
Publications
“As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery”
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal -

2026
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Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Guterstam A., D'Angelo M., Coppi S., Ehrsson HH. The informational architecture of body ownership. (Upcoming)
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Coppi S., Ehrsson HH., Lanfranco RC. Decision confidence and pain ratings provide outcome-dependent information during nociceptive discrimination. (Upcoming)
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Hägerdal A., Canales-Johnson A., Ehrsson HH., Lanfranco RC. Body scan meditation modulates body ownership and functional brain connectivity. (Upcoming)
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Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., D'Angelo M., Ehrsson HH. Towards a quantitative and mechanistic science of body ownership: Psychophysical and computational approaches. (Upcoming)
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Lanfranco RC., Tiston L., Roberts L., Ojemann JG., Guterstam A., Ince RAA., Canales-Johnson A., Ehrsson HH. Distinct synergistic and redundant spectral representations of body ownership in the intraparietal and premotor cortices. (Upcoming)
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Cahill J., Zook Z., Fecker., Ramos C., Renet C., Christian P., Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Datta P., Ernst L., Bushlin I., Roberts C., Cleary D., Raslan A., Guterstam A., Collins K. Functional role of the temporoparietal junction in encoding others' gaze as implied motion revealed by electrical brain stimulation. (Upcoming)
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Lanfranco RC., Terhune DB., Guterstam A., Canales-Johnson A. Distributed cortical information dynamics distinguish hypnotic hallucination from mental imagery. (Upcoming)
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Lanfranco RC. Perceptual awareness as an information-distribution problem [Preprint] (Under review)
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Lanfranco RC., Guterstam A., Cleeremans A. Conscious and unconscious eye contact at the limits of vision [Preprint] (Under review)
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Paskin M., Mansour E., Verschure L., Lanfranco RC., Lundqvist M., Guterstam A. Bodily maps of social gaze perception reveal self-specific distortions that exaggerate face- versus body-directed gaze [Preprint] (Under review)
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D'Angelo M., Lanfranco RC., Ehrsson HH. Beta oscillations support somatosensory temporal integration for body ownership [Preprint] (Under review)
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Lucero B., Lanfranco RC., Muñoz MT., Saracini C., Canales-Johnson A. Reduced information sharing within the orienting network predicts intelligence in late childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 82: 101821.
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Lanfranco RC. & Terhune DB. Cognitive Neuroscience of Hypnosis. In: Raffone A. (Editor). Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference (2nd Edition): 91-110.
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Lanfranco RC., Amerio P., Canales-Johnson A., Rabagliati H., Cleeremans A., Carmel D. Reply to: The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception. Nature Communications 17: 5977.
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Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Hasenack B., Ehrsson HH. (2026) Disentangling visually-driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership. Royal Society Open Science 13(4): 252132.
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D'Angelo M., Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Ehrsson HH. (2026) Parietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals. Nature Communications 17: 53.
2025
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Lanfranco RC., Katyal S., Hägerdal A., Luan X., Nos V., Ehrsson HH. (2025) Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(49): e2503629122
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IIT-Concerned et al. (2025) What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? Nature Neuroscience 28: 689-693.
2024
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Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Rabagliati H., Cleeremans A.*, Carmel D*. (2024) Minimal exposure durations reveal visual processing priorities for different stimulus attributes. Nature Communications 15:8523.
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Lanfranco RC., Martínez-Aguayo JC., Arancibia M. (2024) Assessing malingering and personality styles in dissociative identity disorder: A case study Neurocase 29(5): 141-150.
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Lanfranco RC., Sousa FDS., Wessel PM., Rivera-Rei A., Bekinschtein TA., Lucero B., Canales-Johnson A., Huepe D. (2024) Slow-wave brain connectivity predicts executive functioning and group belonging in socially vulnerable individuals. Cortex 174: 201-214.
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Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Ehrsson H.H. (2024) Texture congruence modulates perceptual bias but not sensitivity to visuotactile stimulation during the rubber hand illusion. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 24:100-110.
2023
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Tsikandilakis T., Bali P., Lanfranco RC., Kausel L., Yu Z., Boncompte G., Karlis A-K., Alshammari A., Li R., Milbank A., Burdett M., Mével P-A., Madan C., Derrfuss J. (2023) Learning emotional dialects: A British population study of cross-cultural communication. Perception 52(11-12): 812-843.
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Lanfranco RC., Chancel M., Ehrsson H.H. (2023) Quantifying body ownership information processing and perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion. Cognition 238: 105491.
