Publications

Kyrlitsias, Christos, Despina Michael-Grigoriou, Domna Banakou, and Maria Christofi. "Social conformity in immersive virtual environments: The impact of agents’ gaze behavior." Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2020): 2254. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02254

Kyrlitsias, Christos, Maria Christofi, Despina Michael-Grigoriou, Domna Banakou, and Andri Ioannou. "A Virtual Tour of a Hardly Accessible Archaeological Site: The Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality on User Experience, Learning, and Attitude Change." Frontiers in Computer Science 2 (2020): 23. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2020.00023

Bedder, Rachel L., Daniel Bush, Domna Banakou, Tabitha Peck, Mel Slater, and Neil Burgess. “A Mechanistic Account of Bodily Resonance and Implicit Bias.” Cognition 184, no. January 2018 (2019): 1–10.

Banakou, Domna, Sameer Kishore, and Mel Slater. "Virtually being Einstein results in an improvement in cognitive task performance and a decrease in age bias." Frontiers in Psychology (2018): 917. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00917

Hamilton-Giachritsis, Catherine, Domna Banakou, Manuela Garcia Quiroga, Christos Giachritsis, and Mel Slater. "Reducing risk and improving maternal perspective-taking and empathy using virtual embodiment." Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (2018): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21036-2

Banakou, Domna, and Mel Slater. “Embodiment in a Virtual Body That Speaks Produces Agency over the Speaking but Does Not Necessarily Influence Subsequent Real Speaking.” Scientific Reports 7, no. 1 (2017): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14620-5

Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana, Domna Banakou, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, and Mel Slater. "Embodiment in a child-like talking virtual body influences object size perception, self-identification, and subsequent real speaking." Scientific reports 7, no. 1 (2017): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09497-3

Banakou, Domna, Dora H Parasuram, and Mel Slater. “Virtual Embodiment of White People in a Black Virtual Body Leads to a Sustained Reduction in Their Implicit Racial Bias.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10 (2016): 601. https://doi.org/10.3389/FNHUM.2016.00601

Banakou, Domna, and Mel Slater. "Body ownership causes illusory self-attribution of speaking and influences subsequent real speaking." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 49 (2014): 17678-17683. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1414936111

Banakou, Domna, Raphaela Groten, and Mel Slater. “Illusory Ownership of a Virtual Child Body Causes Overestimation of Object Sizes and Implicit Attitude Changes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 31 (2013): 12846–12851.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1306779110