Perception in virtual reality is more strongly influenced by expectations than visual information, researchers report.
Researchers reveal how participating in a group virtual reality experience can produce responses similar to those triggered by psychedelics.
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.
Recognition of our own voices creates a sense of agency in speech and is a critical factor in our sense of control over our speech. Researchers say personal connection to our voices may be key to understanding auditory hallucinations and could help to improve a person's virtual reality experience.
Researchers have developed a virtual robotic arm that can be controlled by a person's feet in a virtual environment to provide an "extra" limb. After training, users reported feeling the virtual limb felt as though it was part of their physical body.
Study finds passively observing virtual reality games increases cybersickness, while actively participating in VR games diminishes feelings of motion sickness associated with virtual reality.
A virtual rollercoaster ride in combination with EEG helped researchers determine how emotions are processed in the brain.
Virtual reality is helping researchers uncover some of the secrets of anxiety. Using VR, study participants were able to distinguish between safe and dangerous environments in a game. However, brain scans of those with anxiety showed increased activity in the insula and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex while in a safe zone, indicating their brains were associating the safe environment with threat or danger.
Studying rats in a virtual reality maze, researchers discover certain hippocampal neurons play a vital role in a specific mechanism of navigation.
Immersive virtual reality could disrupt a child's default coordination strategy, researchers report.
Virtual reality helps to relieve pain and anxiety for children undergoing medical procedures, researchers report.
Combining virtual reality with neuroimaging, researchers identify how the brain perceives and remembers a novel place or landscape.
