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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·October 9, 2018·6 min read

          Anorexic Patients Prefer Underweight Bodies

          Using virtual reality, researchers shed light on how those with anorexia perceive their own bodies.The study also found women with anorexia consider severely underweight bodies to be ideal and most attractive.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·November 12, 2021·4 min read

          Anxiety Cues Found in the Brain Despite Safe Environment

          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.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience VideosOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·September 17, 2015·4 min read

          Becoming Freud: Embodiment Modifies Thought Processes

          Embodying Freud through immersive virtual reality allowed people to give themselves better psychological advice, a new study reports.
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          FeaturedNeurology
          ·June 14, 2016·5 min read

          Combating Virtual Reality Sickness

          Researchers have developed a new method for combating nausea associated with virtual reality which can be applied to head worn VR displays.
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          ·June 17, 2021·3 min read

          Commercial Video Games Could Help Treat Mental Illness

          Inexpensive, commercial video games may help those suffering from anxiety and depression to combat their symptoms. Researchers found that, in addition to conventional games, virtual reality games could help people overcome mental health problems.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·October 16, 2018·3 min read

          Eating with Your Eyes: Virtual Reality Can Alter Taste

          A new virtual reality study reveals people's perception of taste can be altered by what they experience in their surroundings.
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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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          ·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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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·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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          ·February 16, 2019·8 min read

          Immersive Virtual Reality Therapy Shows Lasting Effect in Phobia Treatments For Children with ASD

          Researchers report children on the autism spectrum who experience specific phobias may benefit from immersive virtual reality therapy. The study reports immersive VR helped almost 45% of children with ASD remain free from their phobias six months after treatment.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·July 5, 2022·5 min read

          Link Between Recognizing Our Voice and Feeling in Control

          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.
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          Image shows a man and Roboy the robot.
          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·May 10, 2017·2 min read

          Live Interactions With Robots Increase Their Perceived Human Likeness

          According to researchers, people who watch live interactions between robots and other people are more likely to consider the robot to have more humanlike qualities.
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