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Virtually Being Einstein Results in an Improvement in Cognitive Task Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias

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Banakou, Domna, Kishore, Sameer, Slater, Mel·2018·Frontiers in Psychology

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The brain's body representation is amenable to rapid change, even though we tend to think of our bodies as relatively fixed and stable. For example, it has been shown that a life-sized body perceived in virtual reality as substituting the participant's real body, can be felt as if it were their own, and that the body type can induce perceptual, attitudinal and behavioral changes. Here we show that changes can also occur in cognitive processing and specifically, executive functioning. Fifteen male participants were embodied in a virtual body that signifies super-intelligence (Einstein) and 15 in a (Normal) virtual body of similar age to their own. The Einstein body participants performed better on a cognitive task than the Normal body, considering prior cognitive ability (IQ), with the improvement greatest for those with low self-esteem. Einstein embodiment also reduced implicit bias against older people. Hence virtual body ownership may additionally be used to enhance executive functioning.

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Authors: Banakou, D., Kishore, S., & Slater, M.
Affiliations: Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
Corresponding author: Slater, Mel
ORCID: Banakou, Domna
Kishore, Sameer
Slater, Mel
Venue: Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2018-06-11
Volume: 9
Pages: 917-917
ISSN: 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00917
PMC: PMC6004376
OpenAlex: W2804788713
Cited by: 305
References: 73
Citations by year: 2026: 39 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 2
FWCI: 22.62
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (unspecified)
Locations: Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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PubMed (publishedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PSI2014-56301-R)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
Keywords: virtual embodiment, representation of the body, executive function, cognitive task performance, age bias, implicit bias, self-esteem

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