LOPEZ Christophe

Fonction
Head of the Multisense & Body Team
Status
Research Director
Team
MULTISENSE & BODY
  • Head of the Multisense & Body Team
  • Coordinator of the ANR (PRC) VESTISELF Project
  • Head of the Off-site Thematic Team "Cortex and Cognition" of the GDR Vertige
  • Head of the Southern Pole of the Carnot Cognition Institute (3 laboratories: CRPN, LPL, LIA)

Research themes

Vestibular cognitive neurosciences : vestibular and multisensory bases of bodily self-consciousness
  • Vestibular cortex
  • Vestibular and somatosensory perceptions
  • Body representations
  • Spatial cognition
  • Self and body consciousness
  • Otoneurology
Current research 

My research focuses on multisensory integration and vestibular perception, as well as sensorimotor adaptations in vestibular system disorders. I study the effects of vestibular stimulation on various aspects of body perception and self-consciousness (e.g., visuo-spatial perspective-taking, sense of body ownership, body schema, and body image).

These studies are conducted in healthy volunteers, brain-lesioned patients, epileptic patients, and patients with vestibular disorders, using neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging approaches (electroencephalography, EEG).

My research combines cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and vestibular physiology. The range of techniques used includes: surface EEG, intracranial EEG (epileptic patients), galvanic vestibular stimulation, vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs), fMRI, psychophysics, videonystagmography, and posturography

Main fundings
  • 2024–2027: Fondation WAKAM for Good and Fondation CNRS. Research grant on the pathophysiological mechanisms of PPPD.
  • 2020–2026: ANR (PRC). "VESTISELF – The vestibular system: a hidden sense for a core sense of self." 48 months. Principal Investigator, Scientific Coordinator (€454,727). Partners: F. Bartolomei, M. Elzière, B. Lenggenhager.
  • 2019–2020: FR3C Incentive Actions. "Sharing others' perspectives: a developmental study of embodied and implicit cognitive mechanisms." Principal Investigator (€6,900).
  • 2015–2018: VolkswagenStiftung. "Finding Perspective: determining the embodiment of perspectival experience." Co-investigator (€390,800, of which €85,600 managed by CNRS).
  • 2013–2017: Career Integration Grant from the FP7 European Union’s Marie Curie program "BODILYSELF" Vestibular and multisensory investigations of bodily self-consciousness. Principal Investigator (€100,000 managed by CNRS).
  • 2011–2013: VolkswagenStiftung’s European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities. "The (Un)bound Body project. Exploring the constraints of embodiment & the limits of body representation." Co-investigator (€90,000).
Research career
  • Since October 2023: CNRS Research Director (DR2), Section 26.
  • 2015: Habilitation to Supervise Research (Sciences).
  • 2011–2023: CNRS Researcher (CR) at LNIA, then LNSC, then LNC.
  • 2010–2011: Post-doctoral researcher, Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology (Prof. Fred Mast), Department of Psychology, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2006–2009: Post-doctoral researcher, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (Prof. Olaf Blanke), Brain-Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 2004–2005: Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant in Neuroscience, Université de Provence, Marseille.
  • 2001–2005: PhD Student, Neurobiologie Intégrative et Adaptative Laboratory, Université de Provence, Marseille (Drs. M. Lacour, L. Borel).
  • 2001–2004: Higher Education Teaching Assistant, Université de Provence, Marseille.

Publications

H Index = 40 (Google Scholar): https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=je-YQlkAAAAJ&hl=fr 

