How your brain sees virtual you
Interestingly, however, there was "next to no difference" in the activity in these regions when people thought of themselves and of their avatar, says Caudle, who presented the results at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
Caudle's team also noticed key differences between how people thought about the virtual and real worlds, which must be a necessity for preserving your sense of reality. "Clearly you don't think of your virtual self as your real self," she says.
They found activity differed in a region called the precuneus, implicated in imagination. "It makes good sense to me if you're thinking about things in a virtual world you might get [activation in] these areas," says Caudle.
via newscientist.com
