/channels/news_feeds/all/term/VR/rss en /channels/news/scientists-are-building-vr-worlds-mice-and-monkeys-260841 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Researchers now have the capability to build virtual reality worlds that can be inhabited by both lab animals (like rats and monkeys) and humans, allowing for a sort of cross-species brain research that’s never really been possible before, as different species are run through virtual environments in video games while scientists study brain activity… In a new study, published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods, a team of neuroscientists—including Martinez-Trujillo, Roberto Gulli and Guillaume Doucet, who are both also affiliated with Ď㽶ĘÓƵ—describe a new virtual reality “toolbox”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">13 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 13 May 2016 13:12:22 +0000 webfull 118800 at /channels