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Copyright © 1999 by the New York Academy of Sciences
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 871:345-366 (1999)
© 1999 New York Academy of Sciences
Replication of Passive Whole-Body Linear Displacements from Inertial Cues: Facts and Mechanisms
R. GRASOa,d,
S. GLASAUERb,
P. GEORGE-FRANÇOISc AND
I. ISRAËLc
aHuman Physiology Section, Scientific Institute Santa Lucia, via Ardeatina 306, I-00179 Rome, Italy
bCenter for Sensorimotor Research, Neurology Department, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, D-81377 Munich, Germany
cLaboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception & de l'Action, CNRS-Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France
dTo whom correspondence may be addressed. Phone: ++39.06.5150.1473; fax: ++39.06.5150.1477; email: rgrasso{at}giannutri.caspur.it
Using path integration, normal subjects should be able to compute the distance of a traveled path even from the sole inertial sensory input. Blindfolded subjects were submitted to a passive linear forward displacement along 2 to 10 m. Their task was to replicate the traveled distance, still blindfolded, by driving the vehicle they were seated upon using a joystick that controlled linear speed.
Subjects replicated both the length and the velocity profile of the passive travel, suggesting that a dynamic record of experienced motion is stored in memory. Even when the replication of passive motion dynamics was made impossible, the subjects could still replicate the displacement.
The results are explained by a dynamic feedback model that performs a running comparison between the perceived instantaneous displacement of the ongoing motion and the displacement derived from a spatiotemporal record of perceived passive motion. A multimodal acceleration-related sensory input is transformed into a displacement-related perception through double time-integration.
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