Understanding the sense of self through robotics

TJ Prescott, K Vogeley, A Wykowska - Science robotics, 2024‏ - science.org
Robotics can play a useful role in the scientific understanding of the sense of self, both
through the construction of embodied models of the self and through the use of robots as …

What the metaverse is (really) and why we need to know about it

G Riva, BK Wiederhold - Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social …, 2022‏ - liebertpub.com
Major technology companies are investing significant sums of money in the creation of the
metaverse whose main feature will be the fusion between the virtual world and the physical …

Varieties of the extended self

R Heersmink - Consciousness and Cognition, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This article provides an overview and analysis of recent work on the extended self,
demonstrating that the boundaries of selves are fluid, shifting across biological, artifactual …

Positive technology and COVID-19

G Riva, F Mantovani, BK Wiederhold - … , Behavior, and Social …, 2020‏ - liebertpub.com
The past 10 years have seen the development and maturation of several digital
technologies that can have a critical role to enhancement of happiness and psychological …

The aesthetic self. The importance of aesthetic taste in music and art for our perceived identity

J Fingerhut, J Gomez-Lavin, C Winklmayr… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
To what extent do aesthetic taste and our interest in the arts constitute who we are? In this
paper, we present a series of empirical findings that suggest an Aesthetic Self Effect …

Regenerative virtual therapy: the use of multisensory technologies and mindful attention for updating the altered representations of the bodily self

G Riva, S Serino, D Di Lernia, F Pagnini - Frontiers in Systems …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The term “regenerative medicine”(RM) indicates an emerging trend in biomedical sciences
that aims at replacing, engineering, or regenerating human cells, tissues, or organs to …

Searching for the metaverse: neuroscience of physical and digital communities

G Riva, BK Wiederhold, F Mantovani - … , Behavior, and Social …, 2024‏ - liebertpub.com
What distinguishes real-world communities from their online counterparts? Social and
cognitive neuroscience research on social networks and collective intentionality will be used …

Constructing the past: The relevance of the narrative self in modulating episodic memory

R Dings, A Newen - Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2023‏ - Springer
Episodic memories can no longer be seen as the re-activation of stored experiences but are
the product of an intense construction process based on a memory trace. Episodic recall is a …

Preserving narrative identity for dementia patients: embodiment, active environments, and distributed memory

R Heersmink - Neuroethics, 2022‏ - Springer
One goal of this paper is to argue that autobiographical memories are extended and
distributed across embodied brains and environmental resources. This is important because …

Examination of self patterns: Framing an alternative phenomenological interview for use in mental health research and clinical practice

A Daly, R Ritunnano, S Gallagher, LJ Kirmayer… - Frontiers in …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Mental disorders are increasingly understood as involving complex alterations of self that
emerge from dynamical interactions of constituent elements, including cognitive, bodily …