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This paper focus on the analysis of the navigation task in a 3D virtual tunnel. We localized the neural structures responsible for egocentric and allocentric reference frame processing in horizontal and vertical plane and also analyzed specific segments of the tunnel traverse. We identified intrahemispheric coherences in occipital-parietal and temporal-parietal areas as the most discriminative features for this task. They have 10% lower error rate comparing to single electrode features. The behavioral analysis of navigation reveals that 35% of the participants adopted two types of egocentric reference frames in the vertical plane.
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Vavrečka, M., Gerla, V., Lhotská, L. (2011). EEG Analysis of the Navigation Strategies in a 3D Tunnel Task. In: Lu, BL., Zhang, L., Kwok, J. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24955-6_47
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