When interacting with objects in the environment, it feels natural to have a body which
moves in accordance to our intentions. Virtual reality (VR) provides a tool to present users …

Study participants form beliefs based on cues present in a testing situation (demand
characteristics). These beliefs can alter study outcomes (demand effects). Neglecting …

To varying degrees, people have the capacity to alter their subjective experience such that it
misrepresents reality in ways consistent with their goals and such that the misrepresentation …

Flicker light stimulation (FLS) uses stroboscopic light on closed eyes to induce transient
visual hallucinatory phenomena, such as the perception of geometric patterns, motion, and …

Within the general population, there is a great variation in the ability to alter conscious
experience and behaviour to meet goals and expectations. People are, to various degrees …

Visual hallucinations can be phenomenologically divided into those of a simple or complex
nature. Both simple and complex hallucinations can occur in pathological and non …

Because of the inherent reconstructive nature of memory, both recollection and belief
concerning experienced events can change dynamically because of external information …

The sensations to own and control a body as well as being located in a body describe the
relation between ourselves and our body, termed embodiment. Embodiment plays a central …

A variety of psychological effects have been recently replicated in studies where participants
merely received information describing experimental tasks, while participants experienced …

Predictive processing theories state that our subjective experience of reality is shaped by a
balance of expectations based on previous knowledge about the world (ie priors) and …