  1. LOPEZ C., BURGER P., MANDEL J.L. and COUTELLE R. (2025) Vertigo and dizziness in genetic neurodevelopmental disorders: an international cross-sectional study. Journal of Neurology. 272(8): 494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-025-13237-3 [IF2023 = 4.8]
  2. MELLITI A., VAN DE BERG R., ANAGNOSTOU E., CAKRT O., CHABBERT C., HEIDE W., HELMCHEN C., JERABECK J., KENTALA E., KERKENI H., KOOHI N., LOPEZ C., LUIS L., MELDRUM D., PAVLOVIC D., SPIEGELBERG M., VEREECK L., GRILL E., JAHN K., STRITESKA M., VANBELLE S., ZWERGAL A., GERB J., on behalf of the Clinical Trials Research Group in the European DIZZYNET (2025) Introducing the Pictogram-based Ocular Motor and Visual-Perceptual Symptom Scale (POVSS): a multinational, cross-cultural feasibility study. Frontiers in Neurology. 16 :xxx. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2025.1636002
  3. [DARY Z.*, KOBLISKA P.*], LÉONARD J., TOUPET M., HAUTEFORT C., PERGANDI JM., DENISE P. and LOPEZ C. (2025) Illusory self-location in virtual reality: the interplay of vestibular function, aging, and gaming experience. Brain Research. 1864: 149793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149793 [*Shared first authorship]. [IF2024 = 2.6]
  4. PERRIGUEY M., ELZIÈRE M., LOPEZ C. and BARTOLOMEI F. (2024) Vestibular epilepsy: clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics with the proposed diagnostic criteria. Journal of Neurology. 272, 68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-024-12796-1 [IF2023 = 4.8]
  5. [MELETAKI V.*, GOBINET M.*], LÉONARD J., ELZIÈRE M. and LOPEZ C. (2024) French adaptation and validation of the Niigata PPPD Questionnaire: measure of severity of Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness and its association with psychiatric comorbidities and perceived handicap. Frontiers in Neurology. 15:1388805. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2024.1388805 [IF2023= 2.7] [*Shared first authorship].
  6. LOPEZ C. and CULLEN K. (2024) Electrical stimulation of the peripheral and central vestibular system. Current Opinion in Neurology. 37(1): 40–51. 10.1097/WCO.0000000000001228 [IF2023 = 4.1]
  7. ERDENIZ B., TEKGÃœN E., LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2023) Visual perspective, distance, and felt presence of others in dreams. Consciousness and Cognition. In press (22/06). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103547 [IF2021 = 2.728]
  8. DARY Z. and LOPEZ C. (2023) Understanding the neural bases of bodily self-consciousness: recent achievements and main challenges. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 17:1145924. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2023.1145924 IF2021 = 3.213]
  9. LACOUR M., LOPEZ C., THIRY A. and TARDIVET L. (2023) Vestibular rehabilitation improves spontaneous nystagmus normalization in patients with acute unilateral vestibulopathy. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences. 4:1122301.https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2023.1122301
  10. VILLARD C., DARY Z., LÉONARD J., MEDINA VILLALON S., CARRON R., MAKHALOVA J., LAGARDE S., LOPEZ C. and BARTOLOMEI F. (2023) The origin of pleasant sensations: insight from direct electrical brain stimulation. Cortex. 164: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.03.007 [IF2021 = 4.644]
  11. DARY Z., LENGGENHAGER B., LAGARDE S., MEDINA VILLALON S., BARTOLOMEI F. and LOPEZ C. (2023) Neural bases of the bodily self as revealed by electrical brain stimulation: a systematic review. Human Brain Mapping. 44(7): 2936–2959. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26253 [IF2021 = 5.399]
  12. GAMMERI R., LÉONARD J., BESNARD S., MACHADO M.L., TOUPET M., VAN NECHEL C., HAUTEFORT C., NAKUL E., MONTAVA M., LAVIEILLE J.P. and LOPEZ C. (2022) Navigation strategies in patients with vestibular loss tested in a virtual reality T-Maze. Journal of Neurology. 269(8): 4333−4348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11069-z [IF2021 = 6.682]
