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QuickVR: A standard library for virtual embodiment in unity
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 In the last few years the field of Virtual Reality (VR) has experienced significant growth through the introduction of low-cost VR devices to the mass market.
Ramon Oliva +4 more
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Voluntary self-touch increases body ownership
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Experimental manipulations of body ownership have indicated that multisensory integration is central to forming bodily self-representation. Voluntary self-touch is a unique multisensory situation involving corresponding motor, tactile and proprioceptive ...
Masayuki eHara +14 more
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A Preliminary Embodiment Short Questionnaire
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Consumer virtual reality (VR) technologies have made embodying a virtual avatar during an immersive experience more feasible. The sense of embodiment toward that virtual avatar can be characterized and measured along three factors: self-location, agency,
James Coleman Eubanks +3 more
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Forward modelling the rubber hand: illusion of ownership modifies motor-sensory predictions by the brain [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The question of how we attribute observed body parts as our own, and the consequences of this attribution on our sensory-motor processes, is fundamental to understand how our brain distinguishes between self and other.
Laura Aymerich-Franch +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Bodily illusions have been used to study bodily self-consciousness and disentangle its various components, among other the sense of ownership and self-location.
Antonella eMaselli +2 more
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The Influence of Embodiment as a Cartoon Character on Public Speaking Anxiety
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Virtual Reality can be used to embody people in different types of body—so that when they look towards themselves or in a mirror they will see a life-sized virtual body instead of their own, and that moves with their own movements.
Anna I. Bellido Rivas +7 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 The experience of owning a body is built upon the integration of exteroceptive, interoceptive, and proprioceptive signals. Recently, it has been suggested that motor signals could be particularly important in producing the feeling of body part ownership.
Damiano Crivelli +9 more
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What colour is my arm? Changes in skin colour of an embodied virtual arm modulates pain threshold
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 It has been demonstrated that visual inputs can modulate pain. However, the influence of skin colour on pain perception is unknown. Red skin is associated to inflamed, hot and more sensitive skin while blue is associated to cold. We aimed to test whether
Matteo eMartini +6 more
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Bodily pleasure matters: Velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-consciousness. Influential experimental paradigms, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI), in which a seen rubber hand is experienced as part of one’s body when one’s own unseen hand
Laura eCrucianelli +3 more
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Bliss in and Out of the Body: The (Extra)Corporeal Space Is Impervious to Social Pleasant Touch
Brain Sciences, 2021 Slow, gentle stimulation of hairy skin is generally accompanied by hedonic sensations. This phenomenon, also known as (positive) affective touch, is likely to be the basis of affiliative interactions with conspecifics by promoting inter-individual ...
Chiara Spaccasassi +2 more
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