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Bigna Lenggenhager

Bigna Lenggenhager

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
5820
World Ranking
9804
National Ranking
110

Bigna Lenggenhager publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bigna Lenggenhager sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 137 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Bigna Lenggenhager D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bigna Lenggenhager sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bigna Lenggenhager is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple domains within psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a strong focus on cognitive and social neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, human-computer interaction, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work frequently appears in prominent publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cortex
  • Scientific Reports
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • iScience

Lenggenhager has contributed significantly to the exploration of various topics such as:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Among recent papers published by Lenggenhager are:

  • "Benchmarking Wearable Robots: Challenges and Recommendations From Functional, User Experience, and Methodological Perspectives", 2020, published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • "Measuring perceived self-location in virtual reality", 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Neural bases of the bodily self as revealed by electrical brain stimulation: A systematic review", 2023, published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Effects of a virtual gender swap on social and temporal decision-making", 2021, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Psychometrics of Disembodiment and Its Differential Modulation by Visuomotor and Visuotactile Mismatches", 2020, published in iScience

Frequent collaborators in Lenggenhager's research include:

  • Marte Roel Lesur
  • Gianluca Saetta
  • Jasmine T. Ho
  • Peter Brugger
  • Marieke Lieve Weijs

Best Publications

  • Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness

    Bigna Lenggenhager;Tej Tadi;Thomas Metzinger;Olaf Blanke

  • Multisensory Mechanisms in Temporo-Parietal Cortex Support Self-Location and First-Person Perspective

    Silvio Ionta;Lukas Heydrich;Bigna Lenggenhager;Michael Mouthon

  • Spatial aspects of bodily self-consciousness

    Bigna Lenggenhager;Michael Mouthon;Olaf Blanke

  • Keeping in touch with one's self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness.

    Jane E. Aspell;Bigna Lenggenhager;Olaf Blanke

  • Influence of galvanic vestibular stimulation on egocentric and object-based mental transformations.

    Bigna Lenggenhager;Christophe Lopez;Olaf Blanke

  • How vestibular stimulation interacts with illusory hand ownership.

    Christophe Lopez;Bigna Lenggenhager;Olaf Blanke

  • Seeing and identifying with a virtual body decreases pain perception.

    Alexander Hänsel;Bigna Lenggenhager;Roland von Känel;Michele Curatolo

  • The sense of the body in individuals with spinal cord injury.

    Bigna Lenggenhager;Mariella Pazzaglia;Giorgio Scivoletto;Marco Molinari

  • The bodily self and its disorders: neurological, psychological and social aspects.

    Peter Brugger;Bigna Lenggenhager

  • Autism spectrum disorder and interoception: Abnormalities in global integration?:

    Timothy R Hatfield;Rhonda F Brown;Melita J Giummarra;Bigna Lenggenhager

  • Xenomelia: a social neuroscience view of altered bodily self-consciousness

    Peter Brugger;Peter Brugger;Bigna Lenggenhager;Melita Joy Giummarra

  • Alpha band oscillations correlate with illusory self-location induced by virtual reality.

    Bigna Lenggenhager;Pär Halje;Olaf Blanke

  • New perspectives for the study of lucid dreaming: From brain stimulation to philosophical theories of self-consciousness

    Valdas Noreika;Jennifer Michelle Windt;Bigna Lenggenhager;Ahmed A Karim

  • Don't look at my wheelchair! The plasticity of longlasting prejudice

    Giulia Galli;Bigna Lenggenhager;Giorgio Scivoletto;Marco Molinari

  • Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Embodiment: Importance of the Vestibular System and the Temporal Parietal Junction

    Bigna Lenggenhager;S T Smith;Olaf Blanke

  • Disturbed body integrity and the "rubber foot illusion"

    Bigna Lenggenhager;Leonie Hilti;Peter Brugger

  • Robotic interfaces for cognitive psychology and embodiment research: A research roadmap.

    Philipp Beckerle;Philipp Beckerle;Claudio Castellini;Bigna Lenggenhager

  • Characterizing Body Image Distortion and Bodily Self-Plasticity in Anorexia Nervosa via Visuo-Tactile Stimulation in Virtual Reality

    Luca Provenzano;Giuseppina Porciello;Sofia Ciccarone;Bigna Lenggenhager

  • Benchmarking Wearable Robots: Challenges and Recommendations From Functional, User Experience, and Methodological Perspectives.

    Diego Torricelli;Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero;Jan F. Veneman;Simona Crea

  • Feel-good robotics: requirements on touch for embodiment in assistive robotics

    Philipp Beckerle;Risto Kõiva;Elsa Andrea Kirchner;Robin Bekrater-Bodmann

  • Iconography : Seeing and identifying with a virtual body decreases pain perception

    Alexander Hänsel;Bigna Lenggenhager;Roland von Känel;Michele Curatolo

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Brugger
Peter Brugger University of Zurich
Olaf Blanke
Olaf Blanke École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Fred W. Mast
Fred W. Mast University of Bern
Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Salvatore Maria Aglioti Sapienza University of Rome
Antti Revonsuo
Antti Revonsuo University of Turku
Christian C. Ruff
Christian C. Ruff University of Zurich
Lars Michels
Lars Michels University of Zurich
H. Chris Dijkerman
H. Chris Dijkerman Utrecht University
Michiel van Elk
Michiel van Elk Leiden University Medical Center

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