ArticlePLoS biology2019
Walking enhances peripheral visual processing in humans.
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- A mobile EEG study on the psychophysiological effects of walking and crowding in indoor and outdoor urban environments.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Effects of Optic Flow on Electrocortical Dynamics During Walking and Stepping Over Virtual Obstacles.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Validation of novel naturalistic limb movement stimuli for studying biological motion perception in adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Walking Modulates Active Auditory Sensing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Dynamic contrast sensitivity during human locomotion.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Neural and Cardiac Contributions to Perceptual Suppression During Cycling.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
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- Is the impact of spontaneous movements on early visual cortex species specific?Trends in neurosciences · 2025Review
- The speed and phase of locomotion dictate saccade probability and simultaneous low-frequency power spectra.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Right visual field advantage in orientation discrimination is influenced by biased suppression.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Knowing where to go: Spatial memory guides eye and body movements in a naturalistic visual search task.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis provide evidence for an effect of acute physical activity on cognition in young adults.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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- Walking modulates visual detection performance according to stride cycle phase.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cognitive processes are almost exclusively investigated under highly controlled settings during which voluntary body movements are suppressed. However, recent animal work suggests differences in sensory processing between movement states by showing drastically changed neural responses in early visual areas between locomotion and stillness. Does locomotion also modulate visual cortical activity in humans, and what are the perceptual consequences? Our study shows that walking increased the contrast-dependent influence of peripheral visual input on central visual input. This increase is prevalent in stimulus-locked electroencephalogram (EEG) responses (steady-state visual evoked potential [SSVEP]) alongside perceptual performance. Ongoing alpha oscillations (approximately 10 Hz) further positively correlated with the walking-induced changes of SSVEP amplitude, indicating the involvement of an altered inhibitory process during walking. The results predicted that walking leads to an increased processing of peripheral visual input. A second study indeed showed an increased contrast sensitivity for peripheral compared to central stimuli when subjects were walking. Our work shows complementary neurophysiological and behavioural evidence corroborating animal findings that walking leads to a change in early visual neuronal activity in humans. That neuronal modulation due to walking is indeed linked to specific perceptual changes extends the existing animal work.
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