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Your (Virtual) Future Self Wants You To Save Up : NPR

Your (Virtual) Future Self Wants You To Save Up : NPR | Science News | Scoop.it

In fact, when we think about ourselves in the future we actually use the same part of our brain that we use when we think about a stranger. Hershfield and a group of researchers wanted to help young people vividly imagine their own old age, so they recruited college-age men and women, gave them goggles and sent them into a virtual reality laboratory where they encountered a kind of mirror.

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Virtual skull helps plan face transplants

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/11/4d-virtual-skull-makes-face-transplants-more-accurate.html...


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