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Cathy Arreguin

How your brain sees virtual you - life - 06 November 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

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shared by Cathy Arreguin on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
  • players of the hugely popular online fantasy world World of Warcraft reveal that areas of the brain involved in self-reflection and judgement seem to behave similarly when som
  • eone is thinking about their virtual self as when they think about their real one.
  • or intelligent Previously, researchers have observed that people easily adopt the persona of their virtual selves,
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  • t about themselves and their avatars compared with real and virtual others, two regions stood out: the medial prefrontal cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex. That makes sense as prior research has linked the medial prefrontal cortex to self-reflection and judgement.
  • "next to no difference" in the activity in these regions when people thought of themselves and of their avatar
  • Caudle's team also noticed key differences between how people thought about the virtual and real worlds, which must be a necessity for preserving your sense of reality.
  • implicated in imagination.
  • precuneus
  • Cathy Arreguin on 16 Mar 10
     
    Brain scans of avid players of the hugely popular online fantasy world World of Warcraft reveal that areas of the brain involved in self-reflection and judgement seem to behave similarly when someone is thinking about their virtual self as when they think about their real one.
Robert Sevilla

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SecondLife virtualworlds tools virtual

shared by Robert Sevilla on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Robert Sevilla on 19 May 10
     
    RezzMania is a blog dedicated to the builders of Second Life who create amazing virtual structures, clothes, skins, tools, and organizing events and contests. A particular blog post that caught my eye was Vito, the Dogfather: http://rezzmania.com/2009/12/vito-the-dogfather.html Like myself, Vito was a martial artist and dog trainer but unfortunately, he was a victim in a horrific traffic accident and spent 5½ weeks in a coma and ended up with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). One of his forms of rehabilitation was creating a group for victims of TBI in Second Life. Vito now runs a dojo and trains dogs in SL. His SL group is staffed with a real life physician and a rehab therapist acting as consultants for the rest of the group.
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