Neural decoding of expressive human movement from scalp electroencephalography (EEG).

ABSTRACT: Although efforts to characterize human movement through electroencephalography (EEG) have revealed neural activities unique to limb control that can be used to infer movement kinematics, it is still unknown the extent to which EEG can be used to discern the expressive qualities that influence such movements. In this study we used EEG and inertial sensors to record brain activity and movement of five skilled and certified Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) dancers. Each dancer performed whole body movements of three Action types: movements devoid of expressive qualities ("Neutral"), non-expressive movements while thinking about specific expressive qualities ("Think"), and enacted expressive movements ("Do"). The expressive movement qualities that were used in the "Think" and "Do" actions consist

SUBMITTER: Cruz-Garza JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3986521 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature