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Virtual Reality Experiments with Physiological Measures
Published on: August 29, 2018
Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience
Marta Andreatta1, Matthias Gamer2
1General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany; Center for Mental Healthy, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.
Abstract:
Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow for increasing the ecological validity of experimental scenarios and provide new opportunities to collect behavioral data that is typically inaccessible in traditional laboratory settings. Thereby, new insights into fundamental questions of cognitive and affective neuroscience can be gained. This special issue provides a common platform for such endeavors and integrates contributions on novel research designs that use VR to investigate the neural, physiological, and cognitive basis of human behavior.
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