Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

The paper uses EEG to study brain responses during breaks in embodiment in VR, finding error-related potentials linked to non-embodied conditions.

This study uses a virtual reality paradigm to show that breathlessness perception is influenced by both expected and actual effort during cycling.

This study investigates how exposure to VR affects sensory reweighting and relates it to cybersickness susceptibility by measuring changes in subjective visual vertical and sickness severity.

This study shows that active self-touch after the rubber hand illusion reduces proprioceptive drift, indicating it restores bodily self-awareness, while involuntary self-touch does not.

This study shows that physical body orientation affects experienced body orientation and spatial navigation performance in virtual reality.

The paper shows that users in VR are less likely to notice avatar finger swaps that help them complete tasks compared to those that hinder them.

The paper investigates how sex-related body odors influence implicit embodiment compared to gender-related scents in virtual reality.

This paper measures motion-to-photon latency in VR systems using a high-speed camera technique, revealing latency reductions due to motion prediction algorithms.

This study shows that augmented reality can modulate thermal pain and detection thresholds by altering body perception.

This study evaluates whether a supernumerary robotic limb can be embodied as part of the body in virtual reality and assesses changes in peripersonal space perception.

The paper investigates how the human amygdala processes aversive stimuli on artificial limbs using fMRI in VR, finding enhanced amygdala activation for aversive stimuli with stronger multisensory integration.

DomeVR provides an immersive VR environment for neuroscience experiments using Unreal Engine 4, offering modular tools for task control, logging, and multi-species testing.

This study shows that perceiving articular limits during reaching movements in VR can disrupt embodiment if the avatar's movement does not match the user's proprioceptive feedback.

This study explores whether humans can perceive ownership of an independent artificial limb, finding that while challenging, embodiment is possible.

The paper investigates if listening to one's own voice from an allocentric perspective can induce a sense of an auditory double and alter spatial self-perception.

This study evaluates the efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy for fear of flying in a real-world sample, finding significant increases in flight activity post-treatment.

The paper tests if the rubber hand illusion alters autonomic activity but finds no reliable physiological changes.

The paper finds that individual sensitivity to visual cues predicts motion sickness severity in virtual reality, but not sex differences.

The paper introduces and validates a torso-worn force display called Cogno-vest to induce specific bodily sensations and hallucinations through sensorimotor conflict.

This study investigates how synchronous visuotactile stimulation of multiple body parts affects the illusion of full-body ownership, finding that synchronization enhances ownership ratings across all body parts.

The paper uses EEG data to identify a temporal sequence of neural responses that distinguish the rubber hand illusion from control conditions, revealing a reliable signature around 130-150 ms post-stimulus.

This study shows that congruent visual feedback of self-motion in virtual reality overrides biological sex in shaping the sense of self.

This study investigates how using a mirror affects the rubber hand illusion by reducing spatial incongruency and enhancing multisensory integration for body ownership.

The paper investigates how first-person perspective training modulates cortical networks involved in threat detection in human peripersonal space, showing enhanced synchronization and connectivity in specific brain regions.

The paper compares EEG oscillatory activities during a rubber hand illusion in real and virtual reality environments, finding no significant differences in VR, suggesting VR alters sensory integration mechanisms.

This paper investigates how temporal mismatches between visuotactile and visuomotor signals affect embodiment, finding that active movement exacerbates the sense of disembodiment compared to passive touch.

This study investigates how proprioceptive accuracy develops with age and is affected by vision and immersive virtual reality environments.

The paper examines how narrative and gaming experience influence presence and cybersickness in virtual reality, finding that enriched narrative increases presence and reduces cybersickness, particularly for experienced gamers.

This study investigates whether noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation reduces cybersickness during and immediately after virtual reality exposure, finding it effective for intense VR content but not moderate content.

The paper investigates EEG markers of mirror neuron and error monitoring systems during virtual body ownership illusions, finding distinct neural responses modulated by agency, synchronicity, and semantic congruence.