Erich Seifritz
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3
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60
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About
Erich Seifritz investigates the neural foundations of body perception, sensorimotor processing, and vicarious somatosensation. His work bridges fundamental questions about how the brain constructs the sense of body ownership and how we experience touch on behalf of others. In a highly cited 2021 study (22 citations), Seifritz demonstrated that illusory body ownership alters cortical responses to vicarious touch, revealing the neural mechanisms underlying this core human experience. His earlier research on passive movement kinematics (2013, 10 citations) and BOLD signal encoding of forefinger velocity and displacement (2018, 28 citations) has advanced understanding of how sensorimotor regions represent movement parameters without active motor output. These findings carry implications for brain-machine interfaces, suggesting that recording from additional cortical areas beyond primary motor cortex could improve BMI performance. Seifritz’s work integrates psychophysics, fMRI, and body illusion paradigms to map the distributed neural networks supporting self-awareness and embodied cognition. His contributions illuminate how multisensory integration shapes our most fundamental feelings of bodily selfhood.
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- 3Delineating the whole brain BOLD response to passive movement kinematics10 citations · 2013