Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias

The brain's body representation is amenable to rapid change, even though we tend to think of our bodies as relatively fixed and stable. For example, it has been shown that a life-sized body perceived in virtual reality as substituting the participant's ...

Front Psychol . 2018 Jun 11;9:917. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00917 Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias Domna Banakou Domna Banakou 1 Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 2 Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Find articles by Domna Banakou 1, 2 , Sameer Kishore Sameer Kishore 1 Event Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Find articles by Sameer Kishore 1 , Mel Sla

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