Topic: self-location

To track and control self-location, animals integrate their movements through space. Representations of self-location are observed in the mammalian hippocampal formation (1,2), but it is unknown if positional representations exist in more ancient brain regions, how they arise from integrated self-motion, and by what pathways they control locomotion. Here, in a head-fixed, fictive-swimming, virtual-reality preparation (3), we exposed larval zebrafish to a variety of involuntary displacements. They tracked these displacements and, many seconds later, moved toward their earlier location through c

In order to improve the immersive experience of Virtual Reality (VR), this research aims to elucidate how people perceive self-location and to develop a method to transfer “the sensation of me being here” to another location. In order to elucidate this perception for self-location, I focused on the out-of-body experience (OBE) in which one's consciousness is localised outside the body, and one perceives oneself as if one is looking at one's own body from this position. Conventional induction methods for pseudo-OBE involve projecting images of mannequins or virtual bodies in VR and applying tac