ReviewFrontiers in psychology2015
Future challenges for vection research: definitions, functional significance, measures, and neural bases.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis on the use of tactile stimulation in vection research.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Pooled it
- Virtual reality stimulation modulates saccular activity and vestibular system responses.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Individual-difference factors in visually induced motion sickness and vection: Findings from multiple studies on field dependence, age, and biological sex.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2026Article
- The effect of visual scene on VEMP responses.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Sit, stand and sway: postural state modulates visual influence on sway.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- The illusion of a "sense of body lightness" while walking: a preliminary exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Visual Umwelt of primates and Hippocampal Representations of Space.Hippocampus · 2026Review
- The effect of vection on the use of optic flow cues.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- From "skype on wheels" to embodied telepresence: a holistic approach to improving the user experience of telepresence robots.Virtual reality · 2025Article
- Factors affecting vection and motion sickness in a passive virtual reality driving simulation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The effect of posture on virtual walking experience using foot vibrations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Motion sickness resistant people showed suppressed steady-state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) under vection-inducing stimulation.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Measuring vection: a review and critical evaluation of different methods for quantifying illusory self-motion.Behavior research methods · 2024Review
- The presence of an avatar can reduce cybersickness in Virtual Reality.Virtual reality · 2024Article
- A virtual reality study investigating the train illusion.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Design guidelines for limiting and eliminating virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects at work: a comprehensive, factor-oriented review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- EEG analysis of the visual motion activated vection network in left- and right-handers.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Self-motion perception without sensory motion.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Enhanced vection in older adults: Evidence for age-related effects in multisensory vection experiences.Perception · 2022Article
- VR Sickness Adaptation With Ramped Optic Flow Transfers From Abstract To Realistic Environments.Frontiers in virtual reality · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper discusses four major challenges facing modern vection research. Challenge 1 (Defining Vection) outlines the different ways that vection has been defined in the literature and discusses their theoretical and experimental ramifications. The term vection is most often used to refer to visual illusions of self-motion induced in stationary observers (by moving, or simulating the motion of, the surrounding environment). However, vection is increasingly being used to also refer to non-visual illusions of self-motion, visually mediated self-motion perceptions, and even general subjective experiences (i.e., "feelings") of self-motion. The common thread in all of these definitions is the conscious subjective experience of self-motion. Thus, Challenge 2 (Significance of Vection) tackles the crucial issue of whether such conscious experiences actually serve functional roles during self-motion (e.g., in terms of controlling or guiding the self-motion). After more than 100 years of vection research there has been surprisingly little investigation into its functional significance. Challenge 3 (Vection Measures) discusses the difficulties with existing subjective self-report measures of vection (particularly in the context of contemporary research), and proposes several more objective measures of vection based on recent empirical findings. Finally, Challenge 4 (Neural Basis) reviews the recent neuroimaging literature examining the neural basis of vection and discusses the hurdles still facing these investigations.
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