Curiosity in a Novel Virtual Reality Scenario and Its Association With Symptoms of Depression: Observational Pilot Investigation

Emma Therése Eliasson   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Sara Sutori   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Francesca Mura   ² , PhD ;   Victor Ortiz   ³ , MSc ;   Vincenzo Catrambone   ⁴ , PhD ;   Gergö Hadlaczky   ¹ , PhD ;   Ivo Todorov   ¹ , PhD ;   Antonio Luca Alfeo   ⁵ , PhD ;   Valentina Cardi   ⁶ , PhD ;   Mario G C A Cimino   ⁴ , PhD ;   Giovanna Mioni   ⁶ , PhD ;   Mariano Alcañiz Raya   ³ , PhD ;   Gaetano Valenza   ⁴ , PhD ;   Vladimir Carli   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Claudio Gentili   ^{6 *} , MD, PhD

¹ National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention (NASP), Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

² Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padua, Padua, Italy

³ Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Tecnología Centrada en el Ser Humano, Universitat Politècnica de València, Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación, València, Spain

⁴ Research Center E. Piaggio, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

⁵ Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Università degli Studi eCampus, Novedrate, Italy

⁶ Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

*these authors contributed equally