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·March 19, 2021·3 min read

Virtual Reality Could Help to Reduce Pain for People With Nerve Injuries

Virtual reality can help reduce painful sensations following touch people with nerve damage experience.

This shows a high up view of a town from the VR headset

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·February 10, 2021·4 min read

Virtual Reality Helping to Treat Fear of Heights

Within four hours of using a new virtual reality smartphone app, those with a fear of heights report a significant reduction of their fears in real-life situations.

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·August 26, 2020·4 min read

How ‘Swapping Bodies’ With a Friend Changes Our Sense of Self

Friends who "swapped bodies" using virtual reality to generate the perceptual illusion found their beliefs about their personalities altered to become more similar to the beliefs about their friends' personalities. Findings suggest that when our mental self-concept doesn't match our physical self, our memories become impaired.

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·April 20, 2020·3 min read

Virtual reality makes empathy easier

First-person embodiment via virtual reality could help to treat those with empathy disorders. It could also assist violent offenders to develop an ability to empathize with their victims.

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·March 18, 2020·4 min read

Mirror, mirror, on the wall: People rate own bodies as more attractive when viewed from third-person perspective

Virtual reality study reveals we perceive ourselves as more attractive when we view ourselves from a third-person perspective.

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·March 11, 2020·5 min read

Virtual Reality Shows Promise for Early Detection of Multiple Sclerosis Balance Problems

Virtual reality test could help reduce falls and related injuries in people with multiple sclerosis.

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·February 11, 2020·3 min read

Cannabis increases susceptibility to false memory

In comparison to a placebo group, test subjects exposed to marijuana were more likely to form false memories based on incorrect information.

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·January 24, 2020·4 min read

What goes up may actually be down

Virtual reality study reveals people plan movements and anticipate the force of gravity by "seeing it" through visual cues rather than "feeling it."

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·January 9, 2020·4 min read

Virtual reality is not suited to visual memory

Study reports virtual reality may interfere with visual memory.

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·November 19, 2019·4 min read

Virtual ‘moonwalk’ for science reveals distortions in spatial memory

Memories learned within a distorted coordinated system are also distorted when recalled later.

This shows a map of a town square in neuroville

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·October 7, 2019·5 min read

Navigating ‘Neuralville’: Virtual town helps map brain functions

Combining neuroimaging and a constructed virtual reality town, researchers found the brain uses three different systems to perceive environment. One system allows us to recognize a place, another helps navigate through that location, and the third helps navigate from one place to another. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps encode location recognition, while the retrosplenial complex allows for mentally mapping the locations of specific places.

This shows virtual reality glasses on a glass head

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·October 1, 2019·2 min read

Virtual reality treatment could help military veterans suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder

Study reveals 19% of veterans reported a greater reduction of their PTSD symptoms after 12 weeks of a novel virtual reality therapy than their peers who were not exposed to the treatment.