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Contribution of virtual reality to neuropsychology of memory: study in aging. Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil. 2008 Mar;6(1):7-22 Authors: Plancher G, Nicolas S, Piolino P The principal interest of virtual reality is its potential to create experiments close to daily life with a perfect experimental control. In a first time, we review the studies illustrating the contribution of virtual reality for neuropsychology, mainly for memory study. In a second time, we present the results of an experiment in which the subjects were driving in a virtual town, that tested all the episodic...

A Pilot Study Comparing the Effects of Mindfulness-Based and Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Reduction. J Altern Complement Med. 2008 Mar 27; Authors: Smith BW, Shelley BM, Dalen J, Wiggins K, Tooley E, Bernard J ABSTRACT Objectives: The objective of this pilot study was to compare the effects of two mind-body interventions: mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and...

Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and...

Via KurzweilAI.net An international team has built vision- and speech-driven avatar technology that imitates 66 facial expressions and basic hand gestures in real time.      

Via Medgadget A curious picture taken from the blog Street Anatomy