2026 Olaf Blanke: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	84	1376	1250	23	23	462	31044

Overview

Olaf Blanke is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Within these broad fields, their work explores subfields including neurology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as social psychology and human-computer interaction.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to the neural basis of perception, consciousness, and motor control. Notable papers include:

"Breathing is coupled with voluntary action and the cortical readiness potential" (2020) in Nature Communications
"Evidence accumulation relates to perceptual consciousness and monitoring" (2021) in Nature Communications
"Disentangling the origins of confidence in speeded perceptual judgments through multimodal imaging" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Sense of agency for intracortical brain-machine interfaces" (2022) in Nature Human Behaviour
"Robot-induced hallucinations in Parkinson's disease depend on altered sensorimotor processing in fronto-temporal network" (2021) in Science Translational Medicine

Blanke´s collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Bruno Herbelin, Fosco Bernasconi, Nathan Faivre, Jevita Potheegadoo, and Pavo Orepić.

Their research has been published across various venues, with significant contributions appearing in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Cortex
Nature Communications
NeuroImage

Their work engages deeply with several research topics including:

Action Observation and Synchronization
Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Neural dynamics and brain function

This body of work underlines Blanke's involvement with interdisciplinary approaches linking neuroscience, psychology, and technology to examine complex brain functions and their behavioral correlates.

Best Publications

Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness

Bigna Lenggenhager;Tej Tadi;Thomas Metzinger;Olaf Blanke

1597
Citations
Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood

Olaf Blanke;Olaf Blanke;Thomas Metzinger;Thomas Metzinger

1250
Citations
Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke

1240
Citations
First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality.

Mel Slater;Mel Slater;Bernhard Spanlang;Bernhard Spanlang;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives;Olaf Blanke

1204
Citations
Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions

Olaf Blanke;Stéphanie Ortigue;Theodor Landis;Margitta Seeck

1185
Citations
Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin

Olaf Blanke;Theodor Landis;Laurent Spinelli;Margitta Seeck

1058
Citations
Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction

Olaf Blanke;Christine Mohr;Christoph M Michel;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

750
Citations
Behavioral, Neural, and Computational Principles of Bodily Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke;Olaf Blanke;Mel Slater;Mel Slater;Andrea Serino

747
Citations
The Out-of-Body Experience: Disturbed Self-Processing at the Temporo-Parietal Junction:

Olaf Blanke;Shahar Arzy

656
Citations
The thalamocortical vestibular system in animals and humans

Christophe Lopez;Olaf Blanke

620
Citations
Multisensory Mechanisms in Temporo-Parietal Cortex Support Self-Location and First-Person Perspective

Silvio Ionta;Lukas Heydrich;Bigna Lenggenhager;Michael Mouthon

540
Citations
Neural basis of embodiment: distinct contributions of temporoparietal junction and extrastriate body area

Shahar Arzy;Gregor Thut;Christine Mohr;Christoph M. Michel

533
Citations
Out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, and autoscopic hallucination of neurological origin Implications for neurocognitive mechanisms of corporeal awareness and self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke;Christine Mohr

531
Citations
The human vestibular cortex revealed by coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.

Christophe Lopez;Olaf Blanke;Fred W. Mast

478
Citations
Body ownership and embodiment: vestibular and multisensory mechanisms.

Christophe Lopez;P. Halje;O. Blanke

326
Citations
Non-invasive epileptic focus localization using EEG-triggered functional MRI and electromagnetic tomography

M Seeck;F Lazeyras;C.M Michel;O Blanke

321
Citations
Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies – Evidence from two different virtual reality techniques

Lukas Heydrich;Trevor J. Dodds;Jane E. Aspell;Bruno Herbelin

316
Citations
Brain system for mental orientation in space, time, and person.

Michael Peer;Roy Salomon;Ilan Goldberg;Ilan Goldberg;Olaf Blanke

312
Citations
Turning Body and Self Inside Out Visualized Heartbeats Alter Bodily Self-Consciousness and Tactile Perception

Jane Elizabeth Aspell;Lukas Heydrich;Guillaume Marillier;Tom Lavanchy

307
Citations
Induction of an illusory shadow person

Shahar Arzy;Margitta Seeck;Stephanie Ortigue;Laurent Spinelli

292
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Serino University Hospital of Lausanne

Margitta Seeck University of Geneva

Christoph M. Michel University of Geneva

Theodor Landis University of Geneva

Bigna Lenggenhager University of Zurich

Laurent Spinelli University of Geneva

Gregor Thut Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Michiel van Elk Leiden University Medical Center

Hannes Bleuler École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Christine Mohr University of Lausanne

External Links

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