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Joan Llobera Mahy

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A Too to Design Interactive Characters Based on Embodied Cognition

Ronan Boulic, Joan Llobera Mahy

Creating interactive characters is one of the most challenging tasks of videogame design. In order to facilitate such an endeavor, we introduce a decisional and behavior synthesis architecture integrated in the game engine Unity3D. A distinguishing feature ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Changing motor perception by sensorimotor conflicts and body ownership

Olaf Blanke, Roy Salomon, Michiel van Elk, Joan Llobera Mahy, Natalia Fernandez

Experimentally induced sensorimotor conflicts can result in a loss of the feeling of control over a movement (sense of agency). These findings are typically interpreted in terms of a forward model in which the predicted sensory consequences of the movement ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

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People performing actions together have a natural tendency to synchronize their behavior. Consistently, people doing a task together build internal representations not only of their actions and goals, but also of the other people performing the task. Howev ...

Public Library of Science2016

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The feeling of synchrony is fundamental for most social activities and prosocial behaviors. However, little is known about the behavioral correlates of this feeling and its modulation by intergroup differences. We previously showed that the subjective feel ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2016

Size and Viewpoint of an Embodied Virtual Body Affect the Processing of Painful Stimuli

Olaf Blanke, Joan Llobera Mahy

Looking at one's own body might induce visual analgesia. However, the cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying such visual analgesia are unknown. Because body and pain representations in the brain are multisensory, and have been reported to partia ...

Churchill Livingstone2015

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In real-life situations, we are often required to recognize our own movements among movements originating from other people. In social situations, these movements are often correlated (for example, when dancing or walking with others) adding considerable d ...

Springer2013

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Over the centuries architectural theory evolved several notions of embodiment, proposing in the nineteenth and twentieth century that architectonic experience is related to physiological responses of the observer. Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscie ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013