In a study published in the journal ‘Nature’, a team of scientists at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) has determined that the feeling of invisibility reduces heart and perspiration levels in people suffering from psychological disorders as social anxiety . This opens a new range of medical therapies in this area, reports The Daily Mail ‘.
The research, from virtual reality and divided into five phases, was carried out with a total 125 participants (25 for each experiment) carrying a helmet live video and 3D fed by two cameras placed at eye level. In this way, participants rather than see his own body to bow sight, saw an empty
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“While devices that can hide completely a human body have not yet been developed, not unrealistic to think that someday will be achieved and preparing better go, “said study co-author Arvid Guterstam told AFP.
To check the authenticity of the sensation caused by the experiment of virtual reality and it was coordinated with the view through Hull, scientists initially approached the body of the participants a knife. “To check if it worked illusion, we took a stab at invisible body while we measured the stress generated by the gesture (…) persons transpired over, suggesting that the brain of the person felt that empty gesture as a direct threat against his own body, “says Guterstam
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Also, another experience researchers exposed volunteers to a stressful social situation: stand in front of an audience of strangers. In these circumstances, heartbeat of participants and their stress level was lower declared when they felt invisible . “If the brain perceives the body as invisible assumed that the same is also true for other observers, which reduces linked to being the center of attention stress,” explains Guterstam.
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