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Moein Razavi, Takashi Yamauchi, Vahid Janfaza, Anton Leontyev + 2 more
The human mind is multimodal. Yet most behavioral studies rely on century-old measures of behavior - task accuracy and latency (response time). Multimodal and multisensory analysis of human behavior creates a better understanding of how the mind works. The problem is that designing and implementing these experiments is…
Jack Brookes, Matthew Warburton, Mshari Alghadier, Mark Mon-Williams + 1 more
Virtual Reality systems offer a powerful tool for human behaviour research. The ability to create three-dimensional visual scenes and measure responses to the visual stimuli enables the behavioural researcher to test hypotheses in a manner and scale that were previously unfeasible. For example, a researcher wanting to…
Matthew Warburton, Mark Mon-Williams, Faisal Mushtaq, J. Ryan Morehead
Consumer virtual reality (VR) systems are increasingly being deployed in research to study sensorimotor behaviours, but properties of such systems require verification before being used as scientific tools. The ‘motion-to-photon’ latency (the lag between a user making a movement and the movement being displayed within…
Yuri Ogawa, Raymond Aoukar, Richard Leibbrandt, Jake S Manger + 6 more
In recent years, virtual reality arenas have become increasingly popular for quantifying visual behaviors. By using the actions of a constrained animal to control the visual scenery, the animal is provided the perception of moving through a simulated environment. As the animal is constrained in space, this allows…
Martijn A. Schenkel, Manus M. Patten, J. Arvid Ågren
Evolutionary biologists often treat organisms as both fitness-maximizing agents and as the primary level at which adaptation manifests. Yet, genes and cells may also seek to optimize their fitness by distorting the Mendelian rules of transmission or by influencing organismal traits for their own benefit. Organismal…
Takashi Matsui, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Daisuke Funabashi, Shion Takahashi + 5 more
Regular live sports spectating improves mental health through reduced loneliness, yet the neurobiological responses underlying these benefits during a single session remain unclear. Here, we tested whether live spectating elicits socio-physiological responses, oxytocin release and heart rate (HR) synchrony depending on…
Kyle Coutray, Christos Constantinidis
Behavioral neuroscience experiments require precise stimulus control, millisecond timing, hardware integration, and robust data provenance. Increasing use of 3D environments and multimodal recordings adds challenges for development, accessibility, and reproducibility. Fragmented tools often separate presentation…
Takashi Matsui, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Daisuke Funabashi, Shion Takahashi + 5 more
Oxytocin has been proposed as a pharmacological target for social dysfunction. However, clinical trials of exogenous oxytocin have yielded modest and inconsistent benefits, highlighting the need for naturalistic, non-pharmacological approaches that recruit endogenous oxytocin. This prospective observational field study…
Sheng-Ju Guo, Ping Wang, Lizhi Cao, Hui-Jie Li
Executive functions (EFs), encompassing inhibition, shifting, and updating as three fundamental subdomains, are typically characterized by a unity/diversity construct. However, given the dedifferentiation trend observed in aging, it remains controversial whether the construct of EFs in older adults becomes…
Takashi Matsui, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Shohei Dobashi, Shion Takahashi + 4 more
Live sport spectatorship can promote social connection, yet scalable, low-burden strategies to strengthen bonding in real-world spectator settings remain limited. We here tested the hypothesis that co-consuming sparkling water during spectating attenuates hunger and fatigue and strengthens enjoyment and perceived…
Madis Vasser, Markus Kängsepp, Murad Magomedkerimov, Kälver Kilvits + 4 more
We present VREX, a free open-source Unity toolbox for virtual reality research in the fields of experimental psychology and neuroscience. Different study protocols about perception, attention, cognition and memory can be constructed using the toolbox. VREX provides a procedural generation of (interconnected) rooms that…
Ruth Johnson, Huwenbo Shi, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Sriram Sankararaman
A large proportion of risk regions identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are shared across multiple diseases and traits. Understanding whether this clustering is due to sharing of causal variants or chance colocalization can provide insights into shared etiology of complex traits and diseases. In this…