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The sense of body ownership influences decision making and motor performance. The SPECS Research Group, led by ICREA Professor Paul Verschure, has conducted a study published recently in Scientific Reports that demonstrates this relationship through behavioural experiments with healthy individuals.
Visuotactile integration modulates motor performance in a perceptual decision-making task
Here, we investigate the specific question of whether experimentally induced ownership over a virtual limb can modulate the performance of that limb in a simple sensorimotor task. Using a Virtual reality (VR) environment we modulate body ownership in three experimental conditions with respect to the (in)congruence of stimulus configurations. Our results show that the degree of ownership directly modulates motor performance. This implies that body ownership is not exclusively a perceptual and/or subjective multimodal state but that it is tightly coupled to systems for decision-making and motor control.
SPECS_lab participates at “Festa de la Ciència” 2017
SPECS_lab participates at “Festa de la Ciència” 2017 [...]
SPECS_lab @pintofscience 2017 in Barcelona
Paul Verschure and Jordi Ysard from SPECS_lab talk about Machine Consciousness at the Barcelona version of PintofScience Brain&BeerBCN https://twitter.com/BrainBeerBCN
Summer school BCBT 2017 registrations open!
Join us for the 10th edition of “Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school – BCBT2017 ” be held 30 August-8 September 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.
Eodyne considered one of the outstanding startups of #4YFN17 (Eduscopi)
Eodyne participated at 4YFN2017 one the fastest growing digital startup events in the world! 4YFN took take on 27 February – 1 March 2017, during the Mobile World Congress Barcelona, the world’s largest mobile industry exhibition.