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Protocol for the REVISE Randomized Controlled Trial: A Virtual Reality Intervention to Prevent Sexual Harassment in Heterosexual Couples Open

Alejandro Saavedra-Roa, Pablo Vallejo‐Medina, Sofía Seinfeld, Pierre Bourdin, Alejandro Guillén‐Riquelme , et al. · 2025

Background: A series of studies suggests that Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) can enhance perspective-taking and behavioral change by simulating real-world scenarios that people can experience from different points of view. Moreover, the u…

Virtual Reality in Psychotherapy: A Commentary on Strategies, Interventions, and Perspectives From Five Clinical Reports Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Adrián Montesano · 2025

Virtual reality (VR) applications have shown significant potential in enhancing psychological interventions by evoking vivid emotional reactions and creating immersive environments. This commentary provides an overview of five clinical cas…

Editorial: Understanding and improving the “self” using immersive virtual reality Open

Sameer Kishore, Nishtha Lamba, Domna Banakou, Sofía Seinfeld · 2024

Editorial: Beyond audiovisual: novel multisensory stimulation techniques and their applications Open

Justyna Świdrak, Orestis Georgiou, Domna Banakou, Marta Matamala-Gomez, Grzegorz Pochwatko , et al. · 2024

The Impact of Different Virtual Work Environments on Flow, Performance, User Emotions, and Preferences Open

Alicja Kiluk, Viktorija Paneva, Sofía Seinfeld, Jörg Müller · 2023

This research explores how different virtual work environments, differing in the type and amount of elements they include, impact users' flow, performance, emotional state, and preferences. Pre-study interviews were conducted to inform the…

Virtual reality for the rehabilitation and prevention of intimate partner violence – From brain to behavior: A narrative review Open

Tania Johnston, Sofía Seinfeld, Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Nicolas Barnes, Mel Slater , et al. · 2023

Rehabilitation and prevention strategies to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) have limited effectiveness in terms of improving key risk factors and reducing occurrence. Accumulated experimental evidence demonstrates that virtual embod…

Editorial: New approaches to understand domestic violence and reduce its prevalence Open

Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Sofía Seinfeld, Juha Holma, Berta Vall · 2023

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Editorial: Virtual reality and empathy Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Béatrice S. Hasler, Domna Banakou, Jonathan Lévy · 2022

Funding Information: BH was funded by Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 3105/21) and the Academy of Finland Research Fellow funding supported JL.

Evoking realistic affective touch experiences in virtual reality Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Ivette Schmidt, Jörg Müller · 2022

This study aims to better understand the emotional and physiological correlates of being caressed in VR depending on the type of multisensory feedback provided and the animate or inanimate nature of the virtual representation that touches …

Editorial: Neuropsychological and Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment of Neurodegenerative Disease and Rehabilitation Using New Technologies and Virtual Reality Open

Marta Matamala-Gomez, Fabrizio Stasolla, Sofía Seinfeld, Alessandro O. Caffò, Domna Banakou , et al. · 2021

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Impact of visuomotor feedback on the embodiment of virtual hands detached from the body Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Jörg Müller · 2020

Being the victim of virtual abuse changes default mode network responses to emotional expressions Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Minye Zhan, Marta Poyo-Solanas, Giulia Barsuola, Maarten J. Vaessen , et al. · 2020

Recent behavioural studies have provided evidence that virtual reality (VR) experiences have an impact on socio-affective processes, and a number of findings now underscore the potential of VR for therapeutic interventions. An interesting …

Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context Open

Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, Solène Neyret, Marta Blasco-Oliver, Sofía Seinfeld , et al. · 2020

When people hold implicit biases against a group they typically engage in discriminatory behaviour against group members. In the context of the implicit racial bias of ‘White' against ‘Black' people, it has been shown several times that im…

Impact of Information Placement and User Representations in VR on Performance and Embodiment Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Tiare Feuchtner, Johannes Pinzek, Jörg Müller · 2020

Human sensory processing is sensitive to the proximity of stimuli to the body. It is therefore plausible that these perceptual mechanisms also modulate the detectability of content in VR, depending on its location. We evaluate this in a us…

Being the Victim of Intimate Partner Violence in Virtual Reality: First- Versus Third-Person Perspective Open

Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Luís Zapata, Guillermo Iruretagoyena, Sofía Seinfeld, Lorena Perez-Mendez , et al. · 2020

Immersive virtual reality is widely used for research and clinical purposes. Here we explored the impact of an immersive virtual scene of intimate partner violence experienced from the victim's perspective (first person), as opposed to wit…

User Representations in Human-Computer Interaction Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Tiare Feuchtner, Antonella Maselli, Jörg Müller · 2020

Cursors, avatars, virtual hands or tools, and other rendered graphical objects, enable users to interact with computers such as PCs, game consoles or virtual reality systems. We analyze the role of these various objects from a user perspec…

Supplementary Information from Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context Open

Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, Solène Neyret, Marta Blasco-Olivera, Sofía Seinfeld , et al. · 2020

When people hold implicit biases against a group they typically engage in discriminatory behaviour against group members. In the context of the implicit racial bias of ‘white’ against ‘black’ people, it has been shown several times that im…

Offenders become the victim in virtual reality: impact of changing perspective in domestic violence Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Guillermo Iruretagoyena, Ruud Hortensius, L. E. Zapata , et al. · 2018

Influence of Music on Anxiety Induced by Fear of Heights in Virtual Reality Open

Sofía Seinfeld, Ilias Bergström, Ausiàs Pomés, Jorge Arroyo-Palacios, Francisco J. Vico , et al. · 2016

Music is a potent mood regulator that can induce relaxation and reduce anxiety in different situations. While several studies demonstrate that certain types of music have a subjective anxiolytic effect, the reported results from physiologi…

Healthy Aging Promotion through Neuroscientific Information-Based Strategies Open

Sofía Seinfeld, María V. Sánchez-Vives · 2015

To ensure the well-being of a rapidly growing elderly population, it is fundamental to find strategies to foster healthy brain aging. With this intention, we designed a program of scientific-based lectures aimed at dissemination by establi…

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