thanks Marc On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM, marc garrett <[email protected] > wrote:
> How your brain sees virtual you. > > Ewen Callaway. > > As players who stay up all night fighting imaginary warriors > demonstrate, slipping into the skin of an avatar, and inhabiting a > virtual world can be riveting stuff. But to what extent does your brain > regard your virtual self as you? > > 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. > > Disentangling how the brain regards avatars versus real individuals may > help explain why some people spend large chunks of their life playing > immersive online games, says Kristina Caudle, a social neuroscientist at > Dartmouth University in Hanover, New Hampshire, who led the study along > with her adviser William Kelley. > > "It's hard to imagine from an outsider's perspective what might drive > someone to spend 30 hours a week immersed in a completely imaginary > world," she says. More than 11 million people play World of Warcraft > each month. > > more... > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18117-how-your-brain-sees-virtual-you.htm > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Double Blind (Love) performance Annie Abrahams Curt Cloninger 29 - 11 - 2009 Information : http://livingroomart.wordpress.com/performance/double-blind-love/ Video "Squad" fragment 3 min Riam06 http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/squad/ http://vimeo.com/6926113
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