/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8345/all en /newsroom/channels/news/scientists-are-building-vr-worlds-mice-and-monkeys-260841 <p>Researchers now have the capability to build virtual reality worlds that can be inhabited by both lab animals (like rats and monkeys) and humans, allowing for a sort of cross-species brain research that’s never really been possible before, as different species are run through virtual environments in video games while scientists study brain activity… In a new study, published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods, a team of neuroscientists—including Martinez-Trujillo, Roberto Gulli and Guillaume Doucet, who are both also affiliated with ƻ����Ժ—describe a new virtual reality “toolbox”</p> Fri, 13 May 2016 13:12:18 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25825 at /newsroom