News

• VERE Videos and pictures
• The horrors of war, The Economist, 8 December 2012
• A world without limits, Euronews 13 November, 2012
  ("Un mundo sin límites" , Spanish version)


• Robot avatar body controlled by thought alone, New Scientist 12 July, 2012


• fMRI Reads Thoughts In Real Time to Remotely Control Robot, IEEE Spectrum, 09 July, 2012


• Man and robot linked by brain scanner, BBC News Technology, 5 July 2012


• Thought-Controlled 'Avatar' Robot Developed By Scientists For Virtual Embodiment (VIDEO), The Huffington Post, 7 JUne 2012


• Mar Gonzalez and Tabitha Peck attended and presented a poster at the 8th International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) Congress of Neuroscience, Florence, Italy, July 2011. The poster was entitled "Virtual Embodiment Elicits a Mu Rhythm ERD When the Virtual Hand is Threatened"


• Mar Gonzalez Franco was a panellist (Brain-Computer Interfaces and Virtual Reality: present and future interactions) at the IEEE VR 2012 international conference and exhibition on virtual reality, hosted by the University of California, Irvine, 4-8 March 2012, Orange County CA..


• Olaf Blanke (VERE PI) and Mel Slater (VERE Coordinator)  addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science in a session organised by Olaf Blanke:"From Artificial Limbs to Virtual Reality: How the Brain Represents the Body", 19th February, 2011


• Mar Gonzalez, VERE researcher at UB has been awarded a three years Pre-Doctorate Grant, FI-DGR 2011, given by the Commission for Universities and Research of the Generalitat de Catalunya (CUR-Gencat) and co-funded by the European Commission - European Social Fund (EC-ESF). Congratulations Mar! 01 January 2011.