How can virtual reality help to understand consciousness? A thematic analysis of students' experiences in a novel virtual environment.
Consciousness and Cognition January 1, 2025 Keelan R Gorman, Aimee Wrightson-Hester, Michael Landman et al. 1 citation
Research on consciousness typically presents stimuli and records the responses that follow, to infer the intervening processes. Yet, VR allows ecological validity by giving the user freedom to continuously control their sensory input across three spatial dimensions via head and eye movement. We designed a virtual world in which the angle of view relates to the information complexity of the...