RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A novel virtual plus-maze for studying electrophysiological correlates of spatial reorientation
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 369207
DO 10.1101/369207
A1 Ágoston Török
A1 Andrea Kóbor
A1 Ferenc Honbolygó
A1 Travis Baker
YR 2018
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/07/13/369207.abstract
AB Quick reorientation is an essential part of successful navigation. Despite growing attention to this ability, little is known about how reorientation happens in humans. To this aim, we recorded EEG from 34 participants. Participants were navigating a simple virtual reality plus-maze where at the beginning of each trial they were randomly teleported to either the North or the South alley. Results show that the teleportation event caused a quick reorientation effect over occipito-parietal areas as early as 100 msec; meaning that despite the known stochastic nature of the teleportation, participants built up expectations for their place of arrival. This result has important consequences for the optimal design of Virtual reality locomotion.