Autobiographical Memories & Virtual Reality
What is the link between bodily-self and autobiographical-self? The immersive VR technology, which provides controlled, yet real life-like, self-relevant multisensory and contextually rich events, enables us to better understand this relationship.
Both episodic autobiographical memories (i.e. the recollections of contextually rich and personally relevant past events), as well as the bodily self-consciousness (i.e. the experience of the self at the location of an owned body and from where the external world is perceived) are fundamentally related to the sense of self.
- autobiographical-self
- bodily-self
- self-consciousness
- memory enhancement
- real life-like events
- immersive virtual reality
Publications
- Bréchet, L. (2022). Personal memories and bodily-cues influence our sense of self. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:855450.
- Bréchet, L., Hausmann, S., Mange, R., Herbelin, B., Blanke, O., Serino, A. (2020). The bodily self retroactively and selectively strengthens episodic memory. Brain and Behavior, 00:e01571.
- Gauthier, B., Bréchet, L., Lance, F., Mange, R., Herbelin,B., Faivre, N., Bolton, T. Van de Ville, D., Blanke, O. (2020). First-person body view modulates the neural substrates of episodic memory and autonomic consciousness: a functional connectivity study. NeuroImage, 223, 117370.
- Bréchet, L., Mange, R., Herbelin, B., Gauthier, B., Serino, A., Blanke, O. (2019). First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory. PLOS One, 14:3.
- Bréchet, L., Grivaz, P., Gauthier, B., Blanke, O. (2018). Common recruitment of angular gyrus in episodic autobiographical memory and bodily self-consciousness. Frontiers in Human Behavior, Nov 14; 12:270.