  13. NAKUL E., BARTOLOMEI F. and LOPEZ C. (2021) Vestibular-evoked cerebral potentials. Frontiers in Neurology. 12: 674100. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.674100 [IF2020 = 4.003]
  14. NAKUL E., JEANNIN R. and LOPEZ C. (2021) A new device to restore sensory congruency in virtual reality and to prevent cybersickness. IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 156–160. 10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00036
  15. NAKUL E., DABBARD C. TOUPET M., HAUTEFORT C., VAN NECHEL C., LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2020) Interoception and embodiment in patients with bilateral vestibulopathy. Journal of Neurology. 267(1): 109–117. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  16. MELDRUM D., BURROWS L., CAKRT O., KERKENI H., LOPEZ C., TJERNSTRÖM F., VEREECK L., ZUR O. and JAHN K. (2020) Vestibular rehabilitation in Europe: A survey of clinical and research practice. Journal of Neurology. 267(1): 24–35. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  17. JACOB A., TWARD D.J., RESNICK S., SMITH P.F., LOPEZ C., REBELLO E., WEI. E.X., RATNANATHER J.T., and AGRAWAL Y. (2020) Vestibular function and cortical and sub-cortical alterations in an aging population. Heliyon, 6(8): e04728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04728
  18. NAKUL E., DABBARD C. TOUPET M., HAUTEFORT C., VAN NECHEL C., LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2020) Body-maps of emotions in bilateral vestibulopathy. Journal of Neurology. 267(1): 104–108. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  19. PALLUEL E., FALCONER C., LOPEZ C., MARCHESOTTI S., HARTMANN M., BLANKE O., and MAST F.W. (2020) Imagined paralysis alters somatosensory-evoked potentials. Cognitive Neuroscience. 11(14): 205–215. [IF2017 = 3.417]
  20. NAKUL E., ORLANDO-DESSAINTS N., LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2020) Measuring perceived self-location in virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 6802. [IF2021 = 4.996]
  21. LOPEZ C., TOUPET M., VAN NECHEL C. and BOZORG GAYELI A. (2020) Editorial: Role of the inner ear in self and environment perception. Frontiers in Neurology, 11:12. [IF2021 = 4.086]
  22. PAVLIDOU A., GALLHAGER M., [LOPEZ C.* and FERRÈ E.R.*] (2019) Lets share our perspective: but only if our body postures match. Cortex, 119: 575–579. [IF2017 = 4.907]
  23. DEROUALLE D., BOREL L., TANGUY B., BERNARD-DEMANZE L., DEVEZE A., MONTAVA M., LAVIEILLE J.P. andLOPEZ C. (2019) Unilateral vestibular deafferentation impairs embodied spatial cognition. Journal of Neurology, 266(Suppl.1): 149–159. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  24. ZWERGAL A., GRILL E., LOPEZ C. and DIETERICH M. (2019) DIZZYNET 2019: approaching the future of vestibular research. Journal of Neurology, 266(Suppl.1): 1–2. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  25. JAHN K., LOPEZ C., ZWERGAL A., ZUR O., CAKRT O., KELLERER S., KERKENI H., TJERNSTRÖM F., and MELDRUM D; Vestibular Rehabilitation Research Group in the European DIZZYNET. (2019) Vestibular Rehabilitation therapy in Europe: chances and challenges. Journal of Neurology, 266(Suppl.1): 9–10. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  26. THÃœR C., ROEL LESUR M., BOCKISCH C., LOPEZ C. and LENGGENHAGER B. (2019) The tilted self: visuo-vestibular mismatch in the full-body illusion. Frontiers in Neurology, 10: 436. [IF2017 = 3.508]
  27. KIM J.M., MUN S.K., YOO I.H., LOPEZ C. and KIM J.S. (2018) Vertigo and impaired pursuit eye movements in a small medial superior temporal infarction. Journal of Neurology, 265: 2740–2742. [IF2021 = 6.682]
  28. LOPEZ C., NAKUL E., PREUSS N., ELZIERE M. and MAST F.W. (2018) Distorted own-body representations in patients with dizziness and during caloric vestibular stimulation. Journal of Neurology, 265(Suppl.1): 86–94. [IF2018 = 4.204]
  29. LOPEZ C. and ELZIÈRE M. (2018) Out-of-body experience in vestibular disorders – a prospective study of 210 patients with dizziness. Cortex, 104: 193–206. [IF2017 = 4.907]
