%0 Journal Article
%T How to Build an Embodiment Lab: Achieving Body Representation Illusions in Virtual Reality
%A Bernhard Spanlang
%A Jean-Marie Normand
%A David Borland
%A Konstantina Kilteni
%A Elias Giannopoulos
%A Ausi¨¤s Pom¨¦s
%A Mar Gonz¨˘lez-Franco
%A Daniel Perez-Marcos
%A Jorge Arroyo-Palacios
%A Xavi Navarro Muncunill
%A Mel Slater
%J Frontiers in Robotics and AI
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/frobt.2014.00009
%X Advances in computer graphics algorithms and virtual reality (VR) systems, together with the reduction in cost of associated equipment, have led scientists to consider VR as a useful tool for conducting experimental studies in fields such as neuroscience and experimental psychology. In particular virtual body ownership, where the feeling of ownership over a virtual body is elicited in the participant, has become a useful tool in the study of body representation in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, concerning how the brain represents the body. Although VR has been shown to be a useful tool for exploring body ownership illusions, integrating the various technologies necessary for such a system can be daunting. In this paper, we discuss the technical infrastructure necessary to achieve virtual embodiment. We describe a basic VR system and how it may be used for this purpose, and then extend this system with the introduction of real-time motion capture, a simple haptics system and the integration of physiological and brain electrical activity recordings.
%K virtual reality
%K virtual environments
%K virtual reality software
%K virtual reality systems
%K body ownership
%K body representation
%K virtual embodiment
%K multimodal stimulation
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/frobt.2014.00009/abstract