Birgit Nierula
Max Planck Society
13 Papers
37 Citations
Birgit Nierula is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sense of agency & Somatosensory evoked potential. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 9 publications. Previous affiliations of Birgit Nierula include University of Barcelona & Charité.
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Papers
Seeing an Embodied Virtual Hand is Analgesic Contingent on Colocation.
TL;DR: The analgesic effects of seeing a virtual colocated arm were eliminated by increasing the distance between the real and the virtual arm, which explains why seeing an illusorily owned rubber arm does not consistently result in analgesia.
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Manipulating the Perceived Shape and Color of a Virtual Limb Can Modulate Pain Responses
Marta Matamala-Gomez,Marta Matamala-Gomez,Birgit Nierula,Birgit Nierula,Tony Donegan,Mel Slater,Maria V. Sanchez-Vives +6 more
TL;DR: Investigating whether distorting an embodied virtual arm in virtual reality modulated pain perception and anticipatory responses to pain in healthy participants provided further evidence of a bi-directional link between body image and pain perception.
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Agency and responsibility over virtual movements controlled through different paradigms of brain-computer interface.
Birgit Nierula,Bernhard Spanlang,Matteo Martini,Mireia Borrell,Vadim V. Nikulin,Vadim V. Nikulin,Maria V. Sanchez-Vives +6 more
TL;DR: Embodiment of a virtual body was induced and its movements were controlled by two different brain−computer interface (BCI) paradigms – one based on signals from sensorimotor versus one from visual cortical areas, which correlates with agency and responsibility.
No somatotopy of sensorimotor alpha-oscillation responses to differential finger stimulation.
Birgit Nierula,Friederike U. Hohlefeld,Gabriel Curio,Gabriel Curio,Vadim V. Nikulin,Vadim V. Nikulin +5 more
TL;DR: These findings might reflect anatomical constraints on the sequential temporal activation of fingers' skin where almost simultaneous activation of many fingers usually occurs in everyday activities, such as grasping or holding objects.
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Mimicking Schizophrenia: Reducing P300b by Minimally Fragmenting Healthy Participants’ Selves Using Immersive Virtual Reality Embodiment
TL;DR: P300bs were found to be smaller in the syncMove block than in the noMove- and the classic-block in participants who had the classically large P300b oddball effect between ERPs to the frequent and those to the rare stimuli.