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·August 28, 2023·8 min read

Watch to Eat Less: VR Videos Curb Candy Cravings

Researchers find that watching immersive videos of candy consumption can significantly reduce one's craving for sweets. Participants who viewed the video 30 times ate an average of a third less candy compared to the control group.

Image shows a person playing the computer game with the brain stimulation device on.

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·December 6, 2016·5 min read

No Peeking: Humans Play Computer Games Using Only Direct Brain Stimulation

Using only direct brain stimulation, game players navigate through simple computerized mazes, a new study reports.

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·April 5, 2017·5 min read

Finger Prosthesis Provides Clues to Brain Health

An experiment aimed to investigate how the brain interprets artificial touch sensation from a finger neuroprosthesis, has revealed new information for developing way to measure brain health.

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·March 9, 2016·3 min read

Friend or Foe: Our Peripheral Vision is Better at Recognizing People Than Objects

Researchers find our peripheral vision effectively allows us to judge what others are doing, even if they are not in our direct line of sight.

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·August 15, 2022·4 min read

How People Adapt to Cybersickness From Virtual Reality

Those who are prone to motion sickness have a harder time adapting to cybersickness and different virtual reality environments. However, people can adapt to the effects of VR-associated cybersickness by playing the same game repeatedly.

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·June 21, 2021·5 min read

Virtual Reality as Pain Relief

Smartphone-based virtual reality games helped to reduce pain in young children with burns while having their dressing changed, a new study reports.

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·October 21, 2017·6 min read

Boosting Social Skills With Brain Scanning

A new study aims to use neuroimaging technology to better understand the networks behind social interactions.

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·January 6, 2022·2 min read

Passive Virtual Reality More Sickness-Inducing Than Active Play

Study finds passively observing virtual reality games increases cybersickness, while actively participating in VR games diminishes feelings of motion sickness associated with virtual reality.

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·August 24, 2021·5 min read

How the Brain Perceives and Remembers a New Place

Combining virtual reality with neuroimaging, researchers identify how the brain perceives and remembers a novel place or landscape.

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·June 7, 2018·5 min read

Maps Made of Nerve Cells

Researchers have created a new model that may help explain how the brain stores memories of tangible events. The new model explains how neural activity in the hippocampus can help map space, time and context in episodic memories.