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Root number
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513145 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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Type of course
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Proseminar |
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Allocation to subject
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Psychology |
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Type of exam
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Presentation |
| Title |
Expanding Reality: New Trends in Psychological Research |
| Description |
The "expansion of reality" using extended reality technologies (XR) is always accompanied by a change of the human perception of oneself relative to the environment. Using for example immersive virtual reality (VR) this change in one’s human-environment perception can consist, for example, in the experience of being in the middle of a three-dimensional life-sized virtual forest, although one is physically in a seminar room. It can even consist of the kinesthetic experience of walking upright through this forest, even though one is sitting on a chair in the seminar room. This example shall serve to illustrate that human individuals can have such experiences even without XR, especially since they can dream to walk across a forest while lying on a bed. In line with this, there is evidence that the human experience of "being one with the environment" is one of the core dimensions of extraordinary states of consciousness. This "unity experience", like the dream of walking, corresponds to a change in one’s human-environment perception. The experimental change in waking consciousness and the expansion of reality using XR therefore have in common that both can change one’s human-environment perception. In this proseminar, current psychological research on the expansion of reality will be, therefore, presented and discussed in a way that focuses on one’s human-environment perception and its change. To this end, the experimental induction of extraordinary states of consciousness will be first examined, to subsequently deal on this basis with the experimental alteration of self-perception (i.e., the induction of out-of-body and full-body illusions) by XR and finally the change of human-environment perception by XR to foster human learning. The participants of this proseminar will have the opportunity to read current scientific publications on these three topics and to give a presentation on that. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Martin Dobricki, Institute of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Methodology ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Thursday 16:15-18:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum B 305, Institutsgebäude vonRoll
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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