ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018
The Effect of Locomotion on Early Visual Contrast Processing in Humans.
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- Threat gates visual aversion via theta activity in Tachykinergic neurons.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Aerobic Exercise and Human Visual Cortex Neuroplasticity: A Narrative Review.Neural plasticity · 2022Review
- Did you even see that? visual sensory processing of single stimuli under different locomotor loads.PloS one · 2022Article
- Steady-state measures of visual suppression.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Task-related activity in human visual cortex.PLoS biology · 2020Article
- Movement-Related Signals in Sensory Areas: Roles in Natural Behavior.Trends in neurosciences · 2020Review
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- Walking enhances peripheral visual processing in humans.PLoS biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Most of our knowledge about vision comes from experiments in which stimuli are presented to immobile human subjects or animals. In the case of human subjects, movement during psychophysical, electrophysiological, or neuroimaging experiments is considered to be a source of noise to be eliminated. Animals used in visual neuroscience experiments are typically restrained and, in many cases, anesthetized. In reality, however, vision is often used to guide the motion of awake, ambulating organisms. Recent work in mice has shown that locomotion elevates visual neuronal response amplitudes (Niell and Stryker, 2010; Erisken et al., 2014; Fu et al., 2014; Lee et al., 2014; Mineault et al., 2016) and reduces long-range gain control (Ayaz et al., 2013). Here, we used both psychophysics and steady-state electrophysiology to investigate whether similar effects of locomotion on early visual processing can be measured in humans. Our psychophysical results show that brisk walking has little effect on subjects' ability to detect briefly presented contrast changes and that co-oriented flankers are, if anything, more effective masks when subjects are walking. Our electrophysiological data were consistent with the psychophysics indicating no increase in stimulus-driven neuronal responses while walking and no reduction in surround suppression. In summary, we have found evidence that early contrast processing is altered by locomotion in humans but in a manner that differs from that reported in mice. The effects of locomotion on very low-level visual processing may differ on a species-by-species basis and may reflect important differences in the levels of arousal associated with locomotion.
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