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Virtual Reality Advances The Neurosciences
By Abu Murad | August 27th 2007 07:07 PM | Print | E-mail | Track Comments

It is possible to handle the conscience that the human beings of their body using a process of virtual reality have. A proof of the contribution determining of the vision in the body conscience.An experiment carried out starting from a process of virtual reality showed that it was possible to influence the conscience that the men of the limits of their own body have. A team of Swiss researchers indeed succeeded in modifying the way in which the brain perceives and analyzes the body which contains it. The principle of the experiment is simple.

cognitive and perceptual mechanisms involved in humans’ concept of self.  

Several people are subjected to their own digital representation in 3D via a helmet of virtual reality. The participants as their misadventure were stimulated physically by simple a one minute friction in the back. The “subjects” were led thereafter to a room of examination plunged in the black in order to analyze their perceptions.

When the double becomes “me”
Result: while moving, the subjects would have estimated their starting localization at the place where their virtual double appeared to them. They thus regarded their virtual representation as their own body, locating them “to me” out of their body envelope. The conclusions of these experiments - with the crossing of the neurosciences and philosophy - on the aforementioned feelings of decor oration (out of body experiments) were published in the Science review. This reveals that it “me” contributed to bring brief replies to the scientists.

saw the back of the image being stroked with a paintbrush, either in or out of sync with someone stroking his own back.
To distinguish two realities
This philosophical concept devotes faculty to distinguish internal reality and external reality. The exit of the experiment, these researchers indeed showed that the brain was based on various flows of information sensory and cognitive to form its body conscience. According to them, the results observed would show in particular that the vision is an element determining within the framework of this cognitive neurosciences process. Perhaps a step towards a better comprehension of schizophrenia was crossed. 

Can an individual feel out of the limits of his own body? For the first time, researchers managed to plunge voluntary subjects in a state hurting them to locate, briefly, the borders of their own carnal envelope. This experiment, carried out by a team gathering three researchers in neurosciences and a philosopher, proves that it is possible to handle the conscience that the human beings of their body under certain conditions have. It is the subject of an article published today in the Science review.


an extracorporal experiment and if each one remained conscious that the body observed was not really it his,


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