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Lanfranco RC., Rabagliati H., Carmel D. (2023) Assessing the influence of emotional expressions on perceptual sensitivity to faces overcoming interocular suppression. Emotion 23(7): 2059-2079.
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Lanfranco RC., Rabagliati H., Carmel D. (2023) The importance of awareness in face processing: A critical review of interocular suppression studies. Behavioural Brain Research 437: 114116.
2022
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Lanfranco RC., Stein T., Rabagliati H., Carmel D. (2022) Gaze direction and face orientation modulate perceptual sensitivity to faces under interocular suppression. Scientific Reports 12: 7640.
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Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Lucero B., Vargas E., Noreika V. (2022) Towards a view from within: The contribution of Francisco Varela to the study of consciousness. Adaptive Behavior 31(5): 405-422.
2021
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Tsikandilakis M., Kausel L.*, Boncompte G.*, Yu Z.*, Oxner M.*, Lanfranco RC.*, Bali P., Putasi U., Peirce J., López V., Mun Wai Tong E., William H., Carmel D., Chapman P. (2021) There Is No (where a) Face Like Home: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different World Cultures. Perception 50(12): 1027-1055.
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Lanfranco RC., Rivera-Rei A., Huepe D., Ibáñez A., Canales-Johnson A. (2021) Beyond imagination: Hypnotic visual hallucination induces greater lateralised brain activity than visual imagery. NeuroImage 239: 118282.
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Canales-Johnson A.*, Lanfranco RC.*, Noreika V., Morales, JP., Martínez-Pernia D., Valdés J., Ezquerro-Nassar A., Rivera-Rei A., Bekinschtein T., Chennu S., Ibáñez A., Huepe D. (2021) In Your Phase: Neural Phase Synchronisation underlies visual imagery of faces. Scientific Reports 11: 2401.
2019 and older
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Tsikandilakis M., Kausel L.*, Boncompte G.*, Yu Z.*, Oxner M.*, Lanfranco RC.*, Bali P., Putasi U., Peirce J., López V., Mun Wai Tong E., William H., Carmel D., Chapman P. (2019) There is no Face like Home: Ratings for cultural familiarity to own and other facial dialects of emotion with and without conscious awareness in a British sample. Perception
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Martínez-Aguayo JC., Lanfranco RC., Arancibia M., Sepúlveda E., Madrid E. (2018) Trypophobia: what do we know so far? A case report and comprehensive review of the literature. Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Lanfranco R. (2017) Evaluación cognitiva en trastornos psiquiátricos. In: Ivanovic-Zuvic F., Correa E., Florenzano R. (editores). Texto de Psiquiatría. Ediciones: Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurociugía. Santiago, Chile.
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Lanfranco RC. (2015) A history of the brain: from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience. Revista Médica de Chile
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Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A. (2014) Conectividad de la red neuronal por defecto en el deterioro cognitivo leve amnésico y posibles efectos sobre la fluencia verbal semántica. Revista de Neurología
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Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A., Huepe D. (2014) Hypnoanalgesia and the study of pain experience: from Cajal to modern neuroscience. Frontiers in Psychology
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Lanfranco RC., Canales-Johnson A. (2014) Mímica facial en el trastorno límite de la personalidad: sobre la empatía y más allá. Revista Médica de Chile
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Lanfranco RC., Adolfi F., Ibáñez A. (2014) Hypnotic suggestion: a test for the voluntary action problem. Cognitive Neuroscience
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Lips W., Mascayano F., Lanfranco RC. (2014) Diagnostic indicators of dissociative amnesia: a case report. Psychiatria Danubina
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Lanfranco R., San Martín MC. (2013) Alteraciones de la Default-Mode Network en el trastorno afectivo bipolar: conectividad funcional, biomarcadores y endofenotipos. Trastornos del Ánimo
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Canales-Johnson A., Lanfranco R., Vargas E., Ibáñez A. (2012) Neurobiología de la hipnosis y su contribución al estudio de la cognición y la conciencia. Anales de Psicología
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Lanfranco R., Manríquez-Navarro P., Avello L., Canales-Johnson A. (2012) Evaluación de la enfermedad de Alzheimer en etapa temprana: biomarcadores y pruebas neuropsicológicas. Revista Médica de Chile
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Lanfranco R. (2011) Alteraciones de la conectividad funcional de la Default-Mode network en la depresión mayor: una breve mirada a la actividad intrínseca del cerebro. Trastornos del Ánimo
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Lanfranco R. (2010) Hipnosis clínica y psicoterapia: una propuesta integrativa para el tratamiento de la depresión unipolar. Trastornos del Ánimo
