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Embodiment and self-conversation in VR to confront obesity

Through decades of research, Virtual Bodyworks leverages virtual reality’s unique medium to offer new possibilities that are impossible to recreate in real life. One of these unique opportunities is Embodiment, an immersive experience that allows users to enter full body avatars through virtual reality. In Embodiment scenarios, our brain can rewire and change our self-perception, …

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Neuropsychology of Obesity

What is neuropsychology? Neuropsychology is the science that studies the relationship between our brains and behaviours, and whose objective is to set light on the correlation between brain structures and their function, what is called cognition. Neuropsychology is considered a neuroscience since it is based on the scientific method to empirically test the theoretical models …

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Power of mind! How your mindset could help to improve a healthier lifestyle

Why is it so hard to resist those very tasty chocolates, even though you know it’s unhealthy? And why do some situations make you crave chocolate like crazy, whereas in other situations you’re not tempted at all? And is it true that that piece of chocolate tastes better in one situation than in the other? …

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How would you want to have an AI agent as your personal counselor?

One of the fascinating recent developments in ‘artificial intelligence’ is that of transformers. The first one that caught attention was BERT, released by Google AI in 2018, and soon followed several others, where each new transformer attempts to be bigger and better than the previous ones. One of the famous recent transformers is GPT-3, released …

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