Visual motion combined with base of support width reveals variable field dependency in healthy young adults.
Visual motion combined with base of support width reveals variable field dependency in healthy young adults.
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视觉运动与支撑宽度的结合揭示了健康年轻人的可变场依赖性。
DOI:
10.1007/s00221-006-0677-2
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
2
通讯作者:
Keshner,EmilyA
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作者:
Streepey,JeffersonW;Kenyon,RobertV;Keshner,EmilyA
We previously reported responses to induced postural instability in young healthy individuals viewing visual motion with a narrow (25° in both directions) and wide (90° and 55° in the horizontal and vertical directions) field of view (FOV) as they stood on different sized blocks. Visual motion was achieved using an immersive virtual environment that moved realistically with head motion (natural motion) and translated sinusoidally at 0.1 Hz in the fore-aft direction (augmented motion). We observed that a subset of the subjects (steppers) could not maintain continuous stance on the smallest block when the virtual environment was in motion. We completed a posteriori analyses on the postural responses of the steppers and non-steppers that may inform us about the mechanisms underlying these differences in stability. We found that when viewing augmented motion with a wide FOV, there was a greater effect on the head and whole body center of mass and ankle angle root mean square (RMS) values of the steppers than of the non-steppers. FFT analyses revealed greater power at the frequency of the visual stimulus in the steppers compared to the non-steppers. Whole body COM time lags relative to the augmented visual scene revealed that the time-delay between the scene and the COM was significantly increased in the steppers. The increased responsiveness to visual information suggests a greater visual field-dependency of the steppers and suggests that the thresholds for shifting from a reliance on visual information to somatosensory information can differ even within a healthy population.