The body in the metaverse

New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Salvatore Maria Aglioti (Sapienza University of Rome & CLN2S@sapienza, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy / Paris IAS Fellow).

The ’body in the metaverse’ project revolves around the novel, important concept that perceiving, imagining and representing one’s own and others’ body modulates not only basic sensorimotor processes but also higher-order mental functions like, for example, social decision making, in the real and in the virtual world. Also, it provides evidence that not only exteroceptive (e.g. visual, tactile and acoustic) but also interoceptive (coming from internal organs) body signals modulate complex cognitive and emotional processes.