The Neural Correlates of Vection: An fMRI Study

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dc.contributor.advisorAllison, Robert
dc.creatorKirollos, Ramy
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:06:35Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:06:35Z
dc.date.copyright2014-10-24
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:06:35Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Sciences
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractVection is an illusion of visually-induced self-motion in a stationary observer. I used different types of vection stimuli in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to determine the interaction between cortical visual regions and cortical vestibular regions during vection. My findings suggest that the cingulate sulcus visual area is heavily involved in self-motion processing. The parieto-insular vestibular cortex, showed a significant change in blood oxygenation level dependent signal activity during vection but to a lesser extent than CSv. Behavioural data correlated with the neuroimaging data (in CSv and PIVC) as both show a significant difference when comparing the radial oscillating condition to the radial smooth condition in CSv and PIVC - suggesting a neural correlate of the jitter effect. My results suggest that the brain region of primary importance in the self-motion debate is CSv - a region that has received little attention in the vection literature to date.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29942
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectNeurosciences
dc.subjectExperimental psychology
dc.subject.keywordsVection
dc.subject.keywordsOptic flow
dc.subject.keywordsfMRI
dc.subject.keywordsBOLD
dc.subject.keywordsVisual-vestibular integration
dc.subject.keywordsCSv
dc.subject.keywordsPIVC
dc.subject.keywordsMT
dc.subject.keywordsVIP
dc.subject.keywordsPc
dc.subject.keywordsV6
dc.subject.keywordsJitter
dc.titleThe Neural Correlates of Vection: An fMRI Study
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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