Sensing internal bodily signals, or interoception, is fundamental to maintain life. However,
interoception should not be viewed as an isolated domain, as it interacts with exteroception …

The recent appearance of low cost virtual reality (VR) technologies–like the Oculus Rift, the
HTC Vive and the Sony PlayStation VR–and Mixed Reality Interfaces (MRITF)–like the …

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Virtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo
head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] …

Most research in cognitive neuroscience explores how external stimuli are processed by the
brain. However, the brain also receives input from the internal body. We discuss here how …

Modern psychology has long focused on the body as the basis of the self. Recently,
predictive processing accounts of interoception (perception of the body 'from within') have …

Virtual reality can be used to visually substitute a person's body by a life-sized virtual one.
Such embodiment results in a perceptual illusion of body ownership over the virtual body …

Bionic prostheses have restorative potential. However, the complex interplay between
intuitive motor control, proprioception, and touch that represents the hallmark of human …

Is the self already relational in its very bodily foundations? The question of whether our
mental life is initially and primarily shaped by embodied dimensions of the individual or by …

A significant body of experimental evidence has demonstrated that it is possible to induce
the illusion of ownership of a fake limb or even an entire fake body using multisensory …