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Consensual Illusion: The Mind in Virtual Reality

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Authors:
  1. Vanja Kljajevic

    1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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  • Explores different aspects of cognitive processing that take place in virtual environments
  • Addresses the issues of the self and other in Virtual Reality
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Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 44)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. A New Kind of Extension

    • Vanja Kljajevic
    Pages 1-31

  3. Self in Virtual Reality

    • Vanja Kljajevic
    Pages 33-55

  4. Self and the Virtual Other

    • Vanja Kljajevic
    Pages 57-85

  5. Virtual Embodiment and Action

    • Vanja Kljajevic
    Pages 87-111

  6. Spatial Cognition in Virtual Reality

    • Vanja Kljajevic
    Pages 113-134

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 135-137
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This book is inspired by the contemporary fascination with virtual reality and growing presence of this type of technology in everyday life. It explores the ways in which virtual reality evokes illusory transformation responses. The power of virtual reality is in making the mediation by technology in these experiences appear irrelevant to cognitive processes, so much so that it is often assumed that skills acquired in virtual environments are generally transferable to the physical world. However, cognition is affected by virtual reality technology, which is reflected in issues related to virtual embodiment, choice of spatial strategies, differences in neural and electrophysiological patterns associated with movement processing when navigating virtual vs. physical environments, and, at least to some extent, in virtual proxemics. In addition to spatial cognition, the book explores the sense of self in virtual reality, social interaction and virtual togetherness, action and motor cognition, calling to mind debates from philosophy, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Vanja Kljajevic

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