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Self beyond the body: action-driven and task-relevant purely distal cues modulate performance and body ownership
Our results demonstrate that body ownership is influenced by cues which not only pertain to the body itself but also those arising outside of the body, and suggest that in goal-oriented tasks body ownership might result from the consistency of forward models.
“Vivint Amb Robots” with SPECS- lab at the “Biennal Ciutat i Ciencia”, Barcelona
SPECS-lab with roboticists Vicky Vouloutsi presented an interactive taller for the general public starring robot Pepper: "Living with Robots", at La Pedrera. Sala Gaudí, Barcelona - 8 February 2019
Effect of Specific Over Nonspecific VR-Based Rehabilitation on Poststroke Motor Recovery: A Systematic Meta-analysis
Our results suggest that SVR systems are more beneficial than CT for upper-limb recovery, whereas NSVR systems are not. Additionally, we identified 6 principles of neurorehabilitation that are shared across SVR systems and are possibly responsible for their positive effect. These findings may disambiguate the contradictory results found in the current literature.
SPECS-lab is a member of Virtual Brain Cloud consortium!
Congratulations to the Virtual Brain Cloud Project!
DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self
This paper introduces a cognitive architecture for a humanoid robot to engage in a proactive, mixed-initiative exploration and manipulation of its environment, where the initiative can originate from both human and robot.
Measuring the Complexity of Consciousness
The grand quest for a scientific understanding of consciousness has given rise to many new theoretical and empirical paradigms for investigating the phenomenology of consciousness as well as clinical disorders associated to it. This article is meant to serve as a lookup table of measures of consciousness, with particular emphasis on clinical applicability.