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  • Neuroscience
  • Human Physiology
  • Space Biology

Background:

  • Visual perception relies on integrated sensory information, including vestibular and motor signals.
  • Top-down modulation influences visual processing during cognitive tasks like attention and memory.
  • Maintaining visuo-spatial orientation in weightlessness requires adapting to altered sensory inputs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how weightlessness affects visually-evoked potentials (VEPs) in response to different visual stimuli.
  • To examine the impact of microgravity on neural processing of 3D spatial information during virtual navigation.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded electroencephalography (EEG) signals during a virtual navigation task on the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Analyzed event-related spectral perturbations and inter-trial phase coherency of EEG responses to 3D tunnel and 2D checkerboard images.
  • Compared neural signal flux patterns between Earth-based and weightlessness conditions.

Main Results:

  • VEPs were altered by weightlessness specifically for 3D tunnel images, not 2D checkerboard images.
  • Suppressed phase-locking of theta-alpha oscillations was observed in weightlessness for the 3D tunnel stimulus.
  • On Earth, EEG signals showed a fronto-occipital flux, indicating top-down modulation; in weightlessness, this shifted to a diverging flux from central areas.

Conclusions:

  • Gravity-dependent sensory inputs modulate visual processing in primary visual areas based on scene context.
  • Weightlessness disrupts the top-down neural control mechanisms essential for processing 3D spatial information.
  • Adaptation to microgravity alters how the brain integrates visual and vestibular information for spatial navigation.