Linking brain, mind and behavior.
Cortical brain areas and dynamics evolved to organize motor behavior in our three-dimensional environment also support more general human cognitive processes. Yet traditional brain imaging paradigms typically allow and record only minimal participant behavior, then reduce the recorded data to single map features of averaged responses. To more fully investigate the complex links between distributed brain dynamics and motivated natural behavior, we propose the development of wearable mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) systems that continuously capture the wearer's high-density electrical brain and muscle signals, three-dimensional body movements, audiovisual scene and point of regard, plus new data-driven analysis methods to model their interrelationships. The new imaging modality should allow new insights into how spatially distributed brain dynamics support natural human cognition and agency.
Swartz Center for Computation Neuroscience, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. smakeig@ucsd.edu
Scott
S
Makeig
Klaus
K
Gramann
Tzyy-Ping
TP
Jung
Terrence J
TJ
Sejnowski
Howard
H
Poizner
D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology