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Sense of agency primes manual motor responses. Perception. 2009;38(1):69-78 Authors: Longo MR, Haggard P Perceiving the body influences how we perceive and respond to stimuli in the world. We investigated the respective effects of different components of bodily representation--the senses of ownership and agency--on responses to simple visual stimuli. Participants viewed a video image of their hand on a computer monitor presented either in real time, or with a systematic delay. Blocks began with an induction period in which the index finger was (i) brushed, (ii) passively moved, or...

An Adaptive Display for the Treatment of Diverse Trauma PTSD Victims. Cyberpsychol Behav. 2009 Dec 20; Authors: Botella C, García-Palacios A, Guillen V, Baños RM, Quero S, Alcaniz M Abstract Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop after exposure to a terrifying event. People who suffer from PTSD experience hyperarousal and avoidance, and they reexperience symptoms that...

Virtual reality for obsessive-compulsive disorder: past and the future. Psychiatry Investig. 2009 Sep;6(3):115-21 Authors: Kim K, Kim CH, Kim SY, Roh D, Kim SI The use of computers,...

A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to catch a housefly.  

Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, André Nusselder uses the core...