Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Cortex Mediate Performance of an Aerial Pursuit Task.

ABSTRACT: The affordance competition hypothesis is an ethologically inspired theory from cognitive neuroscience that provides an integrative neural account of continuous, real-time behavior, and will likely become increasingly relevant to the growing field of neuroergonomics. In the spirit of neuroergonomics in aviation, we designed a three-dimensional, first-person, continuous, and real-time fMRI task during which human subjects maneuvered a simulated airplane in pursuit of a target airplane along constantly changing headings. We introduce a pseudo-event-related, parametric fMRI analysis approach to begin testing the affordance competition hypothesis in neuroergonomic contexts, and attempt to identify regions of the brain that exhibit a linear metabolic relationship with the continuous variables of

SUBMITTER: Gougelet RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033450 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature