From the viewpoint of embodied cognition a primary function of human cognition and perception is to assist motor control (Churchland et al., 1994) and, as a consequence, the brain dynamics accompanying cognitive processes are tightly coupled to motor behavior in our natural surroundings. Human cognition, however, is embodied in the sense that cognitive processes are based on and make use of our physical structure while being situated in a specific environment (Wilson, 2002). However, in all these studies, human participants are not allowed to move, sometimes, mostly in EEG experiments, not even to move their eyes to avoid movement artifact to compromise the signal of interest. A new imaging modality, mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI), uses electroencephalography (EEG) synchronized to motion capture and other data streams to investigate brain activity while participants actively move in and interact with their environment.ĭecades of brain imaging studies have described the functional architecture of the human brain to a hitherto unknown level of granularity. Imaging the human brain during active behavior is essential to understand how the brain supports natural cognitive processes that are based on and make use of our physical structure.
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