Laboratory of Psychophysics  LPSY


(LPSY Alumnus)

 
Leila Overney
Leila Overney
(maiden name: Petit)
(Post Doc)
 
address:   EPFL SV BMI LNCO AI-2200.2
Leila Overney
Station 19
CH-1015 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND
 
phone: +41 21 693 1773
fax: +41 21 693 1770
email leila.overney@epfl.ch


Publications

Overney L.S., Lenggenhager B., Herzog M.H., Blanke O. (in preparation). Tool-body integration in tennis players as measured by visual capture.

Tadi T., Overney L.S., Blanke O. (submitted). Three sequential brain activations encode mental transformations of upright and inverted human bodies.

Blanke O., Morgenthaler F.D., Brugger P., Overney L.S. (in press). Preliminary evidence for a fronto-parietal dysfunction in able-bodied subjects with a desire for limb amputation. Journal of Neuropsychology.

Overney L.S., Blanke O. (2008). Impaired imagery for upper limbs. Brain Topography, Sep 18 [Epub ahead of print].

Overney L.S., Arzy S., Blanke O. (2008). Deficient mental own-body imagery in a neurological patient with out-of-body experiences due to cannabis use. Cortex, Jun 5 [Epub ahead of print].

Overney L.S., Blanke O., Herzog, M.H. (2008). Enhanced temporal but not attentional processing in expert tennis players. PLoS ONE 3(6):e2380.

Fischer C., Overney L.S., Fauve M., Blanke O., Rhyner H., Herzog M.H., Bourban P.-E., Månson J.-A. (2007). What static and dynamic properties should slalom skis possess? Judgements by advanced and expert skiers. Journal of Sports Sciences, 25 (14), 1567-1576.

Arzy S., Overney L.S., Landis T., Blanke O. (2006). Neural mechanisms of embodiment: Asomatognosia due to premotor cortex damage. Archives of Neurology, 63, 1022-1025.

Overney L.S., Michel C.M., Harris I.M., Pegna A.J. (2005). Cerebral processes in mental transformations of body parts: Recognition prior to rotation. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 722-734.

Petit L.S., Pegna A.J., Harris, I.M., Michel C.M. (2006). Automatic motor cortex activation for natural as compared to awkward grips of a manipulable object. Experimental Brain Research, 168 (1-2), 120-130.

Petit L.S., Harris I.M. (2005).  Anatomical limitations in mental transformations of body parts. Visual Cognition, 12 (5), 737-758.

Petit L.S., Pegna A.J., Mayer E., Hauert C.-A. (2003). Representation of anatomical constraints in motor imagery: Mental rotation of a body segment. Brain and Cognition, 51, 95-101.

Pegna A., Petit L., Caldara-Schnetzer A.-S., Khateb A., Annoni J.-M., Sztajzel R., Landis T. (2001). So near yet so far: neglect in far or near space depends on tool use. Annals of Neurology, 50 (6), 820-822.


Abstracts

Overney L.S., Blanke O., Herzog,M.H. Motion and speed perception superiority of tennis players over other athletes. 6th conference of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA), July 2006, Munich (Germany).

Overney L.S., Blanke O., Herzog M.H. Perceptual differences in tennis players and triathletes: A battery of tests that makes the difference. 11th annual congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), July 2006, Lausanne (Switzerland).

Overney L.S., Blanke O. Mental transformations of body parts and external objects activate distinct brain regions. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), April 2006, San Francisco (USA).

Overney L.S., Blanke O. Mental transformations of body parts and external objects activate distinct brain regions. Swiss Society for Neuroscience (SSN), January 2006, Basel (Switzerland).

Overney L.S., Blanke O. Selective deficit for the mental rotation of human body parts. Society for Neuroscience (SfN), November 2005, Washington DC (USA).

Overney L.S., Blanke O. Selective deficit for the mental rotation of human body parts. Meeting of the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), October 2005, Bern (Switzerland).

Petit L.S., Michel C.M., Harris I.M., Pegna A.J. Cerebral processes in mental transformations of body parts: recognition prior to rotation. XIVth Tennet conference (2004), Montreal (Canada).

Petit L.S., Pegna A.J., Mayer E., Hauert C.-A. Motor Imagery and Biomechanical constraints: Mental rotation of a body segment. Reunion of the French Speaking Neuropsychology Society (2001), Lyon (France).

Petit L.S., Pegna A.J., Mayer E., Hauert C.-A. Motor Imagery and Biomechanical constraints: Mental rotation of a body segment. XIXth European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (2001), Bressanone (Italy).


Theses

Petit L.S. (2002-2005). Mental transformations of body parts and tools. PhD thesis in Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Petit L.S. (1999-2000). L’imagerie motrice et les contraintes biomécaniques: rotation mentale d’un segment corporel (Motor imagery and biomechanical constraints : Mental roation of a body segment). Diploma thesis in Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Petit L.S. (1998-1999). La communication non verbale chez les patients Alzheimer (Non-verbal communication in Alzheimer patients). Bachelor Thesis in Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

LPSY contacts

Head of the lab
Prof. Michael Herzog
office SV-2807
phone +41 21 693 9646
fax +41 21 693 9645
+41 21 693 1749 (lab)

Secretary
Laure Dayer
office SV-2805
phone +41 21 693 1812
fax +41 21 693 5350

Address
EPFL SV BMI LPSY
Station 19
CH-1015 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND