"It's like when you're in an IMAX theater, you somehow know that it's not real because your neurons are able to tell the difference." "If you are in virtual reality - no matter how compelling it is - you know that it is virtual and it's not real," Mehta said. Nearly 60 percent of the specialized "GPS cells" in the brain that create mental maps shut down when in a virtual setting, he said. In lab experiments on rats, he found that the brain does not form a mental map of virtual surroundings the way it does in real-world settings. But people are usually able to tell the difference between a virtual experience and a novel real-life experience, according to Mayank Mehta, a neurophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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