The resonance of biological motion through visual perception in the human brain
- Format
- DoctoralThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
The hearth of the works within this doctoral thesis is the motivation to find clues in human brain oscillations to help improve the quality of life of people with motor problems. I have mostly worked with gait movement, due to its relevance in many motor, social and cognitive aspects. My background as a mechanical engineer complementary to the work done in the neurological motor rehabilitation field has driven me to the idea that neurophysiology and biomechanics are the starting point to learn and understand motor performance. In Ecuador, my country of origin, this thesis takes part in the good living national plan (Plan Nacional Buen Vivir) for Ecuadorian citizens. Promoted by local government from 2013 this plan has attached to an initiative started in 2007 to integrate the population, support in education and economy as well as implement facilities along the country people attained with handicaps. As the government has raised attention towards handicap there have been some difficulties to take specific actions. When looking closely to physical handicaps development and implemented help there has been a push towards basic rehabilitation and patient management but there has not been any country related research related to new methods on diagnosis nor rehabilitation. Taking research as a tool to learn how new technology can develop new diagnosis and treatment methods in the physical field, takes place the education in motor sciences. On one hand, current research has shed light into novel methods to improve motor performance for athletes as well as for people learning new motor gestures. On the other hand it has also helped to improve treatment efficiency for people suffering motor cerebral lesions like: cerebrovascular attack (CVA) and cerebral palsy. During the time of work dedicated to this doctoral thesis I have learned to address different protocols to analyze motor gestures and brain oscillations through visual perception. Our brain encompasses a changing symphony of oscillating activity throughout our lives. Up to the time we are born, we are ready to feel and move to interact with our world. Our senses develop rapidly and we start to perceive the world and learn. We visually perceive and process big amounts of information on a daily basis. At the same time we see movements from ourselves and from others in order to communicate and interact with our environment. We watch the world move. Moreover, from the links that exist between motor and sensory systems in human beings we may approach individual motor activity as a loop between a control (brain) over the effectors (muscles) which act, perceive and send the information back to the control source.The present group of works presented in this doctoral thesis is based on the correlation between human brain scalp activity, measured by means of electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, visual perception and its interpretation through different approaches.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- NEUROFISIOLOG?A
OSCILACIONES CEREBRALES
ELECTROENCEFALOGRAF?A
IMAGINACI?N DEL MOVIMIENTO
PERCEPCI?N VISUAL
APRENDIZAJE DE GESTOS
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess