Virtually the same? How impaired sensory information in virtual reality may disrupt vision for action
dc.contributor.author | Harris, DJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckingham, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, MR | |
dc.contributor.author | Vine, SJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-27T11:12:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-09-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool for expanding the possibilities of psychological experimentation and implementing immersive training applications. Despite a recent surge in interest, there remains an inadequate understanding of how VR impacts basic cognitive processes. Due to the artificial presentation of egocentric distance cues in virtual environments, a number of cues to depth in the optic array are impaired or placed in conflict with each other. Moreover, realistic haptic information is all but absent from current VR systems. The resulting conflicts could impact not only the execution of motor skills in VR but also raise deeper concerns about basic visual processing, and the extent to which virtual objects elicit neural and behavioural responses representative of real objects. In this brief review, we outline how the novel perceptual environment of VR may affect vision for action, by shifting users away from a dorsal mode of control. Fewer binocular cues to depth, conflicting depth information and limited haptic feedback may all impair the specialised, efficient, online control of action characteristic of the dorsal stream. A shift from dorsal to ventral control of action may create a fundamental disparity between virtual and real-world skills that has important consequences for how we understand perception and action in the virtual world. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 4 September 2019 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00221-019-05642-8 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ICRF1819/2/32 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/38930 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | VR | en_GB |
dc.subject | Haptic | en_GB |
dc.subject | Visually-guided | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dorsal | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ventral | en_GB |
dc.title | Virtually the same? How impaired sensory information in virtual reality may disrupt vision for action | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-27T11:12:31Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-4819 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Experimental Brain Research | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-07-30 | |
exeter.funder | ::Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-08-30 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-09-27T11:10:56Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-09-27T11:12:34Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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