Fosco Bernasconi

Fosco Bernasconi

Senior Scientist

EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Biography

I am a neuroscientist, interested in consciousness. I obtained a Ph.D. in neuroscience with Stéphanie Clarke & Lucas Spierer in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2012. I then worked with Franz X Vollenweider in Zurich (Switzerland), and Niko A Busch in Berlin (Germany), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Currently, I am senior scientist at EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, with Olaf Blanke, and investigate the underlying mechanisms of aberrant perceptions (hallucinations) and their role in cognitive decline in Parkinson’s Disease.

Interests

  • Consciousness
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Hallucinations

Education

  • PhD in neuroscience, 2012

    Lausanne University

  • MSc in Medical Biology, 2008

    Lausanne University

  • BSc in Biology, 2007

    Lausanne University

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Neuroscience robotics for controlled induction and real-time assessment of hallucinations

Although hallucinations are important and frequent symptoms in major psychiatric and neurological diseases, little is known about their …
Fosco Bernasconi, Eva Blondiaux, Giulio Rognini, Herberto Dhanis, Laurent Jenni, Jevita Potheegadoo, Masayuki Hara, Olaf Blanke
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Robots Induce Parkinson Disease Hallucinations

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Jennifer Abbasi
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Robot-induced hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease depend on altered sensorimotor processing in fronto-temporal network

Hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are disturbing and frequent non-motor symptoms and constitute a major risk factor for …
Fosco Bernasconi, Eva Blondiaux, Jevita Potheegadoo, Giedre Stripeikyte, Javier Pagonabarraga, Helena Bejr-Kasem, Michela Bassolino, Michel Akselrod, Saul Martinez-Horta, Frederic Sampedro, Masayuki Hara, Judit Horvath, Matteo Franza, Stéphanie Konik, Matthieu Bereau, Joseph-André Ghika, Pierre R. Burkhard, Dimitri Van De Ville, Nathan Faivre, Giulio Rognini, Paul Krack, Jaime Kulisevsky, Olaf Blanke
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Thought consciousness and source monitoring depend on robotically controlled sensorimotor conflicts and illusory states

Thought insertion (TI) is characterized by the experience that certain thoughts, occurring in one’s mind, are not one’s …
Serino Andrea, Pozeg Polona, Bernasconi Fosco, Solcà Marco, Hara Masayuki, Progin Pierre, Stripeikyte Giedre, Dhanis Herberto, Salomon Roy, Bleuler Hannes, Rognini Giulio, Blanke Olaf
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Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence for altered interoceptive bodily processing in chronic pain

Whereas impaired multisensory processing of bodily stimuli and distorted body representation are well-established in various chronic …
Solcà Marco, Fosco Bernasconi, Hyeong Dong Park, Olaf Blanke
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Sensorimotor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease

Hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are one of the most disturbing non-motor symptoms, affect half of the patients, and …
Fosco Bernasconi, Eva Blondiaux, Jevita Potheegadoo, Giedre Stripeikyte, Javier Pagonabarraga, Helena Bejr-Kasem, Michela Bassolino, Michel Akselrod, Saul Martinez-Horta, Frederic Sampedro, Masayuki Hara, Judit Horvath, Matteo Franza, Stéphanie Konik, Matthieu Bereau, Joseph-André Ghika, Pierre R. Burkhard, Dimitri Van De Ville, Nathan Faivre, Giulio Rognini, Paul Krack, Jaime Kulisevsky, Olaf Blanke
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Sensorimotor Induction of Auditory Misattribution in Early Psychosis

Dysfunction of sensorimotor predictive processing is thought to underlie abnormalities in self-monitoring producing passivity symptoms …
Roy Salomon, Pierre Progin, Alessandra Griffa, Giulio Rognini, Kim Q Do, Philippe Conus, Silvia Marchesotti, Fosco Bernasconi, Patric Hagmann, Andrea Serino, Olaf Blanke
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Sensorimotor conflicts alter metacognitive and action monitoring

While sensorimotor signals are known to modulate perception, little is known about their influence on higher-level cognitive processes. …
Nathan Faivre, Laurène Vuillaume, Fosco Bernasconi, Roy Salomon, Olaf Blanke, Axel Cleeremans
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Audio-tactile and peripersonal space processing around the trunk in human parietal and temporal cortex: an intracranial EEG study

Interactions with the environment happen within one’s peripersonal space (PPS)—the space surrounding the body. Studies in monkeys and …
Fosco Bernasconi, Jean-Paul Noel, Hyeong Dong Park, Nathan Faivre, Margitta Seeck, Laurent Spinelli, Karl Schaller, Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino
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Neural sources and underlying mechanisms of neural responses to heartbeats, and their role in bodily self-consciousness: an intracranial EEG study

Hyeong-Dong Park, Fosco Bernasconi, Roy Salomon, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Laurent Spinelli, Margitta Seeck, Karl Schaller, Olaf Blanke
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