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Kooijman L, Asadi H, Mohamed S, Nahavandi S. A virtual reality study investigating the train illusion. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:221622. [PMID: 37063997 PMCID: PMC10090874 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The feeling of self-movement that occurs in the absence of physical motion is often referred to as vection, which is commonly exemplified using the train illusion analogy (TIA). Limited research exists on whether the TIA accurately exemplifies the experience of vection in virtual environments (VEs). Few studies complemented their vection research with participants' qualitative feedback or by recording physiological responses, and most studies used stimuli that contextually differed from the TIA. We investigated whether vection is experienced differently in a VE replicating the TIA compared to a VE depicting optic flow by recording subjective and physiological responses. Additionally, we explored participants' experience through an open question survey. We expected the TIA environment to induce enhanced vection compared to the optic flow environment. Twenty-nine participants were visually and audibly immersed in VEs that either depicted optic flow or replicated the TIA. Results showed optic flow elicited more compelling vection than the TIA environment and no consistent physiological correlates to vection were identified. The post-experiment survey revealed discrepancies between participants' quantitative and qualitative feedback. Although the dynamic content may outweigh the ecological relevance of the stimuli, it was concluded that more qualitative research is needed to understand participants' vection experience in VEs.
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- Lars Kooijman
- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Allston, MA 02134, USA
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The role of cognitive factors and personality traits in the perception of illusory self-motion (vection). Atten Percept Psychophys 2021; 83:1804-1817. [PMID: 33409903 PMCID: PMC8084801 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02228-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Vection is a perceptual phenomenon that describes the visually induced subjective sensation of self-motion in the absence of physical motion. Previous research has discussed the potential involvement of top-down cognitive mechanisms on vection. Here, we quantified how cognitive manipulations such as contextual information (i.e., expectation) and plausibility (i.e., chair configuration) alter vection. We also explored how individual traits such as field dependence, depersonalization, anxiety, and social desirability might be related to vection. Fifty-one healthy adults were exposed to an optic flow stimulus that consisted of horizontally moving black-and-white bars presented on three adjacent monitors to generate circular vection. Participants were divided into three groups and given experimental instructions designed to induce either strong, weak, or no expectation with regard to the intensity of vection. In addition, the configuration of the chair (rotatable or fixed) was modified during the experiment. Vection onset time, duration, and intensity were recorded. Results showed that expectation altered vection intensity, but only when the chair was in the rotatable configuration. Positive correlations for vection measures with field dependence and depersonalization, but no sex-related effects were found. Our results show that vection can be altered by cognitive factors and that individual traits can affect the perception of vection, suggesting that vection is not a purely perceptual phenomenon, but can also be affected by top-down mechanisms.
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Fujimoto K, Ashida H. Different Head-Sway Responses to Optic Flow in Sitting and Standing With a Head-Mounted Display. Front Psychol 2020; 11:577305. [PMID: 33123058 PMCID: PMC7573131 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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We investigated postural responses (head displacements) and self-motion perception (vection) to radial and lateral optic flows while sitting and standing by using a head-mounted display. We found that head displacement directions varied across postures. In the standing posture, radial optic flow generally produced the opposed head displacement against the perceived vection direction, consistent with the literature; however, in the sitting posture, the optic flow generally produced the following head displacement in the vection direction. In the standing posture, responses were evident soon after the onset of the optic flow presentation but became less clear in the latter half of a trial. The results, while less clear for lateral flows, were similar for both flow types. Our findings suggest partially distinct processes underlying vection and postural control.
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- Kanon Fujimoto
- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.,Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Wibble T, Södergård U, Träisk F, Pansell T. Intensified visual clutter induces increased sympathetic signalling, poorer postural control, and faster torsional eye movements during visual rotation. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0227370. [PMID: 31900468 PMCID: PMC6941927 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Many dizzy patients express a hypersensitivity to visual motion and clutter. This study aims to investigate how exposure to rotating visual clutter affects ocular torsion, vertical skewing, body-sway, the autonomic pupillary response, and the subjective feeling of discomfort to the stimulation. Sixteen healthy subjects were exposed to 20 seconds rotational visual stimulation (72 deg/s; 50 deg visual field). Visual stimuli were comprised of black lines on a white background, presented at low and high intensity levels of visual clutter, holding 19 lines and 38 lines respectively. Ocular torsion and vertical skewing were recorded using the Chronos Eye Tracker, which also measured pupil size as a reflection of the autonomic response. Postural control was evaluated by measuring body-sway area on the Wii Balance Board. Values were compared to data retrieved 20 seconds before and after the optokinetic stimulation, as subjects viewed the stationary visual scene. The high intensity stimulus resulted in significantly higher torsional velocities. Subjects who were exposed to low intensity first exhibited higher velocities for both intensities. Both pupil size and body sway increased for the higher intensity to both the moving and stationary visual scene, and were positively correlated to torsional velocity. In conclusion, exposure to visual clutter was reflected in the eye movement response, changes in postural control, and the autonomic response. This response may hold clinical utility when assessing patients suffering from visual motion hypersensitivity, while also providing some context as to why some healthy people feel discomfort in visually cluttered surroundings.
