Humans take more risks when avatars show emotions instead of real human faces, and this change is linked to activity in the ...

Expecting feedback from an avatar compared to a real human facilitates risk-taking behavior in a gambling task, and a brain ...

On TikTok there are exceptional "testimonials" like Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie delivering short science-related messages that have garnered millions of views. This is just one of many examples where ...

Specifically, the participants received dynamic facial-expression feedback from either a human observer presented as an avatar or a real human face based on the outcome (win or no-win) of each ...

To provide insight on this, Vanessa Era and colleagues from Sapienza University of Rome assessed interactions between human participants and avatars with human-like or inhuman bodies. Participants ...

How does the human brain process social cues in virtual reality? This is what a recent study published in eNeuro hopes to address as a team of researchers from Sapienza University in Italy ...

“The Sully family are really put through the ringer on this one as they face not only the human invaders ... of Na’vi are introduced in this third Avatar film: the Tlalim clan, aka the ...

When avatars give feedback, people take more risks. This behavior is tied to how the brain - especially the amygdala - ...