Virtual reality in cognitive and motor rehabilitation: facts, fiction and fallacies

G Tieri, G Morone, S Paolucci, M Iosa - Expert review of medical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Over recent decades many researchers and clinicians have started to use
Virtual Reality (VR) as a new technology for implementing innovative rehabilitation …

[HTML][HTML] The neuroscience of body memory: From the self through the space to the others

G Riva - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Our experience of the body is not direct; rather, it is mediated by perceptual information,
influenced by internal information, and recalibrated through stored implicit and explicit body …

Feeling of ownership over an embodied avatar's hand brings about fast changes of fronto-parietal cortical dynamics

EP Casula, G Tieri, L Rocchi, R Pezzetta… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
When we look at our body parts, we are immediately aware that they belong to us and we
rarely doubt about the integrity, continuity, and sense of ownership of our body. Despite this …

Virtual body ownership illusions for mental health: a narrative review

M Matamala-Gomez, A Maselli, C Malighetti… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last 20 years, virtual reality (VR) has been widely used to promote mental health in
populations presenting different clinical conditions. Mental health does not refer only to the …

A systematic review of physiological measurements, factors, methods, and applications in virtual reality

A Halbig, ME Latoschik - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Measurements of physiological parameters provide an objective, often non-intrusive, and (at
least semi-) automatic evaluation and utilization of user behavior. In addition, specific …

The “embreathment” illusion highlights the role of breathing in corporeal awareness

A Monti, G Porciello, G Tieri… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Recent theories posit that physiological signals contribute to corporeal awareness, the basic
feeling that one has a body (body ownership) that acts according to one's will (body agency) …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Breathing control, brain, and bodily self-consciousness: toward immersive digiceuticals to alleviate respiratory suffering

S Betka, D Adler, T Similowski, O Blanke - Biological psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It
generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory …

Toward enhanced teleoperation through embodiment

A Toet, IA Kuling, BN Krom… - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Telerobotics aims to transfer human manipulation skills and dexterity over an arbitrary
distance and at an arbitrary scale to a remote workplace. A telerobotic system that is …

Building the bodily self‐awareness: Evidence for the convergence between interoceptive and exteroceptive information in a multilevel kernel density analysis study

G Salvato, F Richter, L Sedeño, G Bottini… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Exteroceptive and interoceptive signals shape and sustain the bodily self‐awareness. The
existence of a set of brain areas, supporting the integration of information coming from the …