Kinesthetic and vestibular information modulate alpha activity during spatial navigation: a mobile EEG study

Ehinger, Benedikt V.; Fischer, Petra; Gert, Anna L.; Kaufhold, Lilli; Weber, Felix; Pipa, Gordon; König, Peter

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00071

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“…However, we already know that the act of moving is central to navigation. For example Ehinger et al (2014) have shown that the integration of vestibular and kinesthetic information (provided through the navigation of the physical body in the environment) modulates brain activity in the alpha frequency band. These findings demonstrate that sensory and vestibular feedback are essential parts of spatial navigation that are neglected in lab-based navigation experiments.…”

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Understanding Minds in Real-World Environments: Toward a Mobile Cognition Approach

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Donaldson

Dudchenko

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Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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There is a growing body of evidence that important aspects of human cognition have been marginalized, or overlooked, by traditional cognitive science. In particular, the use of laboratory-based experiments in which stimuli are artificial, and response options are fixed, inevitably results in findings that are less ecologically valid in relation to real-world behavior. In the present review we highlight the opportunities provided by a range of new mobile technologies that allow traditionally lab-bound measurements to now be collected during natural interactions with the world. We begin by outlining the theoretical support that mobile approaches receive from the development of embodied accounts of cognition, and we review the widening evidence that illustrates the importance of examining cognitive processes in their context. As we acknowledge, in practice, the development of mobile approaches brings with it fresh challenges, and will undoubtedly require innovation in paradigm design and analysis. If successful, however, the mobile cognition approach will offer novel insights in a range of areas, including understanding the cognitive processes underlying navigation through space and the role of attention during natural behavior. We argue that the development of real-world mobile cognition offers both increased ecological validity, and the opportunity to examine the interactions between perception, cognition and action—rather than examining each in isolation.

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confidence: 99%

Understanding Minds in Real-World Environments: Toward a Mobile Cognition Approach

Ladouce

Donaldson

Dudchenko

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…As the SMC theory states the importance of action for developing new SMCs a possible control would also be a passive training condition. In fact, a recent study on integration of kinesthetic and vestibular information by EEG in a virtual reality environment reported significant differences in cortical processing between active and passive conditions [121]. To apply such techniques in the context of sensory augmentation is an important next step.…”

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Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception

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Theories of embodied cognition propose that perception is shaped by sensory stimuli and by the actions of the organism. Following sensorimotor contingency theory, the mastery of lawful relations between own behavior and resulting changes in sensory signals, called sensorimotor contingencies, is constitutive of conscious perception. Sensorimotor contingency theory predicts that, after training, knowledge relating to new sensorimotor contingencies develops, leading to changes in the activation of sensorimotor systems, and concomitant changes in perception. In the present study, we spell out this hypothesis in detail and investigate whether it is possible to learn new sensorimotor contingencies by sensory augmentation. Specifically, we designed an fMRI compatible sensory augmentation device, the feelSpace belt, which gives orientation information about the direction of magnetic north via vibrotactile stimulation on the waist of participants. In a longitudinal study, participants trained with this belt for seven weeks in natural environment. Our EEG results indicate that training with the belt leads to changes in sleep architecture early in the training phase, compatible with the consolidation of procedural learning as well as increased sensorimotor processing and motor programming. The fMRI results suggest that training entails activity in sensory as well as higher motor centers and brain areas known to be involved in navigation. These neural changes are accompanied with changes in how space and the belt signal are perceived, as well as with increased trust in navigational ability. Thus, our data on physiological processes and subjective experiences are compatible with the hypothesis that new sensorimotor contingencies can be acquired using sensory augmentation.

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“…the sound channel of the movie). Finally, signals from accelerometers and other motion sensors could help to account for the head and body movements that characterize visual exploration behavior outside of the laboratory (Ehinger et al, 2014;Gramann, Jung, Ferris, Lin, & Makeig, 2014).…”

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Analyzing combined eye-tracking/EEG experiments with (non)linear deconvolution models

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Ehinger

2019

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Fixation-related potentials (FRPs), neural responses aligned to saccade offsets, are a promising tool to study the dynamics of attention and cognition under natural viewing conditions. In the past, four methodological problems have complicated the analysis of such combined eye-tracking/EEG experiments: (i) the synchronization of data streams, (ii) the removal of ocular artifacts, (iii) the condition-specific temporal overlap between the brain responses evoked by consecutive fixations, (iv) and the fact that numerous low-level stimulus and saccade properties also influence the post-saccadic neural responses. While effective solutions exist for the first two problems, the latter ones are only beginning to be addressed. In the current paper, we present and review a unified framework for FRP analysis that allows us to deconvolve overlapping potentials and control for linear and nonlinear confounds on theFRPs. An open software implementation is provided for all procedures. We then demonstrate the advantages of this approach for data from three commonly studied paradigms: face perception, scene viewing, and natural sentence reading. First, for a traditional ERP face recognition experiment, we show how deconvolution can separate stimulus-ERPs from overlapping muscle and brain potentials produced by small (micro)saccades on the face.Second, in scene viewing, we isolate multiple non-linear influences of saccade parameters on the FRP. Finally, for a natural sentence reading experiment using the boundary paradigm, we show how it is possible to study the neural correlates of parafoveal preview after removing spurious overlap effects caused by the associated difference in average fixation time. Our results suggest a principal way of measuring reliable fixation-related brain potentials during natural vision.

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Kinesthetic and vestibular information modulate alpha activity during spatial navigation: a mobile EEG study

Cited by 99 publications

References 42 publications

Understanding Minds in Real-World Environments: Toward a Mobile Cognition Approach

Understanding Minds in Real-World Environments: Toward a Mobile Cognition Approach

Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception

Analyzing combined eye-tracking/EEG experiments with (non)linear deconvolution models

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