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Sex, Lies And Virtual Reality

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Do male and female brains differ with respect to spatial processing? Gender differences in spatial abilities1,2,3,4 as well as in cerebral organization5,6 have led to suggestions that the sex of subjects should be taken into account in neuroscience studies7. Here we demonstrate gender differences in the response to a visuovestibular information conflict created by a deceptive virtual environment.

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Figure 1: Virtual room and gender differences in adaptation to sensorial conflict.

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Supported by GIS-Science de la Cognition, SmithKline Beecham, HFSP, FRM.

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  1. Yuri P. Ivanenko: On leave from: Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 Bolshoy Karetny, Moscow 101447, Russia

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  1. LPPA, CNRS-Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris, 75005, France

    Isabelle Viaud-Delmon, Yuri P. Ivanenko & Alain Berthoz

  2. CNRS UMR 7593, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 bd de l'Hopital, Paris, 75013, France

    Isabelle Viaud-Delmon & Roland Jouvent

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Viaud-Delmon, I., Ivanenko, Y., Berthoz, A. et al. Sex, Lies And Virtual Reality. Nat Neurosci 1, 15–16 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/215

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