  30. PAVLIDOU A., FERRÈ E.R., and LOPEZ C. (2018) Vestibular stimulation makes people more egocentric. Cortex, 101: 302–305. [IF2017 = 4.907]
  31. NAKUL E. and LOPEZ C. (2017) Commentary: Out-of-body experience during awake craniotomy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11:417. [IF = 3.209]
  32. DEROUALLE D., TOUPET M., VAN NECHEL C., DUQUESNE U., HAUTEFORT C. and LOPEZ C. (2017) Anchoring the self to the body in chronic bilateral vestibular failure. Plos One, 12(1):e0170488. [IF = 4.411]
  33. DIEGUEZ S. and LOPEZ C. (2017) The bodily self: insights from clinical and experimental research. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 60(3): 198–207. [IF = 3.342]
  34. GALE S., PRSA M., SHURGER A., GAY A., PAILLARD A., HERBELIN B., GUYOT J.P., LOPEZ C. and BLANKE O. (2016) Oscillatory neural responses evoked by natural vestibular stimuli in humans. Journal of Neurophysiology, 115(3): 1228–1242. [IF = 2.887]
  35. LOPEZ C. (2016) The vestibular system: balancing more than just the body. Current Opinion in Neurology, 29(1):74-83. [IF = 5.31]
  36. BESNARD S., LOPEZ C., BRANDT T., DENISE P. and SMITH P.F. (2015) Editorial: The vestibular system in cognitive and memory processes in mammals. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 9:55. [IF = 2.810]
  37. LOPEZ C., FALCONER C.J., DEROUALLE D. and MAST F.W. (2015) In the presence of others: self-location, balance control and vestibular processing. Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology, 45: 241–254. [IF = 1.593]
  38. DEROUALLE D., BOREL L., DEVÈZE A. and LOPEZ C. (2015) Changing perspective: the role of vestibular signals. Neuropsychologia, 79: 175–185. [IF = 3.30]
  39. LOPEZ C. (2015) Making sense of the body: the role of vestibular signals. Multisensory Research, 28(5–6): 525–557.
  40. DEVÈZE A., MONTAVA M., LOPEZ C., LACOUR M., MAGNAN J. and BOREL L. (2015) Vestibular compensation following vestibular neurotomy. European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases, 132: 197–203.
  41. LOPEZ C. and BLANKE O. (2014) Nobel Prize Centenary: Robert Bárány and the vestibular system. Current Biology, 24(21): R1026–R1028. [IF = 9.92]
  42. [MAZZOLA L.*, LOPEZ C.*], FAILLENOT I., CHOUCHOU F., MAUGUIÈRE F. and ISNARD J. (2014) Vestibular responses to direct stimulation of the human insular cortex. Annals of Neurology, 76(4): 609–619 [*Shared first authorship]. [IF = 11.91]
  43. FERRÈ E.R., LOPEZ C. and HAGGARD P. (2014) Anchoring the self to the body: Vestibular contribution to the sense of self. Psychological Science, 25(11): 2106–2108. [IF = 5.667]
  44. DEROUALLE D. and LOPEZ C. (2014) Toward a vestibular contribution to social cognition. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 8:16. [IF = 2.810]
  45. LOPEZ C. (2013) A neuroscientific account of how vestibular disorders impair bodily self-consciousness. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 7:91. [IF = 2.810]
  46. SERINO A., ALSMITH A., COSTANTINI M., MANDRIGIN A., TAJADURA-JIMENEZ A., and LOPEZ C. (2013) Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(4): 1239–1252. [IF = 2.144]
  47. LOPEZ C., FALCONER C.J. and MAST F.W. (2013) Being moved by the self and others: influence of empathy on self-motion perception. Plos One, 8(1): e48293.
  48. PFEIFFER C., LOPEZ C., SCHMUTZ V., DUENAS J.A., MARTUZZI R., and BLANKE O. (2013) Multisensory origin of the subjective first-person perspective: Visual, tactile, and vestibular mechanisms. Plos One, 8(4): e61751.
  49. LOPEZ C., SCHREYER H-M., PREUSS N. and MAST F.W. (2012) Vestibular stimulation modifies the body schema.Neuropsychologia, 50: 1830–1837.
  50. LOPEZ C., BLANKE O. and MAST F.W. (2012) The vestibular cortex in the human brain revealed by coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Neuroscience, 212: 159–79.
  51. LOPEZ C., BIERI C.P., PREUSS N. and MAST F.W. (2012) Tactile and vestibular mechanisms underlying ownership for body parts: a non-visual variant of the rubber hand illusion. Neuroscience Letters, 511: 120–124.
  52. LOPEZ C. and BLANKE O. (2011) The thalamocortical vestibular system in animals and humans. Brain Research Reviews, 67(1–2): 119–146. [IF2011 = 10.342]
