This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality
media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as …

The vision of an art masterpiece is associated with brain arousal by neural processes
occurring quite spontaneously in the viewer. This aesthetic experience may even elicit a …

Virtual reality (VR) enables the fast, free, and highly controllable setting of experimental
body images. Illusions pertaining to a body, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI), can be …

Frequency-specific tendon vibration (TV) elicits illusory kinesthetic sensations around the
vibrated body parts. Studies indicate that vision plays a fundamental role in modulating such …

In the last decade, a considerable amount of studies investigated different
neuropsychological syndromes related to the disorder of body awareness. In this paper, we …

Selecting appropriate defensive behaviours for threats approaching the space surrounding
the body (peripersonal space, PPS) is crucial for survival. The extent of defensive PPS is …

To organize the plethora of sensory signals from our environment into a coherent percept,
our brain relies on the processes of multisensory integration and sensory recalibration. We …

Vision and proprioception, informing the system about the body position in space, seem
crucial in defining the boundary of the peripersonal space (PPS). What happens to the PPS …

We previously showed that the illusory sense of ownership and agency over a moving body
in immersive virtual reality (displayed in a first-person perspective) can trigger subjective …

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Fire Pursuing realistic behavior in evacuation experiments Arias, Silvia 2021 Document …