
Chapter 4
Interactions between virtual reality
and behavioural sciences
Daniel Mestre and Jean-LouisVercher
4.1 INTRODUCTION
Researchers in the field of Behavioural Sciences (from Psychology to Behavioural and
Cognitive Neuroscience) make use of experimental devices intended to use the sensory
information and the control conditions of the activity possessed by the experimental
subjects in order to better understand the sensory, motor and cognitive determinants
of the working of the human operator. Virtual reality techniques for researchers are
thus nothing but a development of the existing techniques. However, we are presently
witnessing the convergence ...