Vection during treadmill walking, walking on the spot and standing still. Palmisano, S. A., Ash, A., Govan, D. G., & Allison, R. S. In 40th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, April 3-6, 2013, Adelaide, Australia, pages 61. 2013.
Vection during treadmill walking, walking on the spot and standing still. [link]-1  abstract   bibtex   
Traditionally vection studies have induced visual illusions of self-motion in physically stationary observers. Recently, two studies examined vection during treadmill walking. While one study found that treadmill walking in the same direction as the simulated self-motion impaired vection (Onimaru et al. 2010), the other found that this same situation enhanced vection (Seno et al. 2011). This study expands on these earlier investigations of active vection. Our subjects viewed radial optic flow (simulating forwards/backwards self-motion) while (a) walking forward on a treadmill at a matched speed, (b) walking on the spot or (c) standing still. On half the trials, the subject's head-tracked physical head movements were updated directly into the self-motion display producing simulated viewpoint jitter. On the remainder, subjects viewed non-jittering optic flow (as in the two earlier studies). We found an overall reduction in the vection induced for all three walking conditions (consistent and inconsistent treadmill walking, as well as walking on the spot) compared to stationary viewing condition. However, the addition of consistent simulated viewpoint oscillation to the self-motion display always improved vection (in both walking and stationary conditions alike). These findings suggest that complex multisensory interactions are involved in the perception self-motion.
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	abstract = {Traditionally vection studies have induced visual illusions of self-motion in physically stationary observers. Recently, two studies examined vection during treadmill walking. While one study found that treadmill walking in the same direction as the simulated self-motion impaired vection (Onimaru et al. 2010), the other found that this same situation enhanced vection (Seno et al. 2011).  This study expands on these earlier investigations of active vection.  Our subjects viewed radial optic flow (simulating forwards/backwards self-motion) while (a) walking forward on a treadmill at a matched speed, (b) walking on the spot or (c) standing still. On half the trials, the subject's head-tracked physical head movements were updated directly into the self-motion display producing simulated viewpoint jitter.  On the remainder, subjects viewed non-jittering optic flow (as in the two earlier studies). We found an overall reduction in the vection induced for all three walking conditions (consistent and inconsistent treadmill walking, as well as walking on the spot) compared to stationary viewing condition.  However, the addition of consistent simulated viewpoint oscillation to the self-motion display always improved vection (in both walking and stationary conditions alike). These findings suggest that complex multisensory interactions are involved in the perception self-motion.

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	author = {Palmisano, S. A. and Ash, A. and Govan, D. G. and Allison, R. S.},
	booktitle = {40th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, April 3-6, 2013, Adelaide, Australia},
	date-added = {2013-04-02 23:40:16 +0000},
	date-modified = {2013-04-02 23:45:07 +0000},
	keywords = {Optic flow & Self Motion (also Locomotion & Aviation)},
	pages = {61},
	title = {Vection during treadmill walking, walking on the spot and standing still.},
	url-1 = {https://www.adelaide.edu.au/epc2013/abstracts/120.html},
	year = {2013}}

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