Perspective and agency during video gaming influences spatial presence experience and brain activation patterns

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Michael Havranek²  Nicolas Langer¹  Marcus Cheetham¹  Lutz Jäncke¹ 

[1] Department of Neuropsychology, Psychological Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

[2] Clinic for Affective Disorders, University Clinic of Psychiatry Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

关键词: Premotor cortex;    Posterior parietal cortex;    Fronto-parietal network;    LORETA;    EEG;    Agency;    Perspective;    Brain activation;    Spatial presence;   

Others  :  797497
DOI  :  10.1186/1744-9081-8-34

 received in 2011-11-02, accepted in 2012-06-29,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

The experience of spatial presence (SP), i.e., the sense of being present in a virtual environment, emerges if an individual perceives himself as 1) if he were actually located (self-location) and 2) able to act in the virtual environment (possible actions). In this study, two main media factors (perspective and agency) were investigated while participants played a commercially available video game.

Methods

The differences in SP experience and associated brain activation were compared between the conditions of game play in first person perspective (1PP) and third person perspective (3PP) as well as between agency, i.e., active navigation of the video game character (active), and non-agency, i.e., mere passive observation (passive). SP was assessed using standard questionnaires, and brain activation was measured using electroencephalography (EEG) and sLORETA source localisation (standard low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography).

Results

Higher SP ratings were obtained in the 1PP compared with the 3PP condition and in the active compared with the passive condition. On a neural level, we observed in the 1PP compared with the 3PP condition significantly less alpha band power in the parietal, the occipital and the limbic cortex. In the active compared with the passive condition, we uncovered significantly more theta band power in frontal brain regions.

Conclusion

We propose that manipulating the factors perspective and agency influences SP formation by either directly or indirectly modulating the ego-centric visual processing in a fronto-parietal network. The neuroscientific results are discussed in terms of the theoretical concepts of SP.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Havranek et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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