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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Cortical brain areas involved in motor control also support general cognitive processes.
  • Traditional brain imaging methods limit participant behavior and data analysis to averaged responses.
  • Understanding the link between brain dynamics and natural behavior requires advanced imaging techniques.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop wearable mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) systems for studying natural human behavior.
  • To investigate the complex relationships between distributed brain dynamics and motivated behavior.
  • To enable new insights into how brain dynamics support cognition and agency.

Main Methods:

  • Development of wearable MoBI systems capturing high-density electrical brain and muscle signals.
  • Simultaneous recording of 3D body movements, audiovisual scene, and point of regard.
  • Application of novel data-driven analysis methods to model interrelationships between brain and behavior.

Main Results:

  • The proposed MoBI systems allow continuous capture of comprehensive brain and body data during natural behavior.
  • New analysis methods are being developed to model the complex interdependencies.
  • This approach moves beyond traditional, behavior-limiting imaging paradigms.

Conclusions:

  • Wearable MoBI systems offer a novel approach to studying brain-behavior relationships in naturalistic settings.
  • This technology has the potential to reveal how brain dynamics underpin complex human cognition and agency.
  • Further development and application of MoBI will advance our understanding of the human brain.