  53. PÉRUCH P., LOPEZ C., REDON C., ESCOFFIER G., ZEITOUN A., SANJUANE M., DEVÈZE A., MAGNAN J. and BOREL L. (2011) Vestibular information is necessary for maintaining metric properties of representational space. Evidence from mental imagery. Neuropsychologia, 49: 3136–3144.
  54. LOPEZ C., MERCIER M., HALJE P. and BLANKE O. (2011) Spatiotemporal dynamics of visual vertical judgments: Early and late brain mechanisms as revealed by high-density electrical neuroimaging. Neuroscience, 181: 134–149.
  55. HEYDRICH L., LOPEZ C., SEECK M. and BLANKE O. (2011) Partial and full own body illusions of epileptic origin in a child with right temporo-parietal epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 20(3): 583–586.
  56. [REDON C.*, LOPEZ C.*], BERNARD-DEMANZE L., DUMITRESCU M., MAGNAN J., LACOUR M. and BOREL L. (2011) Betahistine treatment improves the recovery of static symptoms in patients with unilateral vestibular loss. [*Shared first authorship]. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 51(4): 538–548.
  57. LOPEZ C., VIBERT D. and MAST F.W. (2011) Can imagined whole-body rotations improve vestibular compensation? Medical Hypotheses, 76: 816–819.
  58. LOPEZ C. and BLANKE O. (2010) How body position influences the perception and conscious experience of corporeal and extrapersonal space. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 2(3): 195–202.
  59. LOPEZ C., LENGGENHAGER B. and BLANKE O. (2010) How vestibular stimulation interacts with illusory hand ownership. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(1): 33–47.
  60. LOPEZ C., HEYDRICH L., SEECK M. and BLANKE O. (2010) Abnormal self-location and vestibular vertigo in a patient with right frontal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 17(2): 289–292.
  61. LOPEZ C., BACHOFNER C., MERCIER M. and BLANKE O. (2009) Gravity and observer’s body orientation influence the visual perception of human body postures. Journal of Vision, 9(5):1, 1–14.
  62. LACOUR M., DUTHEIL S., TIGHILET B., LOPEZ C. and BOREL L. (2009) Tell me your vestibular deficit, and I’ll tell you how you’ll compensate. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1164: 268–278.
  63. BOREL L., LOPEZ C., PÉRUCH P. and LACOUR M. (2008) Vestibular syndrome: a change in internal spatial representation. Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology, 38(6): 375–389.
  64. LOPEZ C., HALJE P. and BLANKE O. (2008) Body ownership and embodiment. Vestibular and multisensory mechanisms. Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology, 38(3): 149–161.
  65. LENGGENHAGER B., LOPEZ C. and BLANKE O. (2008) Influence of galvanic vestibular stimulation on egocentric and object-based mental transformations. Experimental Brain Research, 184(2): 211–221.
  66. LOPEZ C., LACOUR M., LÉONARD J., MAGNAN J. and BOREL L. (2008) How body position changes visual vertical perception after unilateral vestibular loss. Neuropsychologia, 46(9): 2435–2440.
  67. LOPEZ C., LACOUR M., MAGNAN J., EL AHMADI A. S. and BOREL L. (2007) Changes of visual vertical perception: a long-term sign of unilateral and bilateral vestibular loss. Neuropsychologia, 45(9): 2025-2037.
  68. LOPEZ C., BOREL L., MAGNAN J. and LACOUR M. (2006) Visual field dependence-independence before and after unilateral vestibular loss. Neuroreport, 17(8): 797–803.
  69. LOPEZ C., BOREL L., MAGNAN J. and LACOUR M. (2005) Torsional optokinetic responses after unilateral vestibular loss: asymmetry and compensation. Brain, 128(7): 1511–1524. [IF2017 = 10.848]
  70. GHULYAN V., PAOLINO M., LOPEZ C., DUMITRESCU M. and LACOUR M. (2005) A new translational platform for evaluating aging or pathology-related postural disorders. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 125(6): 607–617.
  71. BOREL L., HARLAY F., LOPEZ C., MAGNAN J., CHAYS A. and LACOUR M. (2004) Walking performance of vestibular-defective patients before and after unilateral vestibular neurotomy. Behavioural Brain Research, 150(1-2): 191–200.

Book

TOUPET M., LACOUR M., LOPEZ C, VAN NECHEL C. (2020) Dictionnaire Expliqué des Vertiges.  Framiral Éditeur, Grasse, France.

Book chapters

  1. LOPEZ C. (2025) Vestibular System. In Frank M. C. & Majid A. (Eds.). Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MIT Press.https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.bc3a43dd
  2. LOPEZ C. (2024) Fondements sensori-moteurs du sens de soi. Bases multisensorielles du soi corporel (Chapitre 10). In: Coello Y. (Ed.). Corps, cerveau et processus mentaux. Les fondements sensori-moteurs de la cognition. Dunod, p. 225–235. https://www.dunod.com/sciences-humaines-et-sociales/corps-cerveau-et-processus-mentaux-fondements-sensorimoteurs-cognition
  3. LOPEZ C. (2021) Anatomie et physiologie: des récepteurs au cortex vestibulaire, intégration multimodale (Chapitre 4). In: Yelnik A. and Herman P. (Eds.). Troubles de l’équilibre : aspects sensoriels. De la physiologie à la rééducation. Elsevier-Masson, p. 43–53. https://www.elsevier-masson.fr/troubles-de-lequilibre-aspects-sensoriels-9782294772900.html
  4. LOPEZ C. (2015) Vestibular cortex. In: Toga A.W. (Ed.). Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. Volume 2: Anatomy and Physiology, Systems. Academic Press: Elsevier, p. 305–312. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012397025100227X
  5. LOPEZ C. and DIEGUEZ S. (2015) La représentation du corps et ses troubles : approches de la neuropsychologie et des neurosciences cognitives. In: Pérennou D., Rode G., Azouvi P. and Brun V. (Eds.). La cognition spatiale. Sauramps Médical, Montpellier, p. 63–88.
  6. LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2015) Vestibular contributions to the sense of body, self and others. In: Metzinger T. & Windt J. (Eds.). Open MIND. MIND Group, Frankfurt am Main, p. 1–38. http://open-mind.net/papers/vestibular-contributions-to-the-sense-of-body-self-and-others  also published as: LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2016) Vestibular contributions to the sense of body, self and others. In: Open MIND: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. Metzinger T.K. & Windt J.M. Volume 1, 1st Ed. Cambridge MA USA: The MIT Press.
  7. LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2015) Vestibular sense and perspectival experience. A commentary on Alsmith. In: Metzinger T. & Windt J. (Eds.). Open MIND. MIND Group, Frankfurt am Main, p. 1–9. http://open-mind.net/papers/vestibular-sense-and-perspectival-experience2014a-reply-to-adrian-alsmithalso published as: LENGGENHAGER B. and LOPEZ C. (2016) Vestibular sense and perspectival experience. A commentary on Alsmith. In: Open MIND: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. Metzinger T.K. & Windt J.M. Volume 1, 1stEd. Cambridge MA USA: The MIT Press.
  8. BOREL L., LOPEZ C., PERUCH P. and LACOUR M. (2012) Représentation de l’espace et du corps après atteinte vestibulaire. In: Pérennou D., Nougier V., Honoré J. and Lacour M. (Eds.). Contrôle postural, espace, locomotion. De Boeck-Solal, Paris, p. 145–170.
  9. LOPEZ C. and BLANKE O. (2007) Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of self-consciousness. Multisensory and vestibular mechanisms. In: Holderegger A., Sitter-Liver B., Hess C. W. and Rager G. (Eds.). Hirnforschung und Menschenbild. Beiträge zur interdisziplinären Verständigung. Academic Press, Fribourg and Schwabe, Basel, p. 183–206.
  10. LOPEZ C., LACOUR M., BALLESTER M. J., ANTON J. L., NAZARIAN B., ROTH M. and BOREL L. (2006) Les zones corticales impliquées dans la perception de la verticale. In: Rougier P. and Lacour M. (Eds.). De Marey à nos jours: un siècle de recherches sur la posture et le mouvement. Solal, Marseille, p. 97–113.
  11. LOPEZ C., LACOUR M., EL AHMADI A. S., MAGNAN J. and BOREL L. (2006) Perception de la verticale en présence d’informations visuelles dynamiques. Effets comparés d’une perte vestibulaire unilatérale et bilatérale. In: Pérennou D. and Lacour M. (Eds.). Efficience et déficiences du contrôle postural. Solal, Marseille, p. 77–93.
  12. BOREL L., LOPEZ C., MAGNAN J. and LACOUR M. (2006) Perte vestibulaire: quelles conséquences sur la dépendance visuelle ? In: Rougier P. et Lacour M. (Eds.). De Marey à nos jours: un siècle de recherches sur la posture et le mouvement. Solal, Marseille, p. 139–151.
  13. LOPEZ C., LACOUR M. and BOREL L. (2005) Perception de la verticalité et représentations spatiales dans les aires corticales vestibulaires. In: Lacour M. and Weber B. (Eds.). Bipédie, contrôle postural et représentation corticale. Solal, Marseille, p. 35–86.
  14. LOPEZ C., BOREL L., MAGNAN J. and LACOUR M. (2004) Stabilisation du regard par le réflexe optocinétique torsionnel avant et après neurotomie vestibulaire unilatérale. In: Lacour M. and Van Celst M. (Eds.). Nouvelles Méthodes de Traitement du Signal Posturographique. Applications en Recherche Fondamentale et Clinique. Solal, Marseille, p. 93–108.
  15. GHULYAN V., PAOLINO M., LOPEZ C., DUMITRESCU M. and LACOUR M. (2004) Evaluation des déficits posturaux de sujets âgés ou pathologiques. Intérêt de nouvelles méthodes de traitement stabilométrique. In: Lacour M. and Van Celst M. (Eds.). Nouvelles Méthodes de Traitement du Signal Posturographique. Applications en Recherche Fondamentale et Clinique. Solal, Marseille, p. 33–53.
  16. LOPEZ C., BOREL L., MAGNAN J. and LACOUR M. (2003) Relations entre posture, oculomotricité et perception de la verticalité au cours de la compensation vestibulaire. Stratégies individuelles et processus communs. In: Dupui Ph., Montoya R. and Lacour M. (Eds.). Posture et équilibre. Physiologie, Techniques, Pathologies. Solal, Marseille, p. 103–116.
  17. LACOUR M., LOPEZ C., BOREL L. and MAGNAN J. (2003) Référentiels spatiaux et contrôle postural. Illustration de processus vicariants idiosyncrasiques en pathologie vestibulaire. In: Weber B. and Villeneuve P. (Eds.). Pied, Equilibre et Traitements Posturaux. Masson, Paris, p. 37–46.

Teaching

Initial Training (Science Students):

  • Master 2 Neurosciences, Aix Marseille Université: "Plasticity of self and body representations" (9 hours).

 

Continuing Education (Medical and Paramedical):

  • Inter-University Diploma in Clinical Posturology, Aix Marseille Université: "The vestibular system and the geocentric spatial reference frame" (3 hours).
  • Inter-University Diploma in Vertigo and Vestibular Rehabilitation, Université Paris 6: "Vestibular physiology and vestibular control of posture and gaze" and "Vestibular system and body and space representations" (3 hours).
  • University Diploma in Physiopathology and Exploration of Neurosensory Functions in ENT, Université Paris 7: "Central vestibular pathways" (3 hours).
  • University Diploma in Management of Audio-Vestibular Pathologies: From Mechanisms to Practice, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1: "Understanding the cognitive repercussions of vestibular disorders" (1.5 hours).

 

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