A novel virtual plus-maze for studying electrophysiological correlates of spatial reorientation

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Torok, Agoston^1,2  Kobor, Andrea¹  Honbolygo, Ferenc¹  Baker, Travis³ 

[1] Hungarian Acad Sci, Brain Imaging Ctr, Res Ctr Nat Sci, Budapest, Hungary

[2] Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Comp Sci & Control, Syst & Control Lab, Budapest, Hungary

[3] Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Mol & Behav Neurosci, Newark, NJ USA

关键词: Reorientation;    Cross-maze;    Teleportation;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.neulet.2018.11.029

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Quick reorientation is an essential part of successful navigation. Despite growing attention to this ability, little is known about how reorientation happens in humans. To this aim, we recorded EEG from 34 participants. Participants were navigating a simple virtual reality plus-maze where at the beginning of each trial they were randomly teleported to either the North or the South alley. Results show that the teleportation event caused a quick reorientation effect over occipito-parietal areas as early as 100 ms; meaning that despite the known stochastic nature of the teleportation, participants built up expectations for their place of arrival. This result has important consequences for the optimal design of virtual reality locomotion.

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