Trial reportAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference2014
User-driven control increases cortical activity during treadmill walking: an EEG study.
Trial report in Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Auditory Cue Effects on Gait-Phase-Dependent Electroencephalogram (EEG) Modulations during Overground and Treadmill Walking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Trial
- Task-Specific and Functional Effects of Speed-Focused Elliptical or Motor-Assisted Cycle Training in Children With Bilateral Cerebral Palsy: Randomized Clinical Trial.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2017Trial
- Advancing Dry Electroencephalography With Scalable, Soft, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Compatible TiAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Dual-sided EEG electrode signals have varying correlations that depend on movement characteristics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Gait speed-related changes in electrocortical activity in younger and older adults.Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Study of the Brain Functional Connectivity Processes During Multi-Movement States of the Lower Limbs.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mobile neuroimaging: What we have learned about the neural control of human walking, with an emphasis on EEG-based research.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
- Adaptive treadmill control can be manipulated to increase propulsive impulse while maintaining walking speed.Journal of biomechanics · 2022Article
- Improved cortical activity and reduced gait asymmetry during poststroke self-paced walking rehabilitation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Speed-related but not detrended gait variability increases with more sensitive self-paced treadmill controllers at multiple slopes.PloS one · 2021Article
- Dynamic stability during increased walking speeds is related to balance confidence of older adults: a pilot study.Gait & posture · 2019Article
- Walking speed changes in response to novel user-driven treadmill control.Journal of biomechanics · 2018Article
- Real-time EEG-based brain-computer interface to a virtual avatar enhances cortical involvement in human treadmill walking.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Estimation of Human Workload from the Auditory Steady-State Response Recorded via a Wearable Electroencephalography System during Walking.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Categorisation of Mobile EEG: A Researcher's Perspective.BioMed research international · 2017Review
- Deployment of Mobile EEG Technology in an Art Museum Setting: Evaluation of Signal Quality and Usability.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
- Human-Robot Interaction: Does Robotic Guidance Force Affect Gait-Related Brain Dynamics during Robot-Assisted Treadmill Walking?PloS one · 2015Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Treadmills provide a safe and efficient method for gait rehabilitation but treadmill based training paradigms have not been shown to create superior results when compared with traditional physical therapy methods such as overground training. One explanation for this may be that walking at a constant, fixed speed requires little mental engagement from the user, which has been postulated as a key factor in the success of motor learning. To increase mental engagement, we developed a user-driven treadmill control scheme. In this paper we use electroencephalography (EEG) to compare cortical activity during user-driven (active) walking with activity on a normal (passive) treadmill in nine healthy subjects. We used independent component analysis (ICA) to isolate brain activity from artifactual components. We fit equivalent dipole sources to each brain component and clustered these across subjects. Our analysis revealed that relative to the passive treadmill, active walking resulted in statistically significant decreases in spectral power, i.e. desynchronization, in the anterior cingulate, sensorimotor cortices, and posterior parietal lobe of the cortex. These results indicate that user-driven treadmills more fully engage the motor cortex and therefore could facilitate better training outcomes than a traditional treadmill.
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