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First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality. PLoS One. 2010;5(5):e10564 Authors: Slater M, Spanlang B, Sanchez-Vives MV, Blanke O BACKGROUND: Altering the normal association between touch and its visual correlate can result in the illusory perception of a fake limb as part of our own body. Thus, when touch is seen to be applied to a rubber hand while felt synchronously on the corresponding hidden real hand, an illusion of ownership of the rubber hand usually occurs. The illusion has also been demonstrated using visuomotor correlation between the movements of the...

Virtual reality hypnosis for pain associated with recovery from physical trauma. Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2010 Jul;58(3):288-300 Authors: Patterson DR, Jensen MP, Wiechman SA, Sharar SR Pain following traumatic injuries is common, can impair injury recovery and is often inadequately treated. In particular, the role of adjunctive nonpharmacologic analgesic techniques is unclear. The...

Therapists' Perception of Benefits and Costs of Using Virtual Reality Treatments. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2010 Jun 14; Authors: Segal R, Bhatia M, Drapeau M Abstract Research...

  Researchers at MIT have developed a new gesture-based system that combines a standard webcam, colored lycra gloves, and a software that includes a dataset of pictures. This simple and cheap...