EEG AND HUMAN LOCOMOTION - Descending Commands and Sensory Feedback should be Disentangled from Artifacts Thanks to New Experimental Protocols Position Paper

Thierry Castermans, Matthieu Duvinage, Guy Cheron, Thierry Dutoit

2012

Abstract

The main challenge when studying EEG signals related to human walk control comes from the fact that signals of many different origins are mixed up. Indeed, descending commands from the brain are generated, while ascending sensorimotor information coming from the feet is sent to the brain. In addition to the inherent complexity of the human control mechanism, experimental investigation of the cerebral activity elicited during walk is highly challenging: electrode movements are produced by movements of the head, but also by the shocks undergone by the whole body at each step, which – albeit significantly attenuated – are transmitted to the head and degrade the quality of EEG signals. Recently, different EEG studies of human locomotion have been published. These are based on different hypotheses and/or produce results that are contradictory. After reviewing and describing the discrepancies between the different approaches, we propose new experimental protocols which should help to solve important issues.

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Castermans T., Duvinage M., Cheron G. and Dutoit T. (2012). EEG AND HUMAN LOCOMOTION - Descending Commands and Sensory Feedback should be Disentangled from Artifacts Thanks to New Experimental Protocols Position Paper . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-89-8, pages 309-314. DOI: 10.5220/0003871403090314


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@conference{biosignals12,
author={Thierry Castermans and Matthieu Duvinage and Guy Cheron and Thierry Dutoit},
title={EEG AND HUMAN LOCOMOTION - Descending Commands and Sensory Feedback should be Disentangled from Artifacts Thanks to New Experimental Protocols Position Paper},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={309-314},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003871403090314},
isbn={978-989-8425-89-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - EEG AND HUMAN LOCOMOTION - Descending Commands and Sensory Feedback should be Disentangled from Artifacts Thanks to New Experimental Protocols Position Paper
SN - 978-989-8425-89-8
AU - Castermans T.
AU - Duvinage M.
AU - Cheron G.
AU - Dutoit T.
PY - 2012
SP - 309
EP - 314
DO - 10.5220/0003871403090314