Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Stereoscopic Rendering in a Head Mounted Display Elicits Higher Functional Connectivity During Virtual Reality

This study investigates brain connectivity differences between VR and screen-based VR presentations, finding higher connectivity in stereoscopic compared to monoscopic conditions.

The territory of my body: Testosterone prevents limb cooling in the Rubber Hand Illusion

This study investigates whether testosterone affects the Rubber Hand Illusion, finding no impact on subjective ownership but a prevention of limb cooling in the hidden hand.

Challenging the boundaries of the physical self: purely distal cues in the environment impact body ownership

This study investigates how purely distal environmental cues influence body ownership by manipulating sensory predictability in an embodied task.

Studying Human Behaviour with Virtual Reality: The Unity Experiment Framework

The paper introduces a framework for creating VR experiments in Unity to study human behavior, demonstrating its ability to simplify experiment development and data collection.

Self beyond the body: task-relevant distal cues modulate performance and body ownership

This study shows that distal cues affecting task predictions influence body ownership and performance through forward models.

Viewing one’s body during encoding boosts episodic memory

The paper shows that viewing one’s body during encoding improves delayed recognition memory for 3D scenes, linking bodily self-consciousness to episodic memory.

The Effect of Visual Capture Towards Subjective Embodiment Within the Full Body Illusion

This study investigates how visual observation of a mannequin body influences subjective embodiment, finding that it can induce embodiment independently of visuotactile integration.

Evaluation of FlowVR: a virtual reality game for improvement of depressive mood

This study evaluates a VR game called FlowVR, finding it improves mood and reduces depression symptoms more effectively than tablet-based alternatives or a control condition.

Estimating the sensorimotor components of cybersickness

This study identifies sensorimotor factors contributing to cybersickness by analyzing balance control, vection, and vestibular sensitivity, finding that balance measures predict 37% of cybersickness variability.

Pins & Needles: Towards Limb Disownership in Augmented Reality

This study uses augmented reality to manipulate limb ownership by introducing visuotactile conflicts, showing reduced ownership and agency in participants.

Neurophysiological Correlates Of The Rubber Hand Illusion In Evoked And Oscillatory Brain Activity

This study identifies neural correlates of the rubber hand illusion using EEG, finding consistent attenuation of ERPs and decreases in frontal alpha and beta power during the illusion.

VREX: An Open-Source Toolbox for Creating 3D Virtual Reality Experiments

VREX is an open-source Unity toolbox that enables researchers to create 3D virtual reality experiments for psychology and neuroscience, offering procedural room generation and experiment management.