Neural Mechanisms of Bodily Self-Consciousness and the Experience of Presence in Virtual Reality
Bruno Herbelin, R. Salomon, Andrea Serino, Olaf Blanke
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| Key points | Argues that understanding virtual reality-induced presence can be advanced by connecting it to the neuroscience of bodily self-consciousness, and that applied human-computer confluence technologies and fundamental research on bodily self-consciousness benefit each other in a symbiotic manner. |
Abstract
Recent neuroscience research emphasizes the embodied origins of the experience of the self. This chapter shows that further advances in the understanding of the phenomenon of VR-induced presence might be achieved in connection with advances in the understanding of the brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness. By reviewing the neural mechanisms that make the virtual reality experience possible and the neurocognitive models of bodily self-consciousness, we highlight how the development of applied human computer confluence technologies and the fundamental scientific investigation of bodily self-consciousness benefit from each other in a symbiotic manner.
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