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- Tobias Wibble
- Division of Ophthalmology and Vision, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Marianne Bernadotte Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- St Erik Eye Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Ophthalmology and Vision, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Marianne Bernadotte Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Ophthalmology and Vision, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Marianne Bernadotte Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- St Erik Eye Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Ophthalmology and Vision, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Marianne Bernadotte Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- St Erik Eye Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Fujimoto K, Ashida H. Larger Head Displacement to Optic Flow Presented in the Lower Visual Field. Iperception 2019; 10:2041669519886903. [PMID: 31803463 PMCID: PMC6876183 DOI: 10.1177/2041669519886903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Optic flow that simulates self-motion often produces postural adjustment. Although literature has suggested that human postural control depends largely on visual inputs from the lower field in the environment, effects of the vertical location of optic flow on postural responses are not well investigated. Here, we examined whether optic flow presented in the lower visual field produces stronger responses than optic flow in the upper visual field. Either expanding or contracting optic flow was presented in upper, lower, or full visual fields through an Oculus Rift head-mounted display. Head displacement and vection strength were measured. Results showed larger head displacement under the optic flow presentation in the full visual field and the lower visual field than the upper visual field, during early period of presentation of the contracting optic flow. Vection was strongest in the full visual field and weakest in the upper visual field. Our findings of lower field superiority in head displacement and vection support the notion that ecologically relevant information has a particularly important role in human postural control and self-motion perception.
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- Kanon Fujimoto
- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Disorders of posture and balance cause significant patient morbidity, with reduction of quality of life as patients refrain from critical activities of daily living such as walking outside the home and driving. This review describes recent efforts to characterize visual disorders that interact with the neural integrators of positional maintenance and emerging therapies for these disorders. RECENT FINDINGS Abnormalities of gait and body position sense may be unrecognized by patients but are correlated with focal neurological injury (stroke). Patients with traumatic brain injury can exhibit visual vertigo despite otherwise normal visual functioning. The effect of visual neglect on posture and balance, even in the absence of a demonstrable visual field defect, has been characterized quantitatively through gait analysis and validates the potential therapeutic value of prism treatment in some patients. In addition, the underlying neural dysfunction in visual vertigo has been explored further using functional imaging, and these observations may allow discrimination of patients with structural causes from those whose co-morbid psychosocial disorders may be primarily contributory.
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- Jeffrey R Hebert
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.,Marcus Institute for Brain Health, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. .,Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. .,Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. .,Sue Anschutz-Rodgers UCHealth Eye Center, 1675 Aurora Ct Mail Stop F731, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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Visually induced illusions of self-motion are often referred to as vection. This article developed and tested a model of responding to visually induced vection. We first constructed a mathematical model based on well-documented characteristics of vection and human behavioral responses to this illusion. We then conducted 10,000 virtual trial simulations using this Oscillating Potential Vection Model (OPVM). OPVM was used to generate simulated vection onset, duration, and magnitude responses for each of these trials. Finally, we compared the properties of OPVM's simulated vection responses with real responses obtained in seven different laboratory-based vection experiments. The OPVM output was found to compare favorably with the empirically obtained vection data.
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- Takeharu Seno
- Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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Keshavarz B, Speck M, Haycock B, Berti S. Effect of Different Display Types on Vection and Its Interaction With Motion Direction and Field Dependence. Iperception 2017; 8:2041669517707768. [PMID: 28515866 PMCID: PMC5423592 DOI: 10.1177/2041669517707768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Illusory self-motion (vection) can be generated by visual stimulation. The purpose of the present study was to compare behavioral vection measures including intensity ratings, duration, and onset time across different visual display types. Participants were exposed to a pattern of alternating black-and-white horizontal or vertical bars that moved either in vertical or horizontal direction, respectively. Stimuli were presented on four types of displays in randomized order: (a) large field of view dome projection, (b) combination of three computer screens, (c) single computer screen, (d) large field of view flat projection screen. A Computer Rod and Frame Test was used to measure field dependence, a cognitive style indicating the person’s tendency to rely on external cues (i.e., field dependent) or internal cues (i.e., field independent) with respect to the perception of one’s body position in space. Results revealed that all four displays successfully generated at least moderately strong vection. However, shortest vection onset, longest vection duration, and strongest vection intensity showed for the dome projection and the combination of three screens. This effect was further pronounced in field independent participants, indicating that field dependence can alter vection.
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- Behrang Keshavarz
- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - University Health Network (UHN), iDAPT, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - University Health Network (UHN), iDAPT, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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