Virtual reality approaches to pain: toward a state of the science

Z Trost, C France, M Anam, C Shum - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Virtual reality (VR) applications have emerged as nonpharmacological alternatives or
adjuncts for acute and chronic pain management, with the potential to reduce the need for …

Virtual reality for emotion elicitation–a review

R Somarathna, T Bednarz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emotions are multifaceted phenomena that affect our behaviour, perception, and cognition.
Increasing evidence indicates that induction mechanisms play a crucial role in triggering …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of body ownership illusions in virtual reality

A Mottelson, A Muresan, K Hornbæk… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Body ownership illusions (BOIs) occur when participants experience that their actual body is
replaced by a body shown in virtual reality (VR). Based on a systematic review of the …

Emotion regulation by psychological distance and level of abstraction: Two meta-analyses

T Moran, T Eyal - Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Self-reflection is suggested to attenuate feelings, yet researchers disagree on whether
adopting a distant or near perspective, or processing the experience abstractly or concretely …

Visual appearance of the virtual hand affects embodiment in the virtual hand illusion

M Pyasik, G Tieri, L Pia - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Body ownership (the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself) is commonly studied with
Rubber hand illusion (RHI) paradigm that allows inducing a temporary illusory feeling of …

Characterizing body image distortion and bodily self-plasticity in anorexia nervosa via visuo-tactile stimulation in virtual reality

L Provenzano, G Porciello, S Ciccarone… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
We combined virtual reality and multisensory bodily illusion with the aim to characterize and
reduce the perceptual (body overestimation) and the cognitive-emotional (body …

Doing it wrong: a systematic review on electrocortical and behavioral correlates of error monitoring in patients with neurological disorders

R Pezzetta, ME Wokke, SM Aglioti, KR Ridderinkhof - Neuroscience, 2022 - Elsevier
Detecting errors in one's own and other's actions is a crucial ability for learning and adapting
behavior to everchanging, highly volatile environments. Studies in healthy people …

Midline frontal and occipito-temporal activity during error monitoring in dyadic motor interactions

Q Moreau, M Candidi, V Era, G Tieri, SM Aglioti - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Discrepancies between sensory predictions and action outcome are at the base of error
coding. However, these phenomena have mainly been studied focussing on individual …

Cognitive processes unfold in a social context: a review and extension of social baseline theory

EB Gross, SE Medina-DeVilliers - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Psychologists often assume that social and cognitive processes operate independently, an
assumption that prompts research into how social context influences cognitive processes …

Wearing same-and opposite-sex virtual bodies and seeing them caressed in intimate areas

M Mello, M Fusaro, G Tieri… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Immersive virtual reality enables people to undergo the experience of owning an artificial
body and vicariously feeling tactile stimuli delivered to it. However, it is currently unknown …