Title :
Human intracranial recordings during spatial exploration of a 3D virtual environment
Author :
Snider, Joseph ; Ahmed, Omar J. ; Halgren, Eric ; Poizner, Howard ; Cash, Sydney S.
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Neural Comput., UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) recorded electrical activity of populations of neurons in humans performing a spatial navigation task in a virtual reality. The task involved navigation in a virtual room and interaction with fixed objects located in that room. The θ (4-10Hz) frequency range of the recorded iEEG deep in the brain showed increased activity during virtual movement. The central part of that range showed a cluster of spatially dependent activity over the anterior temporal lobe (ATL), indicating that ATL may play an important, previously unrecognized, role in spatial processing.
Keywords :
cognition; electroencephalography; medical signal processing; virtual reality; 3D virtual environment; ATL; anterior temporal lobe; brain; human intracranial recordings; iEEG; intracranial electroencephalography recorded electrical activity; neurons populations; spatial exploration; spatial navigation task; spatially dependent activity; virtual movement; virtual reality; Cameras; Correlation; Electrodes; Hippocampus; Legged locomotion; Navigation;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Engineering (NER), 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/NER.2013.6695972
