Naturalistic neuroscience and virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is one of the techniques that became particularly popular in neuroscience over the past few decades. VR experiments feature a closed-loop between sensory stimulation and behavior. Participants interact with the stimuli and not just passively perceive them. Several senses can be...
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| description | Virtual reality (VR) is one of the techniques that became particularly popular in neuroscience over the past few decades. VR experiments feature a closed-loop between sensory stimulation and behavior. Participants interact with the stimuli and not just passively perceive them. Several senses can be stimulated at once, large-scale environments can be simulated as well as social interactions. All of this makes VR experiences more natural than those in traditional lab paradigms. Compared to the situation in field research, a VR simulation is highly controllable and reproducible, as required of a laboratory technique used in the search for neural correlates of perception and behavior. VR is therefore considered a middle ground between ecological validity and experimental control. In this review, I explore the potential of VR in eliciting naturalistic perception and behavior in humans and non-human animals. In this context, I give an overview of recent virtual reality approaches used in neuroscientific research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fdb6095b11d74007be780b0b769c76a12022-12-22T03:39:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience1662-51372022-11-011610.3389/fnsys.2022.896251896251Naturalistic neuroscience and virtual realityKay Thurley0Kay Thurley1Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, GermanyBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich, Munich, GermanyVirtual reality (VR) is one of the techniques that became particularly popular in neuroscience over the past few decades. VR experiments feature a closed-loop between sensory stimulation and behavior. Participants interact with the stimuli and not just passively perceive them. Several senses can be stimulated at once, large-scale environments can be simulated as well as social interactions. All of this makes VR experiences more natural than those in traditional lab paradigms. Compared to the situation in field research, a VR simulation is highly controllable and reproducible, as required of a laboratory technique used in the search for neural correlates of perception and behavior. VR is therefore considered a middle ground between ecological validity and experimental control. In this review, I explore the potential of VR in eliciting naturalistic perception and behavior in humans and non-human animals. In this context, I give an overview of recent virtual reality approaches used in neuroscientific research.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.896251/fullvirtual realitynaturalistic behaviornaturalistic neuroscienceecological validityanimal behaviorbehavioral neuroscience |
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| title_short | Naturalistic neuroscience and virtual reality |
| title_sort | naturalistic neuroscience and virtual reality |
| topic | virtual reality naturalistic behavior naturalistic neuroscience ecological validity animal behavior behavioral neuroscience |
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