Anthony Marcel's research while affiliated with University of Hertfordshire and other places

... Studies on imagery in dance have also been conducted by cognitive and behavioral scientists (McCarthy et al. 2006;May et al. 2011) who have uncovered the ways in which dancers are particularly expert in drawing on and sourcing imagery and move with ease between different sense modalities. For example, the studies conducted by a team of psychologists led by Jon May and working in collaboration with Wayne McGregor|Random Dance in the UK set out to "record dancers' awareness of their use of forms of imagery during movement creation, and to relate these measures to evidence of patterns of brain activity from neuroimaging studies" (May et al. 2011, 405;italics in original). ...

... Various (philosophical, cognitive, and neuroscientific) theories and models of S have been proposed that, in one way or another, consider CE as a factor in the generation of S: see, for example, Damasio (1999Damasio ( , 2010, Gallagher and Marcel (1999), Zahavi (2000), Legrand (2006Legrand ( , 2007, Legrand and Ruby (2009), Williford et al. (2012, Marchetti (2012aMarchetti ( , 2022, Gallagher (2013), Berkovich-Ohana and Glicksohn (2014), Gallagher and Daly (2018), and Reddy et al. (2019). ...

... The phenomenon of blindsight has been widely documented (Stoerig and Cowey, 1997). Indeed, patients who report not consciously seeing stimuli because of the cortical lesion have been shown to detect (Ajina et al., 2015b,c;Azzopardi and Cowey, 1997) and localize (de Gelder et al., 2008;Weiskrantz et al., 1974;Zihl, 1980) objects, discriminate motion direction (Ajina and Bridge, 2018;Azzopardi and Cowey, 2001;Blythe et al., 1986;Pavan et al., 2011;Perenin, 1991), color (Stoerig, 1987;Stoerig and Cowey, 1992), and shape (Marcel, 1998), and process the affective information (De Gelder et al., 1999;Striemer et al., 2019) of stimuli presented to the blind visual field. Blindsight can also be measured by examining how stimuli presented to the blind visual field modulate manual reaction times (Marzi et al., 1986; or eye movements (Rafal et al., 1990;Savina and Guitton, 2018) to stimuli presented to the intact visual field. ...

... Other researchers suggest that ED in ASC is related to reduced emotional awareness, a phenomenon rst observed in alexithymic patients by Nemiah and Sifneos (66). To develop a framework of emotional experience, Lambie and Marcel (2002) distinguished between a rst order experience characterised by a physiological arousal associated with emotions, and a second-order experience de ned as the awareness of this arousal (i.e., interoception) (81). In addition to these two levels, Silani and colleagues (2008) proposed a third-order experience as 'the awareness of the self who has emotions', suggesting that this self-re ective system may be less active in ASC with co-occurring alexithymia (82). ...

... Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP), as a prototypical disorder of BA, is a condition that arises from right brain damage, where patients deny the presence of their contralesional motor deficits [57]. Motor anosognosia can affect specific limbs (and selectively upper or lower limbs) [58] and can be modality-specific (it can involve either motor or sensory impairment; this last case is called anosognosia for hemianesthesia) [59]. It has been shown that this condition is caused by lesions in specific regions, such as the ones of motor planning and motor control functions, like the premotor cortex [60] or posterior insula [61]. ...

... For example, William James distinguished between a physical self, a mental self, and a spiritual self. These distinctions seem to reappear in recent concepts of self as discussed in neuroscience (Panksepp, 1998aPanksepp, ,b, 2003Panksepp, , 2005b Damasio, 1999; Gallagher, 2000; Stuss et al., 2001; Churchland, 2002; Kelley et al., 2002; Lambie and Marcel, 2002; LeDoux, 2002; Turk et al., 2002; Damasio, 2003a,b; Gallagher and Frith, 2003; Keenan et al., 2003; Kircher and David, 2003; Turk et al., 2003; Vogeley and Fink, 2003; Dalgleish, 2004; Marcel and Lambie, 2004; Northoff and Bermpohl, 2004). Damasio (1999) and Panksepp (1998a) suggest a ''proto-self'' in the sensory and motor domains, respectively, which resembles William James's description of the physical self. ...

... This phenomenon is similar to that observed in patients with unilateral focal lesions that correctly detect unilateral stimuli but, in the case of a simultaneous double stimulation, report only the stimulus in the visual hemi-field contralateral to the lesion (i.e., extinction [18][19][20]). Some studies have reported a phenomenon of the single detection of simultaneous double stimulation also in neurologically unimpaired individuals and named it pseudo-extinction [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Nevertheless, previous studies showed no spatial bias, given that participants missed equally often left and right stimuli. ...

... When a sighted person's visual information is blocked, that person loses the reference frame for judging spatial locations. Without an external structure that is stable relative to oneself and to other points in space, there is no such thing as being oriented (Marcel and Dobel 2005). Visual impairment has been associated with functional disability. ...

... Despite this large body of research, only a handful of studies have specifically attempted to develop and validate an assessment of AHP (Nimmo-Smith, Marcel and Tegnér, 2005;Della Sala et al., 2009;Cocchini et al., 2018). The assessments available focus on single dimensions of the syndrome (e.g. ...

... That said the fact that individuals with quite extreme values can be observed in an apparently neurological intact sample raises questions concerning the diversity in the mechanisms that people may employ when asked to construct mental images as well as potential individual differences in the basic cognitive functions needed to perform imagery tasks. In this regard, Marcel et al. [19] have shown very interesting findings. When stimuli are presented to both sides of the body or of space and when healthy people are asked to attend to those on one side, a subgroup of them experience the stimulus presented to the unattended side as if it was presented on the attended side. ...