition and undergoes regular alterations throughout the day. To investigate whether changes in semantic processing might explain the loss of coherence, logic, and voluntary control over thinking typically accompanying the transition to sleep, we recorded N400 evoked...
Journal of neurology
October 1, 2018
Christophe Lopez, Estelle Nakul, Nora Preuss et al.
There is increasing evidence that vestibular disorders evoke deficits reaching far beyond imbalance, oscillopsia and spatial cognition. Yet, how vestibular disorders affect own-body representations, in particular the perceived body shape and size, has been overlooked. Here, we explored vestibular contributions to own-body representations using two approaches. Study 1 measured the occurrence and...