Embodied cognition in virtual reality

Embodied Cognition and Virtual Reality in Learning to Visualize Anatomy

This study examines the facilitative effects of embodiment of a complex internal anatomical structure through threedimensional (“3-D”) interactivity in a virtual reality (“VR”) program. Since Shepard and Metzler’s influential 1971 study, it has been known that 3-D objects (e.g., multiple-armed cube or external body parts) are visually and motorically embodied in our minds. Such findings confirm...

Communication Behavior in Embodied Virtual Reality

Embodied virtual reality faithfully renders users’ movements onto an avatar in a virtual 3D environment, supporting nuanced nonverbal behavior alongside verbal communication. To investigate communication behavior within this medium, we had 30 dyads complete two tasks using a shared visual workspace: negotiating an apartment layout and placing model furniture on an apartment floor plan. Dyads co...

Embodied social interaction constitutes social cognition in pairs of humans: A minimalist virtual reality experiment

Scientists have traditionally limited the mechanisms of social cognition to one brain, but recent approaches claim that interaction also realizes cognitive work. Experiments under constrained virtual settings revealed that interaction dynamics implicitly guide social cognition. Here we show that embodied social interaction can be constitutive of agency detection and of experiencing another's pr...

kant on the embodied cognition

Perception and cognition in immersive Virtual Reality

In the next future, 3D-CAD methods will be extensively employed in conjunction with 3D immersive displays, so called Virtual Environments (VE). These may dramatically improve the possibilities of visualization and interaction offered by common 2D display CAD workstations. Thus, ergonomic evaluation needs to be made as to how the computer-generated object is represented on 3D immersive display (...