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Cortical responses to object-motion and visually-induced self-motion perception
1Department of Neurology, University of Vienna, Währingergürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria. weisge1@akh-wien.ac.at
Abstract:
We investigated the spatiotemporal cortical dynamics during the perception of object-motion and visually-induced self-motion perception in six normal subjects, using a 143-channel neuromagnetometer. Object-motion specific tasks evoked early transient activity over the right temporooccipital cortex, while self-motion perception, or vection, additionally was followed by sustained bilateral activity in the temporoparietal area. The specific signal distributions suggest to represent the different perceptual modes of object-motion and self-motion sensation.
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