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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019

Nonlinear Analysis of Eye-Tracking Information for Motor Imagery Assessments.

Antonio Lanata, Laura Sebastiani, Francesco Di Gruttola, Stefano Di Modica, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Alberto Greco

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Antonio LanataDepartment of Information Engineering & Research Centre E. Piaggio, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Laura SebastianiDepartment of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Francesco Di GruttolaDepartment of Information Engineering & Research Centre E. Piaggio, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Stefano Di ModicaDepartment of Information Engineering & Research Centre E. Piaggio, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Enzo Pasquale ScilingoDepartment of Information Engineering & Research Centre E. Piaggio, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Alberto GrecoDepartment of Information Engineering & Research Centre E. Piaggio, School of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Piaggio (Italy) · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigates the assessment of motor imagery (MI) ability in humans. Commonly, MI ability is measured through two methodologies: a self-administered questionnaire (MIQ-3) and the mental chronometry (MC), which measures the temporal discrepancy between the actual and the imagined motor tasks. However, both measures rely on subjects' self-assessment and do not use physiological measures. In this study, we propose a novel set of features extracted from the nonlinear dynamics of the eye gaze signal to discriminate between good and bad imagers. To this aim, we designed an experiment where twenty volunteers, categorized as good or bad imagers according to MC, performed three tasks: a motor task (MT), a visual Imagery task (VI), and a kinaesthetic Imagery task (KI). Throughout the experiment, the subjects' eye gaze was continuously monitored using an eye-tracking system. Eye gaze time series were analyzed through recurrence quantification analysis of the reconstructed phase space and compared between the two groups. Statistical results have shown how nonlinear eye behavior can express an inner dynamics of imagery mental process and may be used as a more objective and physiological-based measure of MI ability.

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eye-trackingmental chronometrymotor imageryphase spacerecurrence quantification analysis

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PMCPMC6974582
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