Interaction effects of visual stimulus speed and contrast on postural sway
Identifieur interne : 000791 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000790; suivant : 000792Interaction effects of visual stimulus speed and contrast on postural sway
Auteurs : Vivian Holten ; Maarten J. Van Der Smagt ; Frans A. J. Verstraten ; Stella F. DonkerSource :
- Experimental Brain Research [ 0014-4819 ] ; 2015.
Abstract
Manipulating the characteristics of visual stimuli that simulate self-motion through the environment can affect the resulting postural sway magnitude. In the present study, we address the question whether varying the contrast and speed of a linear translating dot pattern influences medial–lateral postural sway. In a first experiment, we investigated whether the postural sway magnitude increases with increasing dot speed, as was previously demonstrated for expanding and contracting stimuli. In a second experiment, we also manipulated the contrast of the stimuli. For reasons that high-contrast stimuli can be considered ‘perceptually’ stronger, we expect that higher-contrast stimuli induce more sway than lower-contrast stimuli. The results of the first experiment show that dot speed indeed influences postural sway, although in an unexpected way. For higher speeds, the sway is in the direction of the stimulus motion, yet for lower speeds the sway is in a direction opposite to the stimulus motion. The results of the second experiment show that dot contrast does affect postural sway, but that this depends on the speed of the moving dots. Interestingly, the direction of postural sway induced by a relatively low dot speed (4°/s) depends on dot contrast. Taken together, our results suggest that interactions between the visual, vestibular and proprioceptive system appear to be influenced by an internal representation of the visual stimulus, rather than being influenced by the external visual stimulus characteristics only.
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DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4438-y
PubMed: 26378007
PubMed Central: 4713711
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