{"title":"Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience.","authors":"Marta Andreatta, Matthias Gamer","doi":"10.1016/j.bbr.2025.115809","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow for increasing the ecological validity of experimental scenarios and provide new opportunities to collect behavioral data that is typically inaccessible in traditional laboratory settings. Thereby, new insights into fundamental questions of cognitive and affective neuroscience can be gained. This special issue provides a common platform for such endeavors and integrates contributions on novel research designs that use VR to investigate the neural, physiological, and cognitive basis of human behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":8823,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural Brain Research","volume":" ","pages":"115809"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Behavioural Brain Research","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2025.115809","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow for increasing the ecological validity of experimental scenarios and provide new opportunities to collect behavioral data that is typically inaccessible in traditional laboratory settings. Thereby, new insights into fundamental questions of cognitive and affective neuroscience can be gained. This special issue provides a common platform for such endeavors and integrates contributions on novel research designs that use VR to investigate the neural, physiological, and cognitive basis of human behavior.
期刊介绍:
Behavioural Brain Research is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of articles in the field of behavioural neuroscience, broadly defined. Contributions from the entire range of disciplines that comprise the neurosciences, behavioural sciences or cognitive sciences are appropriate, as long as the goal is to delineate the neural mechanisms underlying behaviour. Thus, studies may range from neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, neurochemical or neuropharmacological analysis of brain-behaviour relations, including the use of molecular genetic or behavioural genetic approaches, to studies that involve the use of brain imaging techniques, to neuroethological studies. Reports of original research, of major methodological advances, or of novel conceptual approaches are all encouraged. The journal will also consider critical reviews